OK, not quite sure how that works, but will look into it. Thanks.
Here’s Apple’s support article. The remote control surface will be replaced with a text field when you can paste and usually you get notifications letting you pop a keyboard too.
Thanks
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I found it much, much easier to configure these apps using their web admin pages instead, via a browser on my laptop. Entering them directly on the AppleTV is very clunky.
I realize this off topic but can you clarify what you mean by using the SSD for streaming only? I have a basically empty 250gb SSD in my MBP and store recordings on an attached usb drive. Is there something that I should change the utilize the SSD for better performance like you describe? Do I need to move a folder somewhere else?
My default DVR storage path is set to an external USB HD. Then I created a symbolic link (soft link) to my Mac mini internal 256GB SSD streaming folder path to get a better performance for multiple live streaming. All of my recordings still goes to the external USB HD.
Here’s an example of the MacOS Terminal command:
ln -s /system/volumes/data/users/user1/dvr/Streaming /volumes/data/dvr/Streaming
I’ll be honest I have a poor understanding of terminal commands but I’ll try this. So do I need to create a folder on my desktop called “streaming” before I enter this command or will it automatically be created?
- Create the Streaming folder on your desktop
- Delete the Channels DVR Streaming folder
- Run the Terminal command (make sure change to your own from/to folder path). This will create a soft link from Channels DVR Streaming path to your desktop Streaming folder path
Ok so I messed around with this before you replied. I have the link setup on my desktop when I double click it shows all of the same files that exist on my external drive. So all I need to do is delete the streaming folder on the external drive, is this correct?
Yes delete the Streaming folder on the external drive and run the terminal command to create the soft link to your desktop Streaming folder path
So I think I have this working now. So the streaming folder is strictly for TVE recordings not OTA, right? So the main benefit of using the symbolic link with the ssd is the much quicker load times, right?
The Streaming folder uses for all sources including live streaming and transcoding. In general SSD gives you better read/write performance when using with multiple live streams via m3u, web player, and remote viewing outside the house.
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Great thanks for the info and I appreciate your help.
I believe HD OTA here in the UK uses MPEG 4 / H.264
How? I haven't figured out how to create an account. I emailed them but never got a reply.
Go here: https://quadstream.tv/favorites/
And your favorites set identifier is on the AppleTV, under Settings > Apps > QuadStream.
Clunky interface, for sure. And the app feels abandoned, But once it's set up with the channel streams you want, it works well enough.
A better (more configurable and easier to set up) app is called Surveil Stream, I'd recommend that over QuadStream for this now.
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This QuadStream hack fulfills a dream I’ve had for quite a while!
I signed up for Channels and installed QuadStream on my AppleTV 4k today. I’ll admit that I’m not the most technically inclined and have been troubleshooting a bit to try and make this work. A couple issues I’m hoping you more knowledgeable folks can help me with.
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DVR IP Address: I haven’t been successful pulling the right URL into Quadstream. I’m having a hard time finding the right IP. What’s the easiest way to locate this? When I access channels from server on my PC, it shows a 12x.x.x … IP. I know my IP starts with 192.168… rookie question I know.
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Sources/Channels: I have DirecTV and only a subset of my channels are included once I added that as a source in Channels. Have others experienced this?
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YouTubeTV: I signed up for a free trial of YouTube TV to see if that would allow me to get the channels I’m looking for, but when I attempted to add that as a source, I received the error message “cable provider authentication failed and it showed a screenshot of the browser “this browser app may not be secure”. Have others run into this issue when attempting to add YouTube TV as a source?
Appreciate the assistance!
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The DVR is running on your Surface, so you'd be able to see the IP under windows network properties. It's 192.168.86.180
To add YTTV, update your DVR to prerelease using the dropdown next to Check for Update
Thanks for the quick reply! The IP / URL advice worked. I’ll try out the YouTube workaround here in a moment.
Out of curiosity, do you why only certain DirecTV channels are available to stream?
