About TCL Android TVs and IR Harmony Remote

by Andriusdude

Hello there.

So, I have a TCL Android TV (the 40in A325 aka 40A325 which seems to be a Mexico-only model). I thought that my TV didn’t have an infrared (IR) receiver because the basic remote that shipped with the television is a Bluetooth one and the support staff that I talked to had no clue (sigh) and I didn’t find a single spec sheet stating that the TV had infrared input, so I was going to sell my Harmony 350 and get a Hub-based one.

But I found that the TV does in fact have IR (and I suspect all of TCL TVs do have), so I share this bit of knowledge.

I searched the internet for a TV set from TCL that could be controlled by infrared and I found that the U65X9026 was able to, so I added it to the configuration process in the MyHarmony app.

Almost everything works properly from the default configuration but I still had to modify some buttons (Live button to the TV TCL and the E button in the number pad to the OK TCL).

The multicolored and DVR buttons don’t seem to have functions programmed.

Maybe there’s another TCL Android TV model that has those buttons in the default controller, if someone else knows a TCL TV that it’s known to have IR controller please share the model.

Hope that this helps anyone else who has a Harmony 350 and an Android TV from TCL.

Andriusdude

Update: I contacted Logitech and the the TV has been added to the Harmony database.