I recently picked up a couple of Apple TV gen 3.1, and discovered you can’t do a whole lot with them aside from cast from your phone these days. I can’t solder for shit, so jailbreaks are out of the question for me, sadly. In the process of researching all this, however, I found a GitHub that will help you hijack the Redbull TV app that comes pre-installed to run IPTV through it. Anyone know of anything good I can look into further? I’m on disability and life is expensive 😭
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If you have , or have access to, a Jellyfin server, there is a Jellyfin client called Infuse (paid app). From there, you can do pretty much whatever you want, on the seas or on high street.
I believe a Plex client is also available.
Beyond that, I’m afraid I don’t know much about AppleTVs. Sorry.
Jellyfin
Something like dispatcharr (there are many other tools available like it, tvheadend is another example)
Insert the m3u streams into it and then publish those dispatcharr m3u streams to jellyfin.
Upside: You can also configure an electronic program guide (they can be sourced from many online sources like iptv.org)You can also do m3u streams direct in Jellyfin without dispatcharr.
Yes. But the control of EPG guides and manipulation of M3U streams is not as fine-grained.
I like how I can control
1 What channels are imported
2 What the channels are called
3 Which number/order they are assigned
4 If the provider of the streams doesnt follow the IPTV XMLTV-ID I can assign it
5 Assign the channel logo
6 I can configure fallback streams
Assuming you have an iPhone, unless your main reason for using IPTV is live sports, I’d suggest Stremio with a Debrid service instead, as Debrid services typically have more VOD content available. Several Debrid services are available, but Real-Debrid (~25.54 CAD per 180 days) seems to have the largest library of cached content.
Since Stremio itself isn’t available on the Apple App Store anymore, Omni is a suitable alternative (one-time ~13.82 CAD cost). You would then install it on both your iPhone and Apple TV (configuring it on your phone, with the settings syncing to the Apple TV) and install the Streaming Catalogs add-on (for recommendations based on other streaming services) and Torrentio to fetch content from the Debrid service.
As Torrentio and free add-ons similar to it at times becomes unresponsive under high load, Debridio is a paid (~13.82 CAD per year) alternative if reliability is essential. Personally I prefer Torrentio’s results, but keep Debridio as a backup.
