Gadget Man sent a remote, let's test.

Added: 2026-05-14

[00:00:00]Um, part two, or three, I can't remember, of the fire cube.

[00:00:14]Hello peeps.

[00:00:16]I'm back on the Fire TV. Back on the chain gang. Ding-a-ding-a-ding-a-ding.

[00:00:22]Um, I thought I'd solved it last time by thinking that it needs one of those things to go with the thing at the back of the thing to sort out the thing.

[00:00:31]Um, but that's not the case.

[00:00:34]Um, thank you very much to Gadget Man who sent me a remote that he thinks will work. So, let's try it. Well, that's really kind of you, Gadget Man. You've sent me things before.

[00:00:42]Um, and it's people like you that we admire.

[00:00:45]Um, so this is Fire TV Alexa Voice Remote Pro.

[00:00:50]Um, he seems to think that this is definitely Gen 1 and should communicate with this by Bluetooth.

[00:01:00]Uh, we'll soon find out. Well, the others, all three of the others that I've got are supposed to be generation one, too. One, two, testing.

[00:01:09]Um, but it's really kind of it. I thought you'd got one at home, Gadget Man, but you bought this on Amazon.

[00:01:16]Um, so thank you very much, anyway. There we go.

[00:01:29]You have to unwrap it. Not like a Cadbury's Creme Egg.

[00:01:32]Um, has it got a battery inside ready to go?

[00:01:37]No.

[00:01:39]Putting in some, um, official Kodak batteries.

[00:01:46]Oh, look at that. It's It's connected straight away.

[00:01:52]Look.

[00:01:53]Oh, you missed that. Oh, I I No, maybe you did see it. It says, "Now connected to your TV. Thank you."

[00:02:02]Go to network settings.

[00:02:04]How quick is that?

[00:02:07]Gadget Man, thank you.

[00:02:10]Um Let me do what I got to do.

[00:02:16]Hey. [clears throat] There we go. Software updates. Let's have some fun.

[00:02:23]I'm sorry.

[00:02:24]Things I've been spending on I'm going to make it sound like I've been spending all day looking for Philips updates. It just feels that way.

[00:02:31]And I suppose now it's just downloading the updates, is it?

[00:02:54]Press play pause to check network status.

[00:03:44]Is it downloading?

[00:03:47]I thought it said it was downloading.

[00:04:03]>> Oh, yes. Yes, look at that.

[00:04:07]Oh, it says at the bottom, three updates available.

[00:04:12]So, we'll go for it, shall we?

[00:04:20]You just click on that and it just seems to disappear. I wish it would tell me um what else it's doing.

[00:04:30]You see, I still recommend I mean, this TV I'm watching it on is a really nice TV and of course with it being a curved one, it just looks that little bit better. But also, it had it has got its own apps. But I do recommend for people if they've got a TV which is getting a bit old and it's losing apps or if you've got a TV that isn't a smart TV, the amount of people throw TVs away because it's not smart when you can just go out and buy a um a Fire Stick or in this particular case a Fire Cube.

[00:05:02]Um From what I remember on this one, you could talk to it. Alexa, open iPlayer.

[00:05:16]Look at that, you see?

[00:05:18]This has another update available. Let's try again. Okay.

[00:05:24]Alexa, play Solid Gold Gem AM.

[00:05:28]That used to be an old radio station I worked for. Let's see what she does.

[00:05:34]Oh my goodness.

[00:05:42]I obviously haven't got any volume turned up.

[00:05:53]>> Alexa, check updates.

[00:05:59]I think she's trying to talk to me, but she can't talk to me cuz I haven't got the volume turned up because I haven't got a Samsung remote here handy. Who's Andy?

[00:06:35]This is the party that's in deep existential crisis. It's losing voters, you know, by the >> Alexa, play Solid Gold Gem AM.

[00:06:56]Not doing it this time. Alexa, oh, an unexpect an unexpected error has occurred. Oh, but we're Alexa, play Solid Gold Gem AM.

[00:07:15]Solid Gold Gem from TuneIn. Thank you.

[00:07:28]I think I have to press the button to make it play.

[00:07:33]This is a great radio station, by the way, if um >> [music] >> Oh, I've got to turn it down.

[00:07:42]This is a great radio station, by the way, if you like an oldies station.

[00:07:47]So, 60s through to late 80s, but doesn't have any adverts, no commercial breaks.

[00:07:53]It's just online. It's called Solid Gold J M A M.

[00:07:57]And as you know, I just asked Harry who can't be named to find it.

[00:08:01]Again, big thanks to Gadgetman because that has managed to get this up and running. So, the other three remotes, Gadgetman, do you want any of those remotes that I've got because maybe you can use them.

[00:08:14]And I'm very happy with your kind donation of a remote control to get this going because this is going to stay in here now.

[00:08:22]Um I'll be able to connect all the TVs that I'm planning on connecting to this. So, thank you very much. Um I do appreciate that. I'm pleased we've got that going.