Live Channels

The Infamous

2 years ago

The TV Guide constantly switches from today's guide to 3 weeks ahead randomly, it's annoying.

Wayne Jones

1 year ago

I tried the live Channel app on my Google Chromecast with Google TV 4K and I find the user interface is terrible! Amazon does it better on the Amazon Fire stick

Kenneth Opatrny

2 years ago

When I scroll down, the guide keeps jumping jumping ahead to a future time & eventually days out... extremely annoying with many channels to go through!!

A Google user

6 years ago

I like it. It has a great guide and it's easy to search for channels. I wish local channels where available through the internet without a Hd tuner. This is a good solid app.

Othman Abdul Karim (‫高富文 عثمان عبد الكريم‬‎)

1 year ago

Use it with Tvheadend as DVR. I can record direct of the EPG that is well displayed. The UI is intuitive & easy to use. Supports East Asian languages flawlessly. Had this app since Nvidia Shield TV came out.

Michael Lile (Shilar)

2 years ago

The reason for the problems showing up is Google recently depreciated this software. I still have it and it runs (even the DVR function for Live TV), but it's being replaced with a horrible "Live tab" which does not allow for DVR or OTA. If you want to have DVR functions, or use cord-cutting OTA, work it with Kodi.

Chris Olonzo

2 years ago

It's a shame that Google decides to sunset truly decent apps like this one. There was so much potential here. I guess I'll have to wait to see if TiVo gets their UI more polished and do what they were known for in the past.

Tom Hardy

2 years ago

This is a very good app works well with the HDHomerun. It has a nice channel guide that is extracted from OTA channel data. In addition it works with ATSC 3.0-including audio. On the downside it does not support recording.

PreciousK

1 year ago

NOT WORKING on Tivo 4K streamer ANDROID TV, it would not bring in anything but pluto. i can watch pluto without this app. would not install plex or any of the 6 live tv apps besides pluto i have. i remember using this before perhaps shield or another device before and it pulled in other live tv apps but it is not working in the Tivo android tv running Andrid TV, i uninstalled reinstalled app same thing. it recognizes peacock but does not pull in anything. it recognizes a video player lol, useless. Not sure if an update did this or it never worked. great concept if worked on tivo- android tv.

Jake Wagland

2 years ago

I installed this app on my Chromecast with Google TV only to find out that it doesn't appear in the apps list for some stupid reason and I can only access it via third party apps. How ridiculous.

rmg accer

9 months ago

Worked fine on my android box, Add channel editor, sort, delete, favorite functions and full features for sat and TP management and scanning like available even in 10 USD boxes. Such a big company no budget for developing their app further, left in the middle orphan ha ha ha...!

A Google user

6 years ago

Version 1.21 had been working ok, until a week ago two major channels, on virtual 4 and 5 (actually, 48 and 39) changed their carriers. One of them is now on UHF 28 instead of 48. The tuner seems to find the new channels when scanning, and in the right place, but they do not appear in the guide after multiple re-scans and a full restart. Because of this, my Channel Master Stream+ no longer gets 4 and 5. Somehow, without any action on my part, my Tivo Roamio OTA (which uses a proprietary system instead of Live Channels) automatically updated itself and gets the channels fine. Hopefully, Google or Channel Master will fix this soon. Previously I was complaining that my Pluto channels were not integrated into the Guide. I struggled with that over a month ago, and no matter what I did, it didn't work. That seems to have been fixed, I'm not sure when. (10 minutes later) It's working now. I noticed an icon "add new channels" appeared on the home page. I clicked on that and it did another scan. It still didn't find virtual 4 and 5. So then I went back and did yet another scan. This time it got 62 channels (the very first time it had been 72) but now, 4 and 5 work.

mister Geque

1 year ago

Worked well initially. After properly configuring all of my media sources, i was able to intergrate live locals (usb tuner) iptv channels and ppv movies and shows within this app. i was able to dvr all of the above and save locally on an external hd. as of 2/7/24 the app is working for now. the uncertaincy makes the low rating.

WonderGamer

1 year ago

This used to be one of the better collaboration apps on Shield TV devices, however Google has since discontinued it through their "updates". You can still use it on devices where it was a System App however, simply "Uninstall updates" & make sure you never update the app again (this means you will have to turn off auto-updates). This allowed me access to my HDHomeRun tuner again, as well as programing from 1 or 2 other installed free streaming apps (depending on Shield model, the older Pro still more functional than the newer "tube" model). UPDATE: Recent system updates to Shield TV devices since the publication of this review have broken guide information in the app, I would assume intentionally. You can still access programming from TV tuners and a few other free apps, however you are now doing so blindly, because you can't see what's on those channels (only the channel numbers are still visible).

Ima Unknown

1 week ago

Installed on Walmart's ONN 4K Plus for an older RCA TV and it works just fine. Provides nearly all the same content and edit features as Samsung Plus. No adds or trackers like in most Playstore apps. Absolutely no complaints.

Gabubu

1 year ago

It's a nice app but since it's been deprecated, it's useless. The app lags, it has bugs and, considering using this app on Android 11, it's somehow "cutting" the menus and the image, the EPG is not working and other issues that needs to be fixed in order to work properly on the latest Android/Google TV version. So overall, I don't recommend it, even if it's a nice app which gives almost everything.

Richard Wrede

2 years ago

well since you no longer support this app and the 14 day guide is no longer available, there's really no [point of leaving feedback, other than the recent updates were bad in that when you record (DVR) a show it puts black bars on the sides... not all channels, only the SD channels, it adds black bars to the already-there black bars and it makes it squish-vision...