Gavin.
ClioSport Club Member
He updated the customs build last night, thats working again for live tv at the minute, or it was when I tried last night.
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Amazon fire TV sticks
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Gavin.
ClioSport Club Member
Don't expect it to be fault free it never will be, re the jumping movies, if it was on Genesis just select another source, some are better than others.
As far as iptv stalker/iVue goes, as said, it's bunny hopping off a paid service using a MAC address as authentification, it works for a few days and then that MAC address gets blocked as thousands are using the same one, the update fixes it and then it'll last for a few days before going down again.
The latest fix, go to wizard> install>install custom build, it works as im watching Sky movies now. If you get authorisation failed go to maintenance>clear cache and try again.
There will be another update on Saturday most likely to fix the same issue
As far as iptv stalker/iVue goes, as said, it's bunny hopping off a paid service using a MAC address as authentification, it works for a few days and then that MAC address gets blocked as thousands are using the same one, the update fixes it and then it'll last for a few days before going down again.
The latest fix, go to wizard> install>install custom build, it works as im watching Sky movies now. If you get authorisation failed go to maintenance>clear cache and try again.
There will be another update on Saturday most likely to fix the same issue
Genesis is the one for everything apart from live streaming. Rarely have issues. I've yet to find a good add on for live streaming.
welshname
ClioSport Club Member
Yeah live streaming isn't something I bother with. I rarely watch movies on it all that much either, I use Netflix and Amazon Prime Video for that. I pretty much use it to watch US TV shows we have no access to over here or I'll watch something I forgot to record on my Sky HD box on it.
Gavin.
ClioSport Club Member
Have you rebooted the stick? I find mine starts stuttering after a few days. Rebooting always stops it. I have no issues really but I only use the live streaming and genesis, I rarely go in anything else.
2007 clio dynamique
I'm finding at the minute that kodi / the black box seems to work much better on a windows PC than on the firetv stick or the android boxes you can get
Gavin.
ClioSport Club Member
Unplug it haha
Jack!
ClioSport Club Member
Genesis is great for TV series.
Phoenix is best for sport, but you have to cycle through streams to find good ones sometimes. Sports Devil is useful too, not normally as high quality streams, but a good place to go if the best streams are all buffering from over-demand.
I watched the Chelsea game earlier in 720p without a single moment of buffering. Generally sport will rely on the demand for the match and the quality of the host. Lots of people are cottoning on to this watching free football online thing and it means the hosts can't handle the amount of streamers, so you get buffering. When I watched Liverpool last weekend, I had quite a lot of buffering, it was annoying - but it's free so can't complain, and often games that wouldn't be available on TV anyway.
What I can't work out with Kodi is even if you edit the advanced buffer settings in the .xml file, you still can't get live streaming to behave in a logical way - I'm happy to watch the stream a few minutes behind live if it means my buffer never runs out and I don't get any stoppages, but Kodi always seems to want to jump back to live when it gets behind, no matter what you do with the buffer settings. This is problem I never used to have when using AceStream as a separate application before Kodi came along.
Phoenix is best for sport, but you have to cycle through streams to find good ones sometimes. Sports Devil is useful too, not normally as high quality streams, but a good place to go if the best streams are all buffering from over-demand.
I watched the Chelsea game earlier in 720p without a single moment of buffering. Generally sport will rely on the demand for the match and the quality of the host. Lots of people are cottoning on to this watching free football online thing and it means the hosts can't handle the amount of streamers, so you get buffering. When I watched Liverpool last weekend, I had quite a lot of buffering, it was annoying - but it's free so can't complain, and often games that wouldn't be available on TV anyway.
What I can't work out with Kodi is even if you edit the advanced buffer settings in the .xml file, you still can't get live streaming to behave in a logical way - I'm happy to watch the stream a few minutes behind live if it means my buffer never runs out and I don't get any stoppages, but Kodi always seems to want to jump back to live when it gets behind, no matter what you do with the buffer settings. This is problem I never used to have when using AceStream as a separate application before Kodi came along.
botfch
ClioSport Club Member
Clio 182
Hold play and the middle select button for 5 secs and it will restart.
I have noticed when I use it Mums (5mb broadband) it's rubbish. But when I'm on mine which is 80ish it works perfectly.
I've had no problems with the football on blackbox, I normally stick the foreign ones on with the radio on for commentary.
shiftspark
ClioSport Club Member
R53 GR86
Do you have to download kodi again to update it? Or is there a quicker way. I use the beast.
Cheers
Kawasaki ER6N
For sports I use this site.
http://offsidestreams.com/site/
The link to get the repo is below I believe but will have to confirm.
https://superrepo.org/get-started/
Yes it is not free but gives you pretty much every major sporting event that is on including PPV. It also has movies as well as normal TV.
There is a guide that is updated weekly that gives you all the games and what stream they are on.
For £11 per month it gives me all the 3pm kick offs in the BPL and for that it is worth it's weight in gold. Yes sometimes a stream goes down but most streams are on 2-3 channels so just watch another one.
http://offsidestreams.com/site/
The link to get the repo is below I believe but will have to confirm.
https://superrepo.org/get-started/
Yes it is not free but gives you pretty much every major sporting event that is on including PPV. It also has movies as well as normal TV.
There is a guide that is updated weekly that gives you all the games and what stream they are on.
For £11 per month it gives me all the 3pm kick offs in the BPL and for that it is worth it's weight in gold. Yes sometimes a stream goes down but most streams are on 2-3 channels so just watch another one.
I really wanted a good way to watch the football/boxing but this looks far too much effort and unreliable.
Gavin.
ClioSport Club Member
The ONLY reliable way is to get Sky/BT TV, seriously.
Marc.
ClioSport Club Member
It's actually not. I'm a bit of a technophobe with stuff that's new to me, and I managed to set one up. Once I got the hang of it, it's great - the streams I've watched for football have been spot on.
I was thinking of getting a android tv box and doing this to it myself, can it be done to those easly? and is it worth it as i read you're all haveing issues with it all?
Marc.
ClioSport Club Member
My issues were with the streams, and getting used to using the stick (bear in mind I've exclusively used Sky Tv for my viewing needs up until now!). Now I've gotten my head round those, it's fine. Okay, it's not going to be as reliable, or as simple as Sky / Virgin etc, but considering it's all free, it's fantastic.
Clart
ClioSport Club Member
I love it when it works, but its frustrating when you really want to watch something and the streams stop working. Then you have to go through the process of updating and trying different blackbox builds in order to get it to work. Still can't complain for free I suppose.
I'm pretty similar in that i'm a technophobe.
What have you got and how long did it take you to set it up and get used to it?
Marc.
ClioSport Club Member
I have the FireTV Stick, and use Kodi along with TheBlackBox. I followed Gavin's instructions on this thread (the previous page IIRC) and it took 10-15 mins to set up. After about an hour of playing with it, I was 100% confident with it. Even my wife can use it now, and she usually breaks everything she touches.
BMW 330ci
Has anybody else's black box stopped working ? Now says I need to signup and pay ? How can I get it back without obviously paying ?
Gavin.
ClioSport Club Member
They updated the wizard app to 2.3 but you have to install in yourself rather than update it.
BMW 330ci
Thank you mate, panicked for a bit 
welshname
ClioSport Club Member
Anyone finding the streams on genesis to virtually all be crap this last week or is it just my internet?
