Roku URL Player and Remote

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Play a video URL on your Roku player from this app. Any accessible URL to supported Roku video format should work.

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Description from store NOTE: Since Google has dropped the ball on supporting Chrome Desktop application I've abandoned this project , I wont be supporting this anymore, you can continue to use it at its current state without any expectation of new features or bugs getting fixed. This app needs a absolute URL to a video [as shown in example],if you are planning to paste youtube.com / hulu in the box hoping it will show that webpage on Roku, that's not the case. Remote is straightforward but the URL player thing, Its not for everyone. In other words its not that user friendly yet. Troubleshooting : 1. Make sure your Roku and computer are on same network 2. VPN on computer may prevent chrome app to discover Roku. 3. For some reasons beyond my comprehension, despite of being on same network as that of Roku's chrome app may not be able to discover Roku, try giving it another shot after a reboot / wifi adapter reset. Chrome app remembers last found Roku so it will be less painful after the a successful discovery. I've added some basic URL play functionality. You will have to install the companion Roku app on your device. Please note this is a private Roku channel and you'll have to install it like any private Roku channel. You well get the installation link from this Chrome app. You can play video files from internet / local network to which you have a qualified URL and is of supported format [e.g. mp4]. Playback / error handling is extremely basic and just there to help you play some file directly on Roku. I want this to evolve to a lot more useful app, I'm trying my best to get there in my free time.

Latest reviews

(2023-11-23) Lacie: it works great but i got this cus i lost my emote and my tv was turned down to 0 so i can watch stuff with this app on my tv but i cant turn up the volume..
(2022-09-03) Pam G.: I love it but one question. Why didn't you place a off/on button so people can turn off their tv if they sort of lost their remote or replace it?
(2022-02-18) Forro Taste: Try private channel JX2C2PJ for US. Thanks, it works great
(2021-08-09) Alex Johnson: This is awesome! I lost my remote a while ago and was using the iphone app to use the remote (which also works great!) Anyway, my tv disconnected from the wifi and i was screwed. Somehow this chrome app was able to connect to my tv long enough for it to connect and have it back on wifi for me to watch! Thank you for this app!!
(2020-12-15) Ning Cao: good
(2020-10-20) alessandra bird: um i have more than one device and it would not let me change witch device i was on if anyone knows how to let me know
(2020-10-03) greginfla: works for me...... its convenient
(2020-08-24) A A: doesn't work like it use to, and they don't respond to questions too.
(2020-01-05) Emathi: I really like the app, the reason i did 4 stars was since the link feature is very not flexible and it is hard to use with just mouse clicking, so i think they should add a feature that you can move it with arrow keys, like with remoku.
(2019-06-10) hedyeh erfani: dumb,bogus app
(2019-05-31) Nicole Dawson: It works perfectly, I didn't have to sign in. It actually works. NO SCAM!
(2019-03-31) Tony R: I'm No Techie,,But this worked First Time ,,Control better than original Roku remote !!
(2017-09-30) Juan Bonilla: I give 10 stars
(2017-09-14) Sylvia & Jeremy: doesnt work all the time
(2017-08-17) Recognized my Roku through the router which impressed me - if this worked with HTML5 vids it would make it vastly more useful.
(2017-07-04) Carlos Dasilva: Doesnt work
(2017-07-04) Timothy Jamison: Awesome! Worked from the start😃😃😃😃😃
(2017-06-04) Pamela Shimp: did not work.
(2017-04-25) aylbcnu: I like app, simple to set up. My only negative comment is, trying to navigate. I find it hard to look at tv, then having to go to computer screen to move the arrow then the ok. I've gotten use to it. Wish it worked with wireless keyboard
(2017-03-26) Priscilla Alexandrea Mendez: I was surprised it works perfectly! i didnt even have to sign into my account... thats the only thing that bothers me
(2017-03-02) Sarah Nielson: It worked perfectly
(2017-02-15) matthew blackledge: great app
(2017-02-07) Ryan Williams: Doesn't work. App crashes immediately on Roku 2 player.
(2017-01-24) Cishahayo Chris: cool app awesome work on the first try.
(2016-10-21) Robert Powell: seems like a pretty cool app,does what it designed to do. just isn't exactly what i was looking for. I didn't realize it only streamed mp4 files when i originaly installed. I am looking for something that can stream any video url .... more specifically yahoo view movies. do you think you could work on that for a future feature? i realize PlayOn will do this but if i wanted to pay a subscription for the service i would just get hulu plus
(2016-10-15) Doesn't work
(2016-09-19) Nara Jresat: Doesn't work nothing is working
(2016-07-30) First Name: I have a roku 1 and I wanted to watch a movie that was online but it was on my laptop and the screen is small. so I followed the directions but nothing happened for a while, i don't know why I'm not a tech genius.Buuut I found a way to make the video play by waiting till the movie play then right clicking copy link address then pasted it on your app. it is now streaming on my roku, so thanks a bunch an d I hope you get better review :)
(2016-07-24) J. Thomas Lippert (Tomsfix): Cant discover my Roku. Dev says he is working on manual entry, when was that started and expected. If you cant connect it's sort of pointless.
(2016-07-10) Yadwinder Garg: didn't work
(2016-06-14) Bozo da Klown: Really, doesn't anyone test these apps before publishing? Need something that works as easily as Chrome Cast or Roku on my iPhone 5 Does anyone know of the app that will allow me to "cast' to my Roku device from my Apple Portable?
(2016-06-12) Douglas W. Crosby: did not open
(2016-06-05) 5 stars because I can use for my Roku 1 as a remote from my Chromebook... I lost my remote AND my phone isn't always handy. I haven't tried the video play but this works great, just like my phone app!
(2016-05-08) Richard Krawiec: didn't work at all
(2016-04-17) Bob Walters: total garbage does't work really to bad good idea
(2016-04-15) Angel Rodriguez: life saver !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1!!!!! \
(2016-03-14) Hussain alabbas: doesnt work
(2016-03-01) Ynnek Thennek: Remote works fine, but the video play doesn't work for me. Everything seems like it's going to work, but then as it's loading on my TV screen it just stops loading, then goes back to the Roku home screen. I've tried every format from html5, to mp4, to flash, to avi, but it doesn't work, even for youtube.
(2016-02-29) Grant Wright: Works great to use as a remote from my laptop, desktop, and chromebook. Great App!
(2016-02-26) Stephen Prentice: It finds my Roku2 but when I try to play a URL, it acts as though it's about to load but then just goes back to the Roku home screen.
(2016-02-20) Rob W: Not faffing around side loading exe files to my Roku box.
(2016-01-01) Robert Scism: Only the test video plays. No other urls work.
(2015-12-30) Sandeepa Hettiarachchi: DOES NOT WORK
(2015-12-07) Eric G: doesn't work. when selected it says loading and then brings you back to menu page
(2015-12-07) B G: it works as a remote.
(2015-11-23) Fablesinger: URL is no longer good and not searchable on ROKU Channel page either
(2015-11-06) Danica Paz: Never found my Roku.
(2015-09-19) Bill Zimmermann: Did not work at all. Never found my Roku.
(2015-09-15) Marc Bernard Schauber: It sort of works. I have two Rokus and this does not lot you choose. So it found the wrong one and won't control the roku I need to control :(
(2015-09-04) Patrick Kasarski: Works. One thing it lacks vs. the Roku Android app though is the ability to choose a channel directly from a list.

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