Apple TV app is constantly losing M3U link, and with it favourites

by DaemonCRO

Hey all,

I've been playing with IPTV for a month now, and it works while it works, but then it just doesn't :D

I'm using subscription from iptv.shop and am running it on Apple TV. I have tried all of the apps on Apple TV, I've probably spent an additional €50 on trying all the apps. Most of them are utter rubbish and simply don't work. Some of them work but it seems they have issue with large channel count (my playlist has over 60.000 channels ... a bit too much).

All of them are horrendous & ugly, it seems the developers of those didn't even bother downloading Apple's default UI kit to design/develop their apps.

There is literally ONE app on Apple TV which actually works with my stream link – GSE SMART IPTV.

However that one drops the link/M3U/playlist after about a day or two. I give it the URL, it loads the list, it's all fine, and then some time later, it just drops everything.

Does anyone have similar experiences? What is actually causing this? Is it the link that's problematic, or the app, or Apple TV does some shenanigans with it to discourage IPTV running on Apple TV?

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Rwin01

Use iptv smarters or iplaytv

mackie1604

Go create a short link for your URL. I have iplayTV and even it loses the URL every now and then. I think it might be due to app updates.

rhoq

I recently decided to give IPTV service a try (Helix, for now). First I tried xTeVe with Plex. What an unnecessarily complicated and barely useful endeavor that was. LOL

Since ditching that on day 2, I've been playing around with several different IPTV apps for tvOS. Narrowed them down to 3: iPlayTV, GSE and Smarters. I like the layout of Smarters best, but the UI is so poorly designed that it's barely usable on Apple TV (pretty decent on iOS though). GSE works fine, but I find the UI to be a bit clunky.

I settled on iPlayTV as my main app. It's got a decent UI, but there is a bit of a learning curve. Once you get used to it, it's fairly intuitive. There are a few bugs that I hope will get worked out in future updates. Otherwise I think this app is damn near perfect.

Sudden78

Iplaytv app is the best on Apple TV.

Rivanov

I recommend iPlayTV