Hallelujah!!! The channel numbers are back. Roku, can we please keep it that way?!!!
I noticed the same thing this morning on my Ultra 4660 (OS 12.0). On my RokuTV (OS 12.5), I still have channel numbers for the LiveTV streaming channels on the Roku Channel.
Looks like Roku is updating the Roku Channel LiveTV Guide to provide for the removal of channel numbers. (https://www.roku.com/blog/os-12-5), so will just start pushing it to devices. (thanks to renojim for pointing this out in another thread).
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Don't really care for this unnumbered list as it is actually more unorganized. (supposedly 12.5 will allow user to personalize/order your streaming channels, but of course has not yet been implemented. Roku is infamous for pushing only half of a feature on release). If you want to switch channels using Voice Remote, you now need to know the "Channel Name". When saying the Channel Name, a submenu pops up asking whether to switch to the Chanel Name on LiveTV or install the Channel Name standalone chanel/app. Prior to this, you only needed to say the "Channel Number" into the Voice Remote and the channel automatically switched to said "Channel Number".
Can no longer simply share with someone where a channel is located by number. Now need to tell them "between channel A and channel B". Does not help that the Categories section on left is also incomplete and missing channels that should be included in the selected Category.
Not an improvement in my opinion.
I totally agree! It’s so frustrating that not only now are there no number channels but the channels are no longer categorized like they used to be and I cannot even find cooking shows anymore. It appears that a lot of the shows I used to watch, home-improvement shows, etc. are gone. Some of the movie channels. It’s so unorganized. It was way better the way it was before. And I would recommend some sort of a back button so that you don’t always have to scroll through every number to find what you’re looking for. Or maybe not a back button but a remote that has the ability to put numbers in so you can put the channel number you’re looking for . I guess, if they were still channel numbers… Very frustrating the way it is now. For an update, they made it worse.
Yes! Please! Give us the channel numbers back to start. Then later offer a remote with the capability to enter a specific channel number. Roku keeps making unnecessary changes that make things inconvenient for us.
Hi, Community users.
Thanks for your feedback regarding the changes in Live TV Channel numbers.
Your feedback has been acknowledged, and we sincerely apologize for the inconvenience this has caused while streaming. Rest assured that this concern has been forwarded to our team for review, and appropriate steps might be taken for resolution.
Once again, we appreciate your feedback. Your input is valuable to us.
All the best,
Kash
RokuTakashi You're actually advertising channel numbers right now. There's a Roku commercial for "FailArmy on Roku channel number" something. I picked up a remote and spoke the channel number from the Home screen and it went there. I don't remember the channel number because you still don't show them in the guide, or managing the guide, or anywhere.
I say "Channel 161" at the home screen and it takes me to Accuweather on the Roku Channel. But if I do the same thing while I'm somewhere in the Roku channel, it says "That channel is not available".
Don't advertise channel numbers when they don't work.
