FTV & Filmon problems in TSmedia

I have tsmedia on cloud ibox2. If I click on FTV in net tv nothing happens. In fact the only working live tv was Filmon but that only worked for a few minutes then stopped. I discovered if I changed filmon settings to medium it worked although very poor quality. I updated tsmedia to 7.96 hoping this would resolve issues but now even filmon does not work, it loads channels but clicking on channel does nothing. FTV stills does nothing and this is really what I wanted as I am in Spain and can't get the UK freeview channels via satellite. I am using smartdns in router in case this is relevant. Any ideas? Or do these plugins just not work.

Hi buddy Filmon does not work perfectly as I said, it worked before the latest update, but not now. It is nothing to do with the password or registering as I have done that. I did do a search on this website with keywords FILMON AND FTV before I posted but did not find an answer to my problem on FTV I did see the reply about Filmon changing channels. I am not with Telefonica and the poor quality has nothing to do with "my end", it is the extremely low 500kbps streaming you get from Filmon. This is why I wanted FTV, which is much better. There is nothing wrong with a cloud ibox 2, check with other owners and they will agree. Its primary function is for satellite for which it works perfectly, unfortunately tsmedia is not providing FTV and I am rather disappointed with tsmedia in general. I have XBMC on another box if necessary. XBMC is far superior to tsmedia. If I wanted a different box I would not need to save up ok :-) If you do not know the answer to my problem with FTV then no problem but why post such a patronising reply?

The latest: I have checked that my filmon username and password is correct in etc/tsmedia/ tsmedia_login and it is. I have updated ts media to 7.98. Although FTV is listed in nettv the logo has disappeared which led me to believe it would not work, and it don't, clicking it gives no response. Clicking filmon opens the add-on to show all the categories. Click uk-live-tv I see all the channels, click any channel it says please wait, then says press OK to list item? Press OK it does the same thing again. Expat tv loads the add-on, click categories and I get add-on error, no returned data. Click notflmon and it does not load the add-on it start to then just says add-on error, no returned data. Aghhhhhhhhh!!!

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Quote from cazuela

its not a patronising reply buddy.
Sorry if you took it that way.
I agree that xbmc is far superior, I use it on android.
It is my mistake to presume your isp without checking first.
Filmon is working perfectly for me on high.
As for FTV , I can´t help you with that.

OK sorry I was a bit touchy, had a bad day. If I could just get Filmon to work on this box it would do, I mostly use it for *** satellite its just occasionally I want BBC without having to juggle boxes.

I am using vix. It was working until I did tsmedia software update to 7.96 I have just seen another post on here saying he had to go back to 7.91 but I have not worked out how to go back yet, do you know?

OK I worked out how to remove 7.98 but every version I try to install fails so now I have nothing doh!

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Done it! Got 7.91 back and Filmon working :-) Why do they release these updates if it just f***s everything up!

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Still does this damn channel changing if I have my settings on high though. I have filmon account and have my details in box but only free account so assumed that's why so confused by other comments saying it works on high?

Quote from cazuela

To clear an older version you have to get rid of both in extensions and in /etc..
Full restart then install..
leave it on BBC while you arent viewing,, if it changes channel then let it,, give it as long as possible.
Now Full restart the box..
This is what works for me ..
some links will be down but thats down to server..

Thanks. I think I may have done that, not sure exactly what I did now. Filmon definitely did not work on 7.96 & 7.98 but after deleting the plugin and installing 7.91 from TS panel Filmon was back. The first run it was on bbc1 then after a few minutes it changed channel. I tried it again on different channel and same thing happened but after another reboot it appeared OK but need to check again later. On high res Filmon is good but on medium I don't like it.

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Still the same Filmon issue. If res set to high I get 4 minutes then it cuts off and loads next channel. Have to set the res to medium and it works but very poor quality :-(

I still think that it must be something to do with not having a paid Filmon account as you only get high res on paid account. Not sure how others are saying they have no problems unless they are watching in lower res. On my box the default is medium and it works fine on that but I really wanted to get better quality like that offered on XBMC by FTV. Not paying £10 a month to Filmon for it though!

A solution at last! I thought I would share in case it helps somebody else. Basically I gave up on Filmon in TSmedia and looked to KodiDirect. Following the latest update 20150311 KodiDirect now has tvplayer, ITV, and BBCi player. These all work on my Cloud ibox2 plus running Vix. tvplayer has working BBC and ITV offering with far better picture quality than the low Filmon quality. BBCi player is exceptional quality, but curiously the live TV is not live it is 2 hour delayed, but good if you want something you missed earlier lol. Just go to KodiDirect , Get more... , Live TV and TV shows, and there are all there as long as you have updated. :thumb: