Tvheadend

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1. We currently require you have a streaming profile called "tif" defined in TVHeadend.

Looks like a bunch of folks are having success with the app, with some good feedback on the G+ community, awesome

Sometime this week or next, we'll publish a "production" version on the play store with open access. In the meantime, more feedback is welcome!

Some screenshots attached...

Just noticed your new app being mentioned on IRC.
Absolutely awesome news, have an Sony Android TV set and will test and provide feedback asap.

Thanks,
Diddle.

I have a 2015 android sony tv. This is what I was dreaming of !

I'm joining the beta right now.

Thanks a lot.

I also have a 2015 Sony Android TV. I thought this was an "APP", but it integrates into the TV like any other source. Unfortunately it did not work that great for me. All channels give sound, but channels with 1080i played in slow motion/dropping video frames and channels in 720p has no video at all. Same channels works fine when played on integrated tuner, so has to be something with the way tvheadend stream the media ?

Choppy HD channels is something we're aware of, and working towards fixing. However, I've never seen slow motion on my Sony 2015 TV, during anything HD that's fast paced it's a little "juddery" - but just about watchable. We're hoping to switch to HTSP before spending too much time on HD video issues, as I'm suspecting video over HTTP just isn't keeping up..

Hi, fantastic job.

No conect to server, error network in AndroidTV 7. NEXUS PLAYER.

Thanks.

Is there a chance to have APK for non so "tv" android aka android stb's

p.s.
any chance to be exported project as branch to this request
http://tvheadend.org/issues/3992

No, the app relies very heavily on Android TV specific functionality, unless google release these bits publicly and the STB manufacturer you bought from includes it in a update, it won't be usable something we can support.

Kiall

Hi, I just found this application and I have a few questions.
Right now I use an app called Perfect Player together with my IPTV service.
I would like to use the Live Channels app with my Mi Box (official Android TV box). And I like this solution.
From what I understand TV Headend supports IPTV M3U8 URL's?
Will it automatically pull updates from my URL? And can I sort and remove channels from this URL?

This app is working great on my Sony Android TV for everyday use, it integrates well with the TVs UI and functions. When I want timeshift or recording I need to use Kodi due to lack of capabilities in this app (at least running on Sony TVs).

No problems at all so far, watching SD and HD channels.

Hi,

Any news on the app status? I just installed it on my Xiaomi Mi Box. I come from TVheadend for Kodi on a Raspberry Pi 2:

- TV is unstable. Sometimes it loses connection or channel gets stuck
- No channel grouping available (you can do that on Kodi). My IPTV provider gives me 200 channels, and it's really inconvenient not to be able to group them or change order.
- No options to record or schedule program recordings. Or I have not been able to find the proper shortcut...

Anyway, thanks for the app and keep up the good work!

Use the server timeshift features with the app. It helps smoothing the playback. Also enable passthrough from app.

Works pretty well for me with these changes.

Marce Castro wrote:

Hi,

Any news on the app status? I just installed it on my Xiaomi Mi Box. I come from TVheadend for Kodi on a Raspberry Pi 2:

- TV is unstable. Sometimes it loses connection or channel gets stuck
- No channel grouping available (you can do that on Kodi). My IPTV provider gives me 200 channels, and it's really inconvenient not to be able to group them or change order.
- No options to record or schedule program recordings. Or I have not been able to find the proper shortcut...

Anyway, thanks for the app and keep up the good work!

You can get develop builds here for testing DVR, but there are currently some upstream limitation on the DVR database handling from android tv. its a very early preview of the DVR functionality.
http://jenkins.macinnes.ie/job/android-tvheadend/job/develop/
Channel grouping has also upstream limitation to android tv. But we can do genre import if your EPG source supports it. Maybe there will be a workaround in the future.

Kiall has some deadlines at work, so developing currently stucks a little bit. But he did a very good job at all - wish someone would join the project too.

Thanks for this - great app!

Thanks for the great work!

One question, is the TIF profile still needed? If yes, what kind of profile should it be? Information about this is very lacking.

Thanks!

Rap Tor wrote:

Thanks for the great work!

One question, is the TIF profile still needed? If yes, what kind of profile should it be? Information about this is very lacking.

Thanks!

Since 0.3.x TIF isn´t needed anymore, switched to htsp.

Thanks for answer. For some reason the reply went to spam on my gmail :/

Recently switched to Nvidia Shield and using TVHeadend Live channel for Android TV but i'm missing the Radio channels, is there a alternative for Radio channels?

Only issue with the addon currently is that sometimes the picture stops for a second or 2 (audio doesn't).

Marce Castro wrote:

Hi,

Any news on the app status? I just installed it on my Xiaomi Mi Box. I come from TVheadend for Kodi on a Raspberry Pi 2:

- TV is unstable. Sometimes it loses connection or channel gets stuck
- No channel grouping available (you can do that on Kodi). My IPTV provider gives me 200 channels, and it's really inconvenient not to be able to group them or change order.
- No options to record or schedule program recordings. Or I have not been able to find the proper shortcut...

Anyway, thanks for the app and keep up the good work!

Hi Marce and Kiall,

first of all thanks a lot - I am coming from a pure AppleTV experience and we just bought a fresh SONY tv where I now installed your Live Channel.

I was running both, the "stable" version (0.3.10) and the "beta" (0.3.17) and they both work in the case, that I can watch TV and see the chanenls. Some channels broke the Application and I had to switch to Live TV and back.

What does only work for a few lines is the EPG. I am mixing sources though and EPG within TV (EIT via DVB_C + xmltv files for my IPTV list). Do you want to look into that ? I am happy to provide the .m3u for the user I had set up and the xmltv file and send them to you.

Kind regards,
Alex

I cannot get the app to connect to the server.

Update - I was trying the wrong port, 9982 is for HTSP.

Just bought a xiaomi box and the plugin directly from the play store doesnt work.
I was able to get 1 channel to play in some rare occasions but 99% of the times it just sits there spinning...
The tvh server shows the app opening multiple streams for the same channel.

Is this a known issue? How can I help to debug this?

Will try the beta later.

Luis Alves wrote:

Just bought a xiaomi box and the plugin directly from the play store doesnt work.
I was able to get 1 channel to play in some rare occasions but 99% of the times it just sits there spinning...
The tvh server shows the app opening multiple streams for the same channel.

Is this a known issue? How can I help to debug this?

Will try the beta later.

https://github.com/kiall/android-tvheadend/issues

saen acro wrote:

https://github.com/kiall/android-tvheadend/issues

Thanks.
Found my issue in there: https://github.com/kiall/android-tvheadend/issues/230
I'm using latest git master so I'll try downgrading to latest stable to see if it works.

Another topic:
My tvh server in only exposed to my LAN so I don't have authentication but I was forced to setup a username/password on my tvh server to use the plugin.
Can it be fixed so that it works without authentication (blank user/pass)?
I'll create an "Issue" on github for this.

By the way, does anyone know of a similar plugin that will take sat>ip as source?

It could also use tvheadend as sat>ip server.

I only found this one: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.tara_systems.apptvinputservice&hl=pt
but is only provided to install on a Nexus Player...