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Dispatcharr TV 0.3.0-nightly-20261030
Automatic build of main at e995a08. It installs beside Dispatcharr TV as a separate app, "Dispatcharr TV Nightly", with its own launcher tile and its own sign-in — your regular Dispatcharr TV install is untouched.
This build has not been tested on a television. It passed the same automated checks a release does — the ARM cross-build, the packaging gates, and the firmware loader compatibility check — but nobody has watched it play. Keep the stable app installed.
Changes since 0.3.0-nightly-20261026
- luna-sub: a subscriber that already exited is not an error on macOS (#59)
Compare 0.3.0-nightly-20261026...0.3.0-nightly-20261030 · Latest stable release
Reporting problems
Open an issue and include the version string 0.3.0-nightly-20261030. If error reporting is enabled, reports from this build go to the project's development tracker, kept apart from reports the stable app sends.
Installing
With Homebrew Channel: under Settings, choose Add repository and enter https://andrewmagness.github.io/webos-dispatcharr/nightly/repo.json, then install "Dispatcharr TV Nightly" from the list. Later nightlies appear there as updates. The guide has the details.
By hand: download dispatcharrtv-v0.3.0-nightly-20261030.ipk below and install it with dev-manager-desktop — no rooted television is needed. A package installed this way does not update itself; the newest nightly is always linked from latest.json.
2593fa54c88821256f5c9a595d50efb64df97ee7abd9557623376fb4179607e6 dispatcharrtv-v0.3.0-nightly-20261030.ipk
This package bundles FFmpeg under LGPL-2.1-or-later; the complete corresponding source is attached below. Nightly builds are deleted after 30 days.
v0.2.0 — the guide keeps your channel playing
Pressing BACK while you watch no longer stops the channel: it keeps playing in a corner of the guide while you look at what else is on.
What's new
- The channel keeps playing in the guide's corner. BACK while watching opens the guide with the channel still playing, with sound, in its top-right corner and the guide's cursor on that channel. OK on it goes back to full screen without re-tuning; OK on any other programme changes to that channel; BACK on the guide stops it. STOP still leaves the channel outright.
Fixed
- An HTTPS server whose certificate an older television does not recognise. If your Dispatcharr server is behind a reverse proxy with a current Let's Encrypt certificate and your television's own certificate store is too old to know its issuer, the app now checks the certificate against the Let's Encrypt roots it carries, still verifying the chain, dates and name, instead of failing to connect.
- Addresses without a port number. A channel logo, or a redirect from your server, whose address names no port was dialled on the wrong port; it now uses the standard one (80 for http, 443 for https).
Compatibility
- Plays video, verified by watching it — a 2021 LG set. An LG OLED C1 (OLED65C1PUB) on webOS 6.5.3 is the development set: the guide's corner picture and the rest of this release were watched there against a real Dispatcharr server.
- Played video in v0.1.0, verified by watching it — a 2018 LG set. An LG OLED B8 (OLED55B8PUA) on webOS 4.4.3 played live TV with v0.1.0. This release has not been run on it, and webOS 4 places the corner picture through a different part of the television's software than the C1 does.
- Starts, and nothing further is known — every other firmware from webOS 3.4.0 up. The loader resolves this binary's libraries and symbols against all eleven firmware images webosbrew has at 3.4.0 or newer. That grades startup and says nothing about whether video plays; the matrix is in the technical audit.
- Does not start — webOS 2 and older. Symbols the app needs are missing there, so the process is killed before anything appears.
If your set is in the middle two groups, tell us what happened. It working is as useful a report as it failing.
Known issues
- MPEG-2 video channels do not play. The television's buffer-feed pipeline does not accept MPEG-2 video; the app says so and suggests setting an H.264 stream profile for that channel in Dispatcharr. Unchanged from v0.1.0.
- Some televisions cannot decode DTS audio. The development C1 refuses a DTS stream, as many 2020-and-later LG sets do; such a channel needs an AC-3 or AAC audio profile in Dispatcharr. Unchanged from v0.1.0.
- Long viewing sessions use more memory over time. Memory grew by about 7.5 MB an hour during a two-hour session on the development set; the cause has not been measured yet, and this release does not change it.
Help test this release
If you have an LG set on webOS 4 or 5, press BACK while watching a channel. The guide's corner picture has only been watched on webOS 6; tell us whether the picture lands in the top-right corner, keeps its sound, and goes back to full screen with OK. Open an issue with your model and webOS version. It working is as useful a report as it failing.
Installing
Download com.magness.dispatcharrtv_0.2.0_arm.ipk and install it with the Homebrew Channel or dev-manager-desktop. You do not need a rooted TV.
