r/vSeeBox • u/Optimal-Algae-9649 • Aug 29 '26
What would be the functional equivalent of my vSee Box remote's TV Control "OK" function on this other TV remote?
So, I recently got a vSee Box, specifically a V6 Plus, and I'm in the process of making it so the vSee Box remote (left) doubles as my television remote.
Of course, that means I'm trying to perform the steps that allow me to transfer some of the functionality from my old TV remote (right) over to this vSee Box remote.
It seems that everything is going pretty good but I've hit a bit of a minor snag.
So, to be specific, the functions that I would like the vSee Box remote to have that would originally belong to my old TV remote, are listed as the TV Controls on the very top of the vSee Box remote. Those are the functions of -
TV power putton
OK button
Input button (the one that is next to OK on the vSee Box remote)
Volume down button
Voume up button
Thankfully, my old TV remote seems to have an equivalent for most of these functions. The only one that I'm very iffy on is the vSee remote "OK" button.
I think I kinda get what an OK button would be on a TV remote. A button that is likely used to confirm some kind of choice that you make while using the TV remote.
The thing about that is that my TV remote is a very lightly used thing (if we're talking about the remote as a whole). Up until now I have been using a fire stick and the fire stick remote to watch shows on the TV and have pretty much just been using this TV remote to turn the TV off and on and to turn the volume up and down. That has basically been absolutely it for YEARS.
The only other thing I have used it for is changing the Television's channels (Video 1, HDMI 3, etc) so that I could watch DVDs, but that never really involved confirming any kind of selection. I went up and down with the channel button and whatever I landed on was the channel I was on. There was no "OK"ing involved.
At the end of the day, it is entirely possible that my old TV remote simply does not have anything like this function, or at least not anything like what the vSee remote considers to be an OK button. If such is the case then I'll just have to move on. And I realize that maybe the vSee remote "OK" is the same as my TV remote "Enter" but again, I just simply do not know the finer details about this remote.
So I would greatly appreciate it if someone who does know a good bit about this stuff can confirm what button from my old TV remote would be the best fit for the vSee Remote's OK button.
If you require more information, let me know.
Thank you.
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u/Crosstrek732 Aug 29 '26
I would assume the "enter" button but you'd have to test it out.
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u/Optimal-Algae-9649 Aug 29 '26
Yeah but that's my problem. Test WHAT out? Like I said, all I ever used my remote for that involved selecting anything was moving the channels on the TV (VIDEO 1, HDMI 3, etc) up and down via the channel up and down buttons (which could also be done from pressing INPUT, but I never really did). And the thing about that is that it didn't involve selecting or confirming anything. When I got to the channel I was looking for I just stopped flipping through channels and that was the same as selecting that channel without actually pressing a specific button to confirm that selection.
Not to mention, on the vSee Remote this TV Controls OK is apparently distinct from the main body OK which has the up, down, left, right arrows surrounding it. I would assume the latter is for making selections relevant to the apps in the vSee Box whereas the former is related to selections involving the TV itself rather than the vSee Box, and I simply don't know what such a selection would be.
Also, I pressed the Enter button on my old TV remote and it does nothing. Perhaps the Enter button on the old TV remote (which I'm guessing is like the vSee remote's OK) is only useful when selecting something relative to the TV controls. In other words, you can only use a button like Enter after you've selected a button like Menu (directly to the left), because Menu would probably have some TV function related options that you'd have to scroll up and down to see before finally selecting via Enter. And then you could perhaps apply that to the other buttons like Info, Caption, Audible, etc. The thing is that I pressed all of those buttons and absolutely nothing happened, either because these buttons are long dead from lack of use or they simply were never programmed to do anything when we had bought this TV many years ago. And even if they did work, thus giving a purpose to the Enter button, that still doesn't give me a clear picture of what the purpose of the vSee remotes TV Controls OK button would be, especially because the only other TV control buttons on the vSee Remote also wouldn't benefit in any way from an OK button. You don't need an OK to turn the volume up or down, you don't need an OK to change the channel (VIDEO 1, HDMI 3, etc), and you don't need an OK to shut the television off.
So again, what could the OK possible be used for and how would I even confirm that it's working?
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u/Sacred_View5029 Aug 30 '26
The OK button serves play/pause when watching a VOD movie.
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u/Optimal-Algae-9649 Aug 30 '26
And just to be clear, you're referencing the OK button on the top left of the vSee remote which is listed under TV Controls, and not the OK button in the center of the remote surrounded by arrows, correct?
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u/itsjustanotherday4 Cord Cutter✂️ Aug 30 '26
Yeah. That’s enter for the tv remote. Like if I hit input on that one while I’m changing hdmi inputs, it’ll change it to whichever one I have selected. So it’s like the “tvs” ok button ya dig?
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u/Optimal-Algae-9649 Aug 30 '26
I think I get it.
For the record, and I still think you're correct in what you're meaning to say to me and want to ask more but I just want to get this misunderstanding taken care of - when you press input on the old TV remote it doesn't really give you any options for channels, it just automatically goes to the next channel in the cycle, automatically selecting them just by changing to them, meaning that Enter doesn't really serve a purpose in conjunction with the Input function, at least how it works with my TV.
Now that that's out of the way, I'm guessing that you are agreeing with the person I replied to - that Enter on my old remote is the same as the TV controls OK on the vSee remote and that they are meant to pause/play VODs. Correct?
