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Recipes focused on IPTV and media applications
Universal TV control with Home Assistant
The smart TV standards are very fragmented and universal TV remotes are slowly disappearing, but thanks to Home Assistant, you can build your own TV control interface. In this post, I will walk you through my setup and show a few Lovelace UI examples.
Channels DVR: The best solution to IPTV streaming
The world of streaming TV is complicated. If you are like me, you probably have a number of apps that serve anything from traditional TV channels, and video on demand to other local media. So many apps including native solutions from Google and Apple have tried to make the "TV super app", but none of them have come anywhere close this goal. That is why I was fairly skeptical when I heard positive community reviews about an independent app Channels: Whole Home DVR.
Using cloud VPS as a proxy to access blocked content
For years, I have relied on commercial VPN providers to access geo-restricted content on the internet. Commercial VPN is simple - for $3-5/month, you can pick any VPN server around the world, protect your privacy and mask your real IP address. However, I was not always satisfied with the bandwidth I was getting and wanted to experiment with other protocols besides the most prevalent OpenVPN.
Expose your old TV to HomeKit
Apple announced the addition of TV devices to HomeKit in 2019, which means if your TV is older…