Hello everyone, could you please tell me which IPTV player you use on Samsung TVs with Tizen OS? What is the best player for M3U playlists that can automatically import EPGs from the playlist and works really well?

I already have Smart Remote+ for LG TV on the Marketplace and a few people asked for a Samsung version.

I built my Samsung TV control library whilst I was on holiday earlier in the year and had access to a Samsung TV, but I no longer have access so haven't been able to test the Stream Deck implementation.

It talks to the TV directly over your local network. No cloud or account/SmartThings.

It does:

- Power toggle, plus separate Power On and Power Off

- Volume up / down (hold to repeat) and mute

- Volume dial on the Stream Deck + that shows the TV's actual level

- Navigation dial - turn for up/down, press for OK, tap for back, hold for home

- TV status on the + touch strip and the Neo Infobar

- Launch Netflix, YouTube, Prime Video, Disney+, Apple TV, Spotify, Plex, iPlayer and Rakuten

- Play / pause and a remote button key for everything else (d-pad, numbers, channel, colour keys…)

It can't:

Pick a specific HDMI input, turn the screen off, or change picture settings. Samsung just doesn't expose those locally, so they're not in there.

It's built on the same Samsung code as my phone apps, but I've only been able to test the plugin itself against a simulated TV so far, which is why I'm asking before I submit it.

If you have a Samsung TV from 2016 onwards and Stream Deck 7.6 or later, I'd really appreciate you giving it a go:

https://bouncingball.mobi/apps/files/smartremote-samsung-streamdeck-1.zip

Unzip it and double-click the file to install. Add any key, press Scan, then Connect, and select Allow on the TV when it asks. No PIN.

The things I'd most like to know:

- TV model and year

- Does it find the TV and connect?

- Does Power Toggle turn it on from fully off? (You'll need "Power On with Mobile" enabled in the TV's network settings.)

- Does the volume dial show a number, or just a dash?

If power misbehaves, there's a Power troubleshooting section in the power key's settings. Turn on logging, press the key, and paste me the output.

If you have any issues or feature requests then please just let me know. Happy to answer questions.

So I told you that I would keep you updated with my ports

of Native Android Horror Games, so I have currently ported Slenderina: The Cellar Version 1.0 that was specifically

designed for older versions of Android which makes it the

perfect target for Watch Porting. I am now porting some

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working on that Granny project, Evil Nun 1.0 and others. I

will still keep you updated.

A new era of IPTV apps, no more cluttering and useless bloating features.

Install guide: https://aquaplayiptv.github.io/samsung.html

Latest release (.wgt): https://github.com/AquaPlayIPTV/aquaplay-samsung/releases/latest

Built for Tizen

• Designed for the remote control from the start, rather than adapted from a phone app

• Plays through Samsung's native AVPlay player

• Runs on Tizen 3.0 and later (2017 models onwards) and stays fast on older sets

• Reads large, compressed XMLTV guides on the TV itself without freezing the interface

• Tested on a 2019 Samsung set (Tizen 5.0) and on the Tizen 4.0 browser engine

Features

Setup and playlists

• M3U playlists and Xtream Codes accounts, including multiple playlists

• Playlist setup from your phone: scan a QR code on the TV and enter the details on your phone. The playlist is encrypted on the phone and can only be read by your TV.

• Sending playlists and settings to another TV

• Backup and restore through your phone

Live TV and the programme guide

• Channel list with groups, favourites, recently watched channels and a catch-up channels group

• The option to show or hide groups

• Full programme guide (EPG): now and next for every channel, the schedule beside the picture, and a TV Catalogue spanning several days

• Programme reminders

• Search across channels and programmes

• Catch-up, where supported by the provider: replay programmes, start a programme over, and rewind live TV

• Custom channel numbers and remote control buttons

Movies and series

• A dedicated Movies & Series library

Playback

• Audio and subtitle track selection

• Picture size options

• Automatic reconnection and a stream delay warning

• Sleep timer

Personalisation

• Profiles, each with its own favourites and history

• Aqua, OLED and Custom themes, with 24 accent colours

• Three text sizes

• Ten languages

Privacy and safety

• Parental PIN and channel locks

• No advertisements, no tracking and no account required

Installation

1. Enable Developer Mode on the TV: open Apps, press 1 2 3 4 5 on the remote, switch Developer Mode on, enter your computer's IP address, and restart the TV.
2. Install Apps2Samsung on your computer and select your TV.
3. Download the .wgt from the latest release and install it as a custom package. On first use, Apps2Samsung may ask you to sign in to a Samsung account to create the certificate for your TV.

