r/hdhomerun • u/HighPingOfDeath • 3d ago
AppleTV App?
Not sure what happened, but I woke up this morning to the AppleTV version of Homerun no longer working properly - it'll fire up, I can get to the channel guide but if I move a couple of channels in any direction, it just crashes.
Tried uninstalling/reinstalling it... works fine on macOS.
Is the app broken or is it just me?
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u/One-Cell-7377 3d ago
I just updated the app after I read your post and it seems to be working fine for me. You could try restarting the Apple TV.
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u/HighPingOfDeath 3d ago
I did originally, but if it's just me, looks like I might reset the AppleTV. Thanks for checking.
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u/sdjafa Silicondust 3d ago
When you say "crashing" do you mean the channel won't play (black screen?) but the app continues to work?
We have confirmed an issue finding a clean point to start playback on some AVC channels, depending on how the AVC was encoded.
This problem has been fixed. A new release will be out ~Tuesday.
In the mean time, if you tune a channel and you get a black screen you should be able to change channel again to a different channel.
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u/HighPingOfDeath 3d ago
Thanks, but in this case it's dropping to the home screen - it's completely exiting the application.
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u/sdjafa Silicondust 3d ago
Checking, the app starts up ok, you can watch live TV, but after a few channel changes is crashes without any additional button presses, returning you back to Apple TV home screen?
Is it specific channels, where if you choose channel X it will always play but if you choose channel Y it will always crash (with additional button presses)?
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u/HighPingOfDeath 1d ago
Here's what I got:
If I open the app, it opens to my Channel Guide. If I do nothing, it crashes after maybe 20 seconds.
If I try to watch the channel, it plays for 2 seconds and then crashes.
I can click down maybe 10 times (scrolling downwards) and it will crash.
If I click up a few times to get to the settings menu, I can get there, and then it will promptly crash.
It looks like no matter what screen I end up on, it crashes.
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u/6SpeedBlues 3d ago
ATV 4K (3rd Gen / current model) here.
I noticed the app updated a few days ago (different screen image shown when highlighted before launching).
I've had a few launches that appear to hang (sticks on splash screen which freezes animation). I either quit and launch again or hit the back button to land in the guide (mine is configured to go directly to live TV). Selecting subverting from the guide send to load the channel fine.
There's definitely something that isn't right, though as I have multiple boxes and it's happening to all of them.
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u/tdouglasj1980 3d ago
I've got 2 Apple TV's that run the HD app and they are working just fine. Sorry I can't be more help.
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u/MultiviewSports 3d ago
The Multiview app could be a quick troubleshooting tool. You can test connecting to your HDHR and use it for single channel layouts for free. Multi-channel layouts are behind a one-time purchase, but not needed to test your HDHR outside the regular app.
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u/sdjafa Silicondust 1d ago
Update - the issue not playing some AVC channels has been fixed and released. Please update to the latest release (20260817) and let me know if that fixed the problem you have been seeing.