[mythtv-users] Experimental Android TV "leanback" MythTV frontend

John Pilkington johnpilk222 at gmail.com
Fri Aug 30 11:29:42 UTC 2019


On 30/08/2019 12:11, James Abernathy wrote:
> 
> On 8/21/19 3:17 PM, Peter Bennett wrote:
>> I am developing a pure android application for Android TV devices 
>> called android-MythTV-Leanfront.
>>
>> It uses the android TV leanback user interface as used by other apps 
>> such as youtube, prime video, etc. to play MythTV recordings.
>>
>> It supports 4K resolution video at 50 fps and voice search, which are 
>> not working on mythfrontend for android. Also it supports surround sound.
>>
>> It does not yet support many of the important features of 
>> Mythfrontend, and some features it may never support.
>>
>> See https://github.com/bennettpeter/android-MythTV-Leanfront for more 
>> details
>>
>> Peter
> 
> I just noticed that besides using git and android studio to build the 
> app leanfront, there is a apk for it at:
> 
> https://dl.bintray.com/bennettpeter/generic/
> 
> Can I assume they are at the same level of development??
> 
> Jim A

I can't give an authoritative answer to that, but you have reported 
having a working system while several people have had difficulties with

https://dl.bintray.com/bennettpeter/generic/mythtv_leanfront/android/:leanfront-v0-14-gc5b1279_d.apk

John





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