AndroidHDMI for Channels (ah4c): A virtual channel tuner using HDMI Encoder(s) + streaming stick(s)

bnhf · March 20, 2026, 10:50pm

@rss7 Also, I was just looking at your last post in the ADBTuner thread, where you got Hulu Live working with your Google Streamer device. Now that you have a working virtual tuning setup there, your easiest path forward would be to add this TiVo device to that ADBTuner setup.

rss7 · March 20, 2026, 11:16pm

But the tivo doesn't support deeplinks at all so I figured ah4c was the only hope for the tivo?

bnhf · March 20, 2026, 11:21pm

Are you sure about that?

Are the Hulu package names the same on the TiVo and the streamer? What version of Android is the TiVo running?

rss7 · March 20, 2026, 11:30pm

I spent hours truing to get adbtuner to work with the tivo. Once I got the google Streamer it was working in 15 mins Here are my ah4c ENV variables:

bnhf · March 20, 2026, 11:44pm

Please post the env vars as shown in the Environment variables section of the Portainer-Stacks Editor. They should look like this:

TAG=latest
DOMAIN=tailxxxxx.ts.net localdomain
ADBS_PORT=5037
HOST_PORT=7654
WSCR_PORT=7655
IPADDRESS=channels0:7654
NUMBER_TUNERS=2
TUNER1_IP=192.168.1.93:5555
ENCODER1_URL=http://192.168.1.52:8090/stream0
TUNER2_IP=192.168.1.201:5555
ENCODER2_URL=http://192.168.1.52:8090/stream2
STREAMER_APP=scripts/firetv/xfinity
CHANNELSIP=utheater-pc
CHANNELSPORT=8089
ALERT_SMTP_SERVER=smtp.gmail.com:587
ALERT_AUTH_SERVER=smtp.gmail.com
ALERT_EMAIL_FROM=[Redacted]
ALERT_EMAIL_PASS=[Redacted]
ALERT_EMAIL_TO=[Redacted]
UPDATE_SCRIPTS=false
UPDATE_M3US=false
TZ=US/Central
SPEED_MODE=false
KEEP_WATCHING=4h
AUTOCROP_CHANNELS=1810 1812 1841 1842 1846 1848 1852 1862
LINKPI_HOSTNAME=linkpi-encoder
LINKPI_USERNAME=admin
LINKPI_PASSWORD=[Redacted]
USER_SCRIPT=scripts/update_hosts.sh
HOST_DIR=/data

bnhf · March 20, 2026, 11:48pm

@rss7 I'd still like the answers to these questions -- including the actual Hulu package name on the TiVo, whether it's the same as the Streamer or not...

rss7 · March 21, 2026, 2:24am

package name on the tivo Stream 4K device is: com.hulu.livingroomplus. its running android 12.

Here are the env variables from stacks. I could not open the editor to get them to appear exactly like your example, but there screenshots of what the env variables are in the stack. :

chDVRuser · March 21, 2026, 2:28am

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bnhf · March 21, 2026, 2:56am

Using the ws-scrcpy ADB shell available on port 7655, run the following command:

dumpsys package com.hulu.livingroomplus 2>/dev/null | awk '/^Activity Resolver Table:/{f=1} f&&/^[^[:space:]]/&&$0!="Activity Resolver Table:"{exit} f'

Then post the results here. We want to get an idea what schemes and non-data actions are available. It should look similar to this:

Activity Resolver Table:
  Schemes:
      https:
        d596037 com.peacocktv.peacockandroid/com.peacock.peacocktv.GoogleMainActivity filter 233a30d
          Action: "android.intent.action.VIEW"
          Category: "android.intent.category.DEFAULT"
          Category: "android.intent.category.BROWSABLE"
          Scheme: "https"
          Authority: "www.peacocktv.com": -1
          Path: "PatternMatcher{GLOB: /deeplink}"
          AutoVerify=true

  Non-Data Actions:
      android.intent.action.MAIN:
        d596037 com.peacocktv.peacockandroid/com.peacock.peacocktv.GoogleMainActivity filter be8e9a4
          Action: "android.intent.action.MAIN"
          Action: "android.intent.action.TTS_SERVICE"
          Category: "android.intent.category.LAUNCHER"
          Category: "android.intent.category.LEANBACK_LAUNCHER"
          Category: "android.intent.category.DEFAULT"
      android.intent.action.TTS_SERVICE:
        d596037 com.peacocktv.peacockandroid/com.peacock.peacocktv.GoogleMainActivity filter be8e9a4
          Action: "android.intent.action.MAIN"
          Action: "android.intent.action.TTS_SERVICE"
          Category: "android.intent.category.LAUNCHER"
          Category: "android.intent.category.LEANBACK_LAUNCHER"
          Category: "android.intent.category.DEFAULT"

