It’s really a simple, stupid problem. Here’s the deal. After wasting my time, between the idiots at Xfinity, roku and Acorn, receiving multiple dumb emails from all of them, it was obvious. In my case, I took out my subscription through Xfinity, my local cable/ internet provider. With Xfinity, it is accessed as an on demand only feature, not a separate app. It works well, but it’s not an app, like For instance, Prime video and Netflix through Xfinity’s app section. but here’s the catch. As you noted, you can’t use your cable provider login ID to use the acorn TV app on a roku player. I assume that will also be the case with a chrome stick or fire stick,
With Xfinity, you can use the Xfinity stream roku app to access it. the Xfinity stream app, however, often doesn’t allow access to certain channels, when away from your home internet. I have a second home, but I won’t be able to test it, until Im there., being in corona lockdown mode, I don’t anticipate being out there for a month or two. So, in the end, you have a choice. Either cancel your cable provider account and take out one through a streaming gizmo, like roku. and watch acorn TV wherever you have roku players, or keep your cable provider account, but not be able to use your roku acorn app.
If you contact any of these idiots, they’ll just bounce you around like a pinball. Danny st roku, however, was the only honest employee to conform what became obvious to me,
let me know if you received and understood these comments. If, by some miracle, you figure out another solution, Im all ears, but I’m quite certain that these are your choices,
as I see it, it’s a way for xfinity to keep you from using streaming gizmos and centralize everything onto their platform.
