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romaniac wrote:

Jeannie, a good place to start would be the Kodi.tv website, or the web support for whatever box you have. 

Btw this isn't really an "expat" related topic...

I would disagree, it is most certainly an Expat topic and has been discussed on the Malta forum several times before.
Trying to find the best source for TV from your own country or in your own language is just as important to many, to enjoy life in their new country, as how to import a car or how to find the best places to shop.

If you download Kodi (Latest version is Jarvis) from the website you will then need to install various add ons which will get you a very wide choice of films and IPTV.  Exodus is good for film and TV series and NTV or MBox are good for live TV (Subscription required) - NTV.mx from their website or MBox on Twitter or Facebook. Both have user groups for Expats on Facebook.

If you want TV to be much simpler you could buy a Mag box 250 or 254 which come with a proper remote and are generally easier to use with an NTV or MBox subscription or any other IPTV supplier.

If in doubt as to how to do these things just Google what you want and you will get many sites with instructions, many of them with YouTube videos.

Ray

kiwi dan wrote:

Sorry as I think this has been answered before, but can you use the Android boxes (e.g. the Minix Neo U1) like a sky+ box to set live tv programmes to record? And if so, just onto USB/micro SD? TIA, Dan

I have recorded live TV using my NTV subscription on an Android, on my laptop and through Kodi but have not tried it on the Mag box although you are supposed to be able to do this.
It seems to be down to which IPTV service you use rather than which box. You can set the download path so that the recording is put in to a specific folder on a stick, card or hard drive.
I tend to use catch up rather than record where you can watch programmes from up to 2 weeks before on the main channels

Ray

SueSue17 wrote:

Hi, if I wanted the normal Bbc iplayer, itb Hun and 40d etc - how do I do that?

You would need the repo and have to install it,this will show you how.


Pick what you need out of video add ons,both the bbc iplayer and itv catch up work very well.Hope this helps.

jimmy_better wrote:

Get a minix z64 with windows 10 from amazon. It's a mini pc that runs cool and quiet. You can use kodi and a vpn very easily. I gave up on android.

That sounds good, I have a Mag 254 (Linux) and a Z4 Octa Core Android 5.1 and both work very well but I think most people who are not familiar with these boxes would find a Windows based box easier. (A bit pricey at £110 / €140 )
  One downside is that many of the subscription based services are designed for Mag or Android, a few, such as NTV can be run on any of those boxes or on windows laptop.
The big plus with the Mag Box is that you have a box that is designed purely for IPTV and it has a proper, fully functional remote so it is far easier to use.

One other thing to keep in mind is that any box is only as good as the iptv stream and this can be affected by many things and you will suffer buffering or channel drop out on occasions.
I have tried 4 different services from €30 a month down to €9 for the one I am trying at the moment and all have their problems.

Ray

jimmy_better wrote:

For me, the problem with the Mag is that it only has 512mb of ram & it can take 5 mins to reboot. The minix will boot into kodi in 1 minute (kodi I setup to start with windows) and there are lots of small usb keyboards that aren't that much different from a remote. Plus it's easy to run a vpn within windows and you can teamviewer in to work on it remotely. I only have kodi on the minix so it's like a set top box.

If I need to reboot my Mag it takes about 1 minute, my android around 30 secs but I do not know about Windows box. The 512 K on Mag is ample because it is using Linux which is a resource friendly system and the box is dedicated to IPTV so nothing else interferes with it.

I have Kodi on Android and have a mini keyboard, I also have NTV set up on it through Matrix TV Browser which is a lot easier than going through Kodi,  but if I passed the keyboard to my wife and said put the TV on she would be totally lost, pass a proper remote and all is well!  Using the Mag Box is just like using an ordinary TV

You would be able to have NTV direct on your Windows box which would be even easier.

I am not saying any one system is better than another as they are all at the mercy of the IPTV providers servers and your ISP.

Ray