roboTV

roboTV is a Android TV based frontend for VDR. Now you can use your Android TV Box (or your TV running Android) to stream LiveTV channels from your VDR backend (robotv-plugin must be installed).

Screenshots

LiveTV	EPG
Schedule Recordings	Add Timer
Recommendation Channel	Browse Recordings
Movie Details	Change Artwork
Search Recordings	Edit Recording (long press on recording)

System requirements

• Android TV (minimum API Level 24 Android TV 7.0 Nougat)
• VDR 2.4
• vdr-plugin-robotv
• vdr-epgsearch (recommended)

The Xiaomi Mi Box and the NVIDIA Shield Android TV are used for development. A Sony Bravia TV (KD-43FX7596) with AndroidTV and a Chromecast with Google TV are also using RoboTV in our home.

Server Deployment

The roboTV server (VDR, plugins, configuration) can be deployed easily with the "robotv" docker image: https://github.com/pipelka/vdr-plugin-robotv

Building

1. Download Android Studio
2. Set the SDK in Android Studio (Project Structure) or "local.properties".
3. Build in Android Studio or do a ./gradlew assembleDebug on the command line

Current Features

• [x] Watching Live TV
• [x] Channel Icons
• [x] EPG
• [x] H264 Video support
• [x] MPEG2 Video support
• [x] decoding of AC3 streams
• [x] EAC3 support
• [x] MPEG Audio support
• [x] Movie Database integration for EPG
• [x] AC3 passthrough
• [x] Watch Recordings
• [x] Timeshift support
• [x] Schedule Recordings (create timers)
• [x] Edit timers
• [x] Delete recordings
• [x] Move recordings between folders
• [x] Cover Artwork browsing
• [x] Timeshift Reverse Play
• [x] Management of TV shows (Season / Episode)
• [x] Notifications about timers / recordings
• [x] H265 (UHD) Support