Nothing in this distribution chain is signed, so this sha256 is what tells you the file you have is the file published here:
bc8be27eb8b6463bf1f7040ed2769a9643358dc3de36730e9bcb349d13df61ed com.magness.dispatcharrtv_0.2.0_arm.ipk
Installing and checking a download covers the other assets, how to check the hash on each platform, and the Developer Mode expiry that uninstalls your apps. This package bundles FFmpeg under LGPL-2.1-or-later and its complete corresponding source is attached to this release. Exactly what was built, verified and shipped is in the technical audit for v0.2.0.
What's Changed
- Leftovers 2: Plex server-identity machinery out of the transport; roots fallback for any HTTPS server by @andrewmagness in #53
- Guide picture-in-picture: BACK off a channel keeps it playing in the Guide's corner by @andrewmagness in #57
- Release note and audit for v0.2.0: the Guide's corner picture by @andrewmagness in #58
Full Changelog: v0.1.0...v0.2.0
Contributors
Assets 9
Dispatcharr TV 0.2.0-rc.1
Release candidate 0.2.0-rc.1 of Dispatcharr TV 0.2.0, built from ca05023. If nothing turns up, the same source ships as 0.2.0.
It installs as Dispatcharr TV itself, not as a separate app. It replaces the regular Dispatcharr TV on your television, the same way an update does; Dispatcharr TV Nightly and other separate installs are left alone. It is not offered in the Homebrew Channel, and because it carries the package version 0.2.0, the Channel will not offer the final 0.2.0 as an update over it either: reinstall the final release by hand once it is out.
Changes since v0.1.0
- release: 0.2.0
- Release note and audit for v0.2.0: the Guide's corner picture (#58)
- Guide picture-in-picture: BACK off a channel keeps it playing in the Guide's corner (#57)
- Plex server-identity machinery out of the transport; roots fallback for any HTTPS server (#53)
Reporting problems
Open an issue and include the version string 0.2.0-rc.1. If error reporting is enabled, reports from this build are filed under dispatcharrtv@0.2.0-rc.1, apart from any release.
Installing
Download dispatcharrtv-v0.2.0-rc.1.ipk below and install it with dev-manager-desktop.
3b87a6b5bb19ed5eb56cb585363fae15adaed9d833d151d1eaeb06e4ef02763a dispatcharrtv-v0.2.0-rc.1.ipk
This package bundles FFmpeg under LGPL-2.1-or-later; the complete corresponding source is attached below.
Dispatcharr TV 0.3.0-nightly-20261026
Automatic build of main at 733c5a3. It installs beside Dispatcharr TV as a separate app, "Dispatcharr TV Nightly", with its own launcher tile and its own sign-in — your regular Dispatcharr TV install is untouched.
This build has not been tested on a television. It passed the same automated checks a release does — the ARM cross-build, the packaging gates, and the firmware loader compatibility check — but nobody has watched it play. Keep the stable app installed.
Changes since 0.2.0-nightly-20261025
- release: 0.2.0
- Release note and audit for v0.2.0: the Guide's corner picture (#58)
Compare 0.2.0-nightly-20261025...0.3.0-nightly-20261026 · Latest stable release
Reporting problems
Open an issue and include the version string 0.3.0-nightly-20261026. If error reporting is enabled, reports from this build go to the project's development tracker, kept apart from reports the stable app sends.
Installing
With Homebrew Channel: under Settings, choose Add repository and enter https://andrewmagness.github.io/webos-dispatcharr/nightly/repo.json, then install "Dispatcharr TV Nightly" from the list. Later nightlies appear there as updates. The guide has the details.
By hand: download dispatcharrtv-v0.3.0-nightly-20261026.ipk below and install it with dev-manager-desktop — no rooted television is needed. A package installed this way does not update itself; the newest nightly is always linked from latest.json.
58a31bc19fb0d2e2bc9f52c717c4933e8846200d9b82d45931f450d3e1836ba3 dispatcharrtv-v0.3.0-nightly-20261026.ipk
This package bundles FFmpeg under LGPL-2.1-or-later; the complete corresponding source is attached below. Nightly builds are deleted after 30 days.
v0.1.0 — first release: live TV from your Dispatcharr server
The first release of Dispatcharr TV, a native live-TV app for LG webOS televisions that plays the channels of your own Dispatcharr server on the television's hardware video decoder.
What's new
- Setup finds your server. It looks for a Dispatcharr server on your home network and offers what it finds; you can also type the address. You sign in once with your Dispatcharr username and password; the password is not stored.
