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-====== Installing the HDHomeRun app for Windows PC ======+====== HDHomeRun for Windows PC ======
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 <lead>Installing the HDHomeRun app for Windows PC</lead> <lead>Installing the HDHomeRun app for Windows PC</lead>
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-  - Launch the app from your device's home screen. +<panel type="success" title="Scan for channels"> 
-  - The first time you open the app you will need to grant the app permissions to talk to the HDHomeRun hardware on your local network, then press "Retry" if needed.+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.  
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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** 
 +    - 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). 
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 ===== Basic controls ===== ===== Basic controls =====
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-step+  * While no controls are visible on screen (Press back/exit/escape to clear visible controls from the screen):
  
-</WRAP>+  * **{{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
  
-===== Windows specific settings ===== +  * **{{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
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-step+  * **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. 
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 +  * **BACK -** Exits to the Recorded/Discover/Tasks/Settings screens
  
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-==== Section 2 ==== 
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-Section 2 
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