Abandoned Zidoo client

[Terry Fyde]

Hello everybody.

12 months ago, a clever Zidoo user created his own version of the JellyfinTV client, explicitly built to use the Zidoo media box's internal video player: https://github.com/Andy2244/jellyfin-androidtv-zidoo

Sadly for those using this client, development abruptly ceased 8 months ago & the developer went AWOL, never to be heard from again.

It's a huge ask for what is likely a relatively small & specific number of users, but are there any developers out there prepared to take over & keep this branch alive?

[niels]

Our Android TV app should work fine on Zidoo devices, if there are any issues we can always look into them. The unofficial third-party fork Andy made specifically for Zidoo devices is not endorsed by us (and personally I won't recommend it either). At first Andy worked with us to upstream his changes but eventually he decided to stop with that and it appears that he now abandoned his fork.

We will not take over this fork or backport his changes ourselves. If there are specific features that users want to see upstreamed they need to create their own pull request(s) for that.

A similar question was recently asked on GitHub with a similar answer: https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-and...sions/2759

[Terry Fyde]

Hi, niels.

I appreciate the reply & thanks for the link (Sledgehamma is a respected member over on the Zidoo forums).

Fair enough, I completely understand.

I've only ever tried the official TV app once on the Zidoo & that was months ago. In regards to playback tracking/watched status etc., users on the Zidoo forums are reporting that the official app can be a bit hit-and-miss when using the external Zidoo player. I'll have to give it another try.

Thanks again.

[Terry Fyde]

Hi again.

FYI, I've installed v0.15.11 on the Zidoo & it seems to be working very well using the Zidoo's internal player.
Unlike the last time I tried using the official app, watched status & resume functionality are working as expected. Other users over at the Zidoo forum are reporting the same.

[wolfbunny]

Has anyone tried v0.15.12 on their Zidoo?

[niels]

Hi wolfbunny, this thread is specifically about development for the Zidoo and the hostile fork from Andy. For general questions about the client you can use the other forum categories or the Zidoo forum.

[andy22]

Hiho, guess i have my own thread!

the developer went AWOL, never to be heard from again

I just did a status/version update in the Zidoo forum, but to keep it short, "life" got in the way.

I will try to pickup the "pieces" and see what can be done in the short/long-term, also check for a longer explanation in the Zidoo forum.

hostile fork from Andy

Guess i deserved this, looking back i wished i had done a better job with my communication and not taking everything so personal.

PS: I want to apologize to the Jellyfin team on how i handled communication, especially @niels, i'm truly sorry!

[grabbend]

Love and appreciate your work for Zidoo @andy22
Let's get those changes upstream as fragmentation of effort is the worst

[Sledgehamma]

Love and appreciate your work for Zidoo @andy22
Let's get those changes upstream as fragmentation of effort is the worst

+1 from me

[tmsrxzar]

looking at the changes; https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-and...les_bucket

i think the pertinent ones for zidoo are in handling the external player; ExternalPlayerActivity.java
and addition of zidoo profiles; ZidooPlayerProfile

i believe if these were ported upstream then the new android tv version would be functional on zidoo but i don't actually see the point because beyond that it's just ui changes where the old and new versions work quite similarly

im using the zidoo fork, andy updated in november and it works great for me

im also using a self compiled version from this PR https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-and.../pull/3110
because i need those features for my FireTV clients but for some reason even though t0mas did all the right things they still won't accept the PR

so from a 3rd party non-affiliated point of view, even if andy did submit PRs it would be months before we saw them and we should just do things for ourselves


thank you andy and t0mas for the work you've added, hopefully you continue