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.
Awesome suggestion! Only issue is… The gen 3 doesn’t have any app store or way (that I know of) of downloading anything new to the device. It’s kinda gotta go through some hacky method like hijacking existing apps on the system :/
Edit: unless you’re referring to something like the other guy that mentioned jellyfin is talking about? (Sorry, I just woke up, I’m kinda stupid rn lol)
Sorry, I had thought that all apple products had an app store of some kind. It would seem that the 3rd gen doesn’t though. Sorry. Does it have a web browser? Might be able to use Jellyfin’s web interface.
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)Okay, awesome! I’ll look into this further! Thanks!
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
Awesome! Thank you for this! I only have a basic understanding of how IPTV even works, so the explanation even on its own is useful AF and gives me some avenues
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.
I don’t have an iPhone, or any other Apple devices aside from the two TV boxes, unfortunately. This house is a purely Linux/Android house lol That said, I definitely appreciate all this info, and may go digging for an android alternative, so this gives me an idea of what direction I can go in!
In that case, I recommend getting the Onn 4K Pro for 75 CAD and following the guide I wrote here. Same process with Stremio, except that it works better on Android, and you can also easily use YouTube ad-free with SmartTube.
There’s cheaper Android devices out there, included cheaper versions of the Onn (Onn FHD for 39 CAD and Onn 4K for 53 CAD), though if possible, I recommend getting the 4K Plus for its higher specs if you decide to go this route.
Okay awesome! Thank you again! One last question… Is the setup you linked possible to do from an Android phone, for at least a little while? It’ll take a few months before I can pick up the Onn device, and brain demands this now, knowing there’s a way forward lol
