Volume Buttons on Apple TV Remote Fast Forwarding and Rewinding

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Volume Buttons on Apple TV Remote Fast Forwarding and Rewinding

Since I've synced my Apple TV 2 remote with a new TV (Toshiba) it has been doing weird things. Sometimes the volume buttons work as they should (pressing volume up button on Apple TV remote increases the volume on the TV, opposite with down). However, sometime pressing the volume up button on the remote causes the video I'm watching fast forward and pressing the volume down button causes the video to rewind. This happens across all apps (movies from the iTunes store, Netflix, YouTube). The even stranger part is that the same thing happens occasionally when I use the volume controls on my Satellite TV remote, which is also synced with this new TV.

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Posted on Sep 15, 2016 10:46 PM

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Answer 1

Sep 15, 2016 10:47 PM in response to ScienceSpencer

I have just noticed that the actual TV remote does the same thing. I have not synced it with the Apple TV.

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Answer 2

Sep 16, 2016 2:06 AM in response to ScienceSpencer

Since I've synced my Apple TV 2 remote with a new TV

What does that mean exactly.

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Answer 3

Sep 16, 2016 4:30 AM in response to ScienceSpencer

Hi. Just a couple of thoughts. Do you actually mean ATV 2 with the silver remote, or ATV 4 with the black Siri remote? And remember that the TV can control ATV over the HDMI connection, if HDMI-CEC is enabled and the TV has "connected" with ATV. So the rogue forward/reverse commands may be coming from the TV. The right and left arrow keys on the TV remote will do this. Of course, this doesn't explain why the IR volume commands to the TV would cause this.

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