Yeah, I’m a big Sci-fi fan. Star trek is one of my favorites. Didn’t care much for that Deep Space 9 show, though.
…Where No Elon Has Gone Before.
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Discord keeps yapping about the EPG but I guess I’m not convinced that is the issue? 25-30 days? Depends on the EPG source, right?
Yeah Star Trek is one of my favorites! LOL
I’ve run into too many issues with Sparkle and M3Us. I tried to install a couple of m3u urls and they did load and did populate the guide, but ALL channels errored out. These m3u and epgs are the exact same ones I have installed in my Tivimate and they work fine.
I messaged the dev and basically got a BS response. So, I am going to delete, and force stop the app and let it sit dormant for a while and will revisit it late.
Besides, Tivimate is far superior to Sparkle in just about every way except recordings and I rarely record anything.
Sparkle has a fair start, but has a long, long way to go to replace Tivimate.
I haven’t seen any of the issues you describe. And believe me, I agree, my intention isnt to replace Tivimate I just like the look and feel of the app. It likely does need some work, but with the active developer I’ll bet it gets sorted out.
I just now deleted 2 of my 3 playlists and checked my storage and data. The storage weent down from 22GB to 2.08GB, Date went down from 2.20Gb to2.06GB.
That is still a huge number as compared to my Tivimate with 660MB in storage and 640MB in data. Keep in mind, I have a dozen playlists and about 22 epgs loaded on my Tivimate compared with only ONE playlist and epg on Sparkle. Btw, that one playlist is 
with NO catchup and NO VOD movies and TV shows.
I’m going to remove the last playlist and then force stop Sparkle and clear data. Then let it sit dormant for a while until the dev gets all these bugs ironed out.
Don’t need the hassle, especially since I have Tivimate.
Get this! I deleted the remaining ONE playlist and epg. I have NO content loaded at all and the app itself is still taking up 1.97GB of storage and 1.95GB of Data with absolutely nothing installed on it. That’s crazy! 
Just cleared Data with nothing on it and it went down to 20.92MB. So, I will let this bsleep for a long while and hope the dev fixes his app.
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What did you do to have you Data number that high? Mine is only 200 and some MB with two playlists loaded, one with lots of VOD.
Have no Idea, but I will reinstall the content after a while. Gonna give that app a rest.
Here is the developer’s response.
Probably because it uses a different user-agent and is blocked for all other clients.
You can change user-agent in Sparkle by adding a pipe (‘|’) character at the end of the playlist url like this:
http:// myurl/playlist|user-agent=SuperPlayer1.0
I don’t know what user-agent other players use but if you find out you can just insert it and my guess is it’ll work.
lol same here.I was into enterprise before they axed it.but just never could get into ds9.
I love the timeshift options sparkle offers,but here lately been getting some crashes,that renders the feature useless.Also when I connect my bt headphones with sparkle running channel goes to some code.
Hoping the dev makes some improvements along the way,or maybe tivimate will add a timeshift feature.
Is everybody using the paid version of Sparkle? Is it worth it? I’m a Tivimate premium user, just considering Sparkle as a fresher look
The free Sparkle only allows 1 playlist and almost no features. A lot like Tivimate’s free version. I have done a lot worse things with $16 in my life. The different look is refreshing to me, even though my main devices will always use Tivimate.
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If you do a lot of recording, then Sparkle outshines Tivimate. However, that is about all it does a bit better.
It has a lot of promise and if the developer stays actively improving. It could take over the top spot from Tivimate.
Bottom line, for $16 bucks lifetime it is worth the time and dime.
Just be aware it is a work in progress and has a bunch of bugs.
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@Powerfader … Delayed response… after further testing and the more I dig down into the settings and the more updates…the more I’m starting to like this player. The ability to hide individual channels is cool as well as entire groups. And other than Tivimate its the only player ive tried that will combine favs from multiple playlist therefore no need switching playlist like in other players. A really plus at least as far as im concerned is the integration of local channels…Tivimate does not have that option out of the box. Right now I have 2 iptv playlist combined with 2 homerun tuners and once all customized and channels re-arranged to suit me…5 stars to me…This app is rockin’ 
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I do like it Ron, I agree. I also agree I think it is potentially the 2nd best IPTV player out there. (I have never used Formuler’s or Buzz’s, so I’m not including them in this opinion) I follow the developer on Discord and it is a pretty active forum, with constant suggestions.
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If the dev would allow you to create groups like tivimate does then it would be a top rival, well it already is dam good. I however do not like it tied to the playstore for ownership verification. I like tivimates idea with the companion app.
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I agree about the Play Store thing and have brought it up to the developer, but I don’t think he quite understands why users may not like that.
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I like OTT Navigator,not as good as Tivimate but it’s close.
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After testing more have decided to switch to walmart ONN for $20 and dedicate sparkle to recording only on that device. Nothing else. Recordings are made to a network location.
Then watch the SPARKLE recordings with VLC anywhere in the network. As long as I use 5ghz wifi all is well.
Do not know why everyone tries to do triple duty with recording and watching and scheduling. It’s too much for a fire stick that Amazon keeps adding live channels mechanisms to.
Plus many service providers only give you one stream, so you need to be careful to record only one thing at a time and not use that stream simultaneously for anything else.
Dedicated ONN to sparkle recording has made everything so fully functional for recording/ time shift.
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