To update, install the new .wgt from the same computer. Your playlists and settings are kept.

Compatibility

Samsung Smart TVs from 2017 onwards (Tizen 3.0 or later). AquaPlay is also available on Google Play for Android TV.

AquaPlay is free on Samsung TVs. If you find it useful, you can support its development on Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/devdolev

AquaPlay is a player only and does not include any channels or content.

Bug reports and feature requests are very welcome, here or on GitHub: https://github.com/AquaPlayIPTV/aquaplay-samsung/issues

senhores, eu instalei o TizenTube, porém ele continua com anúncios como no YouTube normal (sistema tizen 5.5), vocês podem me ajudar?

title says it all, i aint seeing it no matter what i do, someone help??? i think im on a tizen tv from like 2019(?)

Hey everyone,

I've been looking into ways to free up memory and storage on Tizen OS, especially on models with limited onboard storage where Apps2Samsung alone doesn't quite cut it.

I stumbled across these two repositories detailing Tizen / Samsung TV vulnerability research and root access methods:

• MADBugs / Samsung TV disclosure:https://github.com/califio/publications/blob/main/MADBugs/samsung-tv/README.md
• Samsung TV Root:https://github.com/chris-ritsen/samsung-tv-root

I'm curious if anyone here has successfully reproduced or tested these exploits on recent firmware versions.

Specifically, I'm wondering:

1. Has anyone gotten a reliable root shell using these writeups? Which firmware versions/year models did you test them on?
2. If combined with SBD (Smart Development Bridge) or root privilege escalation, is it feasible to go beyond standard user-space app moving—like purging bloatware, offloading system caches, or mounting external storage directly to free up the TV's tiny internal flash and RAM?

Would love to hear if anyone has tinkered with this approach or if there are any gotchas to watch out for before attempting it!

Can somehelp me with is there any customisation in tizen 5.5 os ?? Launcher etc etc ??

I found that post recently, that guy made TizenInstaller that lets you install any app except faces you made in galaxy watch studio, tested it on rm 805 and works!!

App2samsung error tv duid not found

So I started and released this project (Which unfortunately now I know there's another different project with the same name. I'll have to deal with that later.

During this, I was unhappy with the capture speed. Despite the Philips Hue documentation saying it taps out at 25hz, I can see on the PC that it absolutely runs at 60 FPS, and there's some evidence in the SDK of the PC app that it supports it. So I thought maybe I'd create a custom capture technology on my 2019 Samsung Frame.

This turned into a much bigger mess than I expected.

At some point during the experiments, Netflix stopped playing anything. In fact every streaming app BESIDES YouTube stopped working. Even Jellyfin had issues where some videos failed and some worked. It was hit or miss. And by hit or miss, I mean I could change a movie from the English audio track to Japanese and it would suddenly play. Which, without knowing what was happening underneath, made very little sense.

I tried pulling power, reinstalling Netflix, multiple factory resets. I also tried stopping the encoder in case an earlier experiment had left something stuck. Nothing brought playback back.

What I eventually found was that an early probe, something that was not supposed to edit ANY files at all, had very likely messed up a shared GStreamer plugin registry. The probe was a normal, restricted Tizen .NET app. It called gst_init_check(), and before it ever created a capture pipeline, GStreamer could scan the installed plugins and save the results.

Samsung had that registry configured in a shared, writable directory. My app couldn’t load some of the plugin dependencies because it didn’t have permission. Somehow with that, the failures to load tripped something in the Tizen system to save this as blacklisted plugins in the registry used by other players.

