QuasiTV

 QuasiTV 2.5.0 (2024-11-26): Added option to import channels using direct ip:port of quasitv instance instead of relying on multicast Updated media3 exoplayer to 1.5.0 Updated web admin flutter version and dependencies Here are the changes in the exoplayer update: https://developer.android.com/jetpack/androidx/releases/media3#1.5.0 I get a lot of requests from people for the apk of QuasiTV so they can sideload it on their tablet or phone so I decided to make on available here .  Keep in mind sideloading the apk is not supported by myself so please do not email about issues when doing so.  QuasiTV was not designed for non TV user interfaces and no official support for touchscreens.  Use at your own risk.

I went through and updated all the dependencies QuasiTV uses.  The 2 important updates would be the google play billing library (google now requires all updates to be using billing 7.0.0 or newer), and updating exoplayer to 1.4.0. Here is a blog from google about the 1.4.0 update:  https://medium.com/google-exoplayer/media3-1-4-0-whats-new-ba1c9c17ee1a Full release notes posted here:  https://github.com/androidx/media/blob/release/RELEASENOTES.md QuasiTV 2.4.0 (2024-08-06): Updated appcompat to 1.7.0 Updated exoplayer to 1.4.0 Updated billing library to 7.0.0 Updated fragment library to 1.8.2 Updated ktx core to 1.13.1 Updated lifecycle lib to 2.8.4 Update is now live on google play and amazon app store

 2.3.0 adds the ability to customize the controls on your remote, allowing you to rebind: Up, Down, Left, Right, Center, Play, Pause, Play/Pause, Channel Up and Channel Down.  These options are under Settings -> Controls QuasiTV 2.3.0 (2024-04-11): Added ability to customize controls Added option to turn off showing player controls after changing channels Added keyboard binding for next/previous channel (W/S) Updated exoplayer to media3 1.3.0 Updated other dependencies Shuffle show/movie order should be a bit more evenly distributed in what shows/movies are selected Fixed issue with web admin search bar not enabling when there are movies but no tv shows Fixed profile placeholder image not showing correctly sometimes Previous 2.2.x Changelogs: 2.2.1 (2024-02-17): Fixed side menu navigation on older devices when some items are hidden Improved importing channels from other QuasiTV clients on more complex local network setups 2.2.3 (2024-02-28): Improved syncing error handling ...

 All of QuasiTV's dependencies have been updated including a fairly large update to exoplayer, which moved it from the deprecated standalone exoplayer project (2.19.1) , into the exoplayer included in the official Android Jetpack Media3 library (1.2.1) . Also included is the ability to force a sync with your plex/emby/jellyfin server instead of waiting for it to happen naturally (every 2 hours or so).  The option is present in the in app settings and also in the web ui settings. Finally there is an improved way to search for content to add to your channels.  The web ui search now has a "Bulk Search" option that lets you enter multiple shows, one on each line.  The search results will then show all matches for each show.  This makes it easy to add multiple shows to a channel at the same time. Update has been uploaded to both google play and amazon and are just waiting for approval. QuasiTV 2.2.0 (2024-02-10): Updated playback engine to exoplayer from androidx med...

QuasiTV now supports custom channels based off playlists or collections.  QuasiTV Premium and Pro users will now be able to use the web admin UI to add these channels (not available in app editor).  When adding a new channel, you will prompted to choose from the list of playlists / collections, and then prompted to name the channel.   Playlist channels can be either played in order, or completely shuffled.  Collection channels have the same options as other custom channels (shuffle show / movie order and shuffle episodes). QuasiTV 2.1.0 (2023-10-02): -Added collection / playlist channels (requires premium/pro upgrade) -Improved shuffling episodes to prevent showing the same episodes as often -Fixed renaming channel by pressing the keyboard "done" button in the in-app editor -Remove channel list in app now lists channels alphabetically -Only retry playback on error if the episode was started within the last 20 seconds -Fixed add show/movie icon in channel editor ...

2.0.1 will be rolling out over the next few days with some fixes.   One fix was quite interesting.  When playing back media, QuasiTV has to construct a URL with info on what media to play AND information about the device it is running on.  Turns out AT&T made a TV device, so when playing on this device.. it would construct a URL with "X-Plex-Device=AT&T TV" in it.  The & is actually a reserved character in urls to indicate multiple parameters, so this was causing the server to fail to parse the url and would error out.  QuasiTV now just strips out & in device / model names before creating the url and playback works again. Enjoy! QuasiTV 2.0.1 (2023-05-22): Fixed episode restarting after a google assistant or alexa prompt Fixed issue where media wouldn't play on devices with ampersands in the device or model name