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GaryRoehl

Hello experts!

How to keep Roku from defaulting to the screen saver? If I pause programing more than 3 or 4 minutes, it removes my show and defaults to the screen saver. Is there a way to defeat this?

Another intermittent issue is when the screen saver pops up, it tries to install another streaming platform I never asked for? I have the pin so it won't fully install without my pin. This should never happen.

Thanks,

Gary

makaiguy

You could set a longer time before the screen saver kicks in or disable it altogether via Settings > Theme > Screensaver > Screensaver start time.
Press a key other than Play/Pause (and maybe OK?) to exit the screensaver. Popular scrolling Roku screensavers have ads built in for various channels that a Play keypress will activate, offering to install the channel if necessary. I usually press Home or Options (*) to exit a screensaver.
Switch to a different screensavecthat doesn't have scrolling ads.

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