Suggest a Feature

[deric908]

Use Case : Deploying Roku devices throughout a business campus for easy display of news and possibly company commercials.

Management : Single Roku account used for entire fleet of Roku devices.

Problem : PIN protect denies unwanted channel adds but does not stop channel deletions. Single Roku account means if deleted from one, then all will be affected.

Solution : Add PIN protect to deletion of channel.

Note : If there are thoughts on better ways to accomplish this please respond. Maybe if enough agree they will add the feature.

[Basil]

I like the idea of offering that option to PIN protect channel deletion, or any channel maintenance.

By the way, until such time, if any, that Roku offers this, keep in mind that deleting from one won't delete from all immediately. The other devices will lose the app when they update, usually overnight. In the interim, it might be worth checking regularly to ensure the apps is still on the account. Keep in mind that if an app is removed from one device, checking https://channelstore.roku.com/ will show the item as not installed, even if it's still on all the other devices. Just add it back. At update, the offending device will get it back.

Also, start firing people. If they can't be adults at work, let them be kids in the unemployment line.

[deric908]

Great suggestion Basil. Running an automated check on the channel store could be a stopgap solution.

It's not necessarily a nefarIous action we are trying to stop... we generally design solutions to help protect users from making simple mistakes that otherwise might make us look foolish.

Thanks again for the suggestion.

[steco]

Hi

Is there a way to put a pin code on to remove channels. My kids like playing games and remove Netflix and other channel subs and I have to always put it on then move to the top all the time . It becomes very frustrating.

Thanks

[beq]

+1

Over the years we had to cope by:

- waiting for family kids to get bored deleting stuff

- waiting for the kids to grow up

- migrating each family household to a separate Roku account, so deletions don't propagate to everyone (each household also now gets to have different channel line-ups) -- took a lot of re-configuring all the Roku's though.

[cosminpop]

It is so stupid that such a simple feature cannot be implemeted. Completely retarded from Roku. There are so many situations when you need to have multiple Rokus under the same account and you don't want one user to affect everybody, SO PLEASE ROKU, if you can implement adding a channel with PIN protection, implement deleting a channel with PIN protection

[thrakazog]

Also chiming in.  This is a feature we need badly. 

[acbray]

I would like to see this as well.  My 4 year old has figured out how to use the Roku and loves to delete channels and rearrange the channel tiles.  Adding channels is behind a PIN, I wish this feature extended to deleting them too.

[razrdog]

I would like to add to this feature request the ability to also prevent rearrangement of channels. 

[champdog]

It's been over 2 years since this feature request was initially submitted. It doesn't seem like it should be very difficult to implement and would provide a huge benefit to users. ROKU, why aren't you picking this low hanging fruit?