ANDERIC RRCM7500 for Channel Master DVR Remote Control CM7500XRC2 Replacement Remote for Channel Master - Works 100% - Works CM7500XRC2, CM7500GB16, CM7001, CM7004, CM7500TB1

The 'punch-through' feature of this universal remote makes it simply the best choice available. 'Punch-through' lets you dedicate a key to a single device - this is an amazingly useful feature not found on other universal remotes.Even though this Anderic said it was for a Panasonic TV, it was trivial to unlock the remote so it would instead control my LG TV.I have 4 devices in my case: an LG TV, a Samsung DVD Player, a Roku 4, and a Yamaha stereo. I use the surround sound off the Yamaha stereo for all listening, except when I am using headphones.This Anderic remote is the first remote that actually allowed me to have ALL the functionality I want with only one remote. I've owned three different Harmony remotes and they've never quite worked to allow me to get down to one remote. The 'punch-through' of the Anderic was just the feature I needed to get everything to work, including some of the subtle details that were never quite right with the Harmony remotes. Each of my Harmony remotes have died within a year (volume key wore out on 2 of the 3, one drained batteries in just a few days) so I'm done with Harmony remotes.Programming this device took some time and I had to read the entire manual (3-4 pages long). Programming is done using the Anderic remote and you may also need your old remote if you need to 'learn' any of the keys on the Anderic. In the end, I probably spent 4-5 hours playing with the remote and trying various things before I was happy with all the remote's key settings. The beauty of this Anderic is you can pretty much get any key to perform any function for any of your 4 supported devices, whereas the Harmony remotes have limitations about keys that won't allow you to force a key to a particular device (at least the three Harmony remotes that I owned just never could get me successfully down to one remote). The Harmony remotes have wonderful programming software that runs from a web app - and make it pretty darn easy to program a Harmony remote. This Anderic does not have a web-based interface like the Harmony, however I really did not miss the slick Harmony programming interface. I thought it was more important to get the functionality I wanted instead of a slick web-based interface that ties your hands.My final configuration of this remote has- A set of dedicated keys that completely replicate the Roku keys- The volume key is dedicated ('punched through') to the volume of my Yamaha stereo- A couple keys I dedicated to get the over-the-air channel 'info' from my LG TV (and show me the upcoming OTA programs)- A few keys dedicated for the LG TV closed captioning and sleep timer.It took a couple days of using this remote to decide how I wanted various keys to map to various functions of my devices. I did end up needing to manually 'learn' a few keys using the old remotes. If you have one of the Roku's with an RF remote (rather than a typical optical remote) and want to learn any of the Roku keys (I 'learned' the Roku back arrow button onto a couple different keys of the Anderic, just for ease of use), you will need to find an optical Roku remote to do the learning on the Anderic.Be prepared to spend a little time learning how to program this remote. It is definitely a little bit daunting at first and you will need likely need to thoroughly read the manual. When selecting a TV model, you have 3 methods to select your TV model (much clunkier than Harmony way of doing this):1) Code Input Method. Enter one of possibly dozens of codes that may work for your TV. This was my first attempt but my LG TV had a huge list and I just gave up.2) Auto Code Search Method. Use the CH- and CH+ keys to search for your TV. But it searches through the massive list of TVs - ugh. Not viable that I could tell.3) One Button Search. This worked great for my LG TV (once I disabled the 'device mode lock' that this Panasonic model shipped with). I just entered a '1' after entering this mode and it found my TV style, then powered off. First one it found was not quite what I wanted, so I tried a second time and that was the ticket.So bottom line is that this is a great remote if your willing to potentially lumber your way through programming. But it sure is worth the time to finally have a universal remote that works for all my devices.

Bought this for an elderly friend with an old LCD (non-smart) TV who had just gotten a Roku for Netflix. She was frustrated because she had to use 3 remotes (TV remote, Cable remote, and Roku remote). The Anderic RRUR01.3 looked like the perfect solution.The remote itself, especially for the money, is excellent...outstanding. Not only can it operate virtually any IR controlled device, but there are endless options to easily combine functions, learn commands from other remotes, do punch throughs, etc. I've used other far more expensive remotes that were not as well designed or as easy to use.However, there was an issue when I went to set up the remote. I found the codes for her television and cable box, set up macros to easily change her television HDMI sources, did punch throughs for volume and channels. All of that was clearly explained in the instructions and worked well. The only problem is that I could not get it to actually work with the Roku Express she had.After emailing with the very responsive tech support person, we figured out the problem. There are four device modes on this remote (TV, STB, DVD, and Audio). By default, the STB function is set to control the Roku device. Well, since I had overridden the STB device to control the cable box, it no longer functioned with the Roku. All I had to do was assign one of the other two device modes (DVD or Audio) to a code that worked with the Roku. After that, it worked flawlessly.So, my only complaint is that this functionality (i.e. the assignement of the Roku commands to STB) is not explained anywhere in the manual. There are great instructions for everything else and even examples to go along with the instructions for these programming functions, but nowhere did it explain how the Roku commands were set up by default or how to change which remote function would be used. It was like getting a detailed recipe to bake a cake without any instructions for using an oven.Aside from this single issue, I'd highly recommend this remote. I'd also like to compliment the Anderic tech support group for their prompt and helpful responses. Most of my emails were answered within minutes.Please note that I actually received a newer model (RRUR01.4) rather than the RRUR01.3 shown on the product page May 2021.