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--- app:lg [2025/05/02 00:25] – neds
+++ app:lg [2026/04/24 03:15] (current) – neds
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-====== Installing the HDHomeRun app for LG smart TVs ======
+====== HDHomeRun for LG smart TVs ======
-<btn type="success" size="s" icon="fa fa-chevron-left">[[:app|See all app topics]]</btn>
+<btn type="success" icon="fa fa-chevron-left">[[:app|See all app topics]]</btn>
 <lead>Installing the HDHomeRun app for LG smart TVs</lead>
+<WRAP center important>
+**LG has not approved the HDHomeRun app for any TV model outside of the US. \\
+\\
+LG has not approved the HDHomeRun app for release on newer TVs in the US.**
+  * US models from 2016 till 2021 should allow for installation.
+  * Some of the higher end US models from 2022 might allow for installation.
+</WRAP>
 ===== Install the app =====
 <WRAP indent>
-<panel type="success" title="Step 1">
+<panel type="success" title="Search and install">
-Step
+  - Use the **"Search"** option, or go to the **"Apps"** section.
+  - Select the search field.
-</panel>
+  - Type in "HDHomeRun".
+  - Select the "HDHomeRun" icon.
-<panel type="success" title="Step 2">
+  - Click the "Install" button.
-Step
 </panel>
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   * **Scan for channels using the HDHomeRun app:**
-    -
+    - Select the gear icon in the top-right corner of the "Live / Guide / Recorded / Discover / Tasks" screen
+    - Select **"Channels"**
+    - Select **"Scan Channels"**
+    - Wait for the scan to complete
   * **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**
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 ===== Basic controls =====
 <WRAP indent>
-<btn type="success" size="xs" icon="fa fa-chevron-left">[[:app#using_the_app|See all app controls]]</btn>
+<btn type="success" size="xs" icon="fa fa-chevron-right">[[:app#using_the_app|See all app controls]]</btn>
-step
+  * 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
 </WRAP>
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 ===== Troubleshooting =====
 <WRAP indent>
-<btn type="success" size="xs" icon="fa fa-chevron-left">[[:Troubleshooting|See all troubleshooting topics]]</btn>
+<btn type="success" size="xs" icon="fa fa-chevron-right">[[:Troubleshooting|See all troubleshooting topics]]</btn>
-==== Section 1 ====
+==== Cannot fast-forward or rewind on live TV ====
 <WRAP indent>
-section 1
+This is unfortunately a known limitation due to how the LG video player works, where seeking does not work if the player does not know when the video ends (which doesn't exist on a live channel). Seeking will work on recordings.
 </WRAP>
-==== Section 2 ====
-<WRAP indent>
-Section 2
-</WRAP>
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