I have several family members/friends who I have supported with firesticks and a variety of streaming apps - BeeTV, FilmPlus, Cinema, Flixvision, Onstream, and several others. None of these function any longer without using Real Debrid and SurfShark Cleanweb. BeeTV and FilmPlus used to work great on their own - no ads and plenty of streams. Today, they are unusable without Real Debrid and Cleanweb. Cinema, Flixvision, Onstream, TeaTV, CucoTV just don’t get any correct or running streams. Kodi isn’t any better (The Crew, Asgard, Magic Dragon, etc).
It appears that Real Debrid and Surfshark/Clenweb are now ESSENTIAL for an acceptable user experience with these apps and/or Kodi. I think this should be clearly stated in Troypoint reviews (rather than an implied option) so that people don’t waste their time trying to get these apps to work for their underprivileged friends or family.
Before anyone chips in with “You should just use RD/SS/CW”, yes, I do. But not everyone I have tried to help wants/can afford these subscriptions.
OnStream works for me with or without my VPN active on my Shield Pro. Although I certainly wouldn’t stream anything without my VPN active, I just did it for a test.
If money is the issue, the Elementum addon for Kodi works well without needing a debrid service. However, a VPN would be highly recommended. So set them up with the free version of ProtonVPN.
Easy fix is Stremio. APKs come and go. Builds and addons come and go. Assuming you have a working Stremio (If you don’t, get one). Log out of Stremio, invent a unique user name and password for each different relative or friend. Log in using the invented new user name and pword, use your browser to download Torrentio. Log out and contact your family and friends each with their unique login info and have them download Stremio and login with the info you provided. This can be done in 5 minutes or less and PROBLEM SOLVED.
Unfortunately RD is the cheapest on earth and because of ACE most free resources are gone and/or abandoned by developer. Free resources have taken major hit in recent years but Kodi should still have the most available free options are you in the addon groups. Kodi devs have their own addon groups for any assistance or questions anyone using the add-ons. Definitely join the telegram group for KODI and whichever add on you’re on a lot of information and help there. And join the app odysee in Google Play store on your phone and it has a lot of Kodi help too type in Kodi in search bar a lot of pages going over Kodi and add-ons. Hope it helps
Both Kodi and Stremio provide plenty of readily available free sources. They are far from gone or impacted by ACE. Addons still provide lots of free working options in Stremio, sorry I can’t speak for Kodi, although I do know using RD provides a much superior experience IMHO.
Yes but they said the people they were trying to help couldn’t afford RD and doesn’t stremio require a VPN to avoid a copyright strike from ISP? I always use it with VPNs. And if they can’t afford RD definitely can’t pay for VPN sub. But surfshark has unlimited logins maybe they could share
LOTS of us don’t have RD. Stremio with Torrentio and community add-ons are all that I find needed to watch every movie and/or series of interest to me. RD may add to your Stremio experience, but it’s not necessary or required.
Can stremio be used without a VPN doesn’t it require a VPN? And VPN costs more than RD. The person said the people they were trying to help couldn’t afford RD. And the biggest thing about stremio is seeders if it doesn’t have a certain amount of seeders it can buffer and freeze
Most apps run just fine without aVPN. The question is your privacy and anonymity on the web and to your ISP. STREMIO works without VPN, but do you want to do it.
COST: With a group of family and friends sharing a VPN service, it’s really cheap.
I never advise going on line at any time without a VPN. I have a 2 yr deal. It’s, for me, all part of the expense I pay for internet, and VPN + IPTV Sub + ISP service= about $85 CDN/mth, my old cable package with internet was $240 CDN/mth, a savings of $155/mth. So ya I think saving money is a good thing and a small part of that savings is paying for a VPN, go figure.
Before declaring Stremio un-useable without Real Debrid, turn your RD off and look at the quantity of different seeders using Torrentio and community add-ons. It will amaze you!
Thanks. Used to use UK turks on Kodi many years ago but then it disappeared for a while. Just tried downloading it from several sources (v1.1.0) and all of them get quarantined by Windows (10 and 11) as containing a virus/trojan (Trojandownloader:Win32/Nemucod!ml) Anybody found a clean source for this app?