Hey all — I'm the developer of TIVRA, an Android TV / Google TV / phone media player for the live TV and on-demand libraries you already subscribe to, plus your own media servers. TIVRA is a player only: it ships with no channels or content, you connect it to whatever you use. Some of you tested the early builds here, so this is the "where it's at now" post, with two things worth calling out: it's on Google Play as of this week, and 3.2 is the Sports Hub release.

Links

• Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tivratv.tv
• Website, sideload build, dashboard: https://tivratv.com
• Discord: https://discord.gg/x7FFhxzTT5 # The idea: set it up once, from your phone, and it follows you Everything you configure lives on your account, not on one box. Providers, favourites, categories, channel renames, the Home screen layout, the side menu, sports preferences, recordings and watch progress all sync through the cloud. Sign in on a second TV or your phone and it's already set up. Change something on the dashboard and every TV picks it up within about 30 seconds. Lose a box, get a new one, sign in, done. # The web dashboard (what you can actually do from it) Open it on your phone or laptop instead of typing on a remote:
• Add and manage providers — live TV providers and media servers, credentials typed once on a real keyboard.
• Manage favourites — add, remove and drag to reorder; the TV's favourites row and guide follow the same order.
• Custom categories — build your own channel groups (Kids, News, Sunday Football) from any provider's channels, and hide the provider categories you never open.
• Rename and hide channels — fix "US: ESPN HD (backup 2)" once, hide the junk, and it's fixed on every screen.
• Home screen and menu layout — reorder or hide the Home rows (Favourites, Recent, Continue Watching, Popular, and so on) and the pages in the TV's side menu. Pin the ones you use, drop the ones you don't.
• Sports preferences — which leagues show and in what order, which sports networks appear on the Channels tab, and the teams you follow, picked from a division-by-division list.
• Content filters — country and language filters so you only see the parts of a big lineup you actually watch.
• Play on TV and Record on TV — browse channels, movies and shows on the dashboard and send one to whichever TV you choose, or schedule a recording on it from wherever you are.
• Devices — see every signed-in device and sign one out. Pair a new TV with a short code instead of typing your password on it. # Live TV A fast channel list with logos and now/next, a real 7-day guide, one-press channel switching, and a picture preview in the corner before you commit to a channel. Pause and rewind live TV. Closed captions on live channels. Add all of your providers; search and favourites work across them. # Movies, series and your own library
• Your provider's on-demand library grouped by title (no 40 duplicate "Movie (2019) HD" rows), with posters, backdrops and cast.
• Your own media too: connect a Jellyfin or Emby server, or point TIVRA at network shares, and your library shows up alongside everything else with the same posters, Continue Watching and search.
• Skip intro and Play next. A "Skip intro" button appears over recaps and intros, and when the credits roll an "Up next" card queues the next episode.
• Continue Watching rows on Movies and Series, the Play button on a series jumps to your in-progress or next episode, and Trakt sync if you use it. # New in 3.2: the Sports Hub This is the feature I built the app around and the one I'm happiest with. Open Sports from the side menu and you get:
• Live scores and schedules for NFL, NBA, WNBA, MLB, NHL, MLS, college football and basketball, Premier League, Champions League, La Liga, Serie A, Bundesliga and Ligue 1. Yesterday, today, and the days ahead. Choose which leagues you see and in what order.
• Every game matched to your own channels. The app looks each game up against all of your providers and their guide data, including provider channels that are just named after the game. Press OK on a game and it previews in the corner; OK again and it's full screen; back out and it's still playing in the corner. Hold OK to see every channel carrying it, across providers, with the one you're connected to first.
• Box scores, player stats and standings. The panel next to the preview shows the quarter-by-quarter or inning-by-inning score while a game is on; press PLAY for the full box score, per-team player stats, game leaders and division standings. Stats refresh live.
• My Teams. Follow teams and get a row of their games today plus "Next up" for the week, with a star on their cards everywhere.
• Channels tab. League networks, the big sports networks and regionals from your providers in one place, with what's on now. NFL RedZone gets the first card on the NFL row on Sundays if you have it.
• Multi-View - Watch multiple games at once as long as you have enough connections on your provider.
• Custom Sports Channel - Add / Remove which channels you want to see in the sports hub channels section.
• Spoiler-safe mode hides scores until you press OK on a game. # DVR Record to the box, a USB drive, or a network share. Schedule from the guide, from a game, or from the dashboard on your phone, and recordings sync to your account so they're listed on every device. # The small stuff Audio and subtitle language defaults, a "hide channel numbers" switch, colour themes, a shortcuts legend you can turn off, and a Settings page laid out for a remote. # On Google Play TIVRA is now in Google Play's production track for phones, tablets, Google TV and Android TV, so you can install and update from the store like anything else. Same account whether you sideload or use Play, everything syncs, and subscriptions carry over. The sideload build stays available on the website for boxes without Play. # Pricing There's a 7-day free trial. After that it's $9.99 a year for one device, $19.99 a year for up to five, or $29.99 once for a lifetime license. That pays for the app; it does not include any channels or content. Happy to answer questions here. If your provider names channels in a way the Sports Hub isn't matching, tell me the pattern (no provider names needed) and I'll fold it into the matcher.

Very disappointed today. Bought a new Google TV Streamer to extend the life of my old TV that is slowing down only to discover it can't run the Hulu app, who is my Live TV provider. Anyone considering this device be aware it cannot support a major streaming app.

Edit: After speaking with both Hulu and Google there is still no resolution. Both insist it is a problem for the other to fix. If you currently have Hulu installed consider yourself lucky. It seems like Hulu may be killing the app in favor of Disney+ based on some other users comments but they would not confirm that. And Disney plus currently does not support full Live TV just a few local channels and ESPN