So, it's probably been covered in this thread, but I don't feel like scouring 22 pages...I want to stream video from a PC to my Roku. What's the best way to do this?

EDIT: So a quick google search directed me to Plex Media Server using the Plex Roku channel. All comments I read said to go with Plex.

So I'm seriously considering cutting the cord as well...my two big concerns are basically sports and local channels.

What are some solutions in those regards? Mainly worried about local teams and CFB because now that you can get Sunday Ticket ala carte I will do that. I'm thinking MLB.tv for the Royals but don't they black out local games? Not having ESPN would suck too...

Local channels would require a crazy contraption called an antenna.

You have to stream Royals games unless it's on local. Live sports makes it tough.

See I thought if I got the MLB.tv package that would take care of it but I'm hoping they have the blackout isse fixed for this season....

So I set up Plex last night...super easy. Do recommend.

Hey Fish, what were the resolvers we needed to disable to make searches faster on this. Was it Realdbrid and alldbrid?

Well that applied to a situation a long time ago, but yes it was RealDebrid and AllDebrid. You should always disable those unless you have an account with them. Which is mostly worthless.

If you're suffering from the recent issue where you click a title and it says working for 5 minutes before displaying a list of links, you can simply click cancel/back/esc after 10 seconds and try a second time and it will pop right up. There's an issue with URLResolver at the moment causing that. But they're working on it and it should be fixed soon.

thanks

I'm running into a lot of dead links in 1 channel lately. Getting annoying trying to find a link that works.

Has 1channel added 'auto play' like Genesis did? You highlight the episode you want to watch and then bring up the context menu. Selecting auto play will have xbmc automatically try each link until one works. Usually in 20 seconds, I am watching the episode. (SD only) It completely changed how much I enjoy the Genesis addon.

http://www.sling.com/

Now this is pretty interesting. Dish Network is soon going to offer a service called Sling. You can get it through an app on Roku, Amazon Fire, etc. Right now they're only taking beta testers.

For $20 a month, you'll be able to get 12 channels, including ESPN, ESPN 2, TNT, TBS, CNN, Food Network, Disney, Travel, and more. That's huge. They are going to be the first internet streaming service to include ESPN.

If that comes on a Roku channel, I would strongly consider it.

We havnt discussed Sling TV on here before?

The one think I have against it is it appears that they are limiting it to one viewing per login at a time. So those cable cutters with families are going to have a bad time.

I am officially cut.

Just gotta figure out Royals games before Spring and I'm good. We just don't watch much TV.

This is huge that it's coming to Netflix instead of cable. Hopefully more go this route.

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Has anyone tried Playon?

Is it worth a shit? Looks interesting....

I use to use Playon a lot. **** them. It was $30 lifetime subscriptions. The plugin constantly did not work and needed to be updated daily because Hulu and Netflix would do their best to disable it. Then Playon decided to move the goal posts. "Oh that lifetime sub you bought? Just kidding, we are going to monthly payments, so pay more."

By then, icefilms was starting to take off on XBMC. I will never recommend or give a dime to Playon.

Yeah, PlayOn can suck a green donkey dick.

Hey Fish (or any others with experience) - I'm about to cut the cord and go with an android system with XBMC. Any recommendations? What would you use if you could get something on the market today?

Amazon Fire TV, but lots of people love those chinese imported boxes. I dont understand why.

I did a recent writeup here: http://www.chiefsplanet.com/BB/showp...8&postcount=53

Are they rootable again? Last I herd the last batched could not be rooted.

Since I can never get the XBMChub Addon Installer to work properly (it always just shows empty directories whenever I do a search or browse through categories), I've turned to a similar addon called Total Installer. It's working great so far. UI is a little amateurish, but functionality is solid.

They no longer are, but if you are looking to use SlingTV, Netflix, Hulu, and XBMC then you do not need to root it.

Alright, so I'm deciding between Fire TV (on sale for 84 bucks right now), Nexus Player, and Minix Neo. Along with the traditional app support (Netflix, Hulu, Pandora, YouTube, Songza, etc.), equally important is access to XBMC and the ability to web surf and play videos/streaming links via a web browser, ideally Chrome.

What do you guys think?

Anyone?

i know you can install firefox on the fire tv but I have not done it. YMMV.

Another question:

What's the best addon for watching live TV streams? I've played with Phoenix and Navi-X, neither of which seem all that reliable.

Basically, the wife was wanting to watch the stupid SNL 20 thing on Sunday night (since her social media feed was blowing up about it) and bitching that we couldn't get it. I played around for 30 minutes or so trying to find it via Phoenix and Navi-X, but I eventually just gave up.

I'm just surprised, with the ease with which Sportsdevil can aggregate streams for sporting events, that there isn't something equally useful for live TV, at least for the major networks.