- A programme guide. Every channel your server carries, with its logo and what is on now and next, grouped the way your server groups them, and a favourites list of your own. OK on a channel tunes it.
- Live TV on the hardware decoder. H.264 and HEVC video, with AAC, AC-3, E-AC-3, DTS and MP2/MP3 audio, played by the television itself rather than in software.
- Channel changing the way a remote does it. CH▲/CH▼, number entry, a now/next banner with what is on next, UP/DOWN to look through the other channels in the banner without leaving the one playing (OK changes to it), and hold-OK to go back to the channel you were watching before.
- It picks up where you left off. The app starts on the last channel you watched (switch it off on the Server page), and coming back from another app tunes the channel again.
- It recovers on its own. A stream that drops or freezes is tuned again automatically, and a busy server is retried. If a channel cannot play, the screen says why and offers Try again.
- Nothing is sent to us. The app talks only to your Dispatcharr server. It has no crash reporting and no analytics; see the privacy policy.
Compatibility
- Plays video, verified by watching it — 2021 and 2018 LG sets. An LG OLED C1 (OLED65C1PUB) on webOS 6.5.3 is the development set: every feature in this release was watched there against a real Dispatcharr server, including channel changes, a dropped stream reconnecting and an app switch. An LG OLED B8 (OLED55B8PUA) on webOS 4.4.3 was installed by the owner, who reported that Setup found the server and the guide and live playback work well.
- Starts, and nothing further is known — every other firmware from webOS 3.4.0 up. The loader resolves this binary's libraries and symbols against all eleven firmware images webosbrew has at 3.4.0 or newer. That grades startup and says nothing about whether video plays; the matrix is in the technical audit.
- Does not start — webOS 2 and older. Symbols the app needs are missing there, so the process is killed before anything appears.
If your set is in the middle group, tell us what happened. It working is as useful a report as it failing.
Known issues
- MPEG-2 video channels do not play. The television's buffer-feed pipeline does not accept MPEG-2 video; the app says so and suggests setting an H.264 stream profile for that channel in Dispatcharr.
- Some televisions cannot decode DTS audio. The development C1 refuses a DTS stream, as many 2020-and-later LG sets do; such a channel needs an AC-3 or AAC audio profile in Dispatcharr.
- Rarely, a channel does not start its picture on the first try. Once in six launches during release testing the picture did not appear after tuning; it did not recur. Changing channel and back tunes it afresh.
- Long viewing sessions use more memory over time. Memory grew by about 7.5 MB an hour during a two-hour session on the development set; the cause has not been measured yet.
Help test this release
If you have an LG set on webOS 5, 7, 8, 9, 10 or 11, try tuning a few channels. Nobody has watched video on those generations with this app. Open an issue with your model and webOS version. It working is as useful a report as it failing.
Installing
Download com.magness.dispatcharrtv_0.1.0_arm.ipk and install it with the Homebrew Channel or dev-manager-desktop. You do not need a rooted TV.
Nothing in this distribution chain is signed, so this sha256 is what tells you the file you have is the file published here:
4b5977ce24db4454ae64865e66b91674cf4f3f27a3bb9906b798a2de323b2116 com.magness.dispatcharrtv_0.1.0_arm.ipk
Installing and checking a download covers the other assets, how to check the hash on each platform, and the Developer Mode expiry that uninstalls your apps. This package bundles FFmpeg under LGPL-2.1-or-later and its complete corresponding source is attached to this release. Exactly what was built, verified and shipped is in the technical audit for v0.1.0.
