Roku setup

[sbarone39]

I got rid of cable and am only have streaming now! But I'm still in the learning process as to hook everything up. Roku Live TV works fine. I would like to get the local DC networks vs a Chicago station. I get the Fox station but not the other big networks. I tried setting up an antenna and presuming I hooked it up correctly (and I'm not too far away from DC), I still only got Fox TV. Is Roku TV blocking out the antenna? I like watching ABC national news at night. I may need to break down and get geek squad but my cable bill is half now so hooray! Philo has all the channels I like and then some. Just a couple more steps and I'll be good to go.

[Strega2]

Do you mean blocking as in RFI?  If so, certainly possible.  The fix for that would be a well-shielded antenna cable leading to an antenna far from RFI – such as high up and outdoors.

Do you have a Roku player, or a Roku TV?  With a Roku player, your TV should be capable of doing everything it did before adding the Roku device.  If you have a Roku TV, well, I don’t have one of those, but based on what I’ve read, I wouldn’t recommend one to someone who wanted to watch significant OTA TV.  The OTA stuff just isn’t part of Roku’s business model and sounds kind of half-baked (but again only based on reading comments about it.)

[gtb1]

I cant hook my antenna up at all for local channels, did Roku do something to block antenna use

[sbarone39]

Thank you. I wrote a long comment but Roku (?) timed me out and erased.

[Strega2]

@sbarone39  I would suggest typing long responses into a local app (text editor etc.) and then copying and pasting to a web forum.  That way if something goes wrong, you still have the original.

@gtb1  Can you describe “can’t hook” in more detail. A roku player has no antenna features (so “can’t hook” would be true here - but that's OK - you just use the TV for those).  A roku TV does (so an antenna should be “hookable”.)