How to program your firestick remote to control your tv

This quick guide helps you to enable the power and volume button in Amazon’s Fire TV Stick remote.

When you set up Amazon’s Fire TV Stick by connecting to your TV set, the power button and volume buttons don’t get detected sometimes. While all other controls of your Fire TV remote work perfectly.

Fire TV Stick

The primary reason is the IR (Infrared) frequency mismatch between your TV remote and Fire Stick remote. You can manually put up the IR profile in the Fire TV stick to enable the power and volume controls in the Fire TV stick.

Open the Fire TV stick menu on your TV.
Go to Settings -> Equipment Control.

Equipment Control

Under Equipment Control, go to Manage Equipment -> TV > Change TV

Change TV

Select the brand of the TV on the next menu.

Select TV Brand

On the next screen, it would ask you to press the power button of the Fire TV remote to see if it works. If it works, you do not need to follow the next instructions.

Check TV Power

Press No. It would take you to the first screen again. Press the small button with three-line for Advanced Setup.

Check TV Power 2

On the next screen, you need to choose the IR profile of your TV. Finding the IR profile is difficult, considering hundreds of TV brands and models available.

Select IR Band

There should be around 12 to 13 profiles listed. If you do not know the IR profile, you have to keep selecting one by one and returning to the first screen to see if the power button is working.

Ideally, one of them should match, and it would work.

Once the power button is detected, proceed with the following screen for volume controls. It should also be detected with the same IR profile.

Proceed and save the remote setup.

Once the setup is complete, press the power button, volume up and down, and mute button on your Fire TV Stick. They should work.

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Is there instructions to pair it with a TV? If so mine didn’t come with any.

asked on November 3, 2018

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I have the 2nd gen Fire TV stick and bought this generation remote to get the TV power and volume controls. My remote did sow up with instructions on a narrow folded booklet. I followed the "if this remote is in addition to the remote that came originally", and the setup routine provided step-by-step instructions to pa… see more I have the 2nd gen Fire TV stick and bought this generation remote to get the TV power and volume controls. My remote did sow up with instructions on a narrow folded booklet. I followed the "if this remote is in addition to the remote that came originally", and the setup routine provided step-by-step instructions to pair the new remote with both the Fire stick and my Samsung TV. Basics were to use old remote to go to "Settings" and then "controllers & Bluetooth devices", then "Amazon Fire TV Remotes", then "Add New Remote". Next you push the home button on the new remote for 10 seconds until it flashes rapidly to show it's ready to pair. You'll see the new remote listed (the only tricky part was realizing the listing of "Amazon Fire Remote" was the new one, not the old one). Select that and it'll tell you to wait for a minute, after which it asks you if you want to pair with your TV too. In my case it successfully detected my Samsung TV, asked me if this was correct, then confirmed power and volume worked. Whole thing was done in about 3-4 minutes. see less I have the 2nd gen Fire TV stick and bought this generation remote to get the TV power and volume controls. My remote did sow up with instructions on a narrow folded booklet. I followed the "if this remote is in addition to the remote that came originally", and the setup routine provided step-by-step instructions to pair the new remote with both the Fire stick and my Samsung TV. Basics were to use old remote to go to "Settings" and then "controllers & Bluetooth devices", then "Amazon Fire TV Remotes", then "Add New Remote". Next you push the home button on the new remote for 10 seconds until it flashes rapidly to show it's ready to pair. You'll see the new remote listed (the only tricky part was realizing the listing of "Amazon Fire Remote" was the new one, not the old one). Select that and it'll tell you to wait for a minute, after which it asks you if you want to pair with your TV too. In my case it successfully detected my Samsung TV, asked me if this was correct, then confirmed power and volume worked. Whole thing was done in about 3-4 minutes.

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I put my Firestick on a different TV and then needed to pair it with that 2nd TV. Try this if you need to pair your remote.
1. Press the home button. At the top of the screen scroll to the far right & select “settings”
2. Scroll to/select “equipment control”
3. Scroll to/select “manage equipment”
4. Select “TV”
5. Select “change tv”
6. Follow on screen instructions

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When u set it up with your tv it will pair them during the process. I love it!!
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I had to unpair and re-pair this remote 3 times for the Fire TV Setup to add a menu item called "Equipment Control." From there you can pair it with your TV.

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I just got mine! When you pair the remote to your fire tv/stick, it comes up with another window that says "would you like to pair your TV/receiver to your remote now?" if you say no, it gives you instructions on how to do it later.

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firestick will not pair to my tv

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will this work with any TV? it is working with my firestick but the volume buttons are not working