Solving playback issues

[renojim]

@jwcosta, Roku devices don't turn off.  The power button on the remote is strictly for the TV.  The action you're describing sounds like the Roku has gone into "power saving" mode.  Press Home on the remote to wake it.

I'm not following your statement, "it goes to the home screen, but it defaults to the show that was playing at the time I turned the TV off".  I assume you mean the Roku's Home Screen comes up and when you launch Youtube TV it automatically resumes where it left off?  If that's the case, the way to prevent this behavior, as has already been stated, is to use the Back button to exit the app.  Using Home will invoke the desired "Instant resume" feature.  I'd have to check, but simply turning off the TV while the app is still running probably has the same effect as pressing Home - the app gets killed and Roku saves its current state to be resumed the next time the app is launched.

The "Instant resume" feature is brand new, so not many here have much experience with it.  While it appears that it's a feature of the new Ultra, it's probably coming to more of the older models if they can support it.

[jwcosta]

Ok.  Here is what I tried.  I turned off the 20-minute power-saving setting, so that the ROKU Ultra power is always on.  My goal with YouTube TV is to watch live TV.  Here are all the steps I had to go through to get there. With the TV off, I hit the Home button on the Roku remote.  Rather than the ROKU Home Screen, this brought up an ad for a  a new show on Apple TV+ ("Severance").  I hit the back button and then the Home Screen came up.  I scrolled and selected "You Tube TV".  When the app opened, it was playing a show that was on the network I last watched (ABC), which was a recording, at that point.  I had to hit the back button yet again to return to the YouTube TV main screen, then scroll up to "Live" and then select the live channel I wanted.  These are just a lot of additional steps I now have to go through.  I previously had the ROKU Ultra 4802X, which was more streamlined with respect to YouTube TV and didn't require the use of the back button like this.  I upgraded to the ROKU Ultra 2024 (4850X) model because of the HDCP error messages I was getting on the old model.  But now the tradeoff seems to be that there are lot of additional back button pushes required.

[renojim]

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@jwcosta wrote:

I hit the Home button on the Roku remote.  Rather than the ROKU Home Screen, this brought up an ad for a  a new show on Apple TV+ ("Severance").

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That's troubling.  I haven't seen that behavior... yet.  I really hope Roku isn't forcing more ads upon us.

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@jwcosta wrote:

I scrolled and selected "You Tube TV".  When the app opened, it was playing a show that was on the network I last watched (ABC), which was a recording, at that point.  I had to hit the back button yet again to return to the YouTube TV main screen, then scroll up to "Live" and then select the live channel I wanted.

The question remains - how are you exiting the app?  If you don't Back out of it completely, it appears "Instant resume" takes over.  The ads are more troubling to me than "Instant resume" since there's a way around that.

[jwcosta]

to exit the app, I have just been been using the power button on the Roku remote to turn the TV off. With the previous ROKU Ultra (Model 4802X), this was enough to close out of the YouTube TV app. Whenever I decided to power on the TV, the home screen would automatically open. If I then selected YouTube TV, it would go through the customary opening of the app with the opening tones, etc. Now this does not happen. The sequence that happens is as I described it above.

[StreamerUser]

@jwcosta 

You shouldnt rely on using the remote's TV power button to close out apps/stop streaming due to HDMI connection reset/etc since this is an inconsistent behavior @ best (not all apps/TVs/AVRs behave this way, and the power button is not intended to close apps/stop streaming on the Roku device) - always either Exit the app or use Home to stop streaming.

The YT/YTTV apps on the 4850 (Ultra 2024) support Instant Resume.

The YT/YTTV apps on all other player models do not support Instant Resume (yet?).

(This is why the YT/YTTV app versions/builds are slightly different between your 4850 & 4802)

There are other apps that support Instant Resume (e.g. Apple TV), and in order to close out these apps you MUST use the app's Exit process/function (Home will leave them in Instant Resume mode).

You are just going to have to "retrain" yourself to Exit apps in order to fully close them (when done streaming).

[jwcosta]

ok. thanks. this is good information. Stupid question:  How do I exit the YTTV app properly?  In the past (i.e., on the 4802), I just used the home button. 

[renojim]

@jwcosta, keep pressing the Back button (the button to the left of Home) until you're back at the Home Screen.

[jwcosta]

Thank you. This worked. At least now, I know what to do. Personally, I find this new feature extremely annoying, as I will never use instant resume. I wish app would just self-close once the home button is pressed.

[Sentaak]

I find it extremely annoying as well.   I now go to the yttv app then click * then click restart the app because I have no patience to resume and click back buttons and dance around 

[letti001]

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