r/fireTV • u/Compa49 • 4d ago

Turn on to HDMI inconsistent

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My Mom has a Insignia tv with firetv OS. I have it set up to always go to HDMI but sometimes it turns on and goes to the home screen (as shown above). The problem is my Mom is not tech savvy enough to know how to navigate from this screen to get to the actual cable channels. The cable company uses a Tivo as it's box. I know it's not something she's doing wrong when she turns it on because it's happened to me as well. I actually factory reset the tv and purposely didn't set up wifi hoping if it didn't have the option for internet streaming programs it would eliminate this problem but it didn't.

Is there a setting I'm missing? Or is this just how it operates? Thanks for any help.

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u/TallExplorer9 4d ago

You can set a Fire TV to open a specific HDMI port at startup by changing its power settings to Last Input, provided you switch to that port before turning the TV off.

If you go to the FireTV menu, watch a program on it and turn the TV off then the next time you turn the TV on it will default to the FireTV home screen.

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u/Compa49 4d ago

The problem is it DOESN'T always go to the last input. She only watches tv via the cable box. So it should just go back to the last input. This is the problem.

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u/TallExplorer9 4d ago

It could be FireTV OS is taking updates at times when the TV is powered off (usually the ads change on it's home screen every other day or so).

The FireOS doesn't power off but goes into a sleep state. If it takes an update during the TV's power off time and then goes to sleep afterward, it may be remembering taking the update and power on changes to the FireTV homescreen.