5 Pro Tips For Roku Owners & Roku TV Owners

welcome back to the core cars news Tech Lab today we're going to be taking a look at some great Pro tips for your Roku player and Roku TV now these are a handful of pro tips I find very helpful if you have one you want to add to this list leave me a comment if you're already a pro Roku user you've had it for many years you may know some of these but if you're new I hope that this will help you get the most out of your Roku player or Roku TV so we're going to just dive into a few here first of all if you could do me a big favor if you're new here do me a favor a favor and let YouTube know you enjoy what we do here it helps us grow it helps me support my family all you have to do is hit that subscribe button or hit that thumbs up it lets YouTube know you enjoy what we do here so YouTube recommends our videos to more people helping us grow but with that said let's dive into this starting off with content Discovery so Roku is really good one of the things that I think a lot of people don't take full advantage of is the fact that you with Roku you can easily discover where to watch a ton of content if you go down to the search roku's built-in search very few people I know use it but it's really good so with it you can search for different topics but you can go in here and for example hey I've heard a lot about 1923. if I click on this it'll tell me where I can watch it I can subscribe to it through the Roku channel right here or go to the Paramount plus okay but what about Crete I want to watch Creed I don't really want to pay for it well good news it's included with a lot of subscriptions right now creates an um Amazon Prime HBO max if I have a cable or a live TV streaming service subscription that allows me to log into TNT TBS True TV Etc I can do it there Spectrum customers get it or I can rent it Voodoo um Apple TV red box Amazon all kinds of different places you can rent it and this works for 8 ton of different movies and television shows with that so really great if you're looking for some movies TV shows and more highly recommend checking out the Roku search it's a very nice Universal search now this is being shown on a Roku TV it works on Roku players too I know why backgrounds red yours may be purple that's not important just go down to the search in the left hand side of the menu here and you'll find it all right let's jump into the settings real quick um with this and then let's talk about Apple AirPlay so a few uh recently Roku and apple teamed up to bring Roku AirPlay here so from your iPhones um and home kit for me iPhones iPads Etc you can now cast your screen and your video from there to your Roku just like you would with an Apple TV it's very simple you know now if you have a TV you do want to make sure it's um in the fast start mode so that even if the TV is off it can Auto Wake for that um but it's automatically built in a few catches here with this to have Apple's AirPlay work you do need the ability to be on the same network with it so the same Wi-Fi network whatever it may be your TV your phone your device needs to be on the same one that is a security feature there it's one of the reasons why you want a Wi-Fi password on your network by having it locked down with a Wi-Fi password you are able to control who can can get into your TV now if you're an Android User there's a ton of different things you can cast photos and more to your TV you can also cast YouTube videos and a whole host of other stuff from your phone from your device to your TV if you have the YouTube app installed I do this all the time I'll be watching a video on my phone and cast it here with it so it's a really cool feature so check that out a lot of people don't realize that Apple it's um AirPlay now works with Roku it's a nice feature a nice benefit and really that was one of the reasons I heard a lot of Apple TV users spend the extra money was to have that ability now you don't need to it works just fine uh Roku all right let's go into settings and let's talk about parental controls now with this if you have kids I do recommend you set this up you can go in and you can create a four digit PIN here and that will allow you to lock up your Roku and do thing you can do things like prevent them from installing additional Roku channels apps that you don't want more importantly preventing them from buying stuff can end up with quite a bill if you didn't lock it down and you just allow them to buy stuff of course Roku doesn't require you to put a payment method they try to talk you into it but when you do set up a Roku if you go down to the bottom of that payment setup page you can just skip this step they don't make it very clear about the bottom it's there with it all right a few other things here real quick here my most common apps at the top right I don't be scrolling through here because Roku always just adds the newest app you install to the bottom of the list you can rearrange this just hit the star key and then you can go in here and you can remove a channel you can check for feedback you can rate it if you want or you can move it around and put at the top or say hey I don't want subscribe to huling more I'm gonna move it to the bottom or I'm just going to move it over here this will allow you to very quickly set up your Roku with the home screen exactly the way you want it lastly if you have a Roku TV there's a way to actually label these so you see how I have an info here marked Fire TV this is a review TV when I'm testing something on a Fire TV I will plug that in you can actually go in here and select that and then rename input and you can go in here and edit the name custom or there are all kinds of pre-selected names here I can say it's a Playstation Xbox game system Soundbar receiver VCR I still have a VCR still use it and more so you really can go in here and customize it which is really nice rather than trying to remember what is HDMI 2. I don't know what is HDMI 2 well it's my Xbox and I can put that on there also if you hover over it will show you the ability here to have um uh image of whoever is in the HDMI port I'll show you one last bonus thing one cool thing that roku's have added over the years and this is available on Roku TVs and Roku players is oh this is trying to show me there we go uh all my locals if you have an antenna if you are a core cutter do you know Roku has a free guide for your antenna so here are all the stations with it that I got down in Texas when we were there and I could scroll through here and select different ones I can go into the future um several days and see what's available the cool thing here I like here is all right see this little star if I press more on it it will show me more ways to watch so I can restart this episode I apologize that I hope that wasn't too broken up very very long but I can go in here and say on the Roku Channel this episode they were shown live on TV is available on the Roku Channel and as soon as that reloads because I haven't used it in a while I can actually restart that from the beginning watch the next episode and a whole lot more with it it's not just for the Roku Channel we'll also show you things like Disney Plus Hulu and more I'm gonna back out of this real quick because I don't want to get a copyright complaint but it'll take me right to that season so this is a great way if you're watching a show over the air and you're like hey I kind of like this I want to learn more you can go into Amazon or into roku's guide there hit the star key with your watching on an antenna and be able to watch it through other services Disney Plus Hulu the Roku Channel and a whole lot more and again it's really nice because you can also go and say hey I watched the episode I kind of want to see more you can see all of the available episodes through it again to do that um if you have an antenna you can just go into live TV and then it'll bring you up most recent Channel Wherever You Were Watching uh you hit the left key or left Arrow here once that comes up and then it brings up this whole guide here and not only does it show you your antenna it also shows you a ton of free Channel streaming so I got you know AccuWeather weather nation Fox weather uh us today uh USA Today the Today's Show all kinds of stuff news weather you keep going you get a whole section of sports keep going past the sports section and I'm going to get into a bunch of um country music channel from Pluto TV uh westerns from the Roku channel uh Walker Texas Ranger here's another example watching this I click on this um and it'll jump right into it over at the Roku channel so let's back out there I apologize about the camera but the some great Pro tips do you have a pro tip you would like to add to this list is there something you think I should have included leave me a comment let me know I'll love to hear from you hopefully this helped you kind of figure out some of the things that Roku can do that you may not have been aware of hopefully this helps making Roku a little bit more useful for you leave me a comment again I'll love to hear from you if you're new if you um haven't checked out our other videos check out a huge collection over a thousand videos just like this one also hit the Subscribe hit the thumbs up let YouTube know you enjoy what we do here until next time take care be safe we'll be back again real soon

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Published: Sun Mar 12 2023