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Roku players are a series of digital video & media players manufactured by Roku, Inc. Roku partners provide over-the-top content in the form of channels used to stream TV and movies.

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.

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Most Reported Problems

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

  • 29% Buffering (29%)
  • 26% Crashing (26%)
  • 25% Sign in (25%)
  • 15% Playback Issues (15%)
  • 4% Video Quality (4%)

Live Outage Map

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

CityProblem TypeReport Time
Cuernavaca Buffering 2 hours ago
Chaska Crashing 4 hours ago
Wills Point Crashing 5 hours ago
Germering Sign in 1 day ago
Dallas Crashing 1 day ago
Cleveland Crashing 2 days ago
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Roku Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

  • stuckathomemom
    Random Acts of Crochet Kindness (@stuckathomemom) reported

    @LeetOffice @Roku Someone just posted this How to FIX your #ROKU home screen: Go into: -Settings -Home Screen -Recommendation Rows ---> set to HIDE -Quick Access ---> set to HIDE Now everything is back to normal!

  • bigshelbss
    shelby #ExtendAdley (@bigshelbss) reported

    @Roku your new Home Screen layout is dogshit fix immediately

  • rables73
    Rob Ables (@rables73) reported

    @MLB can you please fix your streaming app for @Roku and Apple TV so they don’t suck? EVERY SINGLE game I watch on ANY of my streaming devices stops at least 3-4 times per game with spinning circle of death. No other apps have buffering problems on my 1GB line and mesh WiFi.

  • _lovablecurves
    Lisa (@_lovablecurves) reported

    @Roku wtf your backend is bent and broken it’s making use a 2FA but after trying and begging it for a ******* code to my email twenty times it hasn’t sent me a single ******* one you are the reason people are miserable and insane this **** is so ******. I hate companies like yours that make life hard for no ******* reason. I gave you a correct password and login let me get in my account wtf you ******* ********. You’re wasting my precious time on your failing tech and you fail you’re incompetent and you suck ***.

  • KirkYuhnke
    Rhymes with funky (@KirkYuhnke) reported

    @MatthewKeysLive @Roku Problem is... finding an actual "dumb tv" is almost impossible anymore. The business model for TV companies has shifted. They don't make $ when I buy the TV anymore.

  • 1nject0rX
    Tom Foolery (@1nject0rX) reported

    Thank you @Roku I've been paying $70 a month to @DIRECTV for the exact same channels as you all and you have way less commercials and better quality. Thank GOD I found Roku

  • MatthewKeysLive
    Matthew Keys (@MatthewKeysLive) reported

    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

  • Chris1John3
    Chris Miel (@Chris1John3) reported

    @Roku is not working this morning. Looks like it got hacked ? Anyone else ?

  • MrsRedRage
    Duchess of Phelps (@MrsRedRage) reported

    @Roku your AI generated commercials are awful.

  • Smigman1
    Smigman (@Smigman1) reported

    @Roku ROKU got rid of their community support forum. Their TVs are now like the rest. When buying my next one, it will be which one has my apps and which one has the best price and picture quality. The support forum was a huge plus. Goodbye Roku.

  • Nauseum62
    Buttery Duck (@Nauseum62) reported

    @Roku @meetatmidnights Doesn't work. All I get is the options to close or remove.

  • alexsears97
    alex (@alexsears97) reported

    @FehInsane @Roku Happening to me too. This update was terrible

  • 4TravelDivaLisa
    Travel Diva Lisa (@4TravelDivaLisa) reported

    @Roku and @Tubi Therearesome diehard fans of Babylon 5 like me that are very disappointed that neither of you have this show in your line up. Please fix this ASAP!!!

