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Follow the Android wiki from the sidebar for FireTV devices.

https://www.reddit.com/r/LazyMan/wiki/android

CetusPlay wasn't working well for me, but if you have a Bluetooth mouse you can use that to toggle the VPN. Alternatively you can use something like Mouse Toggle (you can sideload the apk if you download it) to toggle the FireTV remote to work as a mouse pointer.

The Virtural Host app uses a virtural VPN connection to use the customized host file needed to run lazy man. All of your traffic goes through the app first which essentially bypasses your actual host file. Since you can only be connected to one VPN at a time when you log into NordVPN your connection through Virtural Host app is closed. If you rooted your shield you could use Nord VPN. Hope that makes sence as I am not an expert and I am a little drunk.

first one

> How can I rewind or fast forward through a replay? > > If you set mpv as the default player, you can seek through replays. Mac users can get it by opening a terminal and run brew install mpv if you have homebrew. If you don't have homebrew, read this http://brew.sh/ > > Windows users must use the latest version from here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/mpv-player-windows/files/. > > Linux users, you know how ;).

Well, maybe you can try to uninstall streamlink installed using pip and reinstall it using debian repositories. So first execute 'pip uninstall streamlink'. Then follow instructions on https://streamlink.github.io/install.html

download the zip file in this post
https://gofile.io/?c=zahczO

then move it to your kodi box, and go to addons, then install from zip file.

edit hosts to add:
107.6.175.181 mf.svc.nhl.com

that's all i did, at least.

Correct. Uses your server’s internet connection. If your server is setup to connect to a VPN (I used NordVPN through openvpn), you won’t be able to remotely connect to the server if the VPN is running on the server, and you’re trying to remotely access your Plex server.

I think I solved my problem, Tavo. I was running Private Internet Access VPN and when I shut it off, suddenly no problems. Of course hte games I want to watch are now archived by NHL TV and I can't watch it anymore :( but at least I figured out the issue. Oddly enough, I've been running PIA VPN all of the time without any issues and now suddenly it seems to be an issue with LM2. Maybe NJD can shed light on why it's suddenly an issue, but at least I figured out what the issue was. Hope this helps

Okay so I'm having the same problem on Android, but I found a work around. If you have the time, and are using android. First you will need Web Video Caster app Then follow the steps in this photo album I made https://imgur.com/gallery/ob3Kp

I was able to get Lazyman to work on my 2020 Intel Macbook Pro running Big Sur! Reading the comments on this thread helped me some. I had followed all the instructions on the Mac guide in the sidebar prior to doing this. But this is what I did differently to get it to work with no errors.

After downloading Lazyman and unzipping the archive I renamed the folder to Lazyman and moved the folder to Applications folder.

I installed Homebrew on my Mac via Terminal by using the script on their site. Then I used brew install python to make sure python3 and pip3 were installed. I installed streamlink again using sudo pip3 install streamlink and then installed mpv player by using brew install mpv. I had tested Lazyman after reinstalling streamlink and it was not picking up my VLC player so I installed mpv player as suggested in the thread above. I pointed Lazyman to /usr/local/bin/mpv in preferences, tried a stream, and it worked!

i'm not very familiar with LM on mac, but I think you can try setting Streamlink to use a different output protocol to VLC, which might help. i can look into it more later when I have more time, but take a look through the Streamlink docs, specifically the "Player options" section for CLI arguments

Yes it is... https://streamlink.github.io/cli.html?highlight=edge#cmdoption-hls-live-edge is your fix for this. You'll need to calculate the number of segments to subtract though (time in seconds / 5, or just plug in a huge number to start from wherever the broadcast started)

MPV doesn't have a GUI basically. You need to launch it from command line with the url or drag & drop the localhost/alivestreamer url onto the MPV window. (Or use one of the builds with GUI, mpv.net is at least one for Windows.)

> I tried adding dst=:1111/alivestreamer to the Streamlink arguments box in LM, but then I get the "stream unavailable" error again.

Same thing here, since arguments are VLC arguments. Streamlink does not understand them.

Streamlink has something similar with --player-external-http --player-external-http-port 1111 but I'm not sure if that's compatible with Roku since it doesn't do any transcoding? AND it only accepts one connection, so you can't watch at the same on computer & Roku.

Emby is $$ but has constant development, Jellyfin is an open source fork of Emby from when it was open source (over a year ago), and has FOS volunteer community support.

Check /r/jellyfin and https://emby.media/community/ as there is no official presence for Emby on reddit.

That worked! I renamed the folder to Lazyman and moved it to my applications folder. Pointed lazyman to MPV that I downloaded (https://mpv.io/installation/). I did everything without Homebrew, but your last trick got me over the hill!

Thank you!

Put --vo=gpu --hwdec=auto into media player args.

https://mpv.io/manual/stable/#options-hwdec

That should apparently enable the default api (mmal) for Pi if the mpv build you're using includes it (?). Open some local file with mpv in command line with above args to see error messages.

Get MPV plaver. Then in the Lazyman preferences set the player to the mpv.exe file.

