r/uhf_app

I love UHF, and I really love it on the Mac. However it's missing a feature and I need it. I need to mute UHF when something else needs my full attention and I don't want to pause the show.

Anyone else?

UPDATE: I use a docking station with 2 extra monitors.Let's say I'm watching baseball, and my bff sends me a link to a fantastic video. I'd like to watch and listen to the video and mute the baseball game.

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Has anyone else had issues with the new built-in VPN feature on UHF specifically on Apple TV?

I’m trying to use AngelVPN through UHF. On my iPhone, using the same UHF account and the same home Wi-Fi, AngelVPN connects to servers without any problem.

On my Apple TV, though, it just refuses to connect to any AngelVPN server at all.

I’ve restarted the Apple TV/UHF and tried multiple VPN locations, but it makes no difference. Because it works on my iPhone over the exact same connection, I’m wondering whether this is a bug with the tvOS version of UHF/VPN integration.

Has anyone else experienced this on Apple TV? If so, did you manage to fix it or have you had to use a separate VPN app instead?

Since the latest update on IOS I have been having an issue where the home screen will not load it just stays blank, if I change to live TV or Movies/Series it loads perfectly fine, has anyone else come across this issue?

Everything else in the app works as it should.

I’m on 1.100 and “add manifest playlist” has been removed and plus I’ve literally just upgraded to lifetime 2 days ago, after being a pro subscriber since this app first launched. Still love everything about and have no issue with paying for this great app, but I don’t like something being removed without either prior warning, or even worse, noticing something is on there when you go to sleep one minute, then gone the next when u wake up. The only thing I could potentially put down to something I’ve done out of my ordinary daily use, was cancel my pro subscription in the new section in the update, in return for the lifetime subscription. But i doubt that had an impact. The other thing i can mention im always on the iOS beta software so my Apple TV and iOS are now on ios 27.0. If Someone could please let me know how to get it back, or update me with if it’s now discontinued that would be great. Much obliged

I used to recommend UHF because it was simple, stable and actually did the most important thing well: play IPTV reliably.

Lately I feel like the app is going in completely the wrong direction.

AngelVPN always worked perfectly fine for me, so I genuinely don’t understand why so much attention seems to be going into adding more VPN options, integrations and other features while basic playback still has problems.

Removing VLC was probably the biggest downgrade for me. VLC was easily the most reliable player option. Now we’re pushed towards KSPlayer and, in my experience, it simply isn’t as good. More playback problems, more inconsistencies and an experience that feels less reliable than what we had before.

And that’s the frustrating part: why remove something that worked?

I’ve also noticed more and more users reporting things like playback/stuttering issues, EPG problems, syncing/backup problems, crashes and differences between how things behave on iPhone and Apple TV.

Of course every app has bugs. That’s normal.

What bothers me is the direction.

It feels like we’re constantly getting more features, while the basic IPTV experience isn’t becoming more stable. Personally I’d rather have 10 features that work perfectly than 50 features where I’m constantly wondering what the next update is going to break.

The developer’s attitude towards criticism has also started putting me off the app. Some of the replies to users on the App Store come across as sarcastic or unnecessarily defensive. People reporting problems with something they’ve paid for shouldn’t be made to feel stupid for raising them.

UHF genuinely used to be one of my favourite IPTV apps.

Now I find myself thinking:

Is UHF actually a better IPTV player today than it was 6–12 months ago?

For me, the answer is no.

There are more features, yes.

But more features doesn’t automatically mean a better app.

I’d much rather see the focus go back to playback quality, stability, EPG, syncing and making the core experience rock solid before adding even more things.

Curious if I’m the only one feeling this way, or if other long-time users have noticed the same decline.

Since a week or so I can't play any streams with VPN connected. I tried the UHF internal NordVPN connection as well as via native NordVPN app. Anybody facing the same issue?

