The HBO app works on my phone but it does not work on my tv box. Seems like stuck constantly. Login with keyboard difficult and video playback image does not show up properly. Can hear voice only and some patches of garbage on screen.

Only work stream is the live TV stream.

Anyway the app is a phone app, it is difficult to use on tvbox.

Disappointed with HBO and Astro, always release TV unfriendly apps.

This post has been edited by puchongite: May 23 2019, 08:12 AM

Yes my box can do astro Go but not hbo Go. I have root, but hide it using Magisk. Could be it tried to play using certain frequency and resolution not supported by my old TV.

Yeah possibly they purposely crippled the app for TV.

The play store mentioned using mirror or cast to play on TV. It works, but I hate using mirroring as it gives bad image from time to time. Irritating.

This post has been edited by puchongite: May 23 2019, 09:29 AM

The 'HBO Go Malaysia' downloadable from play store. It's a different app from the HBO Go ( US ).

Just be aware that the initial download is damn slow. Almost make people think download is not working. LOL.

I don't think you can use the US account to log on to this HBO Go Malaysia.

Play store for this app says two concurrent streams.

This post has been edited by puchongite: May 24 2019, 08:45 AM

Just want to report that I have HBO Go Malaysia working flawlessly on my tv box now.

But since I don't have a 4k TV, I am unable to check if it works with 4K stream.

I don't claim to say what I did will apply to other boxes, it seems there are a few different problems with this apps. It's NOT a simple matter of configuration.

How do you tell if a box is running android tv os ?



Based on your ability to access the apps on play store ?

Based on these two counts, my box is not ATV.

Maybe HBO GO Malaysia cripples itself if the app is run on ATV.

This post has been edited by puchongite: May 27 2019, 04:09 PM

Many ways to read this answer from HBO Asia.

Could be a tai chi to cool off the complaints.

It is not a TV app. It is a phone app. But if you side load it, it will work, but difficult to navigate.

Iflix is able to have the same app, suitable for both phone and TV, and it will exhibit totally different and device friendly interface.

People like HBO Go Malaysia and Astro, are unwilling to be TV friendly.

This post has been edited by puchongite: Jun 20 2019, 10:21 AM

Not working for the current one which I am watching. Even shows can choose sound track in English or other languages. That's bullshit too. Not working.

Maybe it might work for certain movies.

I think it's a Astro problem, as the login page is rendered by Astro.

Astro could have funny things in the web page and causing different devices behave differently. I experience that before on my device. You want to check if you have similar problem with AstroGo beta. If you have login difficulty with AstroGo beta, that will proof that Astro is the culprit.

I am not talking about AstroGo. I am talking about AstroGo beta.

"HBO Go Malaysia" is an application you can find it from play store. There are a few HBO something, make sure your find the right one. I think it is still also accessible from Astro Go app.

It is not free, you paid for it in your Astro package. LOL.

Maybe it auto detect and if no available target it will grey out ? Do you have a suitable Chromecast device on the same network ?

You need to do more work to find out if it is the TV problem, or HBO problem, or your phone problem.

YouTube is a bad tool to isolate the problem because Youtube is able to cast to another YouTubr, it does not need the Chromecast server function.

Basically maybe install mv cast player on your phone, play a video and see if it can be casted to your TV.

I don't know enough about casting but I only know there are too many different technologies around, and each does things differently. So an experience with a particular TV, a particular app, ....may not be applicable to another.

I think I mentioned in this forum before I also have login difficulty with HBO Go M on my device. I also have similar problem with AstroGo beta on my device. I don't have problem with login if I use AstroGo 8.2.6.

So I say the problem is correlated. Since the login pages in AstroGo beta and HBO Go M are the same, the layout, the color scheme, ..... it points to the same common denominator, Astro server.

The problem is Astro. Likely the Astro server is detecting something about our devices, and do something strange. I don't have problem when using phone.

This post has been edited by puchongite: Jul 19 2019, 10:42 AM

Well, to be exact, it is a combination of your device and also AstroGo server limitation. AstroGo places very high requirement on the webview client's capability.

I have gathered increased evidence now.

I think the AstroGo beta ( which is now official, no more beta ) requires certain javascript capabilities, but such capabilities are not found in certain devices. Your unifi stb and my device are examples of two such devices, which the default webview is poor the capability but cannot use the chrome webview automatically, even though it is installed.

We need to either :-

1. Update the system to use new and latest chrome web view,

or

2. Hack the app so that it will be forced to use chrome web view, if it is installed and available.

I am still at testing stage of item (2). The unfortunate result of (2) is that both HBO and Astro will need to be hacked in order to be forced to use chrome web view.


This post has been edited by puchongite: Jul 19 2019, 01:36 PM