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--- app:google_tv [2025/04/16 22:44] – created neds
+++ app:google_tv [2025/05/29 03:49] (current) – [Basic controls] neds
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-====== Installing the HDHomeRun app for Google TV or Android TV ======
+====== HDHomeRun for Google TV or Android TV ======
+<btn type="success" size="s" icon="fa fa-chevron-left">[[:app|See all app topics]]</btn>
 <lead>Installing the HDHomeRun app for Google TV or Android TV</lead>
-===== Installation steps =====
+===== Install the app =====
-==== Section 1 ====
 <WRAP indent>
-<panel type="success" title="Step 1">
+<panel type="success" title="Download the app">
-step 1
+{{ :google_tv_install.mp4?direct&600x338}}
+**Google TV:**
+  - Use the **"Search"** tab, or go to the **"Apps"** tab.
+  - Select the search field.
+  - Type in "HDHomeRun".
+  - Select the "HDHomeRun" icon.
+  - Click the "Install" button.
+<WRAP clear/>
+----
+{{ :android_tv_install.mp4?direct&600x338}}
+**Android TV:**
+  - Use the **"Search"** tab
+  - or go to the **"Apps"** tab to open **"Google Play"**.
+  - Select the search option.
+  - Type in "HDHomeRun".
+  - Select the "HDHomeRun" icon.
+  - Click the "Install" button.
 </panel>
-<panel type="success" title="Step 2">
+<panel type="success" title="Launch the app">
-step 2
+The HDHomeRun app will now be available next to your other apps on your home screen and under the "Apps" tab.
 </panel>
-<panel type="success" title="Step 3">
+<panel type="success" title="Scan for channels">
-step 3
+The HDHomeRun will attempt to automatically scan for channels the first time it is connected to power, and will occasionally do a background scan every few days, but you may still need to run an initial channel scan.
+  * **Scan for channels using the HDHomeRun app:**
+    -
+  * **Scan for channels using the [[:webui|web interface]]:**
+    - In a web browser that is on the same local network as the HDHomeRun (your PC, phone, tablet, etc), go to this address: **http://hdhomerun.local/lineup.html**
+    - Click on **"Detect Channels"**
+    - You can also hide or "Favorite" channels from this page. Click the gray star next to a channel number once to make it a "Favorite", then click it again to "Blacklist" the channel from the HDHomeRun app. Click again if you wish to return a channel to the default gray star (no setting).
 </panel>
 </WRAP>
-==== Section 2 ====
+===== Basic controls =====
+<WRAP indent>
+<btn type="success" size="xs" icon="fa fa-chevron-right">[[:app#using_the_app|See all app controls]]</btn>
+  * While no controls are visible on screen (Press back/exit/escape to clear visible controls from the screen):
+  * **{{fa>arrow-up}} UP / {{fa>arrow-down}} Down -** Opens the right-hand Slice Guide for channel changes (or the grid guide if you disable the Slice Guide in settings)
+      * While in recording playback, **{{fa>arrow-up}} UP / {{fa>arrow-down}} Down** will seek in 10 minute steps
+  * **{{fa>arrow-left}} LEFT / {{fa>arrow-right}} RIGHT -** Seeks when viewing a recording or when you have paused live TV and have a buffer to rewind and fast forward through
+  * **SELECT -** Brings up the action bar with "Play/Pause" selected, so that you can press "Select" twice to quickly play or pause. From here you can navigate to the other action bar buttons.
+  * **BACK -** Exits to the Recorded/Discover/Tasks/Settings screens
+===== Google TV/Android TV specific settings =====
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+===== Troubleshooting =====
+<WRAP indent>
+<btn type="success" size="xs" icon="fa fa-chevron-right">[[:Troubleshooting|See all troubleshooting topics]]</btn>
+==== Section 1 ====
+<WRAP indent>
+section 1
+</WRAP>
+==== Section 2 ====
+<WRAP indent>
+Section 2
+</WRAP>
+</WRAP>
+{{tag>app}}

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