How to find Roku ip address? (4 ways)

Roku streaming devices generally function well and offer many great features at a good price compared to the competition. It has lots of streaming services with tons of content waiting to be accessed with just a few presses on the remote.

But sometimes, your Roku device may act on its own and somehow mess up how it can connect to the internet. In many cases, you will need to know your Roku device IP address to deal with the problem. So how to find a Roku IP address?

How to find a Roku IP address?

There are 2 main ways you can find your Roku device IP address: with or without the remote. The former is easy to execute and take a short time, while the latter will require you to look around a bit, but will be just as easy.

There will be 3 ways to look for your Roku devices’ IP address in this article: Using the device’s remote, using the Remoku Chrome Extension, or using your router IP address from the browser.

Finding the Roku device’s IP Address with the included remote

The process is very simple from within the Roku device since it already has shown the device’s IP address within the device’s menus. Here are the steps to find such information using the remote:

• Step 1: Scroll down to the Settings from the main menu on the screen
• Step 2: Search or look for the networking option.
• Step 3: Under the option, you should see the “About” section, and it will show you your device IP address as well as some other network information of your device.

How to find a Roku IP address with the mobile app

• Step 1: Open your app
• Step 2: On the Channels tab, touch on the gear icon at the top right of the screen.
• Step 3: Touch “System Info.”, you will see a Roku IP address here.

Finding the Roku device’s IP Address with the included remote

Sometimes you may not be able to access the Roku device’s menus. It could be that the screen is used for troubleshooting or you are working from another room.

Regardless, there are many ways to check for your Roku device’s IP address:

Using the Remoku Chrome Extension

Roku provides users with an add-on called Remoku. It is a web app that will act like the remote to control your Roku device from your PC. The web app uses an internet connection to control the TV, so it will need to be able to find and connect to your Roku device.

Remember that you should connect both your Roku device and your computer to the same network.

Getting Remoku

• Step 1: Open Google Chrome or any browser that support Chrome extension, then head to this website: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/category/extensions

It will take you to the Chrome Web Store where you can browse for extensions, as well as themes for various websites, including Chrome’s new tab theme too.

• Step 2: Head to the search bar and type “Remoku” to search for the add-on. The Remoku add-on will be the only result showing up.
• Step 3: Click on the add-on, from here you can check for the information about the Remoku add-on, then click ”Add to Chrome”.
• Step 4: Click on the Extension button, next to the address bar to reveal all of your add-ons (the puzzle piece icon), then find and click Remoku.

Finding the IP address

• Step 1: From the app’s top menu, select Settings. It will show all tools for connecting the app to your Roku device
• Step 2: In the first line, enter your network’s IP address. The default value should work out fine for most people, but if you have made changes to your network, make sure to enter the IP that matches.
• Step 3: In the second line, enter the number of Roku devices on your network, then scan to find them all.
• Step 4: Wait for the app to scan your network’s IP addresses and identify the ones that belong to your Roku devices. After finishing, the list of available Roku devices, as well as their IP addresses, will show up. Just pick the value from the device you want to know.

Using your router

This method is more of a direct approach, but may not work on all routers. The method involves using either the name of the device or the MAC address to find the IP address of your Roku device.

Here are the steps:

• Step 1: Open any browser, then enter your router’s admin interface by simply typing into the address bar the router IP address.
• Step 2: You should see a list of connected devices to your router. If not, sign in to the router, then look for the status page where there usually is connection information.
• Step 3: Look for your Roku devices by their hostnames. The names will be listed next to the according to the IP addresses. Pick your device of choice.

Using MAC addresses

If you can’t find your Roku devices’ names on the list, you can use the MAC address in the device listing. The date could appear as a column.

Some routers may even enable users to find the device’s manufacturer using the MAC address in the interface. Just select the MAC and you should see the info needed.

But if not, you can instead look it up from sites like whatsmyip.org. Roku devices will be listed with Roku as the manufacturer when you try to find them.

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Final thoughts

So, how to find a Roku IP address? There are 4 ways to find your Roku devices’ IP addresses

With the remote: Open the setting from your TV screen, then look for the Networking option with the About section that tells you the IP address of the Roku device

With the mobile app: Open the Roku app on mobile, touch the gear icon, then touch “System Info.” to see a Roku IP address here.

With the Remoku add-on: Find and download Remoku from the Chrome web store, then click settings and configure to scan for all available Roku devices in your network, and the device list with IP addresses will show up.

With the router: Enter your router’s IP address and look for the connected devices.