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[Android Mini Client] Integrate with Android TV 'Live Channels'
Stuckless,
Here's a future feature idea: Android TV has a cool app called Live Channels that integrates installed TV streaming apps into one central 'launcher'. The app also provides a combined EPG. The user can choose a program/stream from the EPG and at that point the associated app is loaded and the selected stream starts. This works great with Pluto Tv as well as some other IPTV app sources. The appeal of this is having an integrated guide. As a fairly new cord cutter, being able to integrate online streams with SageTV live tv OTA channels is quite appealing. We also subscribe to SlingTV who will hopefully add 'Live Channels' integration. Having SageTV involved allows for all the perks of pause/ff/rew/rec/etc. I'm not sure what's involved but I would imagine that there's an API available as several apps in the Play Store are capable of hooking into 'Live Channels'. Of course you'd need to add the ability to have Android Mini Client of accepting a request for tuning the channel being sent from 'Live Channels'. Just something to consider when/if you get bored. ![]() *EDIT* A little more info http://androidtv.news/2016/01/dev-ad...r-app-with-tv/
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![]() Personally, I don't mind doing a deeper integration with AndroidTV and SageTV, but not sure I'll focus on LiveTV. I would like to implement the global search, which means that when you search from the the main UI it would search into SageTV. Also might be handy to have recent recordings or recently added movies to the Recommendations bar. Those would more of an interest to me ![]()
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10-4 and thanks for all you do. Being you've generously made your app OS then perhaps someone may add it down the road.
I was editing my post to add a link when you replied should you ever decide to change your mind! haha
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Doesn't necessarily need to be implemented in Android TV. If the Sage server could serve up live channels as m3u8 playlists, you could use this app to plug them in to Live TV app :
https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...ch.n.cumulustv
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I sort of feel the same way about the Chrome Cast... I have one, and I've played with it, but I don't see much value in it. I've looked at the APIs and most of what is needed, is already done, so it probably wound't take much effort, but I'll probably never do it. I fully suspect that at some point, someone will do this. And I do think from a coolness factor it would be cool... but I have higher priorities ![]()
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I've been following since day one
![]() In thinking about your response, it seems that the mechanism to do almost everything is already in place in that Nielm's webserver allows for sending a request to a Sage Client to tune a given program (Play on extender/client functionality). I'm guessing what could be done would be to tie into Live Channels with some sort of helper app that would launch the Android Mini Client, wait for it to come online and then send the channel tuning information the same way the webserver does. I'm not asking you to do any of that but it appears that many pieces are already in place. Just brainstorming really. All of this would really come in handy once SlingTV integrates into Live Channels as they are rumored to be doing. This would allow us Cord Cutters (I guess I'm still semi attached) to integrate the online only cable channels with our SageTV OTA channels into one unified EPG.
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I still watch a lot of live tv also. But right now mostly just use the Xfinity Go app (sideloaded) on my FireTV for that. Only issue is that it doesn't have all my stations. But still, sometimes I just leave it streaming while barely watching.
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![]() ![]() But all that aside, I do think that for some things like sports, LiveTV is a must (but I don't watch sports either ![]() This project is a sample of how to build a tuner framework for Android TV. https://github.com/googlesamples/and...putPlayer.java The Player, is based on ExoPlayer, which is one of the players that I use as well. It would require some changes, but, the player is really the hardest part of this. The streaming code (wihout a web server) is already there, now, since I built it using the SageTV streaming protocols, and I build the adapters for ExoPlayer and IJKplayer. This is really key, since, doing LiveTV is hard, and the streaming protocols take care of things like allowing the stream to run if you try to seek past the END as it's recording, etc.
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Almost all of my TV watching is sports (I am watching PGA golf as I type this) but I never watch it live. I watch it in near real-time the way you described how you watch a show after it has started.
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We certainly do watch the shows we really follow delayed or after airing, but we do a fair amount of "Let's see what's on" too.
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