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AnaRon
Reel Rookie
2 years ago
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Pausing anything outside of roku automatically revers to roku home

Sling, Hulu, Pluto, Merritt - does not matter which venue I am on. I pause what I am watching to go get a drink, come back and I am on the show I paused is gone and the Roku screen saver is on. Press...
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    renojim
    2 years ago

    For how long it takes for the screensaver to activate, you can disable it completely or set it to 1, 5, 10, or 30 minutes under Settings->Theme->Screensaver start time.  It sounds like yours is set to 1 minute.

    For the other problem, when you say you're pressing "continue", what button are you pressing?  If the screensaver is active, don't press Play/Pause (which I know is intuitively what everyone does).  Roku has screensavers with little ads that float past and pressing Play/Pause will activate the ad.  Get in the habit of pressing any other button while the screensaver is active and then you can press Play/Pause to resume your video.

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renojim
Community Streaming Expert
2 years ago

For how long it takes for the screensaver to activate, you can disable it completely or set it to 1, 5, 10, or 30 minutes under Settings->Theme->Screensaver start time.  It sounds like yours is set to 1 minute.

For the other problem, when you say you're pressing "continue", what button are you pressing?  If the screensaver is active, don't press Play/Pause (which I know is intuitively what everyone does).  Roku has screensavers with little ads that float past and pressing Play/Pause will activate the ad.  Get in the habit of pressing any other button while the screensaver is active and then you can press Play/Pause to resume your video.

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AnaRon
Reel Rookie
2 years ago

Thank you! For some reason, probably Grand Kids, it had been changed. When the kids put their Roku on my tv it did not have this issue. Be a newbie to Roku, it took me quite a while to locate the setting and switch it back to 30 minutes. Highly appreciate the education!