Yeah I hope so too. What's weird is that when I try the CEC option it won't work at all, but the ATV will turn off and on the receiver.
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After training volume buttons, remote won't change volume
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No problems with an E-series Vizio TV. Trained the AppleTV by pointing the TV remote at the ATV and held the volume up/down as indicated in the training process. Then simply point the ATV remote at the TV and it controls the volume without issue.
For me, with my A/V receiver, it appears to work. I hold down the volume up and down and the line moves across and it says it's set up. But then it won't actually control the volume well at all. It's so intermittent. I tried fully charging the remote and even held the remote right next to the receiver and it just doesn't work well.
That's been my question since when you hit the volume buttons, the led on the atv blinks, but the remote telling the atv you're hitting the volume buttons could be done over Bluetooth, not the atv receiving the ir signal.
I did some testing. My Siri remote will sporadically change the volume if I keep clicking the buttons. I tried moving the remote completely out of line-of-sight of the receiver and the ATV light still blinks but the volume never changed at all on the receiver. Move it back into line-of-sight and I can get occasional volume adjustments.
Sounds like my experience turning on the TV. Usually end up clicking 10 times before something happens.
Same issue for me with VSX-S300. Power on/off works fine but no volume control even when Siri remote learns the receiver remote signal which seems to be ok.
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Hope this helps & not trying to be repetitive. I personally own 4 of the new Apple tv4 & this has worked on all 4 with one being hooked up to a yamahah receiver, zvox speaker, & the other 2 are connected to bose speakers.
Go to settings:
Remotes & Devices:
Under Home Theater Control choose volume control
then choose learn new device.
After this you will notice a screen with a plus & minus sign.
The key is to place both remotes on a flat surface facing each
other.
Now press & hold the volume up button on your remote until the progress bar
goes all the way across the screen at which point the screen will change & then press
& hold the down volume button until the progress bar goes across the screen. This takes
a few seconds & works great for me.
Hmm, I'll give that a try. But I was always under the impression it was the Apple TV that received the ir signals not the remote (that's how it was on the previous gen), but I definetly give it a try. Thanks!
I think I can confirm that pointing the remotes at each other to program does nothing... tried it a few times. It only 'learned' the remote when I pointed it at the Apple TV. The remote does have an IR blaster (the TV only picks it up if I'm pointing at the TV)... I set the settings to be "TV via IR".
The IR blaster is in the remote. I confirmed this by training the Siri remote with a remote for a sound bar I have in another room. I then brought the trained Siri remote to the other room and pointed it at my sound bar and it controlled the volume just fine. The Apple TV does not have an IR blaster on the box, just the remote.
Same here. If I press the volume up button 10 times, it goes trough maybe once - if I'm lucky. So sad
(Pioneer VSX-323)
Same here. If I press the volume up button 10 times, it goes trough maybe once - if I'm lucky. So sad
Same thing for me. But a new weird discovery. If i point my original remote at the TV while pressing the volume up/down on Siri remote then the volume control works (ish)
My idea is either
1. the signal comes from the actual apple tv (behind my tv) bounces off the original remote and back into sound bar.
2. The signal needs some kind of color filter. Infra red or UV and the original remote provides that filter.
I have samsung soundbar (audio via digital cable)
Need to find a fix for this. Its super annoying.
That's weird. For me, and others, it does work occasionally just not enough to be useful. I keep hoping an update can fix this. I can't imagine it's hardware related. We're just talking about blinking IR LEDs
Extracted from MacRumors re: tvOS beta
"What's new in tvOS 9.2:
Remote - According to the release notes, there's a firmware update for the Apple TV Remote. It includes improved motion sensor performance and support for additional sound bar and receiver hardware."
When tvOS 9.2 is made public, be sure to check how to install remote firmware update, just in case it is not auto updated.
"What's new in tvOS 9.2:
Remote - According to the release notes, there's a firmware update for the Apple TV Remote. It includes improved motion sensor performance and support for additional sound bar and receiver hardware."
When tvOS 9.2 is made public, be sure to check how to install remote firmware update, just in case it is not auto updated.