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Roku doesn't include an official YouTube channel in fact it seems like every time a third-party Channel that streams YouTube videos gets added Roku pulls it well luckily there is a workaround for this today I'll show you how to use a set up called Tuan key which lets you beam YouTube videos from this phone to your Roku let's get started first you'll need to do some setup on your Roku so to do that head to a browser on your phone or your computer and go to owner Roku comm slash ad here you'll be asked to add a private channel private channels are basically beta channels that you won't see available for download here but you can still add them on the website so over here go ahead and enter my Tuan key and hit add Channel and within a few minutes you should see the Tuan ki Channel show up on your Roku now that we have that set up we have a little bit more to do on your phone so go ahead and install the Tuan key beam app for your iOS or Android device it's totally free once you have it installed you'll see a landing page full of video sources that you can use to beam videos to your Roku but today all we really want is YouTube now the next thing we have to do is connect your phone to your Roku to do that make sure your phone is connected to the same Wi-Fi network as your Roku once that's set up go ahead and swipe left from the home screen of the app and you'll see what I call your beam panel here's where we'll connect your phone to the Roku hit display device and then select Roku video player now that everything's connected you're ready to start beaming YouTube videos from your phone to your Roku let's give it a try so we'll go back to the home screen and click YouTube you'll basically be taken to YouTube's mobile site here find the video you want to play select it and within a few seconds you should see a beam button overlaid on the video hit that beam button and if you did everything correctly you should see that video buffering on your Roku within a few seconds there it is now while the video is playing you can swipe left again to view the beam panel and you can pause or stop the video right from this panel now if you want to get fancy you have a couple other options the first one is video quality if your Roku is connected via ethernet and you have a pretty good internet connection you can beam your videos and a higher quality to do that go to the gear icon in the app select settings and change the bandwidth quality to high also check out the cue option you can set up a whole list of videos that will play one after another within the app so swipe left to get the beam panel and then click beam cue off to turn it on now head to the videos you want to cue up hit the beam button and it'll be added to that list and when you're ready to switch back to on-demand viewing hit beam cue on to disable it so now that you know how to watch YouTube videos on your Roku also check out the other channels that Twankey has to offer like Vimeo Ted or Funny or Die granted some of them are already available on roku but you might find it easier to just navigate and beam them from your phone as always if you have any questions along the way hit me up on twitter and check out how to see Netcom for the written version of this tutorial for CNET I'm Sharon Vaknin