Roku Keyboard Needed ASAP
I just bought a brand new Roku "smart" TV. The TV itself is very nice and was priced great. However, its absurd to call the new TV a "smart" TV... With all the technology available today its unaccept...
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i was referring to the advertisements on the remote itself. whether you realize it or not the hulu and netflix buttons on your remote are ads.
ToxicCrouton wrote:i was referring to the advertisements on the remote itself.
I promise you, if Roku offered such a keyboard, it would still have those "ad" buttons. Look at virtually any remote for a streaming product (Smart TV, BD Player, streaming player), every one of them has at minimum a Netflix button. Netflix pays a lot of money for those permanent billboards in front of you. And Roku isn't the only one with more than one such button. I have a Onn streaming player with multiple buttons like that, and even 3rd party universal IR remotes have at least the good old Netflix button. There's simply no way of getting past them. I've never owned an Apple TV, so can't say if their remotes have any such buttons. Buy my Nvidia Shield does, by Sony BD player, my LG, Vizio and Samsung TVs, and the list goes on.
Your not understanding that i am not asking for a roku keyboard. I want to be able to use any usb keyboard with the tv. This option is available on literally every other tv on the market
OK, others have asked for a wireless keyboard, which would imply it was offered by Roku.
The problem with connecting a USB keyboard is 1) not every Roku has a USB port and 2) the Roku OS would need to have drivers to support a USB keyboard. the Roku OS is a highly modified version of Linux. While the base OS certainly has drivers for USB keyboards in the kernel, drivers take memory space, and many Roku devices simply don’t have enough memory for things like drivers that aren’t necessary for the device to function. So Roku removes all unnecessary things from the base kernel, including drivers they feel are unneeded. They need all the space they can get to allow the Roku OS to work on a wide variety of hardware. Adding support for a USB keyboard (which I actually agree with) likely just won’t fit within the footprint they need to maintain.
your speaking nonsense tho. a universal usb driver is not very large at all. and speaking as a computer programmer there would be zero issue if they wanted to include this option. there is there is way more memory than is needed too add this option. and of course your comment that not every roku has a usb port is useless because obviously the option would only be included with rokus that have a usb port. We'll just gloss over how easy it would be to add bluetooth support for keyboards too because im sure you have some outlandish explanation for that too. My biggest question of course would be how much is roku paying you guys to downplay my request for usb keyboard support.
