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EnTerr
Roku Guru
10 years ago

(ECP+RokuTV) Support of typing channel# for OTA/Antenna TV?

I was reading threads about RokuTV and notice people are complaining (e.g. http://slickdeals.net/forums/showpost.p ... tcount=135 ) when watching OTA content not being able to directly dial the channe...
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renojim
Community Streaming Expert
10 years ago
Seems like a good idea. I thought not being able to directly tune a channel was a major oversight, but you can press the left arrow button on the remote which brings up a list of all added channels and then you can choose one to go to directly. It's almost as good as directly entering a channel and infinitely quicker than pressing up/down to get there. Still, the idea of ECP support (or telnet "press" command; e.g., press t4.1) is a good idea.

-JT