HDMI for Channels

[boukmandutty]

I gave an example of a batch script above.

HDMI for Channels

I found my old hdhomerun app from my windows days on teh sagetv website. Opendct would be used to execute adb.exe -s 192.168.1.215 shell am force-stop com.silicondust.view; monkey -p com.silicondust.view -c android.intent.category.LAUNCHER 1; sleep 5; input keyboard text %c%; input keyboard text 0; input keyevent KEYCODE_DEL; sleep 2; input keyevent 66; As you know %c% is the channel number sagetv would put in so if you put an actual channel number in there it should tune if you test the co…

You will see where that script was to control two devices. You can test by changing the ip addresses and also changing the adb command then saving as bmitune.bat to test. You should be able to then do “bmitune.bat 731” (or whatever number you setup) from the command prompt.

[KompilerDJ]

This thread has piqued my interest.

Dusted off an old Amazon Fire TV and was able to get adb working so I have my first tuner somewhat ready.

Also dusted off a Roku Ultra but when I try to issue a REST API command it says 404 for the keypress/home command. I was able to verify that the rest api is working as the / of the URL shows a status xml response. Did they remove the rest api abilities from the Roku Ultra?

One other question. My channels DVR is on a Mac Mini and I have access to a blackmagic HDMI capture card that I could potentially plugin. Is there a way to record from this capture card using ffmpeg?

Many thanks to everyone in this thread - this is the answer to TVE going fooey.

[turtletank]

On the Roku, did you make sure to use HTTP POST for the keypress request.

[KompilerDJ]

DOH! I did not. Thanks for that!

[boukmandutty]

Is Channels able to see your black magic card? Does it send its signal over the network?

[KompilerDJ]

No, the Black Magic is a HDMI capture card only that is hooked up via Thunderbolt. Does channels support local BM cards natively?

[boukmandutty]

Hmmm… If nextpvr is able to see it you can use that program to serve its feed to Channelsdvr as a m3u, I think. I have not tried that functionality of nextpvr just yet. The need has not yet arisen.

The other option is to petition one of the devs here to write another little nifty program that takes the feed that any capture card is able to send to VLC or something of the sort and serve that up as a m3u stream or something compatible. That way Channels can get the feed from any capture card users have lying around.

[KompilerDJ]

I'll give that a shot. Don't want to burden the devs with this as I'll purchase a HDMI encoder if I cannot get the BM working.

One other question, I have ADB launching hulu. How can I tune to a specific channel? My apologies if this was mentioned earlier - I re-read the thread but somehow glossed over it.

[boukmandutty]

HDMI for Channels

I've changed the bmitune.sh script for hulu live users. You can populate a contentid.txt file with the channelname and content_id of channel and the script will read it in when called with a http://ipaddress:7564/play/tuner/channelname #!/bin/bash content_file="contentid.txt" content_id="" # Read content_id from file if [ -f "$content_file" ]; then content_id=$(grep -w "^$1" "$content_file" | cut -d " " -f 2) fi # Check if content_id is empty if [ -z "$content_id" ]; then echo "Invalid o…

[KompilerDJ]

@jad3675

syfy syfy-07fb8004-d9af-43fe-8f7c-811cf3b7e0b0
espn espn-13978f5d-e315-41aa-97ad-040b890304bc
motortrend motortrend-b41b0d7e-58e2-4a5e-bf1b-1f4d19eab44c

Thanks for that. I am getting a does not exist error:

Starting: Intent { act=hulu.intent.action.PLAY_CONTENT cmp=com.hulu.livingroomplus/.WKFactivity (has extras) }
Error type 3
Error: Activity class {com.hulu.livingroomplus/com.hulu.livingroomplus.WKFactivity} does not exist.

Anyone ran into this one?

EDIT: the command that was run is

adb -s 10.0.250.216 shell am start -a hulu.intent.action.PLAY_CONTENT -e content_id syfy-07fb8004-d9af-43fe-8f7c-811cf3b7e0b0 -n com.hulu.livingroomplus/.WKFactivity

[boukmandutty]

This is the android box you are directing it to right? I don’t have hulu installed so one of the people running it will have to chime in here. Until they do, try the command again by putting the sequence after shell between quotes.

[turtletank]

Presume you have the Hulu app installed and working?

[KompilerDJ]

Correct. This is an Amazon Fire TV 4K.

[KompilerDJ]

Yep, watching a live channel as I type.

EDIT: I cannot get any activity class to work. Strange.

  am start -a android.intent.action.VIEW -n com.google.android.youtube.tv/com.google.android.apps.youtube.tv.activity.ShellActivity

Also does not work but clearly works for many people.

[boukmandutty]

Don’t know much about fire sticks. I can’t recall seeing anyone one above use one. Did you enable adb debugging on the device? I wonder if the custom os on it functions differently and if the device might require rooting to work like ordinary android boxes do.

Anyone with experience using this particular device?

[KompilerDJ]

@KompilerDJ

  am start -a android.intent.action.VIEW -n com.google.android.youtube.tv/com.google.android.apps.youtube.tv.activity.ShellActivity

Yep ADB is enabled and I can issue commands OK. Gonna break down and get the onn device everyone else here seems to be using. This FireTV feels like a gimped version of Android TV.

[turtletank]

FYI, Hulu Live is currently limited to 30fps on the onn 4k streamer. If you intend to use Hulu, the Chromecast with Google TV is the better option.

[KompilerDJ]

Do you mean this model? https://www.amazon.com/Google-Chromecast-Streaming-Cleaning-Version/dp/B0BNP1VGQY/ref=sr_1_3?crid=1JGT4C9N3QN7&keywords=Chromecast+with+Google+TV&qid=1685407768&sprefix=%2Caps%2C160&sr=8-3

Does a 4K model exist?

TIA!

[Fofer]

Yes: https://store.google.com/us/product/chromecast_google_tv?hl=en-US

[KompilerDJ]

Thanks! Does Channels have a wiki? Would love to see some community documentation and would be willing to help document my process!