

The downside is that the Magic Remote does not have obvious play, stop and skip buttons, so it’s easier using the BT remote to control video or to pause live TV.
#Bt youview remote control tv code
If the code works, the blue light will flash another three times Point your remote at your TV and hold the TV button until your TV turns off. In the following button-testing screen for the remote options, “remote option 1” then worked fine. Hold down both the TV and TV AV buttons for at least three seconds until the blue light flashes three times Release the buttons and enter the four-digit code for your brand of TV. Then the trick, rather than selecting BT as the service provider box in the connections settings for the LG TV, is to instead choose not in the list and then Humax from the list that follows (the box itself is made by Humax). I also reasoned it would help with linking to my Blu-ray player. I’m not sure whether this is actually needed, but it happened as part of the general attempt to solve the problem after reading about it on the internet. This item: BT YouView Remote Control £7.80 BT Youview+ Set Top Box with Twin HD Freeview and 7 Day Catch Up TV, No Subscription £124. I first enabled HDMI-CEC on the LG TV (or SimpLink as LG calls it, located in the general settings).

The internet really wasn’t much help other than acknowledging this is an issue, but I sorted it within a day. It was quite easy to set up apart from one major issue: getting the LG Magic Remote to pair with a BT Youview Ultra HD set-top box. They will work perfectly well without a subscription, as Freeview HD boxes, and even accept the TalkTalk subscription services, should you be a TalkTalk subscriber. I succumbed to a new LG smart TV this week, which is a vast improvement visually on the steam-powered one that has served for 10 or more years. BT YouView boxes are available for sale in places like Currys and Amazon (current asking price just £119 for a 500Gb recorder, brand new and fully guaranteed).