  • pissedpant
    dragon harpoon🕺 (@pissedpant) reported

    @Roku I saw him flattened on central Roku boulevard on my way home from work RIP

  • DenyTheMarkClub
    DenyTheMarkClub™ (@DenyTheMarkClub) reported

    @Roku tv is by far the WORST! They are unstable and CANNOT manage their Products...I want my money back on this JUNK!!! (NOTE to self: Buy ANY product other than ROKU)

  • Jinxsyns
    Jinxsyns (@Jinxsyns) reported

    So what absolute ******* retard at @Roku decided that when adding a remote THE ******* BACK, HOME, AND ******* APP BUTTONS DON'T BRING YOU BACK TO THE HOME SCREEN OH AND BEST PART IT DOESNT SAY THIS SO I SAT HERE HITTING EVERY ******* BUTTON BUT THE LEFT BUTTON TO GET IT TO WORK

  • Rdrneil
    RaiderNeil (@Rdrneil) reported

    @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

  • FuckThe_USA
    FREE PALESTINE🇵🇸 (@FuckThe_USA) reported

    Exactly what millennia Are you worthless *********** going to fix the ******* @roku software in my ******* @TCL_USA @Roku TV so that I don't have to ******* redo the ******* wireless connection every ******* time I turn the TV off and back on. I've been ******* tweeting and ******* putting this complaint on the ******* website for three ******* years you worthless *************.

  • stella_sassier
    Stella Sassier (@stella_sassier) reported

    @Roku for the love of GOD STOP CHANGING OUR HOME MENUS AND SETTINGS I did not need every single one of my tv input options forced into my app section with no way of removing them Your “help” is not appreciated

  • tweetbuster01
    Reductio ad absurdum, PhD. 🐑🥫😘 my 🫏. (@tweetbuster01) reported

    @Roku @calvinbrain97 I have a issue with it. On several Roku’s and EXCLUSIVELY ON SPECTRUM app, the closed caption feature just stops working even though it says it ON. And it’s in ALL programs and channels on the app. WTF. I have to exit app, load something else then come back to Spectrum to fix

  • Qhu_NFT
    Qhu✳️🦆🏃‍♂️ (@Qhu_NFT) reported

    I have had it with @Amazon Fire Stick. I have a subscription to Shudder and Starz. I can no longer play them without buying a new subscription thru Amazon. I have a @Roku TV upstairs and have no issues playing my subscriptions. Today I ordered another Roku controller for downstairs. Shame on you Amazon. Bye fire stick. Just warning anyone who is thinking about fire stick.

  • Eat_Drink_Smoke
    King Kev (@Eat_Drink_Smoke) reported

    @red_chem_lite @Roku Did you try the anti-nail biting pen I mentioned last time? LoL I'm just INSANELY curious if it would work...

  • stuckathomemom
    Random Acts of Crochet Kindness (@stuckathomemom) reported

    @thegreat_hair @Roku How to FIX your #ROKU home screen: Go into: -Settings -Home Screen -Recommendation Rows ---> set to HIDE -Quick Access ---> set to HIDE Now everything is back to normal!

  • djmikebryant
    Mike Bryant (@djmikebryant) reported

    @Roku please bring back the other Home Screen. This new one is awful. Thanks

  • mrhappybw
    Bryan Wayne (@mrhappybw) reported

    It took until July for me to get this “New” Roku Home Screen and it is awful. And reading the comments since @Roku rolled it out seems it has been awful for a month now. A two year could have done better. Reverse this ****.

  • RealHeatherOB
    Heather O'Brien✍️ (@RealHeatherOB) reported

    I have no idea what anyone else thinks, but @Roku's new Home Screen adds are awful!! There is NO way to remove the adds. All they do is clutter up the screen. I've used Roku for over a decade. Bought several, including for others - just loved them. Now? They're so annoying, I may need to find an alternative. It's just not for me. And they don't even let me "hide" them. Not cool. I neither need nor want all this junk.

  • rables73
    Rob Ables (@rables73) reported

    @Roku Hi @Roku thanks but as I stated in the original post, it does it on all 4 of my Roku devices, so it is not a restart issue. Also, it is only the @MLB app. None of my other apps have this issue or other buffering. The MLB app does it multiple times per game and gets stuck.

  • ItIsPatsyStone
    Patsy Stone (@ItIsPatsyStone) reported

    @Roku You should be concentrating on making your site work. The app doesn't work & your website doesn't work either

  • MeetYouAtMoes
    Moe's Place (@MeetYouAtMoes) reported

    @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.

  • Damian08993101
    Damian (@Damian08993101) reported

    @DeadCarnival @Roku It’s crazy how @Roku doesn’t realize that a clean interface is their one best quality. I am tired of having to turn off the same unwanted features over and over again. And with the latest crappy update, I’m stuck with a lot of junk that can’t be turned off. Awful.