Roku status: streaming issues and outage reports

Problems in the last 24 hours

The graph below depicts the number of Roku reports received over the last 24 hours by time of day. When the number of reports exceeds the baseline, represented by the red line, an outage is determined.

Most Reported Problems

The following are the most recent problems reported by Roku users through our website.

• Buffering (33%)
• Crashing (23%)
• Sign in (22%)
• Playback Issues (18%)
• Video Quality (5%)

Live Outage Map

The most recent Roku outage reports came from the following cities:

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Knoxville	Crashing	13 hours ago
Dallas	Crashing	14 hours ago
Vero Beach	Sign in	17 hours ago
Bakersfield	Crashing	17 hours ago
Clinton Township	Buffering	17 hours ago
Ponchatoula	Video Quality	22 hours ago

Full Outage Map

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Roku Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  shareurmic (@shareurmic) reported 4 minutes ago

  @SomaKazima2 I’m ready to get rid of it anyway since the sound goes out a thousand times during a half hour show; and none of the ‘fixes’ work @Roku

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  🇺🇸 Save Tina 🇺🇸 (@MissingReagan) reported 4 minutes ago

  @BioMathJason @Roku @TCL_Global Yes, that's the way it is supposed to work, and has worked for the 5 years I've owned this tv. TCL did an update the early part of this year that removed the ability to watch OTA without internet. They did send a fix for most customers after the backlash, but many are still twisting in the wind. Their LiveTv is the culprit.

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  Dr. GigaDad, PharmD, BCPS, BCEMP (@Shayne_McKee_) reported 8 minutes ago

  @enhanced_games @Roku @ResortsWorldLV Crazy that it took you until now to announce where you’ll be hosting the games. Terrible marketing.

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  Mr Festered (@FesteredMr) reported 9 minutes ago

  @Roku what’s wrong with the Roku Channel. Freezes and very long to load. Only thing giving any problems

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  Kaiju Cowboy (@GojiraOmega) reported 11 minutes ago

  @Roku @RokuSupport Awful... Absolutely god-awful

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  Maya Belle (@cblanknyc) reported 15 minutes ago

  @Roku I just lost my job & started poring over every dollar going out. That’s when I found I’d paid $269.78 in monthlies for ESPN. Which I didn’t order & never watched in my life. Cancelled but could only get a month refund. I should’ve noticed, but didn’t. Please help.

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  SlowdownMemes (@PokeyTexan) reported 20 minutes ago

  @YouTube please fix the Jump Forward feature on your @Roku app. I don’t care whose end of the tech it’s on. I pay for three YT Premium, so that my kiddos don’t infect my feed or complain about what each other watch. I’ve told them “ give it a few days to patch it”. It’s been hell

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  RaiderNeil (@Rdrneil) reported 20 minutes ago

  @Roku OK I have a Roku 4K stick and good Wi-Fi and a very good Samsung TV and I've had Disney Hulu ESPN now paid through Roku I started getting error 83 error 43 couldn't login on TV couldn't watch it deleted everything restarted updated no help from Disney so I canceled them

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  Ben Goertz (@bgoertz08) reported 21 minutes ago

  @Roku Please please please, fix the PVR on my Roku 65 TV. This update has ruined it. DM me for details.

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  Rick Mclane (@oletruckers1977) reported 23 minutes ago

  @Roku Nope didn’t do anything just got up turned it and had to login AGAIN. Doesn’t make sense don’t have trouble with anything else with ur system

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  Meredith Porterfield (@meredithep) reported 28 minutes ago

  @Roku @foxone I don't want to watch FIFA but I would like to watch other apps and would appreciate it if they actually worked on Roku. I have no problem with the apps on other devices. Just Roku

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  Matthew Smith (@MattSmithFOX13) reported 29 minutes ago

  @KirkYuhnke @MatthewKeysLive @Roku Our dumb TV is 10+ years old — biggest issue we’ve ever had: a volume button is a little touchy. We’ve swapped out smart tech multiple times, always on sale. Likely saved us a crazy amount of $$$ in a decade-plus.

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  Moe's Place (@MeetYouAtMoes) reported 29 minutes ago

  @theblaze Please tell me why your app on @Roku has CONSTANT buffering problems. It's the only streaming service I have that does this. Every show, every day, I have to back out of the live show and come back in every 10 to 15 minutes because of buffering. It's making all the shows I dearly love completely unwatchable. Please respond, or I'm going to have to cancel, because there is just no point paying for this.

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  Brian Richards 🕔 (@CptCracker) reported 30 minutes ago

  @thatoneguychaz @FOXSoccer @Roku Fox One is a hot mess. They seem to have blown it on capacity planning. A Grok survey of complaints confirms the issues are multi platform. Roku has a 100 million user base so they are going to get mentioned more than others, but it's cross platform. If there's something roku can do to help fix thst would be great though. The games on Fox over the air have worked just fine. This is when having a $40 Walmart antenna or even better a Tablo antenna tuner/dvr is helpful. The problem is they seem to have 37 games scheduled for streaming only.

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  trapuh (@trapuh) reported 31 minutes ago

  @Roku Problem started July 5th I’ve tried everything, sound still works but tv screen is still like the picture above, I’ve seen on Reddit that your tvs do this to plenty of people i don’t think anybody has a fix for it yet

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  Nomadic Aaron ✝️ (@AaronWL42) reported 31 minutes ago

  @Hisense_USA So I call Hisense and they were helpful but didn't fix the problem. They referred me to @Roku support. After a brief time on the phone with them the issue was corrected. Both were helpful which frankly is surprising these days.

