Hi.
My 94 year old mother has just had a new tv and as with all tvs it is a smart tv, and due to her poor eye sight and difficuly in remembering she is struggling to use the remote.
Does anybody have experience of an easy to use remote for LG tvs?
Large buttons, easy to read etc.
Thank you.
Unable to recommend a remote but in a similar situation I taught my mother to use the inbuilt voice control that was available on her tv.
I had a look on ChatGPT and there were two stand out recommendations:
Flipper Big Button Remote; and
Geemarc Easy TV5
Both of them have very few and large buttons which should hopefully minimise potential for confusion. Like all these things there may be some push back from the elderly person who may be slightly intimidated by the prospect of change - any change.
With another question, the Bot advised that the Flipper model has a preset for LG tvs. The other one will work but may need a bit more fiddling with to set up.
In Chat GPT we trust!!
Peter
We have an LG smart TV, but only use it as a monitor for our AppleTV, which has everything we need to watch (Hulu, Netflix, Max, AppleTV, etc). We don’t use Siri but I believe it can be used to control it. To what degree I don’t know.
The next generation of iOS/tvOS and a new AppleTV box due this fall will have enhanced capabilities with AI-integrated Siri. That might be an option.
Granny: play the football game
Siri: on it!
Amazon have loads if you search for ‘Big Button Remote’ but as for a recommendation I couldn’t suggest one. A quick look at Curry’s site and I can’t see the simple big button remotes they used to sell - they all look too complex as do those at Argos.
Possibly worth establishing what he actually needs to control - is it just for Freeview in which case something just to bring up channel lists/change them and volume might suffice?
Will he need to switch between sources such as terrestrial/satellite/Sky/DVD player etc? Does he use streaming services?
Stating the obvious but the type you get will be determined by functionality required. The simplest ones might not be adequate.
I got a TV for my dad many years ago for his bedroom, it was ‘Smart’ and ridiculously too complex for him - I tried switching off all manner of Smart options/features. Maybe someone has but the manufacturers really should have a ‘basic’ mode configurable just for the bare minimum needed.
Mrs AC’s mum who has limited mobility seems to manage controlling the TV fairly well with a Sky Remote - she doesn’t have an internet connection and only really watches terrestrial broadcasting through the Sky box rather than true aerial fed Freeview.
Would a learning remote (maybe most are these days) allow you to only configure required buttons leaving the other non-functional?
If he uses a Smartphone and has intranet there might be an app for the TV? Maybe with basic/advanced control modes?
Maybe Doro?. They do big button phones and remotes for the elderly
The learnable Apple TV remote plus the voice capabilities is the only remote we use for the family room HT.
Doro phones are excellent. I had a mate who used one. Their remote is certainly worth investigating.
Presumably this would require both a 4th gen AppleTV HD/4k and an HDMI-CEC connection to the TV? Have used AppleTV for many years, great devices.
Out of interest is this with the new silver 4th gen remote with the circular iPod like wheel?
I had some of the 4th gen black remotes with the small trackpad which were interesting but not great in practice for me - much prefer the chunkier silver one which is better designed ergononically.
Maybe a product like EZClicker will do.
Hopefully never without verification! But indeed this is a good example of where generative AI can be useful, the suggestions then being easy to look up and confirm.
Didn’t know they could be remote controlled. 
Bob a job. 
