dream Player TV for TVheadend

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About this app

Use your Android TV as an IP-Client for your TVheadend server.

Important: This app is intended to run on Android TV or Google TV devices. If you are using a smartphone or tablet, please use the app 'dream Player for TVheadend'

Features:

- Watch SD and HD channels
- Timeline with full EPG history (depending on the EPG data on your receiver)
- Play recorded movies
- Picture-in-Picture (PiP)
- Watch M3U playlists for IPTV channels
- Use picons/channel logos
- Show subtitles
- Change audio/video track
- Change aspect ratio
- Sleeptimer
- Live channels (for compatible Android TV devices)
- Multiroom: Just connect your Android TV to your home network
- Zap channels in Live TV mode (click right or left on your remote to zap to the next/previous channel)
- Quick forward and rewind in movie mode (click right or left on your remote to skip 1 minute, click ENTER and fast forware to skip 5 minutes)

Prerequisites:

- TVheadend server (version 4.2 and above is recommended)
- Android TV (e.g. Nvidia Shield, Nexus Player, MXQ, S905, Philips TV, Sony Bravia TVs, Xiaomi MI Box 4K ...)
- Google TV (e.g. Google Chromecast HD, Google Chromecast 4K..)

Important: This version is restricted to 5 channels for each bouquet and 5 movies for each folder. You can use In-App-Purchase to buy the unlimited premium version.

Ratings and reviews

Excellent player!! I removed one star because when it returns the channel numbers to the AndroidTV live channels system it uses the channel's ordinal position as the number, vs. the channel's actual number (which is verified as available). Otherwise, an excellent application! UPDATE: It turns out it was an ID-10-T user error 😂🤷‍♂️...added one star for both not having the problem I saw, and the speed with which the developer responded!

This is without doubt the best way to watch TV from your tvheadend server on your TV. I have this on my Sony Android TV as well as on another TV via an Amazon Fire TV stick. There are occasional crashes but there are lots of plus points such as the genre view and the automatic picon downloads. It is a shame I ended up paying for the premium app twice though (Amazon and Google appstores don't speak well) but still worth it.

Needs polish. When I am watching a channel and hit up arrow (fast switch menu) is not as fast as i would like. When in fast switch menu, scrolling up and down is fine, but hitting right and left should switch between the tags on the TVH server, not give me unwanted EPG info (if i want EPG info i would have hit down for the overlay EPG). The way it stands i have to go back to the main menu to switch tags (not good). When i select a channel (in the fast switch menu) I dont want a pop up asking me if i want to switch... I want to tune in right away. Put all that extra stuff in the EPG overlay (down arrow menu). Also, in the up arrow menu its hard to distinguish the channel name from the current programming, make programming italic and give it a different color.

What's new

Some new features and improvements