Pluto TV, Live Channels... quirks

by phin586

So i am curious if anyone else has encountered issues with PlutoTV integration with Live Channels.

The main one i find is that when they add or remove channels, i seem to have to delete the app and re-add, to get EPG to work again.

Today on both my nexus player and shield, I had multiple entries for each channel (3 to be exact) with just the middle one showing correct.

Easy to fix, mostly just an annoyance. Was curious if others have seen this, and if others have found better work around.

theknicker

Yeah Pluto is the only app giving me issues. Haystack, puppetmaster, all work fine. I just tried to import channels again and it says no channels loaded after the universe of content loaded toast.

Mixed signals Pluto...

theknicker

I can't even get Plutos channels imported into live channels at all. Always gives the toast that a universe of content was loaded.... but nothing. And half of the channels don't work in the app itself (on windows they all work fine). Pluto has been a rough go for me

LiquidPoint

I can see a lot of people seem not to get Live Channels integration.

I think I know why: Pluto started geo-blocking...

I used to have LC integration, then suddenly there were none. Then I tried a free SmartDNS trial, and suddenly I got loads of live channels, and the entire channel list was changed to something MUCH better than what I get on a pure local connection.

So the conclusion is that Pluto has turned into what most other ATV apps are: utter crap outside US...

Edit: when the trial ended, pluto turned crap again, so it's not a workaround to use a trial for a short while.

tb21666

You have to go into the live channels settings for channel selection & pick which of the available channels you want to show up after adding their sources.

D2st1n

I've never used Pluto, what channels are worth checking out?