I Could Have Had A V-8

I have had 4 televisions since I moved into this house in 2019. Only one of them was a personal purchase. The others had been given to me. The last two I had were left with me after a neighbor was evicted. I loved the 32 inch but the screen (as always happens with flat screens) ended up broken.

This is about the set up learning process of the final television. A twenty four inch screen.

Early Wednesday evening I decided to go to the store over listing to my Monkey complain about how bored he was and wanting to watch videos longer.

I went first to one store and found a television antenna but this store did not have a remote. Being that this store is moving to another building more then half of their entire stock had already been sold and all the food I bought was buy one get one. I'm going to miss this store as it was within walking distance, clean, and always fully stocked.

Anyway going to the next store (in the same plaza) I found a remote but forgot the batteries and had to go back.

I have never had a television without a remote so the set up of this took me a few days.

Thursday after #pypt I called Philips company to see if they could help me with the settings. I told the woman on the phone it did not have a settings button on the manual panel. She responded back that since this was the case I needed to buy their special remote and the universal remote I bought would not work despite the fact there were Philips programmable codes on the list.

Friday morning Monkey was playing with the remote and discovered we had been using the wrong button to access the television settings. We finally had TV.

I wanted to take it further by adding my Roku express from 2019.

This took even longer. I discovered the original remote that came with the Roku device did not work and I found out it was a "simple remote" that was not equipped with a pairing button. Once again I was told by a corporation tech support representative that I needed a new remote.

As I was looking up videos on alternative ways to integrate Roku I ran across a YouTube video showing how to set up Roku using a universal remote. The voice said the remote was programmed with Roku codes.

Hot damn. Why did I not look at all the different device codes. I grabbed the code sheet and low and behold there was the code.

After programming in the Roku code I thought I was done. I handed the remote off to Monkey and went to go do something else. After thirty minutes he said he could not switch back to TV and turn it off. It appears everytime I want to change from one device to another I have to reprogram the remote. Now I just need to figure out how to operate this thing without constantly resetting it.

It does have different buttons for different devices but that does not seem to matter. In any case I now have access to visual entertainment without having to look at such a small screen (my phone).

Sometimes we make things difficult for ourselves in the process of searching out information. But I would say the learning process was well worth the time.