How Do _You_ Stream from Enigma2 to a Sony/Android/Google TV?

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pa28pilot

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So I managed to get a deal on my first new TV in 7-ish years, and picked up a Sony TV based on Android/Google TV. My current daily driver for DVB is an Edision OS MIO+ 4K.

I have a number of content sources in the house that I'd like to seamlessly watch on this one TV, and I'm hopeful based on some preliminary tests with various Android TV apps that I could get from the Google Play Store. But every single one of them has some one (or more) thing wrong with it.

I'm testing
  • PVR Live
  • dream Player TV
  • dreamdroid
  • ProgTV
  • HDHomeRun

It is nice that the Sony has a way to integrate known channels from certain apps into its "Channels" input/source.

A lot of these apps only want to scan/find channels that are defined in user-specified bouquets. That's not a show stopper, but in a perfect world, I'd like to be able to trigger some kind of scan (be it automatic, manual, or blind) on the actual Edision receiver.

It looks like ProgTV will do actual scans, but then it doesn't find anything or properly update its channel list on the app.

PVR Live seems to do a fair job of updating the channel list, but streaming usually (always?) fails.
dream Player TV seems simpler and seems to work for streaming but it doesn't give me a lot of access to the back-end Edision.

I'm wondering if any of you all are regularly watching a DVB receiver that isn't connected directly to your Android/Google TV, through a TV over your network, and, if so, what apps you're using to do it?

Some of these apps seem like they'll consume and display anything you can think of to feed them. A number of them have international IPTV sources in their menus and seem to be as optimized for OTT content as they are for satellite content. I'm not as interested in the OTT stuff - I have either the Sony TV or a Roku for that, or maybe netcat and VLC. :computer-17:

If anyone has any experiences, other than standing up Plex,Kodi,Emby,SageTV, or MythTV, please let me know.
If the only thing anyone is doing is one of those, I suppose it would be good to know that too.

Thanks in advance!
 
I just loaded the Dreamdroid app to chromecast dongle. Works fine if you are on a large mux. It will not flip to other stations just stays in 1 mux. Thats ok for police chases we watch in bedroom. It works perfect getting to pvr recordings. Very fast and great picture.Will have to try my cell app for using remote to change to other live channels. I have read about the KODI which is available on the playstore for chromecast. Saw how to set it up on you tube. So will see. All still in home viewing nothing for out of home.
 
So the current best answer for me is proving to be "PVR Live". Here's how it is working:
- Channels to be tuned on the remote TV MUST be in a user bouquet. It seems to be following the UX of webif in that there doesn't seem to be predefined channel access available just because they're in a satellite's config. They have to be in a user bouquet for the UI to find them.
- From the Sony TV, I can hit OK and bring up a weird 4-way (up,down,right,left) menu. Left is subchannel audio selection, right is closed captioning choices. The Audio button from the Sony remote will iterate between the audio options for a channel if I mash it repeatedly.
- There is no UI feedback on the Sony TV to indicate that the dish is in motion or that the Edision is otherwise "busy."
- Channels usually tune in on the Sony TV within 10 seconds. Sometimes, the first tune/load doesn't quite seem to connect, but reselecting the same PVR Live channel from the Channels list or the pop-up list of channels that appear on the TV when I hit OK, seems to always load the channel on the second try.
 
I've also used some of the above mentioned progs plus the following on my Sony XBR which I purchased in 2017 and have upgraded the firmware various times.

From the Google Play Store:

Vu+ PlayerHD for AndroidTV by app dev
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vuplus.androidtv

Vu+ PlayerHD for Android by Marusys Co., Ltd.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vuplus.android

For older tvs with a free hdmi port, I've used the Onn Google Chromcast adapter which works very well. Purchased it about a year ago from Walmart for $35. Might still be available.

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i just got that Onn lasr week and it has dreamdroid .it has Kodi too. I have yet to try that. Wish they work out of home network.
 
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