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03-30-2021, 06:13 PM #1
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Getting cable on Roku tv
After scanning “live tv” as directed for cable channels on Roku, the channels appear as I use remote but it says “no signal “on each station . Coax cable is plugged in to camper panel where it’s labeled “cable”. Tried putting the Jensen on aux 1, and aux 2 and still nothing. What am I missing? I can only get antennae and WiFi channels to play.
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03-31-2021, 07:22 AM #2
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Hi, welcome to the forum.
Don't know what trailer you have but this advice is good for many of them:
In the wall of one of the cabinets near the TV, look for a dark brown switchplate with cable connectors on it. On the lower part of that switchplate is a teeny-tiny impossible-to-see button. If you push it in an LED will light up on the switchplate (or maybe it will go out, I forget!). If you push it again it will pop back out and the LED will go off (or on!)
If the switch isn't inside one of the cabinets it's somewhere else in that area, or possibly in the bedroom.
That two-position switch determines whether your TV watches the antenna or the cable. It might be the reason you can't see your cable.
Hope it's that simple. Good luck.Mark - 2018 Solitude 310GK - 2017 F-350 diesel SRW short box - Pullrite Superglide hitch
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03-31-2021, 10:54 AM #3
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Thanks. We tried that too. Didn’t work. Used to work with the old TVs but not working with this Roku. Does anyone know if it has something to do with the Jensen sound system? We have to have the Jensen on aux 1 to get sound from the tv.
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03-31-2021, 11:07 AM #4
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Try this link. It explains the process:
https://support.tcl.com/rokutv-setup...ur-tcl-roku-tv
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03-31-2021, 11:51 AM #5
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03-31-2021, 11:56 AM #6
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Yes but thanks anyway. Everything is hooked up correctly internally. We’ve only had this camper a few months. First long trip with it. It’s a 2021 reflection 150 series. Never had a problem with our last grand design media system. Beginning to think GD may not have connected cable from outside ports to inside ports
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03-31-2021, 12:29 PM #7
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It's possible. I need to use my fox and hound (cable tone tracer and tone generator) to trace the cable and see if it's not connected. You can get a set off Amazon for around 20 bucks. https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B00APD16...1QTTKKMQ9HH7QR
You will need to get a short length of coax with an F connector on the end, strip the other end so you have the shield and center conductor exposed, clip the tone generator to the exposed end, screw it into the input, go inside with the hound and touch the to to the F connector on the wall by the TV and see if you get the tone. If so, you have a connection all the way through, if not, now you have to find where it's not connected.
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04-01-2021, 07:32 AM #8
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@TM2021 here's another tool that comes with feedback connectors; a little neater and more versatile than the one above.
https://www.amazon.com/Locations-Exp...7283656&sr=8-5Mark - 2018 Solitude 310GK - 2017 F-350 diesel SRW short box - Pullrite Superglide hitch
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04-01-2021, 07:46 AM #9
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I'm having the same problem on my TCL Roku 32S335. When I first got my camper and set up the TV I didn't have access to Wifi so I skipped the whole Roku setup. The TV worked liked you would expect. If I didn't have cable I pushed the red button on the antenna amp and if I had access to cable I turned off the amp, did the scan and everything worked. I made the mistake of hooking it up to Wifi and installed all the Roku stuff. After that I have the same problem you are having. I did find that if I stopped the scan after the antenna scan and before the cable scan started, channels 2 - 13 would work. If I did the let the scan continue, it would find all the channels that the campsite had listed but I got the "No signal found". I tried doing a factory reset hoping that would get me back to where I was before the Roku install, but that did not help.
Last time we went out, I brought along another TV, hooked it up and it worked fine. I called TCL tech support and he told me to answer yes on the question about using channel 3 or 4. I told him I didn't have a cable box or sat box but he kept going on about skipping channels 3 & 4. He then said to scan for channels and let it go through the antenna and cable scans. He also said if you stop after the antenna scan it will crash the tv.?? He then said to go to channel 3 or 4 and use the box that I told him I did not have so I don't have much hope in this working.
I'm going to try next week when we go on a trip just in case he was right but, I don't see how this is going to work.
If it doesn't work I may try tech support again or just but in another TV.
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