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webosbrew / webos-homebrew-channel

Unofficial webOS TV homebrew store and root-related tooling
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Install apps from other regions #97

Closed gorshco closed 10 months ago

gorshco commented 2 years ago

What are my options if I want to get ahold of and/or install an "LG store app" from a different region?

joaopedrosgs commented 2 years ago

Same question here. Also, it would be nice if we could export an ipk file from the content store and then install it manually through dev-manager-desktop

andyearnshaw commented 2 years ago

I'd be interested to see if the Geforce Now app could run on my 55GX.

throwaway96 commented 10 months ago

While it is possible to get IPKs for Content Store apps, they're unlikely to be useful. They are partially encrypted and will not run unless you have the correct key installed.

An unmodified Content Store app installed with Dev Manager will probably not work. Dev Mode and Content store apps are (usually) incompatible, and apps will generally fail to launch when installed as the wrong type.

There are often valid reasons for restricting apps to certain SoCs and webOS versions. LG is pretty cavalier about maintaining compatibility across webOS versions, and SoCs from different vendors can have significant differences in their video pipelines, for example. For apps limited by region, there may be restrictions on the backend as well (e.g., based on IP geolocation).

If you still want to obtain IPKs despite being aware of these obstacles, you can watch the Luna bus for URLs while an app is being downloaded. Run this command before performing an installation in the Content Store:

ls-monitor -f com.webos.service.downloadmanager

The URL will be somewhere in the output. Download the IPK quickly, as the URL will expire.

But this isn't related to Homebrew Channel.