LG TV app

[Allan]

FYI, you can set a HOST_IP environment variable for the server if you want it to explicitly use a specific address, rather than the detected address

Thanks sub. 

I added a HOST_IP environment variable to my launchdaemon (excerpt below) as explained by Martin, and the backend now responds with the correct IP address even if parallels or sonicwall is running.

Code:

…
    <dict>
        <key>PATH</key>
        <string>/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin</string>
        <key>HOST_IP</key>
            <string>x.x.x.x</string>
    </dict>
…

BTW, Martin, I never could get the launchdaemon to work using the NEXTPVR_DATADIR_USERDATA environment variable (as you can see above, I'm not using it). Instead, I use the UserName key, which has the effect of looking for and storing the .npvr-Data directory in my user's directory. I could not get a launchdaemon to work (only a launchagent) until I did that. Except for the little glitch we have discussed elsewhere, the backend has run rock solid with no user intervention.

[sub]

I added a HOST_IP environment variable to my launchdaemon (excerpt below) as explained by Martin, and the backend now responds with the correct IP address even if parallels or sonicwall is running.

Code:

…
    <dict>
        <key>PATH</key>
        <string>/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin</string>
        <key>HOST_IP</key>
            <string>x.x.x.x</string>
    </dict>
…

Great!

[Allan]

Will you be submitting this app to show up in the Webos store? Installing it (and regularly reinstalling it) via the developer app is never smooth sailing, and now appears to be impossible (for me anyway). Boring detail below.

Because it is installed with the LG developer app on the TV, it uninstalls itself every 999 hours (the maximum setting). Reinstalls are always challenging, but possible.

This time, I seem to have hit a brick wall. When I tried to log into the developer app on the TV, I received a spurious message that I am locked out because of 5 bad login attempts. When I tried to fix this online, the dysfunctional lgemembers.com login page claimed to have sent me an authentication code, but does not, in fact send me one. So, I am locked out

I have asked LG for help, but it would be nice to be able to do a regular install. I have the LG app, MrMC (abandoned Kodi branch for Apple TV) and your apple TV app avaiiable on our main TV. The LG app is the only one that will (mostly) work with an in progress recording.

[sub]

Will you be submitting this app to show up in the Webos store?

Maybe?

The process and amount of info I needed to submit made it sound pretty painful, which is why I haven't done it to date.

[Allan]

For what it's worth, if you have any time to spend on either the TVOS or LG app, I vote TVOS.

I feel that the TV manufacturer's own smart TV systems are dead ends. I have found the ones I owned (Samsung, LG) to be inferior to add-on boxes like appleTV or Roku, with inferior and soon abandoned apps from streaming services. The only apps I use natively on my LG TV are yours and live broadcast. Everything else is through the AppleTV.

[sub]

For what it's worth, if you have any time to spend on either the TVOS or LG app, I vote TVOS.

I feel that the TV manufacturer's own smart TV systems are dead ends. I have found the ones I owned (Samsung, LG) to be inferior to add-on boxes like appleTV or Roku, with inferior and soon abandoned apps from streaming services. The only apps I use natively on my LG TV are yours and live broadcast. Everything else is through the AppleTV.

Honestly, I hardly ever use my AppleTV these days, because I find the LG TVs "good enough", and it means I don't have to use the AppleTV remote