roboTV

roboTV is a Android TV based frontend for VDR. Now you can use your Android TV Box (or your TV running Android) to stream LiveTV channels from your VDR backend (robotv-plugin must be installed).

Screenshots

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LiveTV |
EPG | |
Schedule Recordings |
Add Timer | |
Recommendation Channel |
Browse Recordings | |
Movie Details |
Change Artwork | |
Search Recordings |
Edit Recording (long press on recording) |

System requirements

• Android TV (minimum API Level 24 Android TV 7.0 Nougat)
• VDR 2.4
• vdr-plugin-robotv
• vdr-epgsearch (recommended)

The Xiaomi Mi Box and the NVIDIA Shield Android TV are used for development. A Sony Bravia TV (KD-43FX7596) with AndroidTV and a Chromecast with Google TV are also using RoboTV in our home.

Server Deployment

The roboTV server (VDR, plugins, configuration) can be deployed easily with the “robotv” docker image: https://github.com/pipelka/vdr-plugin-robotv

Building

1. Download Android Studio
2. Set the SDK in Android Studio (Project Structure) or “local.properties”.
3. Build in Android Studio or do a ./gradlew assembleDebug on the command line

Current Features

• Watching Live TV
• Channel Icons
• EPG
• H264 Video support
• MPEG2 Video support
• decoding of AC3 streams
• EAC3 support
• MPEG Audio support
• Movie Database integration for EPG
• AC3 passthrough
• Watch Recordings
• Timeshift support
• Schedule Recordings (create timers)
• Edit timers
• Delete recordings
• Move recordings between folders
• Cover Artwork browsing
• Timeshift Reverse Play
• Management of TV shows (Season / Episode)
• Notifications about timers / recordings
• H265 (UHD) Support