HGTV app not letting me activate.

by savageotter

The site just says Not Found when I enter my or any provider. anyone having this issue.

chocowizrd

Also had this issue with the food Network app ( same company login) not sure of a fix

boomski17

I have had this issue for 2 months now. On a Nvidia Shield and won't work. Very frustrating.

Deezul_AwT

Hmm. Yesterday I tried to sign into Vudo and kept getting a password wrong error. Reset it twice and still couldn't get in. Samsung S9+ and Xbox One worked fine.

gadjex

Had this issue for days now. Tired everything I could think of.

soccersocks511

Unfortunately this has been happening to me for over a month. I emailed their support but it was pretty much ignored. Hopefully others will echo in and they will fix the issue.

billte

I've been having this problem for a few weeks now as well... works on my Roku's, but not on my Shield TV. I'm assuming either the Shield generates the code and it isn't making it to HGTV (therefore code not found), or HGTV generates the code and has a bug on their side specific to android tv. Because, again, it works for other devices. Very frustrating, and how can they not have fixed it? Wouldn't there be a lot of people having this issue?

lowbatterysound

Also having this issue with my ShieldTV with the HGTV and Food Network app.

ccmodcsmd

Same is happening here. I tried with 2 different providers and got 'Not Found' with both. Deleting and reinstalling app didn't correct the problem.

mesuperjew

I just attempted this on my Google TV today for both the FoodNetwork app and Cooking Channel app and got the same result so it still appears broken. I submitted a question to the Food Network App support to help give this issue a voice. Will update if/when I get a response.

Fanganator77

Same problem here, I used a work around with comcast. I log into my provider on my phone then use the following link, replacing 'yourcode' with the code on the device (with caps). If you have something other than Comcast you probably need to change the part of the link with Comcast SSO to something else...

https://sp.auth.adobe.com/api/v1/authenticate?mso_id=Comcast_SSO&reg_code=yourcode&requestor_id=HGTV&domain_name=watch.hgtv.com&noflash=true&redirect_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwatch.hgtv.com%2Factivate%2Fthanks.html%23Roku%26HGTV

Shonari

Dunno if th will work for you, but what I did was:

In the HGTV app I went to settings and clicked "Sign in" to generate a new code (dont think this step is necessary however). When I visited watch.hgtv.com/activate I made sure I turned on CAPS LOCK (even though entering the code with it off resulted in uppercase characters). That seemed to work.

pschatzow

Same thing happening to me. HGTV, FootNetwork, HBOGO is doing it as well. I also put in a help ticket with food network. I will report back if I hear anything. If anyone else hears any response back from the providers let us know. Thanks.

savageotter

Update "Thanks for reaching out. Our developers are aware of this issue and are working on a fix. Once I receive an update from them, I will be touch with next steps. "

pvillanu1

Glad I'm not the only one. Someone please post once it starts working again.

Max_Roc

Any updates here? Mine is still broken.

malleysc

Anyone have an update on this as it still doesn't seem to work. I assume they don't want anyone to use it

718LegaZy

This is happening for me as well on my Sony TV. Can't believe it's going this long without being fixed.

Hot427Z

Same problem in for me with Discovery and Spectrum . This has been the case for over 3 months . I keep emailing Discovery but no resolution yet.

Max_Roc

See comment below. Someone kindly posted a fix and it worked for me.

acehigh21

After not working all week this finally worked for me tonight with FoodNetwork on my Shield TV.

NiNjABuD13

Wow 4 months ago and I tried this today and same damn BULLSHIT. I swear to god Comcast/Xfinity are the worst company EVER.

cssyndrome

These links worked for me: