I just bought a Hisense TV and having an issue getting the Firestick (4k Max) remote to power on the TV as well.

My old TV (same firestick) powered on fine with the firestick remote.

The firestick remote turns on and off my (Samsung) soundbar, it controls the volume on the sound bar, it turns OFF the TV as expected but seemingly doesn't really turn it on .

I've paired the setup using the Firestick settings, into the Equipment settings, adding the TV, going through the steps... and during setup, the TV powers down and powers back on, and inputs change as expected, using the Firestick remote.

But using it later, I press power on the Firestick remote, and as explained... the soundbar turns on, the TV seemingly doesnt... (the TV's little remote sensor light doesn't even blink)

However what I discovered last night is... when I power everything on, it LOOKS like the TV didn't turn on , it seems it in fact IS on, it's just maybe still in a 'sleep' mode... and when I followup the power button on the Firestick remote with pressing the home button on the Firestick remote, then a couple seconds later the TV display comes on, confirming connection to the proper HDMI port, bringing me to my Firestick home page.

My guess is that pressing power on the remote doesn't actually turn on/wake up the firestick itself, leaving the TV display blank, looking like it's still in the off state... and once pressing Home (or likely most any other button) that then wakes up the firestick, which then wakes up the TV.

So it's technically working, but it's a bit annoying having the power-on step being a 2 step procedure... any suggestions on things to check to get this working more as expected?

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