TV Remote - Universal Remote

Would love to use this app, unfortunately, the app recognizes my television on the network, recognizes the manufacturer (Samsung) and then errors out telling me that the IP address isn’t correct. Disappointing because other apps have had no problem connecting, but I would have preferred to use this because of the Shortcuts support. For reference, my TV is a bit older (UN50KU6300) but the fact that other apps connect easily and this app recognizes the device seems like it should be a no brainer to me.

I primarily use this app for creating home theater routines in Shortcuts, and it works very well for that. I’ve had issues with a couple updates breaking functionality and requiring me to redo them, but the dev clearly cares about making the app as good as possible, so a few growing pains along the way are understandable. There’s still some mild quirks (shortcuts that run multiple TV commands in a row run slower than comparable apps I’ve tried, and with the current update I had to redo every TV Remote step twice for the settings to “stick” due to an odd bug that seemed to assume every option was set to “ask me every time” regardless of what was entered) but nothing that’s remotely a dealbreaker or doesn’t have an easy workaround. Oh and if you’re not a nerd like me that likes making big dumb scripts to control every aspect of their home theater with Siri, this is also BY FAR the best standard TV Remote app I’ve used on the iPhone, and I’ve used a lot of ‘em. Clean, functional, and lots of great options that you may or may not ever need but are there if you do.

Took a bit to get connected on the network and there’s occasional bursts of lag where an input takes 2-3 seconds to fire, but otherwise it seemed to work way better than any other apps we’ve been trying in terms of response time. Minor frustrating thing that may be due to my TV model (Samsung UN55RU8000F) but once I turn the TV off, I have to manually turn the TV back on since I just get reconnection errors trying to turn it on. Also, some “nicer than a remote” features appear to not work in general, assuming it’s TV model - keyboard and app switching being the two most significant. At the end of the day though, it saves me from having to drop $40 for an official replacement remote and definitely works good enough considering I’m usually just casting stuff from my phone and want volume / navigation controls.