ADBTuner: Create Channels, Custom Config and CDVR Custom Channels for DirecTV

jsfullam · March 5, 2026, 1:34am

I can confirm that DTV and onn 4k boxes do work with ADBTuner. That's what I have for my setup.

For proper tuning using DTV with onn 4k boxes, you likely need to use a special configuration file for those channels. I haven't had much luck using any of the default configs.

Currently, I'm using this config file:

{
    "name": "DirecTV X.X.X",
    "author": "David B.",
    "version": "X.X.X",
    "description": "Fast tuning for DirecTV. Prevent are you still there prompt from showing.",
    "uuid": "eeadcfd5-0b2c-4f9a-858b-05073ba918b2",
    "global_options": {
        "wait_for_video_playback_detection": true,
        "use_fixed_delay": false,
        "fixed_delay_seconds": 0,
        "check_for_and_clear_whos_watching_prompts": false,
        "wait_after_post_playback_start_commands_seconds": 0
    },
    "pre_tune_commands": [],
    "tune_commands": [
        "am start -S -W -n '||TARGET_PACKAGE_NAME||'/$(cmd package resolve-activity -a android.intent.action.MAIN '||TARGET_PACKAGE_NAME||' | awk -F= '/name=/{print $2; exit}') -a android.intent.action.VIEW -d '||TARGET_URL_OR_IDENTIFIER||'"
    ],
    "post_playback_start_commands": [],
    "post_tune_commands": [
        "input keyevent KEYCODE_MEDIA_STOP",
        "input keyevent KEYCODE_HOME"
    ],
    "timed_keep_active_commands": [
        {
            "run_every_minutes": 60,
            "commands": [
                "input keyevent KEYCODE_MEDIA_PLAY"
            ]
        }
    ]
}

Anvil_DVR · March 5, 2026, 2:56am

This is what I get.

bnhf · March 5, 2026, 3:27am

Are you using the ADBTuner Custom Config in the post just above yours? It's the best one to use atm. Is your ADBTuner container up-to-date?

jsfullam · March 5, 2026, 3:32am

Are you properly logged into your DirecTV app? Does it play properly when you use the physical remote, rather than tuning it with ADBTuner?

Something looks a a bit off in your app screenshot. Do you have more than one profile for your DTV app? I don't see a profile icon on your screen, like the "J" in the blue box in the upper left of my screen shot:

Anvil_DVR · March 5, 2026, 10:53am

yes I am using the custom config.
Yes, I can tune all the channels with the remote,
Its not my account (family member), so I am not messing with profiles.
I guess I could get an account of my own for a month for more testing.
I wanted to see if this would actually work first.
I currently have Fubo and am trialing YouTube. Those work fine.
I used to use Hulu Live, but they constantly force re-authorization and password changes so I left.

bnhf · March 5, 2026, 2:19pm

Please post an ADBTuner log snippet from a failed tune -- start to finish.

Also, a screenshot of that same channel's details from the ADBTuner WebUI, could be helpful.

Anvil_DVR · March 5, 2026, 8:34pm

I created a free account to make sure that was not the problem
created a link to one of the channels and this is what I get:

I think DTV is more trouble that its worth.
Thanks for the help though!

Anvil_DVR · March 7, 2026, 6:30pm

Ok,
I took another run at this this morning this time with a fireTV stick and I was successful.
Couple of Questions:

Do these deeplinks expire after a period of time?
Is there a way to limit (sort) how many of these channels are imported?
I don't want them all in there. if they expire and I have to run the olive-tin project again, it would be good if i don't have to sort them all everytime.

Otherwise, I am impressed this works..

Thanks!

bnhf · March 7, 2026, 6:42pm

No.

No. Everything in your subscription is added, after that you can use the usual tools to whittle down the lineup using Manage Lineup in CDVR Sources.

The Manage Lineup Helper Tool/Bookmarklet is handy here (included with OliveTin-for-Channels), like it is for many sources:

bnhf · March 7, 2026, 6:49pm

This is really only needed if you change your DTV package, or if they add new channels to your package you care about.

Anvil_DVR · March 7, 2026, 7:06pm

Thank you for all that you do.
It is greatly appreciated.

Shaggylive · March 19, 2026, 12:49am

finally getting adbTuner setup to add onto ah4c. I assume this has matured to latest, as that's what i've done and so far so good, gotta get the tuners setup yet.

also this thread was really hard to find because the Directv gets truncated in any search results. also keywords AdbTuner Directv json returns nothing, but cURL returns alot.

bnhf · March 19, 2026, 2:58pm

Yes.

