super-soft opening of Thumper, a new web-based player

by thumpertv

Tonight I'm opening, in very limited capacity (50 slots), a web-player that's been in the works for the past several months called Thumper. You can sign up at www.thumpertv.com .

The goal of Thumper is to make setting up IPTV as painless as possible while keeping the usual look that you're accustomed to on a traditional STB. There are no hardware specific requirements. The only requirement is a web browser and keyboard.

Thumper currently only supports HLS streams, but if you supply it with a MPEG-TS source it will change the extension and attempt to load a HLS version. Usually sources follow the same URL scheme so you might get lucky and have it work for you.

In the future I plan on making tutorials on how to use the auto-login functionality in combination with auto-launching a browser in kiosk mode to the login link. This will allow you to run an IPTV box with nothing more than a regular operating system. I've extensively tested this with chrome and kubuntu and it works great.

Please send any suggestions for features or bugs/issues to our subreddit at r/thumpertv.

Keep in mind that we are only a media player, we are NOT a streaming service.

localwash

Seems like a great way to harvest usernames and passwords. Has your code been audited?

12_nick_12

I would love if you could release the code so we can self host this.

dreamer_cast

Thanks for the work, will check it out

moving2ksa

I haven't gotten around using it yet, want to know what about the username and password in the URL ? Since it's http wouldn't it be visible ?

henbone11

Seems ok, but guide navigation is wonky via keyboard. The yellow only highlights channels with no data and there's no moving forward or backward in time. Video plays well though. F11 to maximize, a button to maximize the video would be nice. Tried it in the latest Chrome browser on Win10 BTW.

reaperofpower

Link is broken, you don't have the www cname setup your domain :(

1ForceSvc

after i click the activation link it says site cannot be reached.

moving2ksa

So this to watch streams via a browser rather than any app ?

dreamer_cast

Giving me a EPG file size size limit error

Layover1

Would like to try

PlexPC

Cool idea. Signed up and will try it out this weekend!

Edit: In the meantime can we get some screenshots of it in action? Not at a computer right now but curious how the interface looks and functions.

maze2

Does it support 2k plus channels? Some iptv do has that much channels.

thumpertv

Just increased the limit from 25 to 50.

maze2

How to change to hls? My m3u link is output=ts

Mick_Stup

EPG: file size exceeds limit (31MB) also does it work with xtream-editor links?

mogleyd1

Would love to try if can allow more... Site not loading

eviltizzy

I can't get FluxusTV to work?

Afc1014

Scam

robca451

Wow brilliant idea hopefully in the future iptv providers will have the chance to get it for their service I have been trying to find a good guide for web browser that i would enjoy using but some iptv services that provide one i dont really like now this comes at top of them has the best one i found looking forward to seeing what will come of this in the future.