A few days ago, I turned on my TV and none of the channels was working. I initially thought it was an usual temporary issue with my provider, but after noticing that it was working fine on VLC from my laptop I kept digging. Turns out that at the moment I'm not able to stream anything from my TV (neither live channels nor VODs).

I have an LG WebOS smart TV and I use SmartIPTV but I noticed the same issue with SS IPTV.

(BTW looks like SmartIPTV disappeared from the LG store, so I'm stuck with an older version)

I started wondering: could it be that LG is blocking (streaming) traffic generated from this apps? Any way to check when was the latest TV's firmware upgrade? I noticed that uploading/deleting playlists from the apps is working fine.

Did anyone notice something similar?

More ideas/info:

• Should I give it a shot putting my TV behind a VPN?
• I tried to put the playlist's URL on the TV's browser and even though I couldn't do much, the address looks to be reachable (but again if they're blocking only specific traffic this shouldn't matter)
• Any suggestion about integrating the IPTV service in Plex? I started googling and although looks possible, there's apparently plenty of options and not sure what is supported. I would like to hear your experiences on this (Bonus: IPTV on XPlay?)
• Trying more apps? MKIPTV sounds yet another playlist based thingy, SmartSTB I'm not sure how it works.
• I just buy a box and say goodbye to the apps?

Any answer will be much appreciated... Thanks kind stranger.