Stb emulator app for Nvidia Shield TV and recording

by antonispgs

I have a Nvidia Shield Tv which works great with Kodi but I have been reading about set top boxes and how they offer recording capabilities on external drives, catch up etc.
I am thinking that buying a box would be an overkill. I was wondering however, what the best app would be to test stb on Nvidia. I already tried stb emu free version and it doesn't blow me away, it lacks the recordings menu and I don't believe it schedules recordings. More importantly, live recordings only get to be recorded in Shield internal storage with no option to change the default recording location to the attached USB or external drive. Am I missing something?
Any input welcome, I searched all over the place but I think I am too specific with my needs.

psychopomp2

I too have a Nvidia Shield tv box and up until recently thought it was the best thing since sliced bread for watching IPTV via Kodi. However since i bought my MAG 256 box, i find the MAG box far superior in almost every way to Kodi. I have the option of 7 day catchup on all the major channels in UK, can download almost every programme onto my USB hard disk. It can do almost everything my sky HD box can do in the UK and much, much more.

Open your eyes, Kodi is not the be all and end all...there are better options out there for serious IPTV viewing :)

micro-nerd

I would recommend this app called IPTV Pro on the Google Play store

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ru.iptvremote.android.iptv.pro&hl=en

You would need an m3u playlist link from your provider however. The app also supports EPG.

crUshed420

If the stb emu free version didn't blow you away, neither will an actual MAG 254 box I'm willing to bet. I find the stb emulator program works VERY well on the Shield, and even though I own an actual mag 254 box I find myself using the emulator on the shield more than the actual box! It loads faster, scrolls through channels faster, basically does everything faster :P

From what I can tell STB Emulator records and schedules recordings exactly the same way the physical MAG box does. I can't really offer any advice on this as I've never tried to use it on either - the service I use (iptv express) offers "pvr in the cloud" and that takes care of all my needs.

I admit using either of the shield's controllers doesn't work very well for controlling stb emu; I recommend installing the official "magic remote" app from infomir on your iphone/android-phone to see if you will actually like using the emulator; if you do, you can purchase a better remote to use with it, but at least the software app gives you access to all the buttons the "real" remote offers. FF/RW and the coloured buttons for example.