Request SmartSTB workaround?

[Ian]

After reading a couple of threads in this Samsung Smart TV forum I realise now that there are more options that what Samsung has too offer in their poor excuse of an App Store.

However while learning about IPTV and more so how I can better integrate it into my daily life and the lives of my friends and family to save money but have all the juice. I stumbled across the SmartSTB application (Firstly on a Toshiba device hidden inside an appstore within their appstore.) on the Samsung Smart TV.

Recently finding out this is the software which makes MAG devices so successful due too the easy use nature of the setup I was intrigued in a way which made me think that this may be a great option for family and friends of mine who have similar Smart TV functionality but lack the general know-how of driving other technology such as a FireTV which is affordable. Some key members of my famiy struggle to change the source input on their TV never mind drive a FireTV/IPTV app.

Upon further investigation I soon realised that the SmartSTB is simply an emulates version of the software found on MAG devices and that there are a tonne of different STB emulation projects across many platforms.

However the 'SmartSTB' application for SmartTV's is a paid service unlike many other platforms STB emulation software. They do offer a 7-day trial which I did try along side a 24hr IPTV Line from my Provider and it worked great, not an issue I could see with my noob-eye. However they offer a pricing plan which is a bit questionable to me as they charge in the region of £28 for a 'Lifetime' licence and have other plans which are charged monthly which seems absurd.

I wandered due to reading posts by the likes of @redhat who had been in contact with the developers of SmartIPTV and written about being able to simple install the application from USB Flash Drive - can this be done with SmartSTB?

Of course the answer is yes - if you have the package for the app to put onto the USB, but are there ways of ripping the software off the SmartTV/Appstore and if-so... are we able to edit it in a way to work arround the licencing?

Thanks for taking the time to read and if you have an input on the topic, please feel free to reapond!

Appreciated!
- Ian.

 

[d843435]

One solution for this would be a HTML5 Web browser based iptv player as most of these tv's can handle that in their native browser but I don't know of any free or self hosted options.

 

[SteInvictus]

After reading a couple of threads in this Samsung Smart TV forum I realise now that there are more options that what Samsung has too offer in their poor excuse of an App Store.

However while learning about IPTV and more so how I can better integrate it into my daily life and the lives of my friends and family to save money but have all the juice. I stumbled across the SmartSTB application (Firstly on a Toshiba device hidden inside an appstore within their appstore.) on the Samsung Smart TV.

Recently finding out this is the software which makes MAG devices so successful due too the easy use nature of the setup I was intrigued in a way which made me think that this may be a great option for family and friends of mine who have similar Smart TV functionality but lack the general know-how of driving other technology such as a FireTV which is affordable. Some key members of my famiy struggle to change the source input on their TV never mind drive a FireTV/IPTV app.

Upon further investigation I soon realised that the SmartSTB is simply an emulates version of the software found on MAG devices and that there are a tonne of different STB emulation projects across many platforms.

However the 'SmartSTB' application for SmartTV's is a paid service unlike many other platforms STB emulation software. They do offer a 7-day trial which I did try along side a 24hr IPTV Line from my Provider and it worked great, not an issue I could see with my noob-eye. However they offer a pricing plan which is a bit questionable to me as they charge in the region of £28 for a 'Lifetime' licence and have other plans which are charged monthly which seems absurd.

I wandered due to reading posts by the likes of @redhat who had been in contact with the developers of SmartIPTV and written about being able to simple install the application from USB Flash Drive - can this be done with SmartSTB?

Of course the answer is yes - if you have the package for the app to put onto the USB, but are there ways of ripping the software off the SmartTV/Appstore and if-so... are we able to edit it in a way to work arround the licencing?

Thanks for taking the time to read and if you have an input on the topic, please feel free to reapond!

Appreciated!
- Ian.

Its a really solid app for users of lesser known model of TV my personal preference for Samsung is nanomid while the lifetime licence is cheaper and a better picture quality than smart STB this is my go to for Samsung tvs from 2014 onwards! If smart STB is available on other TV models its always a good go to rather that SIPTV

 

[Pavel1990N1]

I also came across this. And yet, after searching for solutions, I found the STB TV prefix, and I don’t understand you, everything is fine with me and it works fine https://www.switchonshop.com/en/stb-for-android-tv/ I took this Switchonshop store. Connected, configured and that's it. So what guys can you try so?

 

[JackFack]

Very interesting topic! Maybe you can get the smartstb package if you root your tizen tv with sammygo? I know the newer tvs aren't rootable but with an old tizen tv you can maybe grab the package with ssh and mod it. If somebody has old tizen tv it would be great to test and see what the package looks like.

 

[Starkey]

i , and a few of my people have the smart stb app , as mentioned above it really is a solid app , im yet to have any issue with it.
another good feature of the app is that you have the option to transfer your licence to another compatible tv if you ever have to change it for whatever reason.
ive been using it for about 4 years if that helps , i think 27 dollars is a bargain price , considering the latest mag devices are around £70 , which ive seen a few fry within 2 years of use

 

[iptvayr]

You said you bought the app, you could possible create a caching proxy between your TV and the internet to get the download without root accessing the TV.

Ive not personally done his but have did something similar with reverse proxying the steam server for a LAN party.

The basics of it is that the device that is routed through the caching reverse proxy downloads the file from the internet, the caching server keeps a copy of the files on the server for a period of time to serve to other clients under the same network to save bandwidth.

you could possibly extract the file from the caching server.

after a quick search on google found this if you decide to do this to get the file.

GitHub - nexusofdoom/lancache-installer

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github.com

 

[Starkey]

if you look at it from a supplier/reseller point of view , the above COULD be very confusing for the end user especially if they are not tech savvy
but an interesting post thanks

 

[iptvayr]

if you look at it from a supplier/reseller point of view , the above COULD be very confusing for the end user especially if they are not tech savvy
but an interesting post thanks

Aplogies I could have been clearer.

This is to capture the file 1 time and use that file for installing via usb if its at all possible (I dont use smart tvs)

In addition to having the app you could then unpack it and null the app.