Comment on Got Banned for Fixing Roku — The Paul Blart Mod Chronicles
Dbanno@lemmy.world 2 days agoHere 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 1 day 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 1 day 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.