In the 21st century, it is not man who is the slave of the TV, which shows what he wants, but the TV, which is the servant of man, and shows what you want to see.
Kir Bulychev - “News of the Future Century”
Main features of the widget:
— editor of a unique multitasking interface (skins).
— editor of TV and IPTV channels, Favorites.
— built-in widgets for YouTube and Vkontakte.
- unique functions for managing cable TV channels with a program guide, editing channel names, updating them while maintaining sorting, - IPTV playback with personal settings and program guide, - large Film library, a selection of IPTV channels on the Network folder of our website, - cloud network folder, - support for devices with DLNA (2012+), - easy connection of any folders/drives on your computer for viewing on TV, - playback of multimedia files from USB drives, from local and Internet computers, - support for Torrent TV and video via a local server controlled by the TV remote control , - viewing photo slideshows with transition effects, - convenient Explorer for viewing files, - screen clock with several modes, - displaying News, news portals and Film Posters, - displaying Weather, - displaying MP3 and XML playlists as folders, - launching and adding to Favorites of installed widgets, - autostart when you turn on the TV (not all models), - computer control (turn off, sleep, turn off the monitor), - select the appearance of the widget (skins), - 9 customizable buttons which can be set to one of 26 actions, - complete support for touch control panels, - support for voice, gesture and mouse control (2012+), - switching audio tracks and subtitles (2011+), - full support for file names in Russian letters, - Favorites section in which the playback position of any file, links to folders, sites and TV channels, - notifications about new personal messages and reading them on the screen, - import/export settings and channels to the site, - and much more
Main server features:
— easy automatic installation of any widgets on SmartTV on Taisen,
- bypass AVI blocking (Divx/Xvid) on TV 2018+,
- multi-stream playback of files from computer folders on TV (Network folders, no other programs required), - automatic recursive conversion of XML and M3U playlists into NetPlay files for our widget, - convenient creating, editing and sorting NetPlay files (links to IPTV channels, movies, etc.) without special knowledge, - quick and convenient sorting, renaming, deleting unnecessary TV channels with remembering the sorting the next time you update channels, - long Russian names for analogue channels with saving and restoration.
TheDark SmartTV Media Center/Server version 6.4
Home page
Web servers for Smart TVWidgets
Editor
Server version: 6.4 Widget version: 6.4 This is a widget for Samsung TVs and BD players with the SmartTV function (2010-2014) and a special server program for computers with Windows. Main features of the TheDark SmartTV Media Center widget: - support for DLNA servers (for 2012 models) [NEW]
, - Import/export settings to the server
[NEW]
, - opening MP3 playlists as folders
[NEW]
, - weather display
[NEW]
, - switching channels by voice by channel name (for ES7xxx models)
[NEW]
, - voice control support, gestures and mouse (USB or wireless) (only for 2012 models), - simple and clear interface, personal settings, changeable appearance, -
more than 3,000 IPTV channels on the Network folder of our website , - large film library (more than 240,000 videos) on the Network folder on our website , - convenient Explorer for viewing files, - easy connection of any computer folders for viewing on TV, - advanced functions for working with cable and IPTV channels with a program guide (two types), - playback of multimedia files from USB drives, from local computers and Internet networks, - playback of IP-TV and Internet TV channels with personal channel settings, - switching audio tracks (for models 2011 and newer) - connecting external subtitles (for models 2011 and newer) - viewing photo slideshows with transition effects, - screen clock with several modes, - video can stretch to fill the entire screen without distortion and black bars (several modes), - full support for file names in Russian letters, - Favorites section in which the playback position of any file, links to folders, sites and TV channels are remembered, - viewing text files, - notifications about new personal messages and reading them on the screen, - simple Web browser - autostart when you turn on the TV
