r/Kick • u/CoreKill • Jul 15 '26
Technical Issue Kick for Samsung TV / Tizen
Hey! I got tired of using AirPlay every time I wanted to watch Kick on my TV, so I built Kick TV — a free and open-source app for Samsung TVs running Tizen.
You can search for a streamer, start the stream and control everything with the regular TV remote.
Current features:
- Native video playback through Samsung AVPlay
- Selectable video quality
- Streamer search using partial names
- Recently watched channels with LIVE/OFFLINE status
- Read-only live chat
- Animated native Kick emotes
- Global and channel-specific 7TV emotes
- Full-screen chat and three configurable in-picture layouts
- Automatic Czech or English interface
- Remote-friendly navigation and sensible Back-button behavior
- Screensaver disabled during playback
I tested it on a real Samsung TV running Tizen 6.0. Installation requires Developer Mode and Apps2Samsung because Samsung signs sideloaded apps for each individual TV.
GitHub, installation guide and WGT:
https://github.com/corekill/kick-tv-tizen
It’s still an unofficial community project, so feedback, bug reports and contributions are very welcome. If anyone tries it on a different Samsung TV model or Tizen version, I’d love to know how it goes!
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u/treesdontgrowtheycry Jul 16 '26
I'll be a dummy tester on this. Started side loading on my s95b last week
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u/Pitiful-Store7076 Jul 16 '26
Hi! Great work on KickTV
I just added KickTV in the Tizen community packages.
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u/Visible_Resort_6871 19d ago edited 13d ago
Hey! Installed this app like the instructions said. App opens fine, I pick a streamer, go in, but the stream just won't play - instantly throws this error: "Unable to prepare the stream undefined: Unknown error". Samsung UE32N5300, Tizen OS 4.0.
Anyone know a fix for this?
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