v1.9.0: All-around improvements, Name change

[Fredolx]

Thank you for supporting Open TV. Donations of any amount are always welcome and are crucial for future updates.

I've received a lot of nice donations recently and I would like to thank everyone who donated. This update was made possible by every sponsor of this project. I've been listening closely to feedback to make this update so I hope you enjoy it!

The name of the app had to be unfortunately changed due to a trademark issue.

Changes

• Added a reload button next to the search bar
• Added an option to hide categories and channels
• Added an arrow to scroll back up
• Improved channel tile UI to show if the channel is a favorite and from which source it comes from
• Removing favorites and hiding channels will happen on next reload to avoid pagination issues
• Massively improved database performance
• Tray icon support removed for Linux due to bugs/crashes and incompatibility with DEs. It will be re-added in the future when support from the framework is more stable.
• Added a per-source limit of playing streams so you don't need to manually close open streams when switching channels
• Downloads respect the per-source limit. Starting a download will close the oldest open stream when the limit is reached. Opening a stream will also abort the oldest download
• Downloads should be more reliable now as they now use the channel's http headers, and will also use a default user agent if none is specified
• Fixed a bug where scrolling too many categories would cause an error
• Added user-agent configuration for fetching m3u links
• Renamed app to Fred TV (sorry! trademark dispute. I will try to claim this new name so it doesn't happen again)
• Updated all libs

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This discussion was created from the release v1.9.0: All-around improvements, Name change.

[magmasystems]

This is a really significant upgrade. Thanks for the work that you put into this.

[Fredolx]

Thank you, don't hesitate to give feedback :) I'm looking to implement more features and QOLs in the next version

[magmasystems]

The only thing that I would love right now is a Roku app. I have constant problems with IPTV Smarters Pro losing my favorites for LiveTV and not being able to save favorites for Movies and Series.

[ChrisPlyFwF]

Hello, small question as I'm no expert (running Ubuntu only on the tv in the living), should I put executable rights on the .deb package before installing? I used to do suda apt install open-tv.xxxx but it doesn't seem to work for the new package.

[PoenaKing]

Hi
I also have a problem wirth the .DEB package
Does not install at all - tried different methods
Thanx for your work