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Your Roku has hidden settings and menu screens - here's how to unlock them


A little-known button combo on your Roku remote unlocks a hidden menu packed with advanced features most users never stumble upon.

Sure, most of you may be perfectly happy never using these options on your Roku streaming device, but if you consider yourself a bit of a techie, or maybe you just like pressing buttons to see what happens, these secret menus are downright fun to try. Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNETThe Network menu isn't exactly secret, but Roku still gives you a slick remote shortcut to access it. Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNETYour Roku displays granular performance data like CPU temperature and voltage, memory usage, connected remotes and battery levels, and your SSID in the Platform menu.

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