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telly on nVidia Shield Plex Media Server #43

Closed shaneosullivanky closed 6 years ago

shaneosullivanky commented 6 years ago

There are a huge amount of people in the Plex world using nVidia Shields as their Plex Media Server. It’s basically a small powerful games console running Android TV and with hardware H264 and H265 chips which means it runs circles around most older but more powerful Intel Core i7 processors that don’t have hardware decoding.

Could telly be used on the nVidia Shield?

porkie02 commented 6 years ago

After a short google I came across this to get docker running on a shield, I cant vouch for it or anything but it seems possible. If you got docker running on the shield then you could use the container version of telly.

http://blog.hypriot.com/post/getting-docker-running-on-a-highend-arm-gaming-console-for-fun-and-profit/

TannerBKelly commented 6 years ago

It appears that you can just compile it to an APK https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/Mobile

penfolduk commented 6 years ago

for plex would need it to be a .bundle file so it can appear in plugins

TannerBKelly commented 6 years ago

If it's a separate app the couldn't it just run in the background. All it does is pass a channel list that's formatted correctly.

Latiron commented 6 years ago

Until nVidia opens up their code on the Shield to allow users to see and add to the plugins folder, this won't be possible. (Unless you root the Shield I guess, but no one is gonna do that as a standard).

But I agree that it could just be a standalone app like it runs in, say windows, that a user could launch before launching Plex Server. Or if it's possible, I'm not a programmer or coder or developer, create the app so that it runs as part of a startup routine before Plex Server does.

shaneosullivanky commented 6 years ago

I think the majority of people using Telly will have no problem rooting their shield to get Telly working if that’s needed.

Most people on here are pretty technical anyway so I don’t see that as a huge barrier

Latiron commented 6 years ago

You miss my point. A better, ideal solution, would be one where the end user, doesn't have to root their shield. Ideally, you would want telly to function natively either running as an app on the shield or being able to drop into the plugins folder. IMHO

hazcod commented 6 years ago

I'm closing this issue as this isn't specific to telly anymore. Open this back up if any problems arise because of telly.

shaneosullivanky commented 6 years ago

Hi Hazcod

This isn't an issue, it is a request to be able to run telly on the nVidia shield which a huge amount of people around the world use as a plex server.

If this has to be closed and it's not possible then that's ok, but I think you might have misunderstood the original request.

hazcod commented 6 years ago

Hello @shaneosullivanky , APKs aren't supported officially by Go, so I deem this out of scope. Always free to pick this up again if @tombowditch wants to.

As much as I would like to help you guys out, porting and maintaining Go code on Android isn't what it's designed to do, and will require a lot of our time.

MentulTH commented 6 years ago

@tombowditch is there any way we could beg you to do this?

tombowditch commented 6 years ago

I mean theoretically it's probably possible to run telly on an android device at the moment, it's linux.

Does nVidia shield plex server even support DVR? I don't have one myself so obviously cannot check.

MentulTH commented 6 years ago

Yes it supports it.

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I mean theoretically it's probably possible to run telly on an android device at the moment, it's linux.

Does nVidia shield plex server even support DVR? I don't have one myself so obviously cannot check.

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Latiron commented 6 years ago

DVR support for Plex on the shield has worked for some time now. I use it to record my OTA antenna channels. But I just read something the other day about the newest release from Plex during the first half of May. Apparently one of the changes is that you know have access to the plugins folder of Plex on the nVidia Shield. So that opened up a ton of possibilities for nVidia Shield owners. So, with that said, being able to run telly now and or other IPTV plugins you can run on other platforms, should be possible.

MentulTH commented 6 years ago

Sounds very promising. I know a lot of Android cord cutters would appreciate it, sir.

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DVR support for Plex on the shield has worked for some time now. I use it to record my OTA antenna channels. But I just read something the other day about the newest release from Plex during the first half of May. Apparently one of the changes is that you know have access to the plugins folder of Plex on the nVidia Shield. So that opened up a ton of possibilities for nVidia Shield owners. So, with that said, being able to run telly now and or other IPTV plugins you can run on other platforms, should be possible.

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