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I lucked out because my TV can control my sound-base via HTML-CEC, and since the 2nd gen remote can control my TV volume it automatically controls my sound-base volume. When I hold down the power button it turns the TV on/off, which in turn turns the sound-base on/off, and it turns the ATV 4K on/off.
I discovered this evening that if you turn off Siri on the ATV 4K, then press the Siri button on the 2nd gen remote, it takes you to the Search screen where you can hold down the Siri button and ask for a search item. That is kind of cool. I don’t typically use Siri on any of my Apple devices, and after I accidentally pressed the button on the remote a couple of times, I decided to turn it off for the ATV 4K too. Then I accidentally triggered the Siri button again and that is when I discovered the shortcut to the Search feature via the Siri button. Unfortunately I learned that I can easily trigger the Siri button by mistake, so I need to work on not doing that! I don’t know if that worked the same on 1st gen remote because I never tried it.
Typically I use the ATV 4K for 90% of my TV watching. However I do use my Fire TV Cube to view recordings made with my Recast of OTA programming. The Recast requires a Fire TV to use it. So I can shift to the TV remote whenever I need to use the Fire TV Cube. Plus I’m a Prime member so occasionally I watch Prime Video shows, although just like Apple TV, they charge extra for most of their stuff.
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