Depends on the model It depends which model you have
Panasonic ships more than one kind of set. Remote Pro controls Fire TV; it does not control Panasonic’s own My Home Screen system. Check yours first — it takes about ten seconds.
Most Panasonic sets in the wild run Panasonic’s own My Home Screen system, which Remote Pro does not control. The newer Panasonic televisions sold with Fire TV built in DO work — so with Panasonic the honest answer is: it depends entirely on which one you have.
The home screen answers this faster than the model number does.
If the home screen looks like nothing you have seen on another brand — or the television is not a smart TV at all — it is running the manufacturer’s own system. No Google Play Store and no recognisable platform branding is the giveaway.
Fire TV sets, sticks and cubes boot to Amazon’s home screen with a row of tabs across the top, and the remote has an Alexa button with a blue microphone icon.
The alternative
Remote Pro cannot control this one. These are the options that actually work, best first.
Check the manufacturer’s own iPhone app first. Most brands ship a free remote app for their own smart platform, and it will always beat a third party at controlling their own television.
Look for HDMI-CEC. A soundbar, games console, Fire Stick or Chromecast plugged into the set can often control power, volume and input with its own remote, and that remote may be easier to replace.
If it is not a smart TV, it can only be controlled by infrared — and an iPhone has no infrared blaster. No app of any kind can control it, ours included. A replacement or universal IR remote is the only real fix.
Adding a Fire TV Stick, a Roku or a Chromecast with Google TV to that television gives you something Remote Pro can control, and is often the cheapest route to phone control on an older set.
Setup
Your Panasonic (Fire TV) and your iPhone need to be on the same WiFi network. That is the only requirement — no dongle, no hub, no infrared.
Put the iPhone and the Fire TV on the same WiFi network.
Open Remote Pro and tap Scan. The Fire TV appears by its device name.
Tap it. A 4-digit PIN appears on the TV screen — type it into Remote Pro. No Amazon account, no sign-in, no profile picking, no developer options and no ADB.
Paired. Navigation, OK, back, home, menu, playback, sleep, and iPhone-keyboard typing into Fire TV search and password fields — the single best reason to use a phone as a Fire TV remote.
More detail on this platform: Fire TV remote app for iPhone →
The honest part
Remote Pro controls four platforms: Samsung Tizen, Fire TV, Android TV / Google TV and Roku. Everything else — including every infrared-only television — is honestly out of scope, and we say so rather than let you find out after paying.
Volume and channel do not work over the network on Fire TV — not in Remote Pro, and not in any other app. Amazon’s protocol simply has no volume command; the physical remote sends volume over infrared or HDMI-CEC to the television instead. Apps that show volume buttons anyway are failing silently. Remote Pro disables them and says why, and you use the TV’s own volume (or the TV brand’s app) alongside.
Fire TV devices stay network-awake in standby, so Remote Pro can wake one up — useful when the physical remote has vanished entirely.
An iPhone has no infrared blaster, so a television that is only controllable by infrared cannot be controlled by any phone app — ours or anyone else’s. We say that on every page rather than hide it in a review reply.
Panasonic publishes its own free remote app for its televisions — search the App Store for “Panasonic TV Remote”. For a My Home Screen set that is the right tool. If yours is one of the Fire TV models, Amazon’s free Fire TV app works too (and so does Remote Pro).
Remote Pro controls Samsung, Fire TV, Android TV / Google TV and Roku from one app, over your own WiFi. Full D-pad, volume where the platform supports it, and a real iPhone keyboard for search fields.
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