rss7 · March 21, 2026, 3:19am

Activity Resolver Table:
  Schemes:
      http:
        58ffb43 com.hulu.livingroomplus/.WKFactivity filter f7672f9
          Action: "android.intent.action.VIEW"
          Category: "android.intent.category.DEFAULT"
          Category: "android.intent.category.BROWSABLE"
          Scheme: "http"
          Scheme: "https"
          Authority: "www.hulu.com": -1
          Path: "PatternMatcher{PREFIX: /}"
          AutoVerify=true
      hulu:
        58ffb43 com.hulu.livingroomplus/.WKFactivity filter 2d089f
          Action: "android.intent.action.VIEW"
          Category: "android.intent.category.DEFAULT"
          Category: "android.intent.category.BROWSABLE"
          Scheme: "hulu"
          Authority: "video": -1
          Path: "PatternMatcher{PREFIX: /}"
      https:
        58ffb43 com.hulu.livingroomplus/.WKFactivity filter f7672f9
          Action: "android.intent.action.VIEW"
          Category: "android.intent.category.DEFAULT"
          Category: "android.intent.category.BROWSABLE"
          Scheme: "http"
          Scheme: "https"
          Authority: "www.hulu.com": -1
          Path: "PatternMatcher{PREFIX: /}"
          AutoVerify=true
      android-app:
        58ffb43 com.hulu.livingroomplus/.WKFactivity filter 20d023e
          Action: "android.intent.action.VIEW"
          Category: "android.intent.category.DEFAULT"
          Category: "android.intent.category.BROWSABLE"
          Scheme: "android-app"
          Authority: "com.hulu.plus": -1
          Path: "PatternMatcher{PREFIX: /}"

  Non-Data Actions:
      android.intent.action.MAIN:
        58ffb43 com.hulu.livingroomplus/.WKFactivity filter 5ae95c0
          Action: "android.intent.action.MAIN"
          Action: "hulu.intent.action.PLAY_CONTENT"
          Category: "android.intent.category.DEFAULT"
          Category: "android.intent.category.LEANBACK_LAUNCHER"
          Category: "android.intent.category.LAUNCHER"
      hulu.intent.action.PLAY_CONTENT:
        58ffb43 com.hulu.livingroomplus/.WKFactivity filter 5ae95c0
          Action: "android.intent.action.MAIN"
          Action: "hulu.intent.action.PLAY_CONTENT"
          Category: "android.intent.category.DEFAULT"
          Category: "android.intent.category.LEANBACK_LAUNCHER"
          Category: "android.intent.category.LAUNCHER"
      android.intent.action.SEARCH:
        58ffb43 com.hulu.livingroomplus/.WKFactivity filter 5c74dec
          Action: "android.intent.action.SEARCH"

Receiver Resolver Table:
  Non-Data Actions:
      android.intent.action.BOOT_COMPLETED:
        6638fbb com.hulu.livingroomplus/.WKFrecommendationsScheduler filter 3d15cd8
          Action: "android.intent.action.BOOT_COMPLETED"
      android.intent.action.MEDIA_BUTTON:
        2245b5 com.hulu.livingroomplus/androidx.media.session.MediaButtonReceiver filter ed3044a
          Action: "android.intent.action.MEDIA_BUTTON"

and here are the Env Variables from Stack editor:

TAG=latest
CONTAINER_NAME=ah4c
HOSTNAME=ah4c
DOMAIN=localdomain
ADBS_PORT=5037
HOST_PORT=7654
SCRC_PORT=7655
IPADDRESS=192.168.10.10:7654
NUMBER_TUNERS=1
TUNER1_IP=192.168.10.219:5555
ENCODER1_URL=http://192.168.10.218/0.ts
STREAMER_APP=scripts/firetv/hulu
CHANNELSIP=192.168.10.10
LIVETV_ATTEMPTS=
CREATE_M3US=false
UPDATE_SCRIPTS=true
UPDATE_M3US=true
TZ=America/New_York
SPEED_MODE=false
KEEP_WATCHING=4h
AUTOCROP_CHANNELS=
LINKPI_HOSTNAME=
LINKPI_USERNAME=
LINKPI_PASSWORD=
USER_SCRIPT=
HOST_DIR=/volume2/docker
CDVR_M3U_NAME=hulu.m3u

bnhf · March 21, 2026, 3:40am

@rss7

From that same ADB shell try running this command:

am start -n com.hulu.livingroomplus/.WKFactivity -d https://www.hulu.com/watch/cnn-d8bcc76b-0ab5-4b4f-bf87-a707fd94e04d

Then check with VLC connected to your encoder to confirm if CNN starts playing.

If that doesn't work try:

am start -n com.hulu.livingroomplus/.WKFactivity -d hulu://www.hulu.com/watch/cnn-d8bcc76b-0ab5-4b4f-bf87-a707fd94e04d

Post errors here if neither work.

rss7 · March 21, 2026, 11:32am

First command ran without error but Tivo screen got stuck on "who's watching" screen waiting for the profile to be chosen and this came back: Starting: Intent { dat=https://www.hulu.com/... cmp=com.hulu.livingroomplus/.WKFactivity }

2nd one I tried got CNN to play! And it came back with this response: Warning: Activity not started, intent has been delivered to currently running top-most instance. Did you just prove that deeplinks works on this Tivo Stream 4K?

rss7 · March 21, 2026, 12:16pm

Just tried the tivo with ADBtuner and it works. Not sure what I did wrong on 1st attempt with it but you were right! Thanks for all of your help.