Main features of the server: - a specially designed server for SmartTV that does not require special knowledge - easy automatic installation of any widgets on the TV from a folder (no need to create widgetlist.xml) - playback of files from computer folders on the TV (Network folders, no other programs required) - control the computer from the TV remote control (turn off, TV tuner, volume, playback, etc.) - automatic recursive conversion of XML and M3U playlists into NetPlay files for our widget - convenient creation and editing of NetPlay files (links to IPTV channels, movies, etc.) without special knowledge
Control
EXIT key - show/hide Explorer RETURN key - one level higher in Explorer (NEW) LEFT key - scroll Explorer to the end of the page (NEW) RIGHT key - scroll Explorer to the page to the beginning DOWN key - move one item down or play previous list item/channel (with Explorer closed) UP key - move one item up or play the next list item/channel (with Explorer closed) ENTER key - execute a menu item in Explorer or show Explorer (with Explorer closed) GUIDE key - show /hide Program guide* CH.LIST key - show/hide the Channel List, and for the HDMI signal source - show/hide PIP* SOURCE key - select a signal source from the list MUTE key - TTX/MIX - select the audio output mode TTX/MIX key - for TV mode - teletext, for Media mode - select the next audio track (for models 2010 and newer) AD/SUB key - display the subtitle panel (for models 2010 and newer) P.SIZE and FAV.CH key - select video display mode file or TV channel* INFO key - show information about the current playback* TOOLS key - display the TV settings menu PAUSE key - pause/resume playback PLAY key - display the rewind panel STOP key - stop file playback and go to TV mode REC key - start RTMP recording TV channel (only for rtmp:// channels) REWIND keys - rewind audio/video N minutes forward/backward (set in Settings) keys 0-9 - enter the channel/element number (while the input panel is displayed, up/down keys - select neighbor of elements)* 3D key - select 3D mode
keys marked * may not be available in ticker mode (autoload widget when TV is turned on) for 2012 models
How to install applications on TV
1. Creating a new user on the TV 1.1. Press the button on the SMART HUB remote control. 1.2. Click on the red button (A). 1.3. Click the “Create an account” button: 1.4. Enter your username(Samsung Account): develop 1.5. Enter the new password twice 1.6. Click "Create an account."
2. Login using your develop 2.1 account. Press the button on the SMART HUB remote control. 2.2. Click on the red button (A). 2.3. Enter or select from the list the previously created user name and password 2.4. Click Login
3. Downloading (synchronizing) widgets from the computer server 3.1. Press the blue button (D) 3.1. Click the last line “Development” 3.2. Click “IP Address Settings” and enter the IP address of the server to download, for example 192.168.1.107 (the third digit must be non-zero) 3.3. Click "User Application Synchronization" 3.4. Widgets will be installed. 3.5. We exit the installation in the menu and press the red “A” button and exit as the Develop user. 3.6. Now it's important. We must exit Smart-TV, otherwise the widgets will not appear. 3.7. Then we go again and go to the end of the list...
4. Updates (synchronization) of widgets: To update widgets, repeat steps 2 and 3 (step 3.2 does not need to be completed)
ATTENTION! If the TV freezes after installing widgets: 1. turn off the TV 2. disconnect the Internet cable from the TV 3. turn on the TV again 4. turn off the TV 5. connect the cable 6. turn on the TV.
TheDark SmartTV from 03/22/2015 - IPTV on your Samsung TV
Having become the proud owner of a Samsung UE46ES7500 TV, I set out to start watching IP TV on it. After some wandering around the Internet, reading about different applications, my choice fell on TheDark SmartTV Media Center/Server. This is a set of a widget and a program for a computer, which is a so-called server, with the help of which you can install on your TV not only its own widget, but also any other. Installing the software does not require any special skills; we simply download and run the installer. The functionality of the program itself is not very large (in principle, it is not needed) and is rather of an auxiliary nature. You will need it to install the widget (by the way, you don’t need to download it, it installs automatically), updating it and updating the program itself, watching videos from your computer, preparing your playlists and synchronizing them with the application on your TV. In other cases, we will not need it and its constant presence is not necessary. Once the application is installed, you need to make some settings.
