This evening I had to, against my better judgement, unplug my Amazon Fire TV Stick from my Samsung so-called Smart (ha!) TV (model code UN50RU7100FXZA). Upon plugging it back it, as I expected/feared, the Smart (ha!) TV did not recognize the device, choosing instead to identify it as a DirectTV receiver. This is a problem is because in misidentifying the device, the so-called 'Universal' remote does not work with the Fire TV Stick – because it thinks it's sending signals to a DirectTV receiver.
It is not a DirectTV receiver.
The reason I was reluctant to unplug the Fire TV Stick from my Smart (ha!) TV in the first place is that, every time I do so, the poor brain-addled TV forgets what a Fire TV Stick is and I need to spend a couple of hours trying to cajole it into figuring it out again. Unfortunately, I have forgotten myself how I have done it in the past. I know it can be done because the Smart (ha!) TV has a Fire TV Stick icon in its OS (it was the icon displayed for the appropriate port when I managed to configure it properly in the past), yet when using the built-in 'add a new device' functionality, neither Amazon nor Fire TV stick are recognized as search terms.
I am at a loss and about to drop my TV from my balcony onto the very hard, very concrete-y pool deck five floors below.
Any guidance would be assisted. In the meantime, between this infernal device and a Samsung refrigerator with a temperamental ice-maker, we will not be buying Samsung products ever again.