When using MPV and watching a replay of a game, you can skip to any point in the entire stream using the bar at the bottom or you can use the arrow keys to skip small intervals.

When a commercial starts, I press the UP arrow key (skip 60s) once and the the RIGHT arrow key (skip 6s) 3 or 4 times. This is about the perfect length of the commercial break which lets me turn an almost 2 minute break into a 1 second skip.

When the intermission starts, you use the bottom seek bar to skip 18 minutes forward and you're all good.

Copying my comment from somewhere else:

Do you have a raspberry pi? If not it may be a decent investment for this.

• Install pi-hole: https://pi-hole.net
• Add a host entry to the raspberry pi for lazyman
• Use your raspberry Pi's private IP address as your router's primary DNS So any internet traffic from your router is tunneled to the PI first. Any device on your network will have access to lazyman IP

Did a looooot of research on this. Here's the best way I could work it out:

1. Get a raspberry pi
2. Download and install pi-hole on the pi: https://pi-hole.net
3. Modify the hosts file of the pi and set the lazyman IP
4. Change the DNS servers on your router so it points to the raspberry pi's IP address

If you can't do 4 bc your router doesn't support it... you can sideload an android app to your TV that lets you change the DNS server without rooting.

As an added bonus you also now have network-wide ad blocking!!

Ace Stream is a peer-to-peer stream player that's fairly popular for UFC events, soccer matches, etc. Basically it's a torrent client back end paired with a custom VLC install. You'd find links on the subreddit I mentioned above, paste them into the Ace Player and you're done. You can pause the playback (which I recommend to get a buffer up) and basically do what you'd do in VLC to the video.

While I personally haven't gone as far to use a VPN while enjoying UFC streams, it wouldn't hurt since this is P2P.

Oh then that's your problem as the Android software that is baked into TV's is usually shite. Seriously, grab a 4k firestick from amazon, as they are on sale right now for $25 And not to mention, Sony doesn't bother to update the software when it breaks. Get the stick, you'll have until January 2020 to return it, and see if it solves the issue. I mean you just need to google "Sony Android TV sucks" and you'll see just how horrible it is.

Fire TV stick or box - install virtual host (there is a free version, least I have it) and save the host file to your fire tv. Run virtual host and select file. Lazyman works perfectly.

You can edit the file on your pc and then save it to your stick. You can always use one drive.

Xbox on the other hand, different story!

Does Localcast support local transcoding? If the format is unsupported (CC only accepts a few specific format/codecs) then it can't cast it either.

Try BubbleUPnP and enable its local transcoding. I have not used this app with LM/Kodi so I can't promise it works but I've used it plenty of other local/web/cloud videos.

"Other programs" include Corsair iCUE and Newshosting VPN client (v2.0). There aren't a lot of programs, and the problem is fairly isolated... it's not really a big deal, I was just really curious if others had experienced something similar with LazyMan (hence the post in this forum!)

Thanks again for the feedback, and also to NJStevensD4 and the others that provide the LazyMan software! (I don't want to seem ungrateful/complaining with my post!)

I just came to this conclusion as well. I think for my complaint about the app being sluggish, it was just the 2.4 beta I was using. I reverted to an older stable release (none marked pre-release) and it's snappy and quick like before. With PIA on with that version, I get a message about my hosts file not being setup and other such non-sense, but if I turn PIA off, it loads the game just fine. I'm then able to re-connect to PIA and the stream stays up.

I have been having A LOT of issues with PIA lately. I'm getting stale connections and random disconnects on my server all the time. I've got to constantly click re-connect on the PIA app or else web pages stop loading and videos will stop playing on YouTube because they stop caching. My subscription is up on Nov 1 and I'm really thinking of going to NordVPN this time around. I've had a ticket into PIA for 6 days and only had one response where the guy just asked for information I put in the original ticket. Ugh.

How did you figure out Lazyman "bypasses" it in the first place? Maybe you have misunderstood something. Are you using Plex in addition?

Do you use some browser extension from Astrill and not the Windows (?) client provided? Browser extension obviously only affects the browser it is installed in and nothing else.

Hi gongman66,

It seems, you're using "OpenWeb" VPN protocol on Astrill VPN app. OpenWeb has 2 modes:

1. Browsers mode: It tunnels only browsers and is selected by default on Astrill VPN app.

2. All apps mode: It tunnels whole computer through VPN. (For this go to settings >> OpenWeb options >> Change tunnel to "All apps" from browsers)

You can also switch to OpenVPN/StealthVPN from Astrill VPN app in order to tunnel your computer through VPN. Check following screenshot:

If you still face any issue after switching to OpenVPN/StealthVPN, you can get immediate assistance via live chat on Astrill website.

Using the Astrill windows client. It shows no activity when streaming. If you switch it on and off during streams it does not stop the game. If I stream ace with the VPN on the turn it off the stream stops.

Damn this is awesome. Was looking for another streaming solution since Unlocator finally doesn't work with MLB app on Apple TV (plus I was tired of the $$$ anyway). Thanks bro. Now it just needs to be hockey season!

Android TV might not come with the documents app I suppose, perhaps try installing this filesystem browser to select an app