roboTV is a Android TV based frontend for VDR. Now you can use your Android TV Box (or your TV running Android) to stream LiveTV channels from your VDR backend (robotv-plugin must be installed).

• Android TV (minimum API Level 22 Android 5.1 Lollipop)
• VDR 2.2
• vdr-plugin-robotv

The Google Nexus Player and the NVIDIA Shield Android TV are used for development.

1. Set the SDK and NDK location in Android Studio (Project Structure) or "local.properties". Please download the Android NDK 11 and set the proper path.
2. ./gradlew assembleDebug

• Watching Live TV
• Channel Icons
• EPG
• H264 Video support
• MPEG2 Video support
• decoding of AC3 streams
• MPEG Audio support
• Movie Database integration for EPG
• AC3 passthrough
• Watch Recordings
• Timeshift support
• Schedule Recordings (create timers)

• Edit timers
• Delete recordings
• Move recordings between folders
• Teletext support
• Timeshift Reverse Play
• H265 (UHD) Support (partly done)