Shield TV is Android.
Has anyone discovered whether the AndroidTV Pluto app has deep links and will work with ADBTuner. I know that there are easier ways of getting Pluto into ChannelsDVR (such as Pluto for Channels and the NonDocker Pluto for Channels). And I do use the NonDocker source. But those means cannot provide the subtitles/CC that most Pluto channels have because the ChannelsDVR cannot bring in the kind of subtitle stream (the Devs did try at one time but that did not work out too well). The ADBTuner method may be able to burn these subtitles in if there are deep links. My attempts with tv.pluto.android and urls pasted from the NonDocker .m3u have not been successful. And the HDMI capture project can't get rid of an OSD overlay.
EDIT ADDITION: I have managed to get it to at least start the pluto app with package tv.pluto.android/.leanback.controller.LeanbackSplashOnboardActivity. But tuning is still not possible. So it tunes to the last view channel and full screens 25 seconds later which is something. And ADBTuner does also correct an OSD overlay that I haven't been able to remove with the HDMI capture project.
I've had incredible success with adbtuner and youtube tv. I'm still on the fence with leaving xfinity and my hdhhomerun primes but this is easily the first solution I have found that even comes close to replicating what I have currently.
Does anyone have a combined json with all the youtube tv channels and sunday ticket together?
I would not give up my Primes ... Youtube can easily change the links etc ... I am Glad I kept my Primes after losing some TVE Channels. I use ADBtuner and XFINITY Stream to Capture my DRM Channels HBO Showtime etc ...
If you are planning to leave XFINITY all together then I can see you selling your Primes.
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Here is one.
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You might be overthinking it, as some quick testing with my setup and I was using deep links in the form:
adb shell am start -a android.intent.action.VIEW -d https://pluto.tv/en/live-tv/5b4e92e4694c027be6ecece1
I got the URLs by channel from the Pluto TV webpage, and had subtitles turned on already in the Pluto app. I use FireSticks, so I had the usual one time prompt regarding whether I wanted to open the link in the Pluto TV app, or using the Silk browser. The ID was definitely channel specific, as the show was joined in progress, and the ID didn't change when the program changed.
Yeah I probably was over thinking the tuning part, because now using the website URLs I am able to switch channels. However, I am still confronted with an always present OSD element as you can see in the image below. Anyone have any ideas on how to get it to go away. I have tried firing off various ADB keycodes with no success.
I'm not seeing that on my setup. Maybe try rebooting your streaming stick? It doesn't make sense to me that they would have something like that pinned to the screen -- with no timeout.
Thanks, is there an eastern time zone one?
Actually I get it on multiple streaming sticks. For example I’m watching two ADBTuner channels right now each on a different channel on a different device. One device is a Onn and the other is a Chromecast. One is being displayed on my PC and the other on my Apple TV. Both with the OSD bubble. Very odd.
There are a number of threads that talk about how to get the StationID from getting it directly from zap2it.com to using scripts folks have built to extract it from ChannelsDVR. Here are a couple of threads that talk about how to get the StationIDs.
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for station IDs - go to this URL on your Channels DVR Server
http://192.168.2.121:8089/dvr/guide/stations
or maybe it's this one:
http://192.168.2.121:8089/devices/TVE-YouTubeTV
(obviously use your proper IP address)
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If the CPU I was using struggled with HDMI for channels does it likely mean a similar experience with either of the options you mentioned?
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Do you mean Chrome Capture for Channels? AndroidHDMI-for-Channels (now known as ah4c) puts no load on the proxy host it's running on.
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Have you tried the Live Channels app? It pulls in all of the Pluto channels without all of their OSD nonsense. It’s a good app, so of course they deprecated it, but it might work for your purposes
Is there a way to get the locals from YTTV using adbtuner. How are the deep links found for channels?
Hi there,
You need to log into YTTV and Choose live.
Make sure you have a listing of channels on your base plan and click on the play button with the picutre of what is playin gon a specific channel.
You will click on the station as if you are going to watch it.
The channel will start playing and you wil want to grab the URL fo ruse in ADB Tuner.
I will grab kcs in Los Angeles.
You wilneed to hit the YTTV channel lineup and grab each URL to be used in ADB Tuner.
Make sure to select the correct driver and fill out the information in the admin page as much as possible.
The Use of ADB Tuner and YTTV with the Onn 4k boxes has proven to be very solid.
Yes that’s what I meant
The HDMI (ABDTuner, HDMI-for-channels, AndroidHDMI-for-Channels ah4c) solutions put next to zero strain on the server. This is because almost all processing is done on the individual devices (Chromecast, FireTV, Onn, generic AndroidTV) and whatever encoder device(s) is being used.
Chrome Capture for Channels, though based on HDMI-for-channels, is pretty CPU intensive as all the work is being processed on the server.
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After getting this same issue with a Firestick device too I decided to do a little digging. It turns out that because I "optimized" all my devices to reduce animation scaling to 0 that was causing a known problem. Putting my animation scaling to 0.5 solved this problem.
The reddit I used to fix this was Pluto tv app - banner overlays displaying permanently if anyone is interested.
Edit Update: 0.25 seems to work also.
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