Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

We are a family of two Roku TVs and a Roku (last years version of this model- 3600R). The problem was the 3600R in the family room did not control the TV power and volume. I was about to order a sideclick when I heard about this new model. The sidelick is $29 here on Amazon and the new Roku was $49. Plus the sideclick added some clunkiness to the remote. I just received this today and setup was very quick. All I did was unplug the old roku and use the same power adapter and cord. The roku comes with two Duracell AAA batteries. After I connected it to my wifi it updated it's firmware. Then it auto-detected the resolution of my Sony TV (1080p). Next it played some music and asked if I heard it. I clicked OK and it muted the music. It asked and I confirmed if the music was not playing by clicking OK a second time. Voila...remote setup for TV power and volume. I signed into my Roku account and it downloaded the apps. I'm not sure what the other reviewers issue was with this controlling his soundbar. I have a 60" Sony TV connected to a Vizio S5430W-C2 Soundbar. It works perfectly fine. I do use HDMI-ARC as the connection to the soundbar so that might be the issue. The other feature that is added to this remote is the voice search. I haven't played with it too much and will update my review. I bought this from Amazon. Please note the Walmart version has the hard coded Vudu button (I don't use Vudu). The Amazon version has DirectvNow as its bottom right button. I subscribe to PS Vue but we might switch over to DirectvNow in the future. The only con I can say is there is no mute button. They could have put a third button below the volume controls. There also seems to be a little bit of play with the volume rocker but maybe that is by design. So far so good. I didn't need this as my existing Roku from last year worked perfectly fine. I just wanted to get something posted as there are only 4 reviews and one was saying it didn't control the soundbar.