Apps GVT Stream App User Guide
- June 9, 2024
- APPs
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Apps GVT Stream App
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Adding
the GVT Stream app to your Roku**
To add the GVT Stream app to your Roku account, login to Roku.com and go to the My Account page. Click on `Add Channel with a code’ under the Manage Account section. Enter the channel access code and select the Add Channel button.
From your Roku device select `My Channels’ and on the right side of the
screen there should be a channel called GVT Stream. Click on this channel
to open it. The first time you open the channel you will be prompted for a
Login and Passphrase, if you have not received this please contact our
office.
How to Use Your Remote
Pressing the Up, Down, Left, and Right arrows will highlight different actions in the Guide, Search, Recording, and Account options. Pressing OK on the remote will open the highlighted item. To return to the Home screen, press the Home button. Press the Back button that is to the left of the Home button to move back to the previous screen or to open the Tab Bar.
Watching GVT Stream TV
From Home screen, use the remote, to highlight the GVT Stream app icon and press OK on your remote, this will open your on-screen Program Guide. To watch a channel, press the Up or Down arrows on the remote to any highlighted program and press the Play/Pause button to view the program.
Channel Surfing
While watching a currently airing program, press the Up or Down arrow of the remote to view the next higher or lower numbered channel.
On-Screen Guide Management
From a live program that you are watching, press the Back button on your remote to open the on screen Program Guide. Use the Up or Down arrows on your remote to scroll through the programs in the Guide, press OK on a highlighted program to see detailed program information and your management options. The three options include Watch, for a currently airing program, Record, and Search.
To Watch, use your remote to highlight the Watch button and press OK on your
remote. To Record a program, highlight the record button and press OK on your
remote. See the Recording Your Programs section of this guide to learn
more about recording programs. Choose the Search feature if you want to see
future dates and times that this program will air that you may want to record.
See the Program Search Feature section of this guide to learn more about
Search options.
Tab Bar
From the Program Guide, press the Back button on your remote to open the Tab
Bar. The Tab Bar allows you to scroll Left or Right to access: For You, Guide,
Recordings, Search, and Account
Account Option – Add a New Device to GVT Stream
Before you add a new device to this service, go to Account in your Tab Bar from an activated device, and use the Down arrow on the remote to scroll down, and highlight Add Device. Click OK on your remote to generate a Login and Passphrase for the new device. Follow the directions at the beginning of this guide for adding this service to your new Roku, and use the displayed Login and Passphrase when you are prompted to activate this service.
Recording Your Programs
Making a Recording
When you select Record, a screen will display that gives you three
options, Record Single, for a one-time recording, Record Series (New episodes
only), and Record Series (All episodes). Highlight your preferred Record
option and press OK to set the recording.
To further manage this recording, go to the Tab Bar and select the Recordings
option.
Watching Your Recordings
Recordings can be viewed from the Recordings option on your Tab Bar. Select
Recordings from the Tab Bar and press OK to open the Recordings screen, here
you will see Current, Upcoming, and Rules. Highlight Current, and press OK to
open your list of Current Recordings. Scroll through the list, highlight the
program you want to watch and press the OK button. If there are multiple
recordings, scroll and highlight the one you want to watch and press OK on the
remote to start watching the program.
Record Using the Search Option
From any of your Search results you can scroll through the list of future air
dates for a program, highlight Record and press the OK button on your remote
to set a recording for the program. Use one of the options listed under the
Making a Recording section to make your selection.
Managing Your Recordings
Current Recordings
To watch or delete current recordings from the Program Guide, press the Back
button on the remote to open the Tab Bar and use the Right arrow on the remote
to highlight the Recordings option and press OK. Press the Down arrow on your
remote to highlight Current, and then press OK on your remote to open your
list of Current Recordings. This screen will display the list of your recorded
programs, scroll up or down to highlight a program and press OK on your remote
to open a recorded program, press the OK button again to watch the program.
To Delete the program, press the Right arrow on your remote to highlight
Delete and press OK. You will receive a prompt to confirm deletion of the
program. If there are multiple recordings of a program or series, scroll and
highlight the one you want to watch and press OK on the remote to start
watching the program.
The Red Check button to the left of the program indicates that it has not been watched, while programs with a Red Play button have been partially watched. Highlight a partially-watched program and press OK to view the program where you left off.
Upcoming Recordings
Use the Upcoming Recordings feature to manage settings for your future
recordings. From the Recordings screen, press the Down arrow of your remote
control, highlight Upcoming, and press OK to see a list of programs you have
scheduled for recording. Scroll through the list to highlight an Upcoming
Recording and then press OK on your remote to open a program that you want to
manage. To assure that you don’t miss the beginning or the end of a program,
you can change the Start/ Stop Recording times by highlighting the Edit button
and pressing OK on your Remote to open a screen that gives you options on when
you would like to Start and Stop a recording.
Highlight the Start Time option and press OK on your remote, then scroll up or
down to choose the new Start Recording time, and then press OK on your remote
to finish your selection. The Stop Recording functions the same way as the
Start Recording feature and is beneficial when watching sporting events where
you want to extend the Record time.
Once you have finished your changes, highlight Save and press OK on your
remote to save the changes. To Delete an Upcoming Recording, press the Right
arrow on your remote, highlight Delete, and press OK. You will receive a
prompt to confirm deletion of the program.
Rules
Use the Rules feature to manage the episodes of a series that you want
recorded automatically. From the Recordings screen, press the Down arrow of
your remote control, highlight Rules, and press OK to see a list of your
series programs. Scroll through the list and highlight a series that you want
to manage, press OK on your remote to open a series, at this point a
Recordings – Rules screen will open. Highlight the option next to Keep at Most
and press OK on your remote to scroll and choose a maximum number of episodes
that you want to keep of this series, or you can choose to keep All Episodes,
press OK to make your selection.
Highlight the option next to Show Type and press OK on your remote and choose
to keep All or Only New episodes of a series, press OK to make your selection.
You can also choose to set the Start and Stop Recording times for all episodes
in this series. This option works the same way as it does in Upcoming
Recordings section. Once you have finished your changes, highlight Save and
press OK on your remote control.
Restart TV
This popular feature lets you go back to the beginning of any currently-airing program that has the Restart option.
While you are watching a program that you want to Restart, press on the Right
Arrow of your Roku remote which will open a Video Options screen. Choose
Restart this program and press OK to Restart the program back to its
beginning.
Programs that have the Restart option display a green Restart icon in the
program description. There may be programs because of programming restrictions
that don’t allow for the Restart function.
Closed Captioning
While you are watching a program, press the * button on the remote to open the options window, use the Right arrow of your remote to turn Closed Captioning On or Off.
Quick Guide
While you are watching a program, you can press the Left Arrow of your Roku remote, which will display a Quick Guide showing the last eight channels that you have watched on the left side of your TV screen.
Use the up and down arrows on your Roku remote to scroll through your
previously watched channels and press OK on a highlighted channel to switch to
that channel.
Program Search Feature
You can use the Search feature to find Live, and Future programs. Go to Search in the Tab Bar, from here you can type in the name of a program by typing in the first few letters of a program. The results will be more specific if you type in more letters in the name of the program.
Highlight a program and press OK on your remote, if it is a currently airing program you can highlight Watch and press OK on your remote to view it. You also have the option to select Record for adding this program to your future recordings. See the Recording Your Programs section of this guide for more information.
References
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