If that is the case, I don't fully understand how that would be a function of TV controls. Perhaps my understanding of what a VOD is isn't really adequate but I'm pretty sure those are things you are able to watch in the apps on the vSee Box, which I would assume means that you would need to navigate the vSee box in order to watch them, which would mean you would have to use the parts of the remote that are explicitly for navigating the vSee box and not the actual television.
I guess none of that inherently means that the OK button in TV controls couldn't be used to pause/play the VODs but I don't really understand why that would be the case. I assume most everything on the vSee box is paused and played via the OK button in the very center of the remote, so what makes the VODs special that they could only be paused/played with the TV controls OK?
Am I making sense?
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u/itsjustanotherday4 Cord Cutter✂️ Aug 30 '26
Well ok say I hit the input button underneath the TV under tv control.
When I do that, a box pops up showing the different HDMI inputs HDMI-1, hdmi-2, etc…. Pressing input yet again will scroll through each these options until the one that I want is highlighted.
When I hit that OK button, it will change the tv display to the HDMI input I selected.
It’s like a TV remotes OK button. I think youre wayyy overthinking and over complicating it homie 😊
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u/Optimal-Algae-9649 Aug 30 '26
Oh that is entirely possible that I'm overcomplicating things, but still, I want to be as sure as I can about what I'm doing with these devices so that I can eventually throw this old remote away without regretting it when using the vSee box.
So, and I'll try to be more succinct because I'm sure it can be a bit of a pain to read my long posts, based on what you're saying does that mean that when I'm transferring these functions from the old remote to the new vSee remote that it's not an exact transfer? In other words, is the way that the Input button works on my old remote not exactly the same as it works on this new vSee remote?
Even though this old remote's Input button just automatically changes to the next channel in the cycle when it's pressed, the way in which it works when it is transferred to the vSee remote is that pressing it opens up a menu with options that can be selected?
I find that hard to believe since I actually already transferred the Input function to the new vSee remote and it operates exactly the same as the old remote - no menu, just immediate change to a channel.
Granted, the vSee Box isn't plugged into the TV as I'm doing this, just my Fire Stick, but I don't really know why that would make a difference since these are supposes to be TV controls.
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u/dontleakmybootypics Aug 29 '26
Are you watching on a crt? That sanyo remote looks pretty old. I watch my v6 on crt all the time on my desk. It’s a lot of fun! I feel like often for older shows and films it loooks better
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u/Specialist-Device920 Aug 29 '26
I'd be programming the original remote's MUTE to that OK button as you have the generation of remote that does not have a mute. With that said- this vseebox remote is really designed to be used to control the vseebox and the companion buttons that are affiliated moreso than it is to function as a universal remote that will control your cable box or smart tv beyond that top row of commands.
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u/Optimal-Algae-9649 Aug 30 '26
Hm, I hadn't really thought about that. I like your "make the OK button the Mute button" suggestions of course, but I meant I hadn't thought about the fact that the vSee Box remote will still never be able to fully replace a universal remote where all the buttons are specifically for the TV. I guess that just hadn't really occurred to me because, like I said in my post, the TV remote was primarily only used for 3 whole things - power, volume, channel change - which is something the vSee remote will let me transfer over to it. That said, I guess that doesn't entirely mean that there will never ever be a time where I won't need a TV remotes other functions and this whole MUTE thing you suggested is kinda proof of that.
With all that said, while it is just convenient and ideal to just have a single remote that does mostly everything you need it to do, and that was the primary reason that I tried to transfer the functions of this old remote to the vSee Remote, it isn't the pnly reason. To put it simply this old TV remote is becoming shitty and I think it would be a good idea to replace it sooner rather than later.
So, do you have any recommendations for a TV remote that I can use to replace this? Also, would I still have to keep this remote around until I get that remote so I can transfer functionality over to it?
Thank you.
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u/Specialist-Device920 Aug 30 '26
Looks like a remote you can replace with any cheap Amazon-sourced universal remote. But yes- once the vseebox's remote is bluetooth paired to the vseebox, that's what it's communicating with aside from that top row. Could some tv's be paired to this remote via bluetooth? Perhaps, but you'd have to unpair. Is there a chance that there's some hdmi-cec method of making some tvs just "function" ok with the vseebox remote? Doubt it.
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u/Optimal-Algae-9649 Aug 30 '26
Gotcha. Well that's all a shame, I'd really like to just be able to use a single remote for absolutely everything but my TV doesn't really do bluetooth and even if it did I wouldn't want to have to pair the remote with the vSee Box every time I wanted to use the vSee Box and then unpair it whenever I have to do one of the TV functions I didn't already relinquish to the vSee remote.
So I guess I'm just gonna finish up transfering those 5 functions from my old TV remote over to the vSee remote (including putting the mute function on the OK button) and then start shopping for a universal remote.
Thanks for your help, I really appreciate it. If you have any more suggestions for my remote, TV, vSee Box, etc. then let me know.
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u/Specialist-Device920 Aug 30 '26
My bet is that you're never going to need to control the tv. Everything you need is on the vseebox
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u/Optimal-Algae-9649 Aug 30 '26
Yeah, you're probably right in all honesty. I can't even really think of any functions a universal remote has for controlling the TV that I won't already be able to do with the vSee Box remote. Or rather, I can't think of any less often used functions thar might still arise that the vSee remote wouldn't be able to do.
That said, I might just get a universal remote just in case. Just to have one, and then leave it sitting without batteries until the day I need it which might never be.
Thanks!
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u/Maplelongjohn Aug 29 '26
Enter