Comment on Got Banned for Fixing Roku — The Paul Blart Mod Chronicles
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Post the exact comment that got you banned. I’m sure many on Lemmy would find it fun to repost it to the Roku forum over and over. We don’t care about Reddit bans.
Dbanno@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Here it is:
If you’ve been trying to watch real over-the-air channels and Roku keeps forcing you into their “Live TV” streaming hub (even with Hide Streaming Channels turned on), here’s what finally worked for me:
👉 Step 1: After scanning for channels, go to Manage Channels and add one of your antenna channels to Favorites (for me, it was Channel 5). 👉 Step 2: Back on the Roku home screen, hover over the Live TV tile for 2–3 seconds before pressing OK.
If you wait, Roku automatically loads your first favorite channel — you’ll go straight into antenna TV instead of the streaming hub.
If you click too fast, it jumps right back into the ad-stuffed streaming Live TV interface.
It’s a weird UX quirk, but this workaround actually works every time once you’ve got a favorite set. Hopefully Roku separates those inputs properly someday, but until then… this saved my sanity. 😂
Quexotic@infosec.pub 2 days ago
Sounds like you got banned for showing people how to get away from ads. That’s not allowed by our corporate overlords.
mika_mika@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Yeah Roku is definitely working on how to fix this. You were never supposed to bypass the ad filled content.
_stranger_@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I don’t have a TV with Roku uilt in, which I’m guessing OP’s is? In any case, it seems like this love TV thing is taking a second to interface with channel tuning hardware and maybe that just takes a moment to load, and the default is set to an ad I guess.