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Jlanigan
Newbie

Sync multiple TVs

I have three TV’s in my home bar and have a separate Roku on each. I use xfinity as my home cable and have the xfinity stream app loaded on my ROKU.  When I have the same game playing in all 3 tv’s they are all streaming about 10-20 seconds apart.  Is there a way to sync my 3 separate Roku’s to play at the same time?  

if I use the sports app it also buffers at a different time so it’s not just the xfinity app. 

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renojim
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Re: Sync multiple TVs

There is no way to synchronize them, sorry.

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Re: Sync multiple TVs

I can't believe this isn't already an option.  This can't be that hard to crack.  I can do this with music on my google home system, should be able to work on Roku devices just as easily.

FatElvis
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How can you not sync multiple tvs ? This seems so basic.

Seriously, how is this not a feature ?  It seems relatively easy to add, and would encourage people to buy multiple Rokus.  I have two and want to watch the same football game in two rooms while doing housework, and I can't because one is about 5 seconds ahead of the other.  How hard is it to add a "sync" mode that keys both units into the latency and runs off the slowest stream ?

j78701
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Re: How can you not sync multiple tvs ? This seems so basic.

Will anyone at ROkU please reply whether synchronization might be in the works?

renojim
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Re: How can you not sync multiple tvs ? This seems so basic.

Roku never responds to what may be in the works.  They may mention something on their blog, but that's about it.

There is a place for suggestions:  Suggest a Feature | Roku Community | Roku

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Re: Sync multiple TVs help

Did you ever find an answer? We have the same problem in our bar 

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cgc007
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Re: Sync multiple TVs help

Best I can tell, currently this doesn't exist. You can try to fake it through the API and calling a stream start to multiple devices yourself, but I haven't gotten very far on this. Just thought of trying it this morning to sync Christmas Music throughout our house, but it didn't work very well.

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Re: How can you not sync multiple tvs ? This seems so basic.

This is already a suggestion in their list. In fact, it comes right back to this thread.