![]() LG AN-MR21GA Magic Remote (Image credit: LG) ![]() While some remotes are certainly slimmer – like the sleek, secondary remote that comes with the best Samsung TVs – the new Magic Remote is clearly engineered to fit in the hand more comfortably than most. There’s still a pleasing dip on the remote’s underside for resting a finger, retaining the ergonomic tradition of the Magic Remote while messing with the clicker’s shape as little as possible. (You won’t find them sporting buttons for 3D functionality these days either.)īut it’s the 2021 iteration, the AN-MR21GA, that has fully embraced the norm, doing away with the slight bulge around the remote’s waist to achieve a straight-line shape on both sides, and course-correcting from the previous ‘bottom-heavy’ model. More recent models have cleaved a lot closer more traditional ‘clicking stick’ design of most TV remotes, with 2020’s AN-MR20GA sporting a rectangular shape and even a numerical keypad – a boon for anyone still watching TV channels over broadcast or satellite, if not those that have made the move over to Netflix and other OTT services permanently. The AN-MR500G model after that was condensed into more of an oval shape, like the floating obelisks from Denis Villeneuve’s 2016 sci-fi drama Arrival, pulling the center of gravity towards the remote’s midpoint but with essentially the same layout – as LG oscillated into a convex shape instead. LG went on to embrace a slightly more space-age design with its 2013 iteration, the AN-MR400, with large (and not especially space-saving) buttons emanating from a central browser wheel, and hard, plastic buttons. In its initial iterations – like the 2011 AN-MR200 – it took after a Matrix coat or vampire cloak in its silhouette, with a tall shape and concave sides. What’s so fascinating about the Magic Remote is how its shape has changed and evolved over the years. [Edited to get the model numbers correct - thanks Magic Remotes use Bluetooth, Roku "point anywhere" remotes use WiFi Direct.L-R: AN-MR200 (2011), AN-MR400 (2013), AN-MR20GA (2020) (Image credit: LG) [Edited to get the model numbers correct - thanks that would explain why things worked for the Premiere, but not for the SS+, and would predict that they would work for the Express. (I am, though, presuming that it says 3810 rather than 3810X, as there is a whole family of 3810 variants, and it will control them all certainly the X is the most widespread and plain vanilla variant, I think, so I would expect it to be included).įinally, though it is not an objection like the two points above, what has whether these devices have an HDMI port or not got to do with anything?īut I am still learning about LG TVs, though I have had Roku devices ever since the 3, so your guidance, as above and on my difficulties with it, would be very much appreciated. Secondly, the list of supported devices, as shown by the setting dialogue on the LG TV if you go to manual, includes the 3810 why would it be there if LG didn’t think they could control the SS+? So it could perfectly well talk to the SS+ via RF, I would have thought ![]() Thanks, that would explain why things worked for the Premiere, but not for the SS+, and would predict that they would work for the Express.Ī couple of flies in that ointment, thoughįirstly, the LG Magic Remote is a dual RF and IR device it talks to LG TVs via RF as standard. I’ll be on to LG in the morning and see what they have to say. So in principle, LG TV Magic Remotes should work Roku devices of the three current small devices, one works, one doesn’t, and I don’t know about the other one (the Express). Even when I go so far into manual configuration as to be specifying OTT and then the model number, and get offered 3710X, 3810 (no X) and 3910X to choose from, it doesn’t work the SS+, a 3810X. Now, after a lot of work, I have isolated the problem the LG misrecognises the SS+, says it is configured, but isn’t. No go the LG didn’t auto-configure for it So our new LG 43” Nano just picked up the Roku Premiere I plugged into it, and worked it, straight off the bat.īut I wanted to use that downstairs, so I swapped in a Roku Streaming Stick+ instead. In fact, sometimes it will even sniff a new device and set itself up for it. It’s quite right that Roku don’t respond to CEC (Simplink), but LG Magic Remotes are supposed to be able to control Roku devices via Settings/All Settings/Connection/Device Connection Settings/Universal Control Settings, where you can specify a device plugged into one of the HDMI ports, and if the Magic Remote has its keypresses in its repertoire, IR or RF, it will operate it. So it may be too late to help the OP, but should help those that come after. Sorry I’m a bit late to the party, but I’ve just been wresting with this issue myself, and this was one of the threads I searched.
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