Best Device for IPTV + EPG + Recording

by ellmexicann

Trying to determine what the best device is for my IPtv experience - I care about performance, recording and EPG.

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Currently looking at Nitro & Beast, as they both have the M3U & XMLTV support for the EPG. My testing has been on a firestick so far, with a USB OTG cable and a thumb drive. The recording has been very beta-like so far, using the APKs that Nitro & Beast come with (Both IPTVSmarters on the back end AFAIK).

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I've been reading the Enigma2 boxes provide a very good experience but a lot of people complained that the EPG sucked/didn't exist. Is anyone out there using Beast/Nitro or something like it on an Enigma2 box that can attest that it's a good overall experience with recording and a working EPG?

yerdunclelarry

I would stay as far away from beast as possible. They have horrible support as you will in other posts. Nitro is good. I can't help you with an Enigma box what for what purpose are you recording? To just watch it when you miss? If that's the case than get a provider with a good catchup feature and you won't need to record. As for recording I use Prog TV on my android box and it does the trick. I also have a buzz tv but to be honest never utilized the recording capabilities, so I can't help you out there, but as far as I've seen Prog TV is pretty easy to use, supports M3u or Xtreme codes, and will work on any Chinese android box

manosteel9423

If EPG and recording are important, the Enigma2 route would be the best bet, but its not for the faint of heart. Requires some digging in the root of the box with a laptop through an FTP client like Filezilla. These boxes are designed for satellite TV, not IPTV, so altering them to use IPTV is not for a beginner.

That said, if you are up to it, its the best all around TV experience there is for IPTV. There are programs that allow you to edit yoru channel lists very easily and add EPG to channels that are missing it. Xtream-Editor is a paid service, but allows full editing of your playlist and they have a rather complete set of EPG for almost all UK and most US/Canada channels. What is missing...mostly US Regionals...can be added from the provider's xml (Beast is one of the few services I have come across that has an almost complete EPG for US Regionals) using a program called E-Channelizer, which is also great for creating customer groups (called bouquets in the E2 world).

Recording on an Enigma2 box is almost exactly like doing it on any old school satellite PVR. As long as you have a hard drive installed, you can record as many concurrent programs as your provider's connection limit will allow!

There are dozens of brands of Enigma2 boxes, but the best I have used for PVR function is the Zgemma H7S as it has an internal HDD slot. I have an SSD installed and use it for pausing and rewinding live TV mostly, but it records very well, even though I don't really use it for that purpose.

Peacemaker130

Formuler Z8 or a Dreamlink T2 Prime.

Tumagulam

Beast works for me most of the time. They do have alot of 60fps so quality is a step above many others.

Nitro is well rounded especially 7/24. EPG is usually a miss. That's the most frustrating part.

warrior_321

My experience of trying to record IPTV on an e2 box has been that it hardly ever works reliably & often crashes the box. The recording from card sharing channels is reliable, since it's a proper satellite signal, but of course, it's a greatly reduced channel set available for recording.

warrior_321

suls is the route for epg. Each supplier will be different wrt epg. https://www.suls.co.uk/enigma2-iptv-bouquets-with-epg/