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LilNasty
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2 years ago
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How to watch local channels?

How do I set up local channels? I have my antenna connected to my ROKU TV. When I go to LIVE TV I see all the channels from across the country. Not my local broadcast channels.  I went to the ROKU ...
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  • AvsGunnar's avatar
    AvsGunnar
    2 years ago

    LilNasty 

    Go to Settings/TV Inputs.  Look under the "Unused Inputs" for "live tv".  This is the antenna/local/OTA input.

    After you enable this input, go to Settings/TV Inputs  and highlight the Live TV.  Then select Rename and change LiveTV to Antenna.

    Then go to your Home Screen and look for the "Antenna" tile on your Home Screen.  You will need to select this Antenna tile in order to watch your locals. 

    If you select "Live TV" from the left hand side menu, you are actually selecting the Roku Streaming Channels.  You need to select the Antenna tile instead.  Roku made watching local channel unnecessarily confusing by labeling everything Live TV.  This is why I just find it easier to suggest renaming the OTA input to Antenna to keep things straight.

  • atc98092's avatar
    atc98092
    12 months ago

    There should be a setting under Settings/Home screen that will put the Antenna TV icon on the home screen. It might get loaded at the bottom of the list, so you'd have to move it up so it can be seen without scrolling. I'm going from memory, as I haven't had a Roku TV in a number of years. Hopefully they didn't remove that from the settings. 

  • HDMIGuy's avatar
    HDMIGuy
    12 months ago

    dal28dal  On your Roku TV go to settings, system, power, and select Antenna TV as your power on channel.

  • Rags7764's avatar
    Rags7764
    11 months ago

    After I scanned for and found my local antenna channels, I made them all my favorite by checking boxes. When I go to live TV guide, I go to favorite, there they are. If there is another or better way, please let me know. Eric 

     

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atc98092
Community Streaming Expert
11 months ago

Rags7764 but what was in the box, a Roku or a TV? If it's a TV, what brand is it? I know you said Roku TV in an earlier post, but there are many different brands of TVs that have the Roku operating system and are called "Roku TVs".

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Rags7764
Binge Watcher
11 months ago

Brand new _ROKU_ tv in box delivered by Walmart. Look man it's a Roku tv alright.

  • atc98092's avatar
    atc98092
    Community Streaming Expert
    11 months ago

    I've heard that Live TV doesn't always provide OTA channels, or perhaps it mixes it in with the IPTV channels. On my TVs with such IPTV channels (Samsung and LG) those channels are always after the OTA channels are displayed. Like I said, Roku is trying to "simplify" their user interface but in reality making it more confusing. 

  • atc98092's avatar
    atc98092
    Community Streaming Expert
    11 months ago

    Rags7764 you can understand why we have to ask. The comment above yours is trying to find OTA channels on a Roku player, not a Roku TV. We have to be certain what kind of Roku device is being used. 

    Roku keeps changing the home screen on Roku TVs and it seems to be harder to find the antenna input. The only TV I have is used solely as a computer monitor, so I can't say where the antenna input is hiding now. It has to be there, but I don't know the current tile layout on a TV.

  • Rags7764's avatar
    Rags7764
    Binge Watcher
    11 months ago

    Aren't they calling it live tv.  At least in that you should be able to scan for channels. Anyway that's where I found it. Good luck. Eric