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Originally Posted by Manabi
I just wanted to point out you can probably get one of the fancy universal remotes (like the nice Logitech ones) that can work with the Fire TV and get rid of that hassle. While they're expensive, they do go on sale frequently, especially refurbished ones.  |
When the remote acts up I often pull out my iPhone and use the Fire TV remote app on it. It is always reliable. When I first got the Fire TV I forgot that I still had a remote for the older Fire TV Stick I bought and rarely used. The original Stick was terrible. I found that older remote one day and removed the batteries from it. That Stick remote had not been used in 1 1/2 years, so I'm surprised the batteries were still good, but at any rate after I basically disabled the Stick's remote the newer remote started behaving a lot better. But it still freezes up every one in a while. I get the feeling the Alexa feature will be interfering with the Echo I bought, so that might be another issue to resolve!