TV remotes - Chuck help!! [please]

[kia cat]

It's father-in-law's turn in hospital now. He's got a tv in his room, but no remote. He maintains any remote will work any telly [which we've proved it won't], got his Mrs taking all different ones in. Are the universal ones straightforward to set up? Thinking of the bog standard one from Argoss, about £6? He's late 80s so won't be able to do anything too techy

[ChuckFickens]

Most of the universal ones are fairly easy to setup as long as the brand of TV is in the list of codes supplied with the remote.

The normal way they are setup is to hold down a combination of buttons to put it into program mode, then enter the code number from the list supplied with the remote that corresponds to the TV and press OK, this obviously only has to be done once for each TV.

[kia cat]

Thanks Chuck, you're a one-off genuis!

[TTG]

Make a note of the codes once set. I think a remote will keep its codes for a while if the batteries are removed.