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To switch in and out of YouView on a 2017 set:-
You are then back in the Freeview menu, and can record again.
But of course you have lost itv Hub again, for which there are three remedies:-
1. Choose the itv Hub, and be put back into YouView;
2. Repeat the above process, but this time make step 5 ‘Enable YouView’ (and you can safely skip the proffered retune);
3. Sideload the Hoshsadiq workaround:-
https://github.com/hoshsadiq/bravia-youview-player-launchers
Despite being archived because Hoshsadiq couldn’t keep up with the later changes from 2020 on (which arguably didn’t need his workaround anyway) the ‘frozen’ code there works perfectly well for sets from before that year, like your 2017 one, and gives you access to the apps that normally require YouView, without you having to load YouView at all.
Crikey, there IS a solution!!
To the rescue again!
I'll report back soon.
Cheers 😊
Hey Mazzman, were you able to do as royabrown2 said? Don't leave us waiting, I got overexcited reading this thread.
Hi Hannah,
No, not as yet. I understood what I needed to do and went to the website with the 'frozen code' that should still work. However, I meant to have got back to royabrown2 as I wasn't sure how one 'sideloads' code into the Bravia. I tried putting said code on my USB stick which I record from the Bravia on (so it is registered and the Bravia sees it) and inserted it into the Bravia USB port, but it doesn't see the code. I really must ask royabrown what I need to do. I'm not far off 70, and sometimes I feel so stupid!
https://community.sony.co.uk/t5/android-tv/faq-how-to-sideload-apps-on-android-tvs/td-p/2347365
Youngster, I’m 76! (But still 35 inside)
Bloody hell, 76? Feeling more stupid than ever
Many thanks, and I shall get back on here soon to tell all how things went.
Enjoy the bedtime reading