Control mom's TV remotely. Any ideas?

You can get an Amazon Echo and set it up to change channels and turn the TV on and off. If she's got enough cognition to say, "Alexa go to channel 7," then that would work.

I'm don't know about remote channel changing, but there is an Alexa app for your phone, and it might be able to do it. Just google it and see.

Depending on the remote some have Voice Commands.
You press the "microphone" icon and say what you want.
If you are in the same room you can use the remote yourself.
I will often find a show I want to watch that is on later in the day and I will click "info" and I can toggle to the one that says "remind" and at that time the screen will have a box that will show the name of the show, you press OK and the channel will be changed to that show.
For my Husband I just left the station on that he liked watching, it was not a news show.
If she is content just watching the same channel put it on a station that is "kind to the mind" and leave it on. HGTV, the Food Network, Hallmark, PBS are all good options. Or go the other end and find the Music stations. (my Husband would have hated those though!)

I put Moms TV on the ME channel. It plays all the old TV shows. No news. With Dementia they really can't follow and don't remember the repeats.

There was a thread on this subject here in 2020:

https://www.agingcare.com/questions/controlling-tv-remotely-459015.htm?orderby=recent

Hope this helps!

Good luck!