====== App: LIVE tab ======
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===== Usage =====
[[:App:Live|App: Live TV tab]]\\ 
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**Remote Control or Keyboard:**

  * 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


**Touch screen / mouse:**

  * Touch anywhere on Live TV to bring up the on screen controls and action bar.
  * Press any empty space to dismiss the controls and action bar.


<wrap info> If your keyboard has dedicated multimedia keys, those will also work.</wrap>
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**Action Bar:**

  * **{{fa>volume-up}} VOLUME -** control volume.
      * <wrap tip>When using a remote control or keyboard, select the volume icon and press select/enter to mute/unmute, and press up/down to change the volume</wrap>


  * **{{fa>backward}} REWIND -** 10 second step

  * **{{fa>play}} PLAY / {{fa>pause}} PAUSE**

  * **{{fa>forward}} FAST-FORWARD -** 30 second step

  * **{{fa>dot-circle-o}} RECORD -** Records current program if user has the optional [[:DVR]] service.

  * **GUIDE -** Grid-style TV guide.

  * **SAP -** Secondary audio programming (other languages, descriptive audio, etc)

  * **{{fa>cc}} Closed Captions -** Toggles Closed Captions/subtitles on/off

  * **{{fa>sort?rotate=90}} Zoom/Fullscreen -** zooms picture to fill screen, such as for programs that are a different aspect ratio OR places the HDHomeRun app into full-screen mode

  * **{{fa>close}} Back to Menu -** Exits to the Recorded/Discover/Tasks/Settings screens.

  * When using a remote or keyboard, if you keep going RIGHT you will be able to select the Slice Guide search and filter options, described below.

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**Slice Guide:**\\
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  * {{fa>search}} **SEARCH -** Jump to slice search for program, network, or channel-based search. For keyboards or remotes with number pads, just start typing to trigger search. You can use this to switch to a specific channel number, channel name, or even show title. For example, using a remote with a keypad, you can enter "1004" + ENTER and it will switch to channel 1004.

  * {{glyphicon>star-empty}} **FAVORITES -**

  * {{mdi>undo-variant}} **RECENT channels -**

  * {{fa>newspaper-o}} **NEWS filter -**

  * {{mdi>football}} **SPORTS filter -**

  * {{glyphicon>film}} **MOVIES filter -**

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**Grid guide:** \\

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