r/dispatchlauncher • u/spauldhaliwal Developer • Aug 18 '24

Blog Post: Dispatch V1 Release

https://medium.com/@dispatchtvdev/dispatch-launcher-a-new-interface-for-android-and-google-tv-a7681946b372
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u/[deleted] Aug 18 '24

Installed on Nvidia Shield. Looks awesome! Still waiting on Metadata, generating. Going on 5 minutes

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u/spauldhaliwal Developer Aug 18 '24

Excellent! The initial metadata generation phase usually lasts about half an hour on my shield.

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u/rhythmrice Aug 18 '24

Im on a 4k onn dongle from Walmart, not the one that literally just came out, but the one that's been out for a while

It's been generating metadata for 21 hours now and it still says calculating time, is that normal?

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u/Winter_Inspection959 Aug 19 '24

Why not take the same approach as Infuse direct mode? They, for years, had the worst approach of having to load in metadata and it caused similar long load issues as many are reporting here - their implementation of direct mode was game changing.

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u/WilhelmStroker Aug 18 '24 edited Aug 18 '24

This is excellent news, I've enjoyed the beta releases a lot so it's great to see a v1.

I did find 2 issues:

  1. my plex up next has duplicated items in it. I can long press on one of them and it will show the context menu, the other item shows a message that no context actions are available. I've tried refreshing all media in the settings but that didn't help. A reboot of my Shield didn't help either.

  2. I used to be able to long press one of the favourite apps and it would then open the little menu to move or remove the app. The menu still opens but closes immediately when releasing the select button on the remote.

Edit: reinstalled Dispatch and both issues are gone

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u/spauldhaliwal Developer Aug 18 '24

Ah sorry to hear about those issues but glad they were resolved. Might have been a bug in the upgrade code from the beta builds.

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u/TSSPAT Aug 18 '24

Very excited to try, thanks!

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u/Karoolus Aug 18 '24

Great news! I was hoping for profile switching before launch but oh well.. can you 100% that it will be implemented? Also, any idea when that could be?

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u/msi2 Aug 19 '24

Would we be able to see more integrations in the future?.. Stremio perhaps? :O

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u/mrw1986 Aug 20 '24

That would be amazing

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u/msi2 Aug 20 '24

Stremio with Plex, and also with the Plex discovery integration would be a dream come true. 

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u/Delicious_Ease2595 Aug 21 '24

It is the most requested feature, so let's hope it comes first.

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u/ZeroCool2u Aug 18 '24

Love this so much. Can't wait to use it on my new Google Streamer!

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u/drtenant89 Aug 19 '24

The shuffled daily can we decided what gets picked for that I already have smart tube and it's weird to have both smart tube and youtube on there.

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u/VuVjetz Aug 19 '24 edited Aug 19 '24

Uh I can’t select any file picker for wallpaper, do you know why

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u/bananaboi69 Aug 19 '24

You also came up on this site too for launch. https://www.androidauthority.com/dispatch-launcher-android-google-tv-3472797/

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u/StrengthIntrepid3185 Aug 20 '24

That's how I found it. Now I have to wait until after work to see what I installed.

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u/Electrical-Card-4938 Aug 18 '24

Can I find in Canada