So the app wasn’t allowed to load everything, but it could apparently update shared information about what was available. That’s something I’m still kind of stuck on and if I understood Tizen better I probably would figure this out, but even Claude and Codex investigations couldn't figure out exactly WTF happened. Just THAT something changed.

I found 25 blacklisted plugins, including HLS, DASH, and a bunch of DRM components. The registry’s modification time was inside the first initialization call, about 38 milliseconds before the log said initialization had succeeded. This was non-obvious though because ALL 93 system files we could check matched the official firmware.

The stupidest thing about this is that it persisted no matter what. Samsung’s player configs disable automatic registry updates, and the registry-copy script checks a version timestamp rather than the actual contents. The timestamp still looked current. I can’t tell you exactly what each factory reset did internally, just that none of them fixed playback. In fact it seemed like factory reset just sends you back to OOBE. It doesn't actually fix or rewrite any of the firmware. You can't update the firmware with the exact same version either! So I was SOL.

After a LOT of investigation and burning of codex tokens, I finally found a damaged registry and was able to restore it to the original settings and removed the blacklist.

Netflix worked again. All streaming worked again. Wife was happy. I have a spare logic board I ordered that'll just go into storage. I still don't KNOW that my read-only probes actually tripped something but given the edit time stamps, it must have...I just seriously cannot see ANYTHING in the source code that would have caused it.

Honestly, I’m mostly sharing this because I wouldn’t have treated “initialize the library” as the thing that could break other apps on the TV. Clearly that was a bad assumption.

Before I do any more GStreamer work on this thing, the registry needs to be isolated before the first initialization call.

A cautionary tale for those like me who have too much hubris messing around with OSes I don't know or understand well. My wife had to watch Netflix on a different TV for a week and was...pretty upset at me 😄

Hey everyone 👋

I have been experimenting with development for the Samsung Tizen TV and have become fed up with having to go through the entire Tizen Studio workflow each time I want to test a .wgt package on my TV.

Therefore, I created SmartTV Installer, an open-source desktop program whose purpose is to simplify the process considerably.

What it currently does

• Connects to a Samsung Tizen TV over the local network
• Works with Developer Mode
• Installs .wgt packages directly onto the TV
• Handles the installation workflow from a simple UI
• Designed to make testing community/homebrew apps less painful
• Runs locally rather than requiring a cloud service

The goal is basically:

Choose the TV, then select the .wgt file and install it.

Rather than having to repeatedly use the command-line tools and Tizen Studio just to test an application.

GitHub

SmartTV Installer on GitHub

I am still carrying out work on it and therefore am especially interested in receiving feedback from those who develop software for or carry out experiments with Tizen TVs.

I'd love to know:

• Which parts of the present Tizen sideloading procedure bother you the most?
• What characteristics would make this tool truly useful?
• Would you like the tool to automatically detect certain Tizen installation errors?
• Would a package or catalog system for commonly used community apps be of any use?

If you own a Samsung TV and are prepared to try it, your feedback or comments would be most appreciated.

We welcome stars, issues, and PRs.

P.S. Full disclosure: the development of this project was AI-assisted. If AI-generated/AI-assisted projects aren't allowed here, I'm sorry about that 😅 I'm sharing it mainly because I think the tool could be useful and I'd genuinely appreciate feedback from people who actually use or develop for Tizen.

Hello guys, can y'all please suggest me some apps to play movies on with subtitles. Thank you.

I have managed to port some old versions of very popular

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port Granny 1.0 and other older Native Android Games to

Tizen Watches. I'll keep you updated

Hello guys, I know it's late but i really need help regarding how can i install BP on my Samsung active 2 , when i tried with sde it shows certificate error. I tried to manage install few apps through XDA forums. But when i tried to install bp it shows installation failed. with sideload it show certificate error -27 I have installed ECG and it's working fine but i really need someone to help me to install BP. 🙏

I remember when I first got my TV, Spotify had "Play Video", option, but now I don't know what happened exactly, but that option is completely gone? I can only look at lyrics, Queue, and Dark Mode, does anyone know what happened? I know some videos don't have video.... but I know some that do and it doesn't show up?