Search for adbtuner, and it's the #1 hit:

Or, do a project-one-click tag search, and it the #2 hit:

Shaggylive · March 20, 2026, 1:38am

ok, well, last night i was seaching adbtuner directv json and getting no hits.

tonight as I was posting, I got a perfect set of hits... musta caught some server maintenance

Shaggylive · March 22, 2026, 12:45am

I had this working the other day, but nuked the setup to re-plan my tuner setup. unfortunately i did not save the json and today i'm getting this error

POST http://10.0.0.7:1337/api/StartActionAndWait
Action: adbtuner_directv_grabber
  dvr: 10.0.0.7:8089
  ADBTUNER_HOST: 10.0.0.7
  ADBTUNER_PORT: 5592
  CURL_COMMAND: curl 'https://api.cld.dtvce.com/discovery/metadata/channel/v5/service/allchannels?sort=OrdCh%253DASC&clientContext=dmaID%3A679_0%2CbillingDmaID%3A679%2CregionID%3AMLB+KC+Royals+Choice+OTT+SPOT_MLB+STL+Cardinals+Choice+OTT+Zipcodes+SPOT_MLB+Twins+Sports+Pack+SPOT_FSMIAPH_RegC+Des+Moines+IA_MLB+MIL+Brewers+Sports+Pack+OTT+SPOT_OV2+RegC+Des+Moines+IA_STL+CARDINALS+sb+RSN+V2+SPOT_BG10O2H_CSN+Chicago+Spot+SPOT_KAN+Royals+sb+RSN+V2+SPOT_BGTN4HD_BGTN3HD_BIG10HD_FSMIA1H_BS+Midwest+OOM+B%2FO_IND+Pacers+sb+RSN+SPOT_FSN+Midwest+Spot+SPOT_STL+Blues+RSN+SPOT_BTN4OF_BTN3OF_MIN+Twolves+sb+RSN+SPOT_BTN2OF_Marquee+Sports+Network+v2+SPOT_Marquee+Sports+Network+SPOT_OV+Des+Moines-Ames+IA+679_MIN+Wild+RSN+SPOT_MIL+BREWERS+sb+RSN+SPOT_OVTelemundoEast_OV+Telemundo+East+82624+SPOT_OV+Des+Moines+IA+DMA+679_OV+Telemundo+East+123022+SPOT_OV+Telemundo+East+072222+SPOT%2CzipCode%3A50023%2CcountyCode%3A153%2CstateNumber%3A19%2CstateAbbr%3AIA%2CusrLocAndBillLocAreSame%3Atrue%2CbRegionID%3AMLB+KC+Royals+Choice+OTT+SPOT_MLB+STL+Cardinals+Choice+OTT+Zipcodes+SPOT_MLB+Twins+Sports+Pack+SPOT_FSMIAPH_RegC+Des+Moines+IA_MLB+MIL+Brewers+Sports+Pack+OTT+SPOT_OV2+RegC+Des+Moines+IA_STL+CARDINALS+sb+RSN+V2+SPOT_BG10O2H_CSN+Chicago+Spot+SPOT_KAN+Royals+sb+RSN+V2+SPOT_BGTN4HD_BGTN3HD_BIG10HD_FSMIA1H_BS+Midwest+OOM+B%2FO_IND+Pacers+sb+RSN+SPOT_FSN+Midwest+Spot+SPOT_STL+Blues+RSN+SPOT_BTN4OF_BTN3OF_MIN+Twolves+sb+RSN+SPOT_BTN2OF_Marquee+Sports+Network+v2+SPOT_Marquee+Sports+Network+SPOT_OV+Des+Moines-Ames+IA+679_MIN+Wild+RSN+SPOT_MIL+BREWERS+sb+RSN+SPOT_OVTelemundoEast_OV+Telemundo+East+82624+SPOT_OV+Des+Moines+IA+DMA+679_OV+Telemundo+East+123022+SPOT_OV+Telemundo+East+072222+SPOT%2CisFFP%3Afalse%2CdeviceProximity%3AIH&fisProperties=ISF%3A1.4%23chlogo-bwdb-mytv%2C47%2C35%23chlogo-clb-guide%2C60%2C45%23chlogo-cdb-gcd%2C87%2C66%23chlogo-bwdb-player%2C120%2C91%23chlogo-bwdb-fplayer%2C120%2C91&include4K=false&is4KCompatible=false&isFtue=true' \   -H 'accept: */*' \   -H 'accept-language: en-US,en;q=0.9' \   -H 'authorization: Bearer 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.E6e8lXsQ4tN2xk8l1utAATVySoSPVh/irgAAJUmXKPQ=' \   -H 'origin: https://stream.directv.com' \   -H 'priority: u=1, i' \   -H 'referer: https://stream.directv.com/' \   -H 'sec-ch-ua: "Chromium";v="146", "Not-A.Brand";v="24", "Google Chrome";v="146"' \   -H 'sec-ch-ua-mobile: ?0' \   -H 'sec-ch-ua-platform: "Windows"' \   -H 'sec-fetch-dest: empty' \   -H 'sec-fetch-mode: cors' \   -H 'sec-fetch-site: cross-site' \   -H 'user-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/146.0.0.0 Safari/537.36'
  CUSTOM_CONFIG: "name": "DirecTV",     "author": "David B.",     "version": "3.0.0",     "description": "Reliable tuning for DirecTV. Prevent are you still there prompt from showing.",     "uuid": "3c7d5a19-6f2e-4b8a-9d3f-8e1c4b7a5f92",     "global_options": {         "wait_for_video_playback_detection": true,         "use_fixed_delay": false,         "fixed_delay_seconds": 0,         "check_for_and_clear_whos_watching_prompts": false,         "wait_after_post_playback_start_commands_seconds": 0     },     "pre_tune_commands": [         "input keyevent KEYCODE_MEDIA_STOP",         "am force-stop ||TARGET_PACKAGE_NAME||"     ],     "tune_commands": [         "am start -W -n '||TARGET_PACKAGE_NAME||'/$(cmd package resolve-activity -a android.intent.action.MAIN '||TARGET_PACKAGE_NAME||' | awk -F= '/name=/{print $2; exit}') -a android.intent.action.VIEW -d '||TARGET_URL_OR_IDENTIFIER||'"     ],     "post_playback_start_commands": [],     "post_tune_commands": [         "input keyevent KEYCODE_MEDIA_STOP",         "input keyevent KEYCODE_MEDIA_PAUSE",         "input keyevent KEYCODE_HOME",         "am force-stop ||TARGET_PACKAGE_NAME||"     ],     "timed_keep_active_commands": [         {             "run_every_minutes": 60,             "commands": [                 "input keyevent KEYCODE_MEDIA_PLAY"             ]         }     ] }
  DIRECTV_REMOVE: true
  DTV_START_CHAN: #
  DTV_CLIENT: https://deeplink.directvnow.com/tune/live/channel/

jq: error (at <stdin>:0): Cannot index string with string "uuid"
jq: parse error: Expected string key before ':' at line 1, column 7
curl: (7) Failed to connect to 10.0.0.7 port 5592 after 2043 ms: Could not connect to server

curl: (7) Failed to connect to 10.0.0.7 port 5592 after 2053 ms: Could not connect to server
POST FAILED for channel: {"m3u_id":"","provider_name":"DirecTV","number":77,"name":"MeTV","package_name":"com.att.tv","alternate_package_name":"com.att.tv.openvideo","url_or_identifier":"https://deeplink.directvnow.com/tune/live/channel/METV/83321f4e-2ac2-9dc4-a1fd-7b0a0f8c1e5f","configuration_uuid":"","tvc_guide_stationid":"122696","guide_offset_hours":"","data":null,"id":0}
Created ADBTuner - DirecTV channels

JSON response from 10.0.0.7:8089:
{"error":"failed to load m3u: Get \"http://10.0.0.7:5592/channels.m3u8?provider=DirecTV\": dial tcp 10.0.0.7:5592: connectex: No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it."}

I noticed while loading the guide in chrome there was a brief error in the background too quick to catch, but might be relevent.

bnhf · March 22, 2026, 12:56am

It looks to me like ADBTuner was not reachable from OliveTin when you ran this.

Try the ADBTuner Device Alerter Action to see if there's a similar failure.

Shaggylive · March 22, 2026, 1:30am

I was worried about these errors, once i realized it was in the custom config, I re-copy-pasted that and it worked (i had already restarted olivetin and adbtuner stacks)

bnhf · March 23, 2026, 1:53pm

A post was merged into an existing topic: ADBTuner: A "channel tuning" application for networked Google TV / Android TV devices

Kurt_Brown · April 29, 2026, 6:59pm

Sorry for the ignorance, but If I understand correctly:

The ADBTuner application pulls streams from a local AndroidTV box (Osprey being such a box, but could it be any one?)
This app automates the creation of 'channels' from the individual channel streams from your DTV plan.
From there I can create custom sources in ChannelsDVR and tune TV from that interface using DTV as my provider without TVE?

Sorry for the rudimentary questions.

bnhf · April 30, 2026, 12:15am

Capture is a more accurate word to use. You'd be using an encoder to capture the output from a streaming stick or Android-based box like the Osprey.

What's described here is using a Project One-Click Action (part of OliveTin-for-Channels), to grab the DTV channels you're subscribed to, and set up virtual channels in ADBTuner to match.

The One-Click Action will also create your CDVR Custom Channels Source, and that source will include ALL subscribed channels -- not just those that have ever been available via TVE.