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Originally Posted by tomsem
With another TV, which supports CEC on the HDMI port, pushing the ‘TV’ button (or whatever it is called) on the Apple remote would wake up the TV as well. But our current TV doesn’t support CEC. I assume the new remote will use IR signal to do this (it will be interesting to see how it figures out the right signal — I think it can get a model identifier from HDMI and map that to the correct code?). Well, it’s going to be mid-May before I have it in hand.
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The last few devices I’ve bought have come preprogrammed with most of the codes for TVs, at least the more popular brands. I’ve rarely had to manually enter a code. Quite often during set up you get asked what brand of TV you have. It probably uses that information to automatically cycle through the codes preprogrammed into it for that brand to find the one that works. Whether the ATV remote will do that I don’t know, but both my Fire TV Cube and Roku did that. Unfortunately, setting up my Inteset multi-device remote didn’t do that and I had to manually enter the codes until I found one that worked for every device.