How do I ONLY turn on the TV with the EE TV Pro remote?

[spamthroat]

Situation - The TV if OFF but the EE box is on with  a program I want to watch paused.

If I short press the EE button the the box goes off.

If I long press the EE button the box goes off and the TV comes on.

I need to switch on the TV without the box going off, how?

[gspearson]

what happens if you use just the TV remote?

[spamthroat]

The TV remote is "somewhere" as it is no longer needed.

What is the point of having a universal box and TV remote if it does not have all the functions.

And if I did find the TV remote how do I turn of the TV features on the EE remote so it does not effect the TV?

[Midnight_Voice]

@spamthroat 

If the TV Is off, so you can’t see anything, how do you know the EE box is on with the programme you want, paused?

And how did it get like that, without you having the TV on to see what you were doing, and if you did, how did you get the TV off without disturbing the EE box?

And if you found a way to do that, reverse it 😛

To your last question, try resetting the remote, disconnecting the HDMI cable to the TV, and then re-pairing the remote with the box. With no TV to find via HDMI, it may just pair with the box, but not programme itself for any TV. Worth a try, anyway.

[spamthroat]

The box is paused as I have decided I want to do something else before going back to what I was watching.

My TV will switch off after 3 minutes of no signal.

If the something else I want to do is my games console or Chromecast with Google TV they will switch off after 15 minuets of inactivity.

So if the console or Chromecast time out while I am out the room the TV will go off leaving the box on and paused, green lights visible.

I have not found a way round it except using another remote for the TV only.

The old BT box had separate TV and box power buttons.

[gomezz]

I use a Harmony activity-based remote control and one of the things I have done is programme one of the buttons to restore the current activity back to its normal state by making sure the devices are turned on or off, resetting audio mode and volume, input settings etc. This is useful for when things get out of sync either by accident or because I have manually tweaked things such as having the radio playing while showing a news channel.

[Midnight_Voice]

@spamthroat 

Perhaps the three minutes on the TV is configurable?

[spamthroat]

No, that one is not.

[gomezz]

Three minutes seems awfully short . Hardly time for a loo break! 😮

[spamthroat]

It is only 3 minutes when there is no detected signal, i.e. switching a console off and popping out the room as it shuts down, after 3 minutes of no signal detected the TV will go off.

The main problem is the long press on the EE button to turn the TV off/on counts as a short press to control the box too.