[mythtv-users] Frontend for Apple TV 4 - feedback with .28

[Andrew Codrington]

On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 6:11 PM Bart Whiteley <bart.lists at whiteley.org>
wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 9:55 AM, Andrew Codrington <
> andrew.codrington at fidenti.ca> wrote:
>
>> I'm on mythtv .28 so I can contribute to testing with that version.
>> Sounds like that may matter for the Service API support.
>>
>
> Yes, please let me know how it works on .28.
>

ATV4 arrived yesterday.

First reactions:
- Agree with JYA, trading directly on the mythtv name seems a little
sketchy for a commercial app
- App was intuitive enough to set up and get connected easily
- Simple grouped listing of recordings is reasonably effective and fast to
scroll through
- OTA recordings from my HDHomeRun worked great
- HDPVR recordings from my cable box just show a white screen. I can
pause/play the white screen, but that's not much fun. Tried scrolling
around mythbackend.log to see why it was unhappy, but didn't see anything
obvious yet. Any hints on what to look for?
- At first I thought app price had gone up 3x since the start of this
thread, but then I realized its mostly CDN/US conversion...

OT reactions:
- ATV4 is a very nice little box
- HDMI-CEC is cool and works fine with what I thought was an old Sony
Bravia 720 tv. ATV4 remote turned on the TV as it woke up the ATV4, and
also controlled TV volume without any setup required.
- Bluetooth headset support!! Still need to try this...
- Channels app worked great and was showing live OTA tv from the HDHomeRun
within a couple of minutes of downloading the app

We've got an ancient tiny tube TV in the bedroom connected to analog cable.
Rogers is gradually removing channel after channel...  Soon we'll be down
to the aquarium channel only and it looks like a simple panel with HDMI-CEC
and this ATV4 will be a nice replacement and upgrade.  Wireless, one
remote, Netflix, OTA, mythtv support, and even iTunes if we get desperate.
Neat.
-- 

Andrew Codrington
Andrew.Codrington at fidenti.ca
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