I ditched my uverse connection to go back to old reliable comcast. Uverse was great but picture quality wasn’t great and kept on freezing. Despite many tech support home call, I decided to call it quits as the price kept on going higher and I got in touch with a local sales rep who gave me a great deal for the next 2 years. Sure I miss the user interface of uverse. Comcast chooses to live in the 8-bit text on screen menu 
Enter the Xfinity TV app on the iphone/android – this app is advertised as a handheld remote control / DVR manager. Unfortunately I was never able to make it work. Some online searching and I found a way to make it work for me. Writing this post to share the love
- Download and install the app on your phone (from app store or android marketplace)
- Login using your comcast.net ID (you should have it on your bill / chat with tech support to get it)
- Identify your set top box. Make sure it is from the list of compatible boxes listed on comcast’s site
- Most people will get an error (and tech support does not know how to trouble shoot this). Other people will not even see the STB name identified on the screen. Don’t worry just read on
- Now enter your zip code and select the correct channel listing.
- All features work but the channel changing function.
Here’s how to make the channel changing feature work 
- Log into xfinity TV on fancast. Use the same comcast.net ID (thanks Frankie)
- Go to My DVR manager page and setup sync (I am not sure how this works for people with no DVR service). The site will say sync might take up to 24 hrs to complete. Ignore it
- Now you will see that your TV is atleast identified by the xfinity app (you can check this by going to settings on the app and test tv)
- Next, using your comcast remote select menu, then select parental control, then select exit (thanks Dave)
Everything worked for me after I followed this command. Now I don’t need to use the Fugly comcast remote. My phone is an awesome remote with an awesome UI with channel listings 
September 9th, 2011 at 2:02 pm
Thank you. This healped a lot. I wasnt sure what “Name” it was asking for.
September 9th, 2011 at 2:08 pm
Glad I could help Kevin. I think sometime during the setup the iphone app asks you to name your TV (I guess this is helpful when you have multiple TV’s in your house). So when you click on your TV’s name, a little message pops-up on your screen identifying that particular name you gave it in the app.