they do. Although I had better success using ah4c for fubo
Well, here the latest about the affordable line of onn streaming boxes:
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Very little, not even a handful. Remember, even within the ESPN app, each station is unique. All the beginning steps are the same, but the third to last is different because of how many times I need to click right. With the way ADBTuner is built, I'm not sure if there is a way I can modularize this to avoid the repetition, but I'm thinking about it.
Probably could, but I'm afraid of a missed press and want to be extremely conservative. We have to remember these things are designed for expecting human input, so if we move too fast they might not keep up. I prefer to be extremely conservative due to that, but can stress test some possibilities.
Also, most are more like 20-40 seconds. Only when we're talking about something like the 14th listed station does it come up close to 60.
Yes, as well as trying to move to end and page down. It didn't like any of them. Decided to stick with what I know works and not try it on other apps.
It can easily be switched off and I'll document how!
Just want to highlight that what I'm putting together here could be applied to any app to get stations, so deep linking is not a requirement.
I understand ah4c is supposed to be good at doing the automation stepping, but I find ADBTuner's interface and method much more intuitive.
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That's pretty cool.
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ADBTuner is definitely cleaner but ah4c is a little bit nicer from a scripting perspective because it's all bash.
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I'm just curious if there's any consideration of possibly making ADBTuner open source at some point?
I recently moved to ah4c just because I can open PRs and contribute back to it. I would love to be able to contribute to this project because I think it's a fantastic tool. I would just be curious to see if an open source release is planned because the website does say it is pending at some point.
Depends on the feeling of the OP @turtletank
I don't think there should be an issue on that front. We know what happens when the original developer abandons ship or have bad health issues, that the tool is dead unless its open sourced.
SageTV is still a thing since they open sourced the thing so...eh...
No, I know it. It's up to the developer. That's why I was asking. I was just curious because it's something that I think is important to the life of a project that's used by so many people.
Someone who wants to harden my setup and also contribute. I prefer to use something that I can contribute to.
There's also currently no license, it's just kind of all rights reserved to the developer, and there's really no license granting usage or anything like that, which is not really a concern for me, but is not ideal. Especially when you're dealing with a community of mostly open source projects, this is like the one closed source thing.
Well...I mean Channels itself is closed source too but yeah. 
Well, I mean, that's a paid application. And I expect channels to be closed source. It's commercial software that I'm paying for. This literally says pending open source release. So I was just asking if that open source release was coming.
Also mainly asking because I want to contribute back to it. It's very satisfying to find something in a piece of software and open a PR and have it merged in. So I love to be able to do that. Mainly from a contribution perspective, not a self-serving one is why I'm asking. 
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Yeah, I know but again @turtletank
I do think at least there needs to some community collection of configs for each provider like ah4c has. Theres a lot of providers out there with apps and theres different ways to open them and play the channel on them.
Sling does work with the default configs tho so its all about adding the channellists
Yeah, I agree. That would be great if we had a community repository on GitHub that we could PR to of different configs, which I think kind of goes hand in hand with open sourcing.
If you have a community of people contributing code, development goes a whole lot faster.
Like I was able to really improve the Osprey experience on ah4c because it was open source, and I was able to look at the scripts. I also fixed a bug that was crashing the whole client and bnhf was able to take it and improve my bug fix with a better implementation.
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Stay tuned...
It's not hosted open, but the code isn't compiled, so you can pull it directly from the container and view it, take it offline, and modify it to make your own image:
I was looking into it a while ago thinking about modifying the code to be more generic so it could run in Windows directly, but have put that aside from now.
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I've taken a peak over at Github at what you're cooking and I like it
I can't wait until you put it beta!! 
If you need testers, I'm free
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Issue with this is the developer hasn't issued it under any license, so it's not really something we can legally decompile and use. That's the problem. If he were to issue it under like an MIT license, then we could play with it.
The problem is the licensing, in my opinion not that you can't just go into the container and pull the Python files out.
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Personally, I'm placing it under a "right to repair" philosophy, not a distribution one, with an intent to send notes back to the developer with anything found/desired. But just differing viewpoints on how licensing and copyright apply, so I'm not going to argue about it!
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Hello All.
I can't believe it's been three years already.
When I started this project, I had originally intended for it to be an open source, collaborative situation.
Unfortunately, some people were surprisingly rude and it immediately took all the fun out of it. And if it's not fun, there is no reason to do it at all.
I thought there was some value to the project, and I was using it myself, so I continued to hack away at it, share knowledge, and help others wherever I could. I probably have thousands of hours into this so far and I have no intention of abandoning the project. However, at this point, I don't have any immediate plans to change the license. It's just not something I have the time/energy to deal with right now. If I do intend to walk away that would change.
Honestly, I would like to keep the ADBTuner core focused on its original purpose which is loading deep linked content in apps that properly support doing as such. AH4C and android-hdmi-for-channels were always better platforms where getting every possible app to work is the goal. Great work has been done by the developers of those tools.
This being said, I would absolutely love to add support for loading configurations from third-party git repositories and/or even loading third-party Python code to assist in tuning actions. If there is interest in this, please let me know and I will get that done. @babsonnexus is this what you are looking to do? I'd be glad to help with whatever I can.
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Some people can be dicks yeah but this tool has been pretty useful for me and plenty of others. I'd be happy to chip in a bit and help in some way as I said above. I hope you reconsider but I understand if you want to keep the license the way it is
I had no idea about that, and I'm so sorry that happened to you. I completely understand now. Actually had something similar happen to me where I built something really cool with AI. It was binary patching legacy firmware for Pebble watches to handle aftermarket battery replacements and I just got completely attacked by the community for building something with AI. Just took all the joy out of building something really useful and cool. I really brought me down for a good couple of days too. I know that exact feeling, and I'm really sorry that people treated you that way.
If you're building something and you're mainly doing it for yourself and for the benefit of the community, you don't need people being jerks, and that's wrong. I completely understand your reasons now for keeping it closed.
This makes me feel a lot better knowing that if you do decide to walk away, someone can fork and continue. Thank you for saying that because ADB Tuner has always worked better for me. I just prefer the ability to know that the solution I'm using is going to be robust long term, and just knowing that if you do not continue developing it, someone else can.
Thank you for all the work you've put into this and I really appreciate this response. It's just such a great tool!!
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Also, I want to ask, do you have like a Buy Me a Coffee page or something like that? Patreon?