Welcome everyone to discuss issues and suggestions about GTMedia HDTV Mate products here

[smartjsj]

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I can't search channels.. even if I do a full scan.
Even though I can get a signal, it says signal locked. What should I do?

The country is Korea, and an antenna was installed.

[CAJE]

For DVB-T the signal strength and quality is very low.

[TechG01]

On Version 2.32 of HDTV Player it still has the bug where some RF Channels (like RF19/503MHz) have no audio or video playback

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[BROADCASTMAN]

I have three suggestions that will make the HDTV Mate products very versatile.

1) For the DVR function it would be awesome if you can choose to record the same program for every instance that it broadcasts based off of EPG Data. For instance if you have the show, "Sesame Street" you can can select that show in the EPG data and it will record the show every time it is listed in the guide data for that channel. Most DVRs have this functionality. I see where the software lets you set a future single recording for a show and this would be the next logical step to have it record automatically every time in the future based on EPG data.

2) Allow for an external xmltv file to be selected to provide extended guide data for all scanned and acquired channels. There are services that offer EPG xmltv files for up to 14 days of EPG data. It would be amazing if HDTV Mate would allow for these files to be selected from the hard drive or usb drive so custom and extended EPG data can be provided beyond what the broadcaster has in their OTA stream.

3) Make Windows and/or Linux drivers and produce Windows and/or Linux SDK.

The product is pretty solid and amazing and I am enjoying see it evolve!

[Jackon Kohut]

I've been using the HDTV Mate for a few weeks now, and while the tuner itself is actually pretty good, the software "HDTVPlayer" on the other hand is fairly buggy & has a massive issue that needs to be addressed: within the past few days i've noticed a huge spike in mobile data usage on my phone, and for a minute i thought it was just android incorrectly reporting but then when i checked my mobile account it showed nearly the same stats so i ran a few tests, first i went offline to see if the tuner would still pick up channels and for the non-drm 3.0 channels yes they work w/o wifi or data, then i did a clean install by uninstalling & reinstalling the app (note: the first 14.5GB was indeed from HDTVPlayer but now shows as removed apps) and an hour later another 1.7GB was used, then the final test i conducted was figuring out the source so i used a network monitor for about 10 minutes, another ≈250mb in that timeframe and this is the address within the logs that shows up w/ huge data usage: "api.bugfender.com", now correct me if i'm wrong but as far as i know for the most part this application isn't supposed to use data, or in the future if you do get drm certification only a very tiny amount, as it mainly relies on the tuner to pick up over the air atsc 1.0 & 3.0 signals

You can try GTMEDIA's latest Converter X1, which supports hardware decoding offline DRM and free DVR, and has built-in Android system

[Jackon Kohut]

In NYC some of the ATSC 3.0 stations have "Broadcast Apps" (4.1, 47.1). Tapping the Broadcast App in the menu brings up a a dialog "Press OK to begin your experience" with the station logo and a remote directional pad.

As I'm using this on a tablet, I tried to tap the OK button on the screen but it doesn't bring up the Broadcast App. (Can't watch the DRM protected channel either which might be the issue as well.)

When DRM Is functional on this app, will tapping the OK button on the screen pull up the Broadcast App?

You can try GTMEDIA's latest Converter X1, which supports hardware decoding offline DRM and free DVR, and has built-in Android system

[TechG01]

On Version 2.32 of HDTV Player it still has the bug where some RF Channels (like RF19/503MHz) have no audio or video playback

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2.33A app still broken on RF19/503MHz w/ HDTV Mate

[TechG01]

2.35A finally fixes the issue where all (non-drm) channels display audio & video again

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