Integration of Plex as a source for Android TV "Live Channels" app

Plex should integrate with Android TV “Live Channels” app as a source for both Live TV, movie playlists, genres, and favorites. This is currently supported by Android TV for Live TV sources (HD-Homerun app) and non-live TV sources (Google Play movies).

This idea has been discussed in the thread here: forums.plex.tv/discussion/213164/plex-live-channels-plugin-for-android-tv

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This would be an AMAZING feature add.

+1 yes please

+1 ! would be great!

+1 on this one

+1 Please add

+1 on this from me

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I have personally started to work on the Android TIF (TV Input Framework) for plex to see how far I could get (porting functions from cumulus and tvheadend live channels plugins) and this should not be too difficult with the right token requests to the tv.plex.providers.epg.onconnect-*.db on the PMS server. At any rate if Plex does not implement this plugin I will dedicate some time to get this completed soon for everyone with Android TV’s

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+1 - Please give Android TVs this much needed feature

+1 Please add this feature. I found this feature request after performing a Google search trying to figure out how to do just this.

I’m still working on this and if any developers have any pointers please pm me or find me on GitHub :slight_smile:

Ive started a development thread in the 3rdparty development area of the Plex forums. Making minimal progress at this point. Going to take some time for a final add-on… Like I said if we could get more heads involved be much faster. I’ll try and recruit some devs on my own…

Just an update I am getting very close to having a Plex Live Channels plugin that will allow users to schedule recordings and watch live TV through the live channels app. I will post some screen shots later today.

You are AWESOME, sir. Thank you for your diligence on this one.

Would love to have this feature as well. Currently using a paid service, TVirl as a work-around… There are plenty of devices that would benefit from this… Sony Bravia, Philips, Google/Android TV, Firesticks, etc etc

can this be enabled pls