I know the native Android TV remote doesn't have them, but I have a Logitech Harmony remote which has numbers. The mapping seems to not support inputting numbers, but when trying to use any of the live tv options it's a huge pain scrolling through channels 1 at a time.
For instance when I load Live TV it starts at channel 1, but all my HD channels start at 700.
Is there anything I'm missing, or is this just impossible to support.
I map a computer to my activity and use the numerics on that profile, works well but I think you need to setup the computer first and add the Shield second (it has been a while). They are not available for favorite channels however. I've bugged Logitech about fixing this quite a bit.
Edit: I did a write up here a while ago about different Harmony tweaks, some may be out of date by now: https://www.reddit.com/r/AndroidTV/comments/5r6ev8/shield_tv_harmony_button_megathread/
With Google live channels if you are using that app you can in settings under manage channel listing you can toggle SD/HD basically you can toggle off SD so it we'll only show the HD channels.
And unfortunately there isn't a way that I can think entering a channel number
But what you can do is use voice to tune in a channel.
Just push the voice button and say watch CBS and it well tune in for you .