Media Remote unable to change channels - Xfinity (XG1v4A) cable box, Xbox One X

[quote user="dpoet"]

To take full advantage the cable/ TV box will need to be HDMI CEC. This will give Xbox One the ability to change channels via the Xbox One TV guide.
If not CEC you will have to use TV box remote to change channels.

[/quote] No, if not you will have to connect the infrared blaster to the set top box. This will allow your xbox to work as the remote control. I used to do the same thing with my media center. If you look on the back of the Xbox One you will see a port
labeled IR, that's how I know.

To take full advantage the cable/ TV box will need to be HDMI CEC. This will give Xbox One the ability to change channels via the Xbox One TV guide. If not CEC you will have to use TV box remote to change channels.

It won't change channels, what Xbox one need is a universal control remote to access the cable or the converter box. Kinect works with my tv only.

Along with the traditional chat pad attached to the controller, they can also make a new media remote with the chat pad either on the opposite side of the remote or flip lid with chat pad inside…that way when you are watching tv you don’t actually have to
use the x1 controller and waste your controller battery, either to surf channels, or send a message via live to your buddies. Also it would be easier to change the channels say from channel 1 to channel 111. Don’t think microsoft thought that over. Channel
up and down does not actually work when one has about 1000 channels on their cable box, and some people like myself (Channel Surfers) does not always want to yell at the x1 to change from channel to channel. It is very exhausting. Found myself relying on
my cable remote.

[quote user="chapmanjw85"]Is there anyway to get the Xbox 360 Media Remote to work with the Xbox One?[/quote]

Unfortunately the Xbox 360 remote is not compatible with the Xbox One and at the moment the Microsoft are not planning to change this.

support.xbox.com/.../xbox-one-media-remote-info

[quote user="JBAINOSIDE"]Still any possibility to a new Xbox One media remote that has numbers? The new one has no number pad, so i can't use it to change channels. Still any possibility to a new Xbox One media remote that has numbers? The new one has
no number pad, so I can't use it to change channels.[/quote]

Microsoft may redesign and release the Xbox One media remote similar to how they did with the Xbox 360 remote in the future but this is just speculation however I believe there are some 3rd party remotes that maybe have the use of a number pad to change
channel such as Logitech Harmony remote range. I believe the control is designed like this to possible make people use the Kinect features more.