Red Mosquito

washing machine wrote:Do we know how many devices this can stream across?

Chris_H_2 wrote:

oasisfan35 wrote:

Simple Torture wrote:

Chris_H_2 wrote:guys - quick question: are you required to plug the roku and firestick into a wall outlet to get power, or do you simply plug them into your tv's hdmi outlet? i used to have a chromecast, and if i recall you still had to plug it into the wall.

It needs to be plugged in, but if your TV has a USB port, it **might** be able to power it through that (this works on my TV I got in like 2014, but not the TV from 2011).

A Roku can indeed be powered from a standard USB port.

so this may actually work -- right now all my tv and audio wires are hidden behind the wall. and if i have to plug it in, it'll be a huge pain trying to fish the wire up from the outlet that's in a cabinet below the tv.

bune wrote:I logged into the app on my phone easy enough, but when I got home and it had a "log in, OR just have a device that's already logged in on the same network" button I was like oh yeah, this is technology in 2019!

and then it didn't work.

And I was like, Oh yeah, this is technology in 2019.

doone wrote:

Chris_H_2 wrote:

oasisfan35 wrote:

Simple Torture wrote:

Chris_H_2 wrote:guys - quick question: are you required to plug the roku and firestick into a wall outlet to get power, or do you simply plug them into your tv's hdmi outlet? i used to have a chromecast, and if i recall you still had to plug it into the wall.

It needs to be plugged in, but if your TV has a USB port, it **might** be able to power it through that (this works on my TV I got in like 2014, but not the TV from 2011).

A Roku can indeed be powered from a standard USB port.

so this may actually work -- right now all my tv and audio wires are hidden behind the wall. and if i have to plug it in, it'll be a huge pain trying to fish the wire up from the outlet that's in a cabinet below the tv.

Unfortunately my Roku stick still has to be powered by plugging into wall. Then if you leave it plugged in too long it overheats. Yay.

Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

Chris_H_2 wrote:getting the roku for each tv. from what i've been able to tell, you can use your tv's usb port as a power source rather than having to plug into a wall outlet. now to figure out which one to get.

knee tunes wrote:

Chris_H_2 wrote:getting the roku for each tv. from what i've been able to tell, you



can use your tv's usb port as a power source rather than having to plug into a wall outlet. now to figure out which one to get.

Chris_H_2 wrote:getting the roku for each tv. from what i've been able to tell, you can use your tv's usb port as a power source rather than having to plug into a wall outlet. now to figure out which one to get.

Chris_H_2 wrote:getting the roku for each tv. from what i've been able to tell, you can use your tv's usb port as a power source rather than having to plug into a wall outlet. now to figure out which one to get.

E.H. Ruddock wrote:

Chris_H_2 wrote:getting the roku for each tv. from what i've been able to tell, you can use your tv's usb port as a power source rather than having to plug into a wall outlet. now to figure out which one to get.

I'm sorry I gave you a hard time earlier. I'm glad you got it worked out. Your kids will love Disney+ and you'll be the hero dad