06-05-2023 02:31 PM - edited 08-04-2023 10:25 AM
Dear Neighbours,
We’re the TV Product Development team, and we strive to bring you a continuously improving TV service and experience that fits your needs. Since the launch of the new Optik TV service through the TELUS TV+ platform, our business and development teams are working hard to add, improve, and maintain existing and new features to bring you the best Canadian television experience through Live TV, On Demand, and streaming services.
We are passionate about our TV products, and most importantly, we love this community that helps support its improvement. We appreciate your input as we work towards making The Evolution of Optik TV better every day, and we’d like to open up the lines of communication by keeping this page updated with helpful information about our TV products. If there is other information you’d like to see in this guide, drop us a comment below.
*Please note, this is not a live troubleshooting or feedback article. Submit your specific TV service questions by creating a post in the Neighbourhood, or submit your TV product and feature suggestions here. We look forward to hearing from you and working together to make Optik TV the best it can be!
New to Optik TV? Check out these support articles:
Installing your TELUS TV Digital Box
Navigate and Learn About TELUS TV+ Features
Find more TV support articles here.
Helpful Tips and Tricks
Recordings |
Easily access your recordings within each profile by holding down the button on your remote.
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Homepage |
Dismiss the homepage screen by holding down the arrow button.
Bring up the homepage by clicking the button. |
App Row |
You can customize your app row. Use the “+” tile to add a new app, or hold down “ok” on a specific app tile to move or remove an app tile. |
Guide |
Use the “CH” down button to skip vertically within guide
Press the button to “jump to date” on the guide. You can also use the “Options” button to filter the guide to only show subscribed or favourite channels.
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Find more navigation tips and tricks here.
Experiencing issues with your TV product? Try the following:
Need more support? Check out these options below:
Brownie points if you can include the following info so that we can help you faster:
*Reminder: For privacy protection, do not include any personal information in public posts!*
Improvements We Are Working On
We always strive to improve our products to deliver the best experience. See below for a list of areas where we are actively working on improving. Thank you for letting us know the areas where we need to focus more on.
Improvements We Are Working On |
Related Devices |
Recommendation |
Apple TV Sound Sync |
American Channels on Apple TV |
View content on alternate Canadian network channels if available, or use the TELUS Digital Box. Alternatively, you can periodically try changing the channels which will help re-sync the audio. |
Unable to run series recording on news channels |
All |
Episode recording is available while we work on resolving this. |
Unable to set First Run Only on certain content |
All |
First run and rerun is available while we work on resolving this. |
Login error |
iOS/tvOS |
On your Apple Phone or Tablet. Go to Settings (your device setting, grey spiky wheel), not the app setting) Scroll down to "TV Provider" Select "TV Provider" Sign out Turn off the button allowing TELUSTV+ access via TV Provider Exit the settings app Go to the TELUS TV+ app Go to the settings button located at the bottom right hand of the app If you get a pop up asking to select TELUS TV+ as a TV Provider, decline the request You can accept notifications Select Login Manually enter My TELUS username. Manually enter My TELUS password (avoid using the iOS keychain as incorrect passwords may have been saved) For TVOS, you can change the setting via settings -> users and accounts -> TV provider. Sign out and toggle it off for TELUS TV+ |
Playback error on 4K recorded content |
All devices except for Digital Box |
Digital Box 4K recording viewing is unimpacted. |
Login Error: Error 500-300. Generic error/ Error 404-3304 |
Specific Accounts |
This is likely an account related issue, please contact our support team (see “need more support” section for options) and reference this article to have your account reprovisioned |
Recordings icon is missing from the menu |
iOS/tvOS |
This is likely an account related issue, please contact our support team and reference this article to confirm that the PVR subscription is present on your account. |
'Required output protections are not active' Error |
Older Android devices/OS |
We added a performance toggle to address this playback error. If your device encounters this error, it will ask you to go to settings to turn on "playback performance", and after restarting the app, VOD or live should play as expected.
Please note, this toggle is intended to address specific video playback issues, if video playback already works properly on your device, then there is no need to use this toggle. However, if this toggle doesn't address the specific error you're seeing, you'll be prompted again with a specific error message and error code. Please report the full message and we will continue to work on improving this feature. |
We strive to support a portfolio of devices so everyone can enjoy our TV service. Did you know we currently serve and maintain our service on over 18,000 variations of Android devices alone? This includes a combination of hardware specifications, operating systems, and software updates by manufacturers. With constant patches and updates happening, it’s easy to miss the mark every now and then. We appreciate you providing feedback on where we can improve in terms of the playback experience.
Improvements We Are Working On |
Related Devices |
Other Great Ways to Watch |
Live TV Playback Interruption |
Older Android devices/OS |
Please see a list of other ways to watch for now while we work on resolving this. |
VOD Playback Buffers and Will Not Start |
Older iPads |
See additional troubleshooting steps on our support page here.
Regards,
Your Friendly Neighbourhood TV Product Development Team.