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  MrRamone420 (@MrRamone420) reported 38 minutes ago

  @Roku It changed over today and it's absolutely terrible. Everything is all over the place and has messed up my apps and home screen. How do I change it back, cause I'm just getting rid of this TV and will avoid using Roku system and products. You know how to lose customers

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  Sanah (@sanahbequiet) reported 39 minutes ago

  Had to buy another Roku stick cause mines just randomly stop working like first it was my Roku tv now it’s the stick like Roku is the problem g I’m so irritated @Roku get y’all’s **** together

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  Wallybonkers™️ (@WhtTheActualFuk) reported 42 minutes ago

  Just a consumer FYI!!! @Roku WILL NOT HONOR A WARRANTY. My Roku ultra will not keep connectivity. Done ALL troubleshooting. Called my internet provider. JUMPED THROUGH A MILLION HOOPS, still boots off. After all this I get told sorry, your warranty don’t cover connection issues🤔

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  Faithful Gaming (@ColshopS) reported 43 minutes ago

  Hey @Roku update your TVs. My Roku TCL TV has been consistently having issues displaying anything connected to an HDMI port!

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  cal poly (@itsnotjt) reported 44 minutes ago

  @NBCSPhilly @Roku change the app back to allow us to scan QR code. Also he time sign in. I’m sick and tired of typing out this long website link every day

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  alex (@alexsears97) reported 49 minutes ago

  @Roku This new Home Screen is terrible

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  Keri Marie (@KeriMarie317366) reported 49 minutes ago

  @Chrisg19722015 @Roku It sucks! Don’t fix what’s not broken 😠. I agree 100% Chris!

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  Unapologetic Deplorable (@Squirdlok) reported 50 minutes ago

  @RepTheDMV @livenowfox Good eye. I am also terribly upset by the piss-poor quality of the breaks on the ROKU Channel. Chopped all to Hell! Does @Roku let AI run it's board? High-School rookies could do a better job!

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  Arlene (@zfatcat2) reported 51 minutes ago

  @EarperMarine @Roku Are other people having the same problem? It's a Roku and/or TV programming issue that affects the apps running on it. Jeez...what a pain...I'm sure. 😳

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  court (@allherdanger) reported 54 minutes ago

  Idk wtf Roku did but every time I'm paused too long now it doesn't go to the screensaver I have set up, it goes to a Roku thing and then I can't get out of that screen without going to the home screen first?? FIX IT @Roku and don't you dare blame me, I checked my settings

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  Matthew Keys (@MatthewKeysLive) reported 54 minutes ago

  The biggest problem with our @Roku TV: It's not earning the company any money because it is stuck in an unfixable boot loop. I bought this TV at Best Buy three years ago. It was for an elderly family member. She loved it. Until she didn't. As I was packing for the StreamTV Show last month, she called me to say her TV kept rebooting itself. "It's stuck on the spaceship thing," she said. I had no idea what that meant. I gave her my Sony TV to use while I tried to fix the problem. And let me tell you something, I have tried literally everything. I searched online for a fix, and found a number of Roku TV users who have encountered the same thing: For no reason, their TVs just randomly started boot looping, and trying to download and reinstall the firmware through Recovery Mode was no help. Some people suggested holding down the reset and power buttons for a certain length of time. That didn't work. Others suggested draining "zombie power" by pressing the power button for a half-minute while the TV is unplugged. That didn't work. A few said connecting to a mobile hotspot while in recovery might work. It didn't. One person suggested hooking the TV into a router via Ethernet. Well, this TV doesn't have an Ethernet port. This is the second Roku-powered TV that has caused us an issue. The first was a Walmart Onn-branded TV that died after six months. I figured one of Roku's own TVs was a reliable replacement, because the company told us as much when it started making its own TVs a few years ago. Then, executives promised that shipping Roku TVs where the company controlled the entire supply chain would help it make better-informed decisions about how its users were interacting with their devices, which would lead to better hardware and software experiences. Ultimately, our issue likely boils down to this: Roku uses cheap hardware in its smart TVs and streaming boxes to keep costs low. Executives said as much earlier this year when they affirmed that the ongoing processor and RAM shortage was likely to be a boon for Roku's business, because the company's operating system doesn't require premium hardware to operate. But the decision to use cheap hardware also means that it is more prone to breaking, and that is a major problem for a company like Roku. The company's $1.1 billion platform business is inherently dependent on consumers having reliable hardware that allows them to interact with said platform. When streaming devices and smart TVs break, it not only prevents customers from using their platform, it leaves a sour taste in their mouths — and customers are prone to abandoning the platform for a competitor. Which, in my family member's home, is now what has happened. She's inherited my six-year-old Sony TV, and she loves it. She's not giving it back. It runs Android. There's a bit of a learning curve, but she's committed to figuring it out. "I'm done with Roku," she told me. "I hope Fox knows what they're buying." $ROKU

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  burownidl (@burownidl01) reported 55 minutes ago

  @Roku @TheRokuChannel @foxone For anyone following and has the same issue. I contacted Roku support via their website and chatted with online support. It looks like they fixed my problem as I can see the Worldcup pregame show now

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  shane✌️👍 (@shane_grand1) reported 57 minutes ago

  @Roku The new home screen is terrible..switch it back

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  chinedu🦀 (@chinedu_10) reported 58 minutes ago

  @Roku is there a reason why your devices stopped connecting to WIFI? And is this a regional issue? I could connect to the Hotspot on my iPhone. But I can’t connect WIFI to the device. I’ve tried multiple WIFI from different ISPs.