Now I'm getting this random error occasionally when using the channel up/down function with my remote or clicking on a channel with the Guide. I rebooted and it didn't help. I miss my DirecTV (cries into the couch cushion)
YTTV App Update
I noticed sometime between 5:30 pm and 7:30 pm tonight that my YTTV app (Firestick) received quite the update. The Library (DVR) now has a new and confusing look. They thought going from vertical tabs to horizontal tabs was a good idea... it was not. I haven't noticed any other changes to the Home screen or Guide. The Guide still has the annoying bug where it resets back to the first channel in your list whenever you arrow back from what you're currently viewing to the Guide. They also don't allow you to advance 12 hours or 24 hours ahead on the Guide when pressing the FFW button like DTV or FRNDLY TV. Nothing worse than manually clicking ahead each hour.
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YTTV has fixed the playback error issue. I'm glad I'm not the only subscriber that thinks the Library interface is complete garbage. The YTTV Reddit page is currently a Hornet's Nest of complaints about the update.
https://www.reddit.com/r/youtubetv/comments/1319umy
https://www.reddit.com/r/youtubetv/comments/1319umy
Yep, I've said the same thing about the 12 hour advance using the ffw button. I'd have to say the many people also have no idea that you can create a custom channel list, but it's only possible using the YTTV app on a smart device or computer and not with the Firestick app. Then you have to navigate to the guide, click the 3 lines icon at the top and choose custom instead of default. That is a perfect example of making the app complicated for non technology folks.The YTTV interface does need some work. The channel guide in particular is cumbersome to navigate. They need to provide a way to advance 12 hours at a time to see what's on a channel a few days ahead. If it's Monday and you want to see what's playing on a particular channel on Saturday, you have to arrow over one program at a time.
I agree, I wish you were allowed to choose from the classic Library or the new and not improved Library. Hopefully the YTTV engineers read my response on the YTTV Reddit page but I'm not holding my breath. I believe we as subscribers are the beta testers. Now to watch any content in the Library, I have to navigate through a maze of stupidity just to watch something.Yup the new library interface is as bad as it could get - no idea what is what. I wish there were a way to go back. Maybe Google will read comments and do something. How do you design something that is so bad and release it to the world - do they have test groups that report.
If I had a choice at this point it would not be YTTV - I suspect this horrible interface is coming to other sections
Yes the Android app sucks ass. I still haven't figured out how to advance past what's presently shown on the guide yet on my phone and I use it more than my laptop to make adjustments on my YTTV account.The live TV guide in the Android app is even worse than the TV app. The TV app at least allows you to arrow to the right to see upcoming programs, but I don't see any way to do that on the Android app that runs on my tablet.
Maybe you got an update from YTTV. They've been active lately on updates. I feel we're just TV guinea pigs.today it does tell you when so someone must have??
After 2 weeks, I still dislike the new Library interface. The horizontal tabs are dumb as Owl ****. The default should always be Series and Movies and then in alphabetical order, not Recently Recorded and in random order. One thing that I learned from a poster on YTTV Reddit, instead of using the back arrow to exit out of the Guide when scrolling, you can hit the play button twice on your remote to exit. I find many times when I use the back arrow to exit the guide, I sometimes hit it twice and end up back at the beginning of the guide, the home page or occasionally exiting the app all together. The double tap play action does nothing else that I've seen except exit. I'm not sure why YTTV can't map the ≡ button on the remote to exit or access the Guide instead of having it disabled. One thing that I noticed after the update was the picture quality improved overall on my OLED Sony TV.All of the feedback provided with those that did receive this update must have resonated with them from pushing it out to anyone else. I've still yet to receive these changes, and I've tried uninstalling/reinstalling, just to see if that would push it through. For those that do have it, are you at least becoming somewhat familiar with how it works now?
Yes. Btw anytime I start having glitches on my Firestick, I check if there are updates that need installed and there was. I updated and installed the software update and rebooted. Afterwards, the stuttering glitch and spinning circle issue was gone. It could've been a coincidence but this has happened multiple times in the past year when something quirky starts happening on an app and simultaneously the Firestick is downloading an update.Anyone else have issues with YTTV tonight during the Eastern Conference Finals game? Apparently, it glitched out the last 10 minutes of the game.
Has anyone else observed YTTV being very buggy today? This morning I noticed after you choose a program on YTTV's Channel Guide and the program appears, no info banner pops up. Always before, an info banner would appear at the bottom after selecting a program. Also another oddity, if I use the channel up/down button on my remote, an info banner appears each time. But about halfway down my guide after choosing a channel, my channel up/down button feature on the remote stops working unless I revert back to the beginning of the guide. I rebooted several times and cleared the cache in my Firestick settings but it's still acting flaky. WTF is going on with this app? Do the YTTV engineers actually test their s/w before updating the app? Seems YTTV has a ways to go before they iron out the bugs when the NFL Sunday Ticket debuts in September.
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