List of IPTV channels
– a folder opens in which you need to place your playlists to convert them into a format understandable to the widget and further synchronize them with the TV.
List of widgets
– a folder for placing custom widgets for installation on TV.
Widgets need to be installed all at once, i.e. if you installed “widget 1” and want to install “widget 2”, then you need to place the first one in the folder as well. Otherwise, the first one will not work. Create NetPlay link
– the button is needed to manually create a link to the channel.
Converting a playlist to NetPlay files
is an important point; it converts, for example, m3u playlists into a format that the application can understand.
Create indexes of files larger than 2GB on USB
- eliminates the problems of viewing large files when watching videos from flash media.
Help
- true to its name
Settings
- opens settings where you can specify or change the paths to your folders with videos, photos and music for viewing them on the TV.
Item - Folders for Network Folder
.
Further items serve to enable or disable functions. The IP address window
is important ; this is what we will indicate in the settings when installing the application on the TV.
Learn more about how to set up your TV and install the widget - Watching IP TV on Samsung Smart TVs.
To work, the server must be turned on, i.e. the power button should say “Stop” and the correct time should be set on the TV. After completing all the steps for setting up the program and TV (described in the article mentioned above), we do synchronization and move on to the widget itself. This is a special conversation; the capabilities of the application are, to put it mildly, great. If you describe all the functions and their use, you will get a very long article, and you most likely will not use half of them. You can read in detail about all the functions and control buttons in the help or on the developer’s website (the address is indicated in the picture). Therefore, I will dwell on some of them. To get started, we need to perform several simple steps; this is done in the main menu, which is called up by pressing the “exit” button.
1. Go to the settings item, look for “ Network folder 2 - address
"In it we enter the same IP address from the main program window.
2. Place your playlist on your computer in the “ List of IPTV channels
” pack and convert it using “
Convert playlist to NetPlay files
”, or copy the already converted ones.
3. In the widget settings, find “ Synchronize iptv channels
” and perform this action.
That's all, now we can enjoy watching. Channels will be available using the “Ch List” button on the remote control or from the “My TV” window. Most likely you will have the question “What is this Network folder (smart-tv-home.ru)
.”
This is a miracle folder, once in which we get access to a bunch of films, just a bunch, since the search for what we need is not yet up to par and I don’t know if it’s possible to implement it correctly. But there are really a lot of films and even in good quality.
The developers also promise access to more than 3,000 channels. The figure is impressive, but not everything is so rosy.
Firstly, to get into this folder you need to register on the developer’s website, support the project in the amount of any amount, but not less than 300 rubles (at the time of writing this article). And you happily receive all this “pleasure” for 1 year. Should we be happy? Everything written below is my purely personal opinion and is based on personal experience. Things may be different for other users. Let's start with films
.
There are a lot of them and they are of good quality, but the fact that among them there are dead links and not very high-quality images, in principle, does not spoil the impression. The only drawback is, of course, that the search is not very convenient. In general, things are more or less normal with films. There is something to choose (although it is a little difficult), there is something to see. Although you can find a lot in online cinemas, there is a lot that you won’t find in them. But things are much worse with 3000 IPTV
channels.
Let's start with the fact that out of these thousands, God willing, I only have 10 percent alive. Perhaps this is due to the quality of my provider's networks, but perhaps not. By the way, the speed on my tariff plan is 50-100 megabits. As a result, I manage to watch several channels and, strangely enough, the same channels behave differently at different times. I consistently show only channels provided by my provider, i.e. my own playlist. Let's summarize:
Undoubtedly a very necessary, convenient, simple and at the same time multifunctional program. It is not unimportant that all this is free, with the exception of additional content. I’m very pleased with the scaling when watching movies (for some reason the Samsung developers did not provide this function as standard) and there are many more convenient functions. But whether or not to pay for access to content is up to you to decide. Although, to be honest, this is not such a large amount. If you have a few extra rubles, then you can afford it, but if not, you can do without it.
Enjoy your viewing!
Added version dated 03/22/2015
