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Castr8's avatar
Castr8
Newbie
8 months ago

Cannot connect my phone app to my Roku device

Restarted my Roku device because it wouldn’t update. However now I cannot get my phone Roku app to talk to the device to select English, etc.

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  • renojim's avatar
    renojim
    Community Streaming Expert

    If you factory reset your Roku device and you're now on the "Let's get started" page, you need a physical remote.  There's no way to use the phone app until the device is connected to your network and there's no way to get it connected to your network without a physical remote.

    One caveat is that if the Roku device has an Ethernet port, you may be able to get it to recognize a wired connection and get the phone app to connect to it.  Not many Roku devices have an Ethernet port.