Hi all, well - I am not sure if this has been raised already but I am missing the functionality that UHF is updating in the background on tvOS - not the app itself but EPG information as well as playlists. It would be awesome if this can be achieved somehow, incl. a feature where I can select the frequency of updates on EPG and playlists separately. This would lower the time to wait until the information is ready - even though the loading speed has improved massively over the recent App updates.

I am very happy with UHF in general - my feature request would just improve the App even further.

Thanks!

Alex

Hello,

I was trying to add in my AIOStreams manfiest URL yesterday, but had some trouble setting up the VPN at the same time. I decided to come back to it this morning and there is now no longer an option for Manifest on my app. I still have M3U8, Xtream and Jellyfin options, but it seems Manifest URLs have been removed. The website also doesn't have mention of Manifest on the features page, but I'm not sure whether it ever did.

I can't see any information about this in the changelog and it was there yesterday, but gone today. Makes me wonder whether this was done to avoid a fate being removed from the Apple app store e.g. like Omni yesterday.

Has this functionality been removed for the foreseeable?

I keep having recording issues with my MacBook 2016 recording. For example, I will record for 3 hours, but soccer game will end in 1 hr 23 min and not be finished. It shows completed(not failed)Why does it do this? I have 3 private providers and it happens with all of them. Does VON affect this?

I have UHF configured on my iPhone with the VPN and works as expected.

On the tvOS, it doesn’t connect. I’ve checked in settings and the profile for UHF is not there (on iOS it shows) and I’ve not been prompted from the system to allow creating that profile.

I also have PIA installed on the Apple tv (and so on the iphone). Could there be an incompatibility?

Any way to debug the issue?

Simplify the backup system.

One backup that syncs across all devices, on a per-account basis.

With tvOS Profile switching

I don’t need a different backup for my phone, tv, iPad — all just need to be the same. Yet as you can’t name backups still, I have no idea which is which.

I have been using UHF app for several month now and use the Live TV streaming on Apple TV player on a daily basis

Yesteday the app automaticly downloaded the update and right after it completed and refreshed, the live streams of any channel would freeze. The "dasywheel of death" whould just spin on a frozen sceen of the show. Switching back and forth between different channels would produce the same results. The daisywheel would be spinning and the picture frozen. Switch back to refresh the channel selection and the piture would be newer scene from the show, but still frozen.

The odd thing is thatIuse the "channel preview" option on the Live Channel menu and the small preview screen with audio and video works just fine... I can switch between the multiple options and the previews change flawlessly.

Non-live streaming works flawlessly as expected for Series or Movies content, it is jut the LIVE TV that is experiencing the problem.

I have reset and renewed the multiple EPG, TEMP and TMDB storage, rebooted Apple TV player which has fixed other minor issues in the past... but this on has me stumped

Anyone else experiencing similar issue(s) and have suggestions on how to fix short of reinstalling?

UPDATE:

Here is where it gets weird....

I decided to try channels other than the top 10 in my favorites..... they take a few seonds to connect to the stream... but then work fine. I tested 6-7 channels I have not watched in the past few weeks and they all worked after the longer than normal channel loading.

But, If I go back to any of my top 10 channels that I watch on a regular basis... they all are frozen into what ever scene it was on when it loaded or refreshed... no audio either

I deleted every cache or EPG refresh I could find again, even losing the NS cloud settings for a few minutes 8-( ... still no change

Help....

Ever since the latest update (iOS 1.100.0), the app will join the VPN initially, but then automatically disconnect whenever I try to update my playlist. Along with this, my playlists do not update correctly. Is anyone else having this issue?

EDIT: It also says server response is in incorrect format. Every channel I have loaded works normally, but channels and channel categories won’t update.

EDIT 2: I have kept the app at 1.99.0 on my iPad and it works perfectly fine; this leads me to believe it’s a bug with the latest update.

EDIT 3: It seems to work fine when connected over Wi-Fi, but it was having issues when trying to update over cellular connection while out and about.