Why don't you have an antenna to pick up the free OTA channels in your area? SNL is on live broadcast TV free to anyone in range with an antenna.

I have a cheap in House one. It doesn't pick up shit. In checking forums, that's common in our area due to the hilly geography. Most say you have to mount one on roof to pick up anything. I am capable of doing that, but I haven't gotten around to it yet.

I will say this, the first month or two of cord cutting is a bit painful if you are used to watching tv shows live and talking on social media. A tv antenna definitely helps. After that first few months, it all starts to become like DVR; Watch when you want to.

Live sports was my biggest pain. Sling TV seems to be the solution for that. If only they could get FS1.

Genesis is a good source of popular tv shows on Kodi.

Either of those would work for what you're wanting. I'd go with the MiniX Neo, because it's the most capable and least restricted.

For free solutions, Phoenix and NaviX are about the best you'll find unfortunately.

If you're willing to pay a little, I would recommend the ustvnow plugin. I paid for their service for quite a while, and was always really happy with it. Very reliable, and great quality. They tell you it's only for use outside of the US, but that's not the case and thousands of US XBMC users have subscriptions.

https://www.ustvnow.com/

You can sign up for a free trial and test it out. Even with a free account, you can stream ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox, PBS, CW. It's $20/month for 28 channels, mostly normal cable channels. After 3 months it goes up to $30/month. But when I was paying for the service, I would simply cancel after 3 months, use a different email with the exact same credit card, and get another 3 months at $20. I did that for quite a while. I know you can share accounts as well, with no consequences.

I use Genesis/1Channel/Icefilms already. I was looking for something to stream live TV, not stuff that's already aired.

For about 90% of our viewing and combined with Sportsdevil, that's just fine. We don't really watch much live TV and never have. However, on occasion, we do want the ability. The NYE ball drop was another example where the wife wanted something live and we couldn't find it.

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First one says no channels.

Second one shows me the spanish language channels I can pick up with a set top antenna. Says I'll need an attic install for anything else. That would get me 2 of the major networks. Full roof install to pick up all of them.

I'd definitely recommend UStvnow. Great service.

I just got an email from Roku with a 7 day free trial offer. I'll be doing the trial.

Anyone have thoughts or experience with the Tablo tuner and DVR for OTA channels? I'm thinking of going that route since I have an extra hard drive for recording programs. It only requires one antenna and uses wifi to send signals to a Roku 3. I already have the Roku.

I never used it. Looks like it is a DVR with DLNA that sends it to your Roku. I have a HDHomerun that does the same thing for my local OTA. You just need to install a DVR program on a computer for a back end. Windows 7 comes standard with one.

I find this to be a much cheaper option.

And the Cable (directv actually) has been cut and i have joined the ranks of those who choose not to get completely ****ed in the ass by America's most evil corporations. Though i have nothing against Directv, it's nice to free up another bill that essentially allowed me to purchase another car.

I picked up a Fire TV Stick for the living room and just use the PC's for the bedrooms.

I got the 1 year of Prime along with my Monthly Netflx and Hulu Subs.

How do you guys handle live sports though?

I signed up and added the Roku channel last night. It's a very basic interface that is quite unresponsive (at least on Roku). You flip through the channels like you would watching normal OTA TV, with no pause or DVR capabilities. It works well enough for what it is, but I'm not sure that ESPN, ESPN2 & Disney Channel (which is all my family would watch) is worth $20/month.

EDIT: Although, for $5 more a month they have a special sports package that you can add with a couple more ESPN channels as well as the SEC Network. That will weigh into my decision.

Digital tuners and sportsdevil on xbmc.

Awesome.

How's the quality of the stream from Sportsdevil?

Varies wildly. Sometimes it's near HD. Othertimes it's awful.

I'm one of those people that doesn't really give a shit as long as I can follow the game, so I'm fine with it.

What shows do you and the wife watch on the regular?

Me? None really. GoT and Bates Motel are the only active shows i watch. I'm a documentary kinda guy, when i want to watch T.V.

The wife follows a few of them. The only one she watches that i enjoy is Empire.

Ultimately, the only thing i want T.V for is live sports. But the wife and child need something to entertain themselves with too and more often than not, both of them use internet services far more often than we used standard T.V.

The decision to cut the cord was just too obvious.

SilconDust just came out with an official add on for Kodi/XMBC. It works great with no need for another pc acting as the backend. I highly recommend getting a SD tuner and this addon for local channels or even to act as another cable box.

http://kodi.tv/addon-spotlight-hdhomerun-live-tv/

Sweet!!!

Just upgraded from xbmc to kodi and Trakt isn't working as it should. the Progress folder won't show up.

You could also use USTVnow to view national broadcasts on the big networks. It won't have local programming, but it's great for primetime programming. I've used it quite a bit lately for March Madness on CBS.

are you running trakt 3.0.0?

