Android TV version 0.16
Android TV version 0.16
It has been a busy year with a lot of work on the Android TV app. After an extended beta period today is finally the day to share this work
First post on Lemmy! (Well technically second because I borked the first one haha)
Welcome! 🎉✨
And thanks for the post! People have been waiting for Android TV suppprt, right (I don't have one so ...)?
I was definitely waiting for this release! Was reading through the discussions on github a couple of weeks ago because of an annoying bug in version 0.15.12 and found out that it is supposed to be fixed in 0.16.
Tizen update imminent!
(I'm very grateful for the project tho)
If you want to help out, contribute here. Seems like coding isn't ehats really needed to get app approval so anyone willing can help out
Yes, let's go!
Does the Android TV version have any relation to what the Google Chromecast runs too?
The newer Chromecasts with "Google TV" are just Android TV with a different launcher. If you have a remote control you have Android TV.
I don't think so. This version runs on AndroidTV and FireTV boxes. I use it on my Nvidia Shield.
I think the chromecast version runs from the web player directly.
I want to figure out how to run this on a single board computer
You don't need Android TV for that. There are options, but my preference is to use the Jellyfin plugin for Kodi and run Kodi with a nice skin.
I'm assuming you mean the jellyfin server and not the Android TV client specifically.
Running the jellyfin server on an SBC is possible, I'm running it on a pi 4 right now. Personally, I'd recommend installing docker and running the service in a container. There's official docs for how to do so https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/installation/container/
That being said, Jellyfin docs recommend against running on an SBC. I too, running it on an SBC, recommend against it. It can do the "happy path" well. But if the stored media is in a format that requires the server to transcode it for the current, it cannot handle it. The time it takes to transcode is several times longer than the actual run time of the media. You will have a bad time. I'm currently looking to change/upgrade the hardware to work around this
Love to see it! Go Jelly 💙
I switched to Jellyfin from Kodi and it works really well for me. Kinda wish for more support for subtitles, though, especially for RTL languages.
Will the Amazon Appstore version for FireTV devices also get an update? It's very old now.
Other than that, a huge update, incredible work!
Many thanks
Fire TV is Android TV so yes it will also get the update! Unfortunately Amazon rejected the update like they often do so it will take a bit longer before the update is available on the Amazon Appstore.
edit: I just checked and it's live now!