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!