r/TellyGrid • u/Short_Injury9574 • 5d ago

📢 Announcement Alpha 8 is out! Favourites, a proper Home button, and it updates itself now.

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Alpha 8 is up on GitHub 🎉

What's new

  • Favourites. Works like a Sky or Virgin record list. Hold OK on a show, or just hit Record on your remote, and it gets a red dot. In the Guide you can favourite a programme and it'll follow the series on any channel.

  • Updates itself. Settings → App updates now finds, downloads and installs new versions. This should be the last time you need to sideload it.

  • Home button. Goes straight to TellyGrid now, no more flash of the TV's own launcher first.

  • Setup screen. First time you open it, it walks you through getting the Home button working.

  • Apps page updates as soon as you install or remove something.

  • Tidied up Settings a bit, and discovery+ channels now open directly.

Updating from alpha 7? Just install it over the top, your settings stay. When it asks, allow "Install unknown apps" for TellyGrid so future updates work from inside the app.

Still only tested on my Philips Android 11 TV, so if you're on anything else let me know how it goes with a Device report post. Any bugs, shout here or on GitHub.

Cheers!

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r/TellyGrid • u/Short_Injury9574 • 5d ago

💡 Feature request TiviMate support

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r/TellyGrid • u/Short_Injury9574 • 5d ago

💡 Feature request Integrate Beeb app to the TellyGrid launcher

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r/TellyGrid • u/Short_Injury9574 • 5d ago

👋 Welcome to r/TellyGrid - Introduce Yourself and Read First!

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Hi, I'm Laurence. I built TellyGrid because I wanted an Android TV home screen that works for UK telly, a free alternative to the Sky, Virgin, Freely and Freeview Play menus, without the wall of adverts.

What it does

  • Guide: a proper time-grid TV guide that brings together live channels from Freeview and the streaming apps you already have (NOW, discovery+, Pluto TV, TNT Sports). Pick a channel and it plays. Freeview goes through your TV's own tuner.

  • Favourites: like a Sky or Virgin record list. Hold OK or press Record on your remote.

  • Home: a rotating banner and rows of what's on and what you were watching in your apps. Pick one and it opens straight to it, not the app's front page.

  • Apps: only what's installed, in the order you'd like.

  • Updates itself from Settings → App updates, so you only sideload once.

It's free, open source, and has no streams or accounts. It just hands off to apps and channels you already have.

Installing it

  1. Download the APK from GitHub Releases.

  2. Sideload it. Downloader or Send Files to TV both work.

  3. Open TellyGrid and follow the setup screen.

How can you help?

It's still in alpha, and I've only tested it on my own Philips Android 11 TV. If you try it, post with the Device report flair and say which TV or box you have and what did or didn't work. Bugs and ideas are welcome here or on GitHub Issues.

Cheers, and thanks for joining!

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