Well, it was the only Trakt script on SuperRepo

Just checked it. Yes it is 3.0.0

This works just fine in TVMC with Gotham but not on Kodi.

Got an upgrade, very nice compared to what I used to have [about double].

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trakt is one of those addons where it works when it wants. On my Kodi HTPC, it installed seemlessly after a reboot. On my fire tv and my Gotham HTPC it took mulitple installs/unintalls and enable/disable to get them to work.

Alright so I bought a Amazon fire tv so I can stream stuff being a person that refuses to pay for cable and all. Once I get Kodi installed on this what scripts do I need to add to it?

Like what are your guys recommendations as the best ones?

First, install the Fusion source, per instructions here: http://www.tvaddons.ag/fusion-installer-kodi/

Then install the Addon Installer from Fusion: http://www.tvaddons.ag/addon-installer-kodi/

Then launch Addon Installer, and browse to Featured Addons. That will let you install addons per a nice GUI.

I recommend these addons to start:

Genesis (definitely the best)
Primewire
Icefilms
Sportsdevil
USTVNow
YIFY
NaviX
Phoenix

That will be a good start...

And I can just do that through the interface on that fire tv right?

You do all of that within Kodi.

I can't seem to find sportsdevil..where would it be at?

Give this a try: https://seo-michael.co.uk/how-to-man...devil-on-xbmc/

Note that Sportsdevil is currently under redevelopment. That's why it isn't available through Addon Installer. It still works for the most part. And should be updated soon.

I'm dumb when it comes to this stuff. What do all of these allow me to do?

Hrm that isn't super easy since I'm doing it on a fire tv and not my pc..

The Kodi program by itself doesn't give you access to any online streaming of movies or TV or anything. For legal reasons. It's simply a glorified media player. The magic happens when you install add-ons to Kodi. Which are essentially little Python apps running within the Kodi app itself. Once installed, you launch the specific addons within the Kodi app, and that's what gives you the Netflix style GUI of movies and TV to stream from various sources.

The instructions explain how to install an app within Kodi that will then let you select which addons you want to install, along with other maintenance type stuff. There are hundreds of addons available. The ones I listed are the best ones to start with.

Just follow the instructions closely, and it will make sense...

Thanks.

So now that Fire TV has the ability to hook up an external HD.....will I be able to play movies off it straight out of the gate? Or will I need to install all of this stuff?

Get this: http://www.jocala.com/adbfire.html

It's a Windows/OS X app that allows you to communicate with your FireTV and do all sorts of things. It allows you to install FireTV Android apk files(sideloading), in addition to installing Kodi addons, and sending/retrieving files back and forth. Load that, connect it to your FireTV, then push the .zip file to the FireTV. Then you can load it as a zip per the instruction.

If you really want simple file access, use the AdbFire app to setup SFTP on the FireTV, then use something like Cyberduck or WinSCP to drag and drop files and stuff.

I can further explain if you have questions....

You can play movies directly from FireOS if you want. You'll probably have to install MX Player or VLC in FireOS. But once you have a media player, you can just directly play movies that way.

But I'd still highly recommend setting up Kodi per the instructions. Once you experience Kodi in full glory that's all you'll want to use. It will scan your movie folder, and auto download artwork/DVD covers/info for all your movies, and list it in a nice pretty Netflix style list.

Nice. We aren't cutting cable just yet....but I want to be able to show my wife that she can still watch all of the same shit (for the most part) without having DirecTV.

I have ADBFire, if I download it and push it should it be simple to find?

Yeah:

In XBMC/Kodi go to “System” “Appearance” “File lists” and check the option “Show hidden files and directories“.

Use AdbFire to push the zip file to "addons".

Note: Never unzip the zip file you plan to install, as that will break it. Keep it in .zip format. Don't use Safari to download, as Safari tries to unzip zip files automatically.

Next step in Kodi is to go to “System” “Add-ons” “Install from zip file”

Navigate to “Root filesystem” “sdcard” “Android” “data” “org.xbmc.kodi” “files” “.kodi” “addons” where (at the bottom ) you’ll find the pushed zip file.

So my path in ADBfire looks like this /files/.kodi Do i just change that to addons or put addons at the end of it? Show me what the file should look like, I'm very novice at this.

I'll reply when I'm home and can actually look at mine. I'm going by memory at work.

I figured it out, thanks for all your help, really appreciate it.

Fish, you are a good man.

Every single episode of Seinfeld coming to Hulu.

Hulu or Hulu plus?

I haven't seen, it just made headlines today. They paid $180M for the rights, though.

I hope they keep some episodes out from the pay wall. If not, there are plenty of websites that host Seinfeld without commercials.

Wow wtf. You can't use Watch ESPN if you have an internet only package through Cox.

Is there any other easy way to watch the draft in High Quality?