How to Make Your TV Automatically Switch to Your Roku Premiere Plus

Depending on the number of devices that you have connected to your TV and the method that you use to manage them, it’s possible that you have a few remote controls around the room. This means that whenever you want to switch from one input to another, you will need to find the TV’s remote first.

But there’s a setting on your Roku Premiere Plus that you can change, which will make it so that simply pressing a button on the Roku will automatically switch the TV to its input channel. This setting is called 1 touch play, and we will show you how to enable it in the steps below.

How to Enable 1 Touch Play on a Roku Premiere Plus

The steps in this article were performed using the Roku Premiere Plus. Some other Roku models also have this setting, but not all of them do.

By completing these steps you will be allowing the Roku to switch your TV to the Roku’s input channel when you press a button on the Roku remote. This will work for most TVs that have an HDMI input, but it’s possible that it won’t work on every model of television.

Step 1: Switch your TV to the Roku input channel.

Step 2: Choose the Settings option from the column at the left side of the screen.

open settings

Step 3: Scroll down and select the System option.

choose the system option

Step 4: Select the Control other devices option.

choose to control other devices

Step 5: Press the OK button on the 1-touch play option to place a check mark next to the setting. 1 touch play is enabled when there is a check mark in that box.

how to switch tv input to roku when you press a roku remote button

Now that you know how to make your television automatically switch to your Roku Premiere Plus, you can make it a little easier to watch content on that device when you turn it on.

Find out how to enable device connect on your Roku if you would like to be able to stream content from other devices to your Roku.

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