With Shield TV getting the update to Android TV Oreo, there’s a good opportunity for Plex to make its Live TV/DVR features a centerpiece for this platform. Unfortunately, access to LiveTV (aka “Guide”) is buried way down on the Plex app home screen. Unless there’s a plan to completely overhaul the …

It would be nice if we could favorite local OTA channels, and if plex had a “Favorite OTA Channels” android channel to add to the home screen (it would also be nice if clicking on a channel launches it opposed to resulting in a “couldn’t tune channel”, but that’s another subject) I think we probabl…

I too am not a big fan of the large separation between libraries and livetv on the app. I anxiously await the new guide. Once the grid guide gets the bugs worked out I’m sure they will have a favorites list.

[image] knepherbird: Move the Guide button up to the top to have equal billing with the media libraries This has just been released in beta

Interesting. I just applied to the Beta and have it on my phone, but haven’t been home yet (away on business) to look at my Shield. Although don’t think I want to run beta on the main TV, and not sure I want to setup a different Google account to test beta on my phone either. Many of us are still w…

[image] brigrigg: Although don’t think I want to run beta on the main TV Sounds like maybe you don’t want to be in the beta then, unless as you say, you separate your Google Accounts. This change is in the release version of the app now anyways (7.4). I can’t speak directly to the other sugg…

Yeah, I know. I might end up switching to a different account and just beta test on my phone. Unless I find the the beta releases are fairly stable (past functionality/features). Although I did have the latest version 7.3 client (just before 7.4 came out) on my Shield crash on me the other day.

Make LiveTV a first-class citizen in Android TV app

Feature Suggestions

brfootball August 22, 2018, 6:24pm 8

I agree. I actually requested this a couple months ago Additional channel for live TV in Android 8.0 TV interface . I would love it if the live tv channel auto tuned like the newsfeed channel does.

Topic		Replies	Views
[FEATURE REQUEST] Live TV Plug-in for Android TV Feature Suggestions	4	138	June 10, 2021
Features I'd love to see for Android tv app Player Betas android-tv-beta	1	215	October 23, 2018
Live TV&DVR / Live TV on Plex Combined Live TV & DVR livetv-dvr , android-tv , fire-tv , roku , livetv-streaming	78	1792	June 9, 2022
Yes! Plex is back in business baby, Favorite channels! Player Betas livetv-dvr	51	1091	May 28, 2022
Tv Guide Feature Suggestions	10	93	June 10, 2021

Make LiveTV a first-class citizen in Android TV app

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