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09-15-2023 01:40 PM
Hi all, just wanted to give a heads-up that we're locking this thread because it's getting difficult to track the comments and cross-posted threads. If you are experiencing issues, please make a new post and the TELUS team (myself included) will do our best to get back to you! Thank you everyone for your valuable feedback so far. We're continuing to make improvements to the platform based on your feedback, thank you for your patience and please stay tuned!
09-08-2023 08:56 PM - edited 09-11-2023 11:47 PM
Two days gone from the 30 day cancellation which started September 7th
Please fix
1) guide > options> favorites & subscribed
2) series recording working
09-10-2023 12:18 PM - edited 09-11-2023 11:45 PM
Thanks MrSL, I now have too
09-10-2023 12:45 PM
I had a reply from Optik-Kate last Thursday, Sept 12 😏
09-10-2023 02:22 PM
Today is September 10th, probably a typo
09-10-2023 05:01 PM
Sorry Rocky3... Should have read Thursday, Sept 7th. 🙃
09-10-2023 01:37 PM
I'm a new Telus customer and I have been trying to set up recordings for series that we follow. We only want to record new episodes and not previous runs. On Shaw, it was very easy to set up recordings of series that were currently not running new episodes without having to record previously aired shows. To ensure that we don't miss upcoming new seasons, we have tried to schedule recordings in advance but can't. If you set a series to record as first run only but that series is only currently re-runs, the system gives an error that it can't be scheduled. The only alternative is to record all episodes but for some of the shows, they have been running for multiple seasons we are ended up with a long list of unwanted episodes. Being able to pre-set new series recordings in advance is also handy when an ad airs about a new series or a new season that is coming.
09-08-2023 07:20 PM
From your pinned post. I spent two hours with tech support and my options button only has All Channels
Guide |
Use the “CH” down button to skip vertically within guide
Press the
button to “jump to date” on the guide. You can also use the “Options” button to filter the guide to only show subscribed or favourite channels.
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09-10-2023 12:06 PM - edited 09-11-2023 11:46 PM
This is a known problem
09-10-2023 01:14 PM
Do have the option to edit favourites when you hit options? You'll need to select the favourite channels before the option to filter by Favourite Channels will appear.
09-10-2023 02:24 PM
No, all I see is All Channels to choose, which I did and cannot unselect without a reboot
09-10-2023 02:25 PM
I have all favorites picked, can edit from home screen.
Chatted with Dwight today and a new box is on its way.
09-11-2023 05:16 PM
Hi @Rocky3 , I was hoping to keep this thread concise, that's why I haven't responded directly in this thread, but I do try to help new posts that require troubleshooting. For this particular issue, do you still have the old box? Could you kindly try the following and let me know if you can see the new filters?
Go to Settings -> Top Menu > Device Settings > Apps
select TELUS TV+
Clear Chace/clear data (ok)
Home Button
STB should reboot and will see the system upgrade available.
09-11-2023 08:16 PM - edited 09-11-2023 11:38 PM
Thanks Kate
Followed your instructions and still only see All Channels.
It did clear my recordings however they came back some time later
There was no update offered, it went to home page.
I did a manual update which found it was already up to date.
09-11-2023 08:17 PM - edited 09-11-2023 08:18 PM
09-12-2023 10:43 AM
oh no, wiped recording isn't the intended result! I'm glad they came back. I'm sending you a dm to gather more info.
09-12-2023 10:56 AM - edited 09-12-2023 11:13 AM
I updated that post. The recordings re appeared when I checked later.
This is what I would like to see, but only see All Channels
09-13-2023 06:42 PM - edited 09-13-2023 09:08 PM
@Optik-KateThe second box arrived, installed an update and I have the same result. Favorites are picked, but in any event I should see subscribed
Anyone else with this issue?
09-13-2023 09:05 PM - edited 09-13-2023 09:09 PM
What I would like to know from those that read this post.
Do you have the same latest gen Optik box and do you have this problem, YES OR NO.
I am feeling rather alone with this issue. Now with two new boxes, same issue.
09-13-2023 01:58 AM
I know the last thing we need is another bug, but one last one. When will these boxes be able to handle color space properly? Everything is outputting HDR color space which is wrong for SDR cable. On reddit I see countless posts about the colors looking off, or screen being dim (poor performing hdr tv's that cant handle HDR properly). Nvidia shield has a match color space option for android tv. Im not sure how much work that was for them. But picture quality is huge when it comes to people evaluating cable providers, and the fact it cant output proper SDR color for SDR programs and HDR color for HDR apps like netflix is not good. The old optik system could.
I had to buy an EDID device so it would output SDR 8 bit color properly which is the bulk of cable tv. channels. The colors are just cartoonish on my OLED and incorrect when it tries to output regular cable tv as HDR. I know I see alot of these complaints pop up on reddit with people just not understanding why the colors and picture look so off on these new android boxes.
09-13-2023 06:12 PM
09-15-2023 01:40 PM
Hi all, just wanted to give a heads-up that we're locking this thread because it's getting difficult to track the comments and cross-posted threads. If you are experiencing issues, please make a new post and the TELUS team (myself included) will do our best to get back to you! Thank you everyone for your valuable feedback so far. We're continuing to make improvements to the platform based on your feedback, thank you for your patience and please stay tuned!