Channels for HDHomeRun! 12+
Live TV, anywhere in your home
Fancy Bits, LLC
Designed for iPad
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- Free
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Description
Watch live TV, right next to your apps. Channels lets you play, pause, and rewind local or cable TV directly on your Apple TV with your HDHomeRun TV tuner.
If you are a Channels Plus subscriber with DVR Service, search for the free app: Channels: Whole Home DVR.
Channels requires an HDHomeRun networked TV tuner to watch live TV on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch. Learn more about how this works below.
• Pause, rewind, and fast forward live TV
• Guide Data
• Full grid guide
• Full HD streaming (bandwidth permitting)
• 5.1 Surround Sound
• Closed captioning
• Full support for VoiceOver
• Channel favoriting
• Jump back to last channel
• Auto Discovery
• Browse what's on other channels while watching TV
• Manage your HDHomeRun devices from Channels
"If you’re a cord cutter, then Channels coupled with an HDHomeRun and antenna is one of the best purchases you can make." — 9to5mac
"If live television has been a missing or irritating-to-use piece for your viewing pleasure, Channels plus a networked tuner pulls it neatly into your iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad." — Macworld
Channels requires modern iOS devices and 802.11AC wireless for HD streaming. But as usual, your milage may vary.
Supported devices: All iOS devices with an A7 chip and up.
Note: Channels does not support Picture in Picture mode on the iPad or AirPlay on any device due to the video format provided by the HDHomeRun tuners. This is an iOS limitation.
-- Why Use Channels? --
Channels is the missing piece of your puzzle. If you already watch everything through streaming apps, Channels lets you finally watch sports, award shows, local news, and other live events on your same device.
• Watch live primetime TV, local news, and sports on your Apple TV.
• Netflix, Hulu, Movies, Games, AirPlay, and now live TV on the same device.
• Already using antenna for live TV? Channels lets you use one antenna to watch TV on all the devices in your home.
• Want sports on your porch? News in the kitchen? Channels lets you watch these anywhere in the home. Let your TV watching follow you around the house.
-- How Does It Work? --
An HDHomeRun is a simple TV tuner that can broadcast television over your home network. Channels streams that video directly to your device.
1. Plug an HD antenna or your cable into your HDHomeRun.
2. Plug your HDHomeRun into your router.
3. Watch live TV via the Channels app.
-- How Do You Use It? --
Here's some protips on how to get the most out of Channels.
• Pick your favorite channels by selecting your HDHomeRun device in the Settings tab and tapping on a channel.
• See quickly what’s currently on your favorite channels with the On Now tab.
• Tap on a channel to view more info about it (or just 3D Touch it).
• Live TV buffer works for ~90 mins or less depending on how much storage is available on your device.
• Skip ahead 30s by swiping right. Skip back 7s by swiping left.
• Double-tap with 2 fingers to switch to the previous channel.
• Swipe up/down on the Quick Guide to see what else is on your favorite channels. Tap it to change to that channel.
-- HDHomeRun Device Support --
All HDHomeRun devices are supported by Channels.
• HDHomeRun PRIME
• HDHomeRun EXTEND
• HDHomeRun EXPAND
• HDHomeRun CONNECT
• HDHomeRun CONNECT DUO
• HDHomeRun CONNECT QUATRO
• HDHomeRun DUAL
• HDHomeRun ORIGINAL (blue and white tuners)
Learn more about HDHomeRun tuners on silicondust.com. Simply plug a compatible tuner into your home network router and start watching Live TV with Channels today!
• DRM protected streams are *not* currently supported.
• Channels does *not* work outside of your home. It only works when connected to the same network as your HDHomeRun Device
For questions, concerns, bug reports, and feature requests, contact us on twitter @getchannels or via email support@getchannels.com. You can talk about everything Channels on our community site at: https://community.getchannels.com.
What’s New
Version 6.1.2
• NEW: iOS/tvOS 18 support
• NEW: Support for iPhones 16
• NEW: Light/Dark/Tinted icon support
• NEW: Control Actions for Search, Watch Channel, Open Section, Open - Channels
• NEW: Added pre-made App Shortcuts for common tasks and Siri voice integration
• NEW: Auto Play option of Play Next Without Prompt will play the next item cleanly without any UI showing. This works globally, per TV Show/Video Group, and for Playlists
• NEW: Channels now requires a minimum of iOS version of 16.6
• IMPROVED: Modernized Siri Shortcut actions with new titles and groupings
• FIXED: Rare crash due to malformed data from Custom Channels
• FIXED: Remotely launching Search section would not work if it was not in your Sidebar navigation
• FIXED: Playhead was not being positioned correctly for STRM files
• FIXED: Shuffling items were not forcing auto play and were using system settings
• FIXED: In Library badges were showing incorrectly in On Later list layout
• FIXED: Some On Later sections were being grouped by date when they should not have been
• FIXED: List layouts were artificially limiting the amount of content they were showing
• FIXED: Toggle Captions remote shortcut was not reliable
• FIXED: Trash button was still showing in Recent Recordings despite the setting
• FIXED: Video player was mysteriously being dismissed shortly after starting playback
Ratings and Reviews
Choppy audio fixed by ‘Experimental’
Hi there. Recently found that Channels on iOS was misbehaving quite a bit. I thought it was the HomeRunHD box needing an update, but still getting very crusty audio coming though. The strange thing is that the Apple TV version works flawlessly.
Update: In the app’s advanced settings, changed the audio driver to ‘Experimental’ - seems to have fixed the issue.
Brilliant
This review applies to the Channels app for iPad when run on an Apple Silicone Mac. Please note that it will not run on any Intel Mac. For a review of it on the iphone and iPad, refer to the iphone/iPad app store.
This app has performed faultlessly on my M1 Macbook Air, with clear picture and sound and good crisp motion, and it seems to be pretty tolerant of network dropouts - something that the HDHomeRun app is less good at. Channels is now my app of choice for viewing content from my HDHomeRun device on my Mac.
Changed the way I watch tv... and wash up
Now I can set up my phone or iPad wherever I am in the house and watch live and recorded tv, and automatically pick up where I left off between devices, I now tend to watch tv while doing other things around the house like cooking or washing up. Which means I enjoy those activities more, spend less time on the sofa and still watch more of my favourite programmes. Genius!
App Privacy
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Information
- Provider
- Fancy Bits, LLC
- Size
- 128.2 MB
- Category
- Entertainment
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 16.6 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 16.6 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 14.0.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 12+ Infrequent/Mild Realistic Violence Infrequent/Mild Alcohol, Tobacco, or Drug Use or References Infrequent/Mild Horror/Fear Themes Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence Infrequent/Mild Profanity or Crude Humour Infrequent/Mild Mature/Suggestive Themes Infrequent/Mild Medical/Treatment Information
- Copyright
- © 2020 Fancy Bits, LLC
- Price
- Free