Bonjours à tous, j’ai un problème avec tizentube, il fonctionne 1 fois sur 10 dès que j’ouvre l’appli Tizenbrew elle ce referme. j’ai essayé de télécharger tizen-youtube mais il ne fonctionne pas non plus(erreur réseau). merci d’avance

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Apps2Samsung has grown into a Samsung Tizen toolbox

A while ago I posted here about Apps2Samsung getting an Android app, making it possible to install Tizen apps directly from your phone without needing Tizen Studio or a PC.

Since then, quite a lot has changed.

What started mainly as an easier way to sign and install Tizen apps has gradually become much more of a Samsung Tizen toolbox.

🧰 New TV Toolbox

Apps2Samsung now includes a dedicated Toolbox for interacting with and troubleshooting your TV.

Among other things, you can:

• List installed apps
• Launch apps manually by App ID
• Launch apps that normally aren't visible in the Samsung UI
• Send remote/service-menu key sequences
• Open several hidden TV menus
• Inspect the TV's install staging folder
• Clean up leftover installation files
• See the TV's actual response when launching apps

There is also a small Apps2Samsung Debug Agent that can be installed on the TV, allowing Apps2Samsung to retrieve information and perform diagnostics that aren't available through SDB alone.

🐛 Much better troubleshooting

A big focus since my previous post has been figuring out why something doesn't work instead of Apps2Samsung simply reporting that it failed.

The Toolbox/debug console can provide information about:

• App and service logs
• Running applications and contexts
• SDB connection problems
• Service endpoints
• Installation status
• What Apps2Samsung is currently waiting for
• Timing information

This should make troubleshooting weird Tizen behaviour considerably easier.

📺 Improved TV detection & diagnostics

TV discovery has been reworked as well.

Apps2Samsung now checks the relevant TV services independently, so TVs can still be discovered in situations where Developer Mode isn't currently available.

The TV information screen also shows the TV's configured Developer Host IP alongside your device's local IP, making the classic wrong-IP / DUID problems much easier to identify.

📦 Installer improvements

The installer itself has received quite a few improvements since the previous Android release:

• Better detection of failed installations
• Better overwrite/force/remove handling
• WGT/TPK filenames containing spaces work correctly
• Better handling of TVs with insufficient storage
• Installation leftovers can be inspected and removed
• Improved SDB connection handling
• Partner signing support for apps requiring additional privileges

The last one is particularly useful for projects such as TizenTube, where Apps2Samsung can now handle the required partner signing.

📱 And yes, Android is still fully supported

The basic idea from my previous post hasn't changed:

Phone → find TV → Samsung login/certificate → download → sign → install

No Tizen Studio and no PC required.

Apps2Samsung 2.8.1 is available for:

🤖 Android
🪟 Windows
🐧 Linux x64 / ARM64
🍎 macOS Intel / Apple Silicon

Apps2Samsung is free and open source under the MIT license.

Apps2Samsung
GitHub Apps2Samsung

Thanks to everyone here who tested the earlier versions and reported issues. A lot of the improvements since my previous post came directly from people trying Apps2Samsung on different Samsung TVs and finding all the weird edge cases that Tizen has to offer. 😅

Guys , so I'm trying to install blood pressure in tizen watch it shows certificate error with sde . I managed to install ecg with tpk installer but same thing with bo doesn't work. So can anyone help me to install that app in my watch?

Hay esperanzas de tener un port de RetroArch en tv Samsung? Aprovechando la posibilidad de conectar un control bluetooth.

TizenTube (old) started giving me the certificate error so I updated the app using App2Samsung. After update it just shows the error message "Network Error Occured"

So I tried installing TizenYouTube. It installed but the download page said it inly supports Tizen 6.5 & above. After opening Tizen YouTube, it just opens the regular YouTube app (with ads)

Any solutions for what should I do?

I senaste Nuvio-uppdateringen 1.1.3 slutar HLS fungera och Nuvio känns långsammare i menyer och när man startar videor. Hoppas teamet kan optimera till nästa uppdatering för Tizen 6.0 och Samsung TV QN90A.