So I recently got a $20 dollar Walmart Onn box and so far I'm loving it besides the occasional freeze I've experienced (still working out the cause)
I'm interested in trying pair a full sized remote to make it feel more like a standard Cable Box and that's when I stumbled upon the DirecTV Stream device and it's remote. I know that the Stream Device runs a modified version of the Google Android Tv firmware so I was thinking that maybe I could pair it's remote to my Onn Box.
Has anyone had any experience pairing the DirecTV Stream remote to an Onn Box or similar?
Even if you could successfully pair the DirecTV Stream remote to the Onn box, I doubt any of the extra buttons on the remote would work. Those extra buttons (Guide, List, Record, 0-9 buttons) are designed specifically for use with the DirecTV Stream service, and they don't even make an Android TV app to run on the Onn box.
BTW, in case you subscribe to YouTube TV, you can use the little Live TV button on the Onn remote (the button with a picture of a TV with antenna) to directly launch the YouTube TV app. And you can channel surf in that app (as well as certain other apps) using the channel up and down buttons.