What's Changed
- M1–M3: Dispatcharr client, Setup screen and the Guide by @andrewmagness in #1
- README: the project's goal and status by @andrewmagness in #2
- M3: channel logos in the guide by @andrewmagness in #3
- Guide: Account and Try again answer OK by @andrewmagness in #4
- Outbound guard: the Dispatcharr test server file is private by @andrewmagness in #5
- M2: live MPEG-TS plays through the buffer-feed engine by @andrewmagness in #6
- Guide: OK on a programme tunes its channel by @andrewmagness in #7
- M4: live player controls, recall and favourites by @andrewmagness in #8
- M4: start on the last channel (with a switch), and the splash's teal ground by @andrewmagness in #9
- M5: live resilience and codec correction; owner's TV feedback (CH keys, recall, up next) by @andrewmagness in #10
- Setup finds the server on the network; live failures offer Try again; Dispatcharr TV branding by @andrewmagness in #11
- M5 codecs: MP2 audio plays; an MPEG-2 video channel says how to fix it by @andrewmagness in #12
- Guide: a channel-group switch beside Favourites by @andrewmagness in #13
- Version 0.1.0 (not yet published) by @andrewmagness in #14
- Live: a frozen channel reconnects; channel-change time is logged (soak findings) by @andrewmagness in #15
- Policy documents speak for Dispatcharr TV (SECURITY.md and the rest) by @andrewmagness in #16
- Remove the Plex client's pages, sign-in, session crate and tooling by @andrewmagness in #17
- Rename PlxNative to Dispatcharr TV everywhere but the README's attribution by @andrewmagness in #18
- tests: the Guide's root-BACK test no longer races the Guide's load by @andrewmagness in #19
- The player is live-only: its on-demand transport and panels are gone by @andrewmagness in #20
- Live: log where an open's time goes (http, first byte, probe) by @andrewmagness in #21
- Remove the trailer preview engine by @andrewmagness in #22
- Live-only app switch; Plex flights, claim holds and Original trials removed by @andrewmagness in #23
- README: tested televisions by @andrewmagness in #24
- Remove the Plex adaptive-bitrate and HLS playback engine by @andrewmagness in #25
- Live: a connection that fails mid-read reconnects the channel by @andrewmagness in #26
- CI and cloud sessions check out shallow again: nothing needs history by @andrewmagness in #27
- Version: trunk heads for 0.1.0 (manifests at 0.0.0 until it ships) by @andrewmagness in #29
- Remove the Plex play resolve, timeline reporting and subtitle routing by @andrewmagness in #28
- Remove the Plex library data stores by @andrewmagness in #30
- make install: end the appinstalld subscription instead of hanging on it by @andrewmagness in #31
- The on-device harness is the clip harness: the Plex tiers, FPS scenes and their tools go by @andrewmagness in #32
- Account: a file a dev-mode reboot widened is narrowed back to 0600 on read by @andrewmagness in #33
- Makefile: the Dispatcharr crate is an input of the TV library by @andrewmagness in #34
- Guide: "now" follows the server's clock when the television's is wrong by @andrewmagne...
Contributors
Assets 9
Dispatcharr TV 0.1.0-rc.1
Release candidate 0.1.0-rc.1 of Dispatcharr TV 0.1.0, built from 6b412d5. If nothing turns up, the same source ships as 0.1.0.
It installs as Dispatcharr TV itself, not as a separate app. It replaces the regular Dispatcharr TV on your television, the same way an update does; Dispatcharr TV Nightly and other separate installs are left alone. It is not offered in the Homebrew Channel, and because it carries the package version 0.1.0, the Channel will not offer the final 0.1.0 as an update over it either: reinstall the final release by hand once it is out.
Changes
First release.
Reporting problems
Open an issue and include the version string 0.1.0-rc.1. If error reporting is enabled, reports from this build are filed under dispatcharrtv@0.1.0-rc.1, apart from any release.
Installing
Download dispatcharrtv-v0.1.0-rc.1.ipk below and install it with dev-manager-desktop.
8e76bc4c5f6c703cda1d40fa875ebe28f90ae2b165069008b2c3246ff29d7751 dispatcharrtv-v0.1.0-rc.1.ipk
This package bundles FFmpeg under LGPL-2.1-or-later; the complete corresponding source is attached below.
Dispatcharr TV 0.2.0-nightly-20261025
Automatic build of main at 2d49827. It installs beside Dispatcharr TV as a separate app, "Dispatcharr TV Nightly", with its own launcher tile and its own sign-in — your regular Dispatcharr TV install is untouched.
This build has not been tested on a television. It passed the same automated checks a release does — the ARM cross-build, the packaging gates, and the firmware loader compatibility check — but nobody has watched it play. Keep the stable app installed.
Changes
First nightly.
Reporting problems
Open an issue and include the version string 0.2.0-nightly-20261025. If error reporting is enabled, reports from this build go to the project's development tracker, kept apart from reports the stable app sends.
Installing
With Homebrew Channel: under Settings, choose Add repository and enter https://andrewmagness.github.io/webos-dispatcharr/nightly/repo.json, then install "Dispatcharr TV Nightly" from the list. Later nightlies appear there as updates. The guide has the details.
By hand: download dispatcharrtv-v0.2.0-nightly-20261025.ipk below and install it with dev-manager-desktop — no rooted television is needed. A package installed this way does not update itself; the newest nightly is always linked from latest.json.
fc3dc90481739f582a61df6303ec07e734f84ad00931620094f50cb5fc958f69 dispatcharrtv-v0.2.0-nightly-20261025.ipk
This package bundles FFmpeg under LGPL-2.1-or-later; the complete corresponding source is attached below. Nightly builds are deleted after 30 days.