App: LIVE tab

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Usage

App: Live TV tab

Remote Control or Keyboard:

  • While no controls are visible on screen (Press back/exit/escape to clear visible controls from the screen):
  • UP / 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, UP / Down will seek in 10 minute steps
  • LEFT / 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.

If your keyboard has dedicated multimedia keys, those will also work.

Action Bar:

  • VOLUME - control volume.
    • 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
  • REWIND - 10 second step
  • PLAY / PAUSE
  • FAST-FORWARD - 30 second step
  • 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)
  • Closed Captions - Toggles Closed Captions/subtitles on/off
  • 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
  • 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.

Slice Guide:

  • 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.
  • FAVORITES -
  • RECENT channels -
  • NEWS filter -
  • SPORTS filter -
  • MOVIES filter -

Grid guide:

  • Last modified: 2025/05/29 03:51