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Aug 2, 2024, 1:30:15 AM8/2/24

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If your phone is rooted, you could try to hide root. There are various posts on this in the forum about that topic. Unfortunately I have no experience with hiding root, so I cannot give you a concrete suggestion.

Rooted or uncertified Android mobile devices are unable to download the Netflix app from the Play Store. Rooted or uncertified mobile devices are not blocked from accessing Netflix, but, depending on configuration, may not function properly.

So this must be something about an Android ability/feature introduced in Android 5.0. But this ability/feature may still be disabled somehow in Android >= 5.0. And exactly that might be the case here.

My idea was to use for example tasker to detect when HDR content is played by looking at the output of logcat, which contains HDR info when playing HDR content. Would be cool if we could have this integrated into this app and automatically correct the picture brightness to have the right colors in hyperion.

This app works great on my nVidia Shield TV! I used to have a HDMI grabber, but the app works much simpler and avoids a lot of cable clutter. Avoiding the HDMI grabber's Digital-->Analog-->Digital conversion is also beneficial for noise levels. I've found Plex, Youtube and Spotify to work perfectly with 4K60 content. I only tested HDR in Plex, which works great too.

Netflix (menu and videos) on the Shield does not work, likely due to the DRM/DHCP problems mentioned before. I would like to explore this further, but my knowledge on this is limited. I did get my (rooted) Android phone to work perfectly with the grabber app and Netflix. The Netflix phone app shows it's using Widevine L3 and SD playback resolution.

what steps did you do to get it working with DRM content on your rooted phone? The Shield can also be rooted. Apps can be sideloaded over ADB. I would like to test this because I would love to have less cables and a better picture quality for hyperion without noise/flickering, especially in dark scenes!

I am also interested in this. I am currently using the Android Grabber to make Amiblight work on my PS4 Pro (with HDR) through Remote Play, as I described in this topic. Would love to use streaming services this way with 4k and HDR support. Currently Kodi and Hyperion does work with Netflix, but only on 1080p or lower... If this would somehow work on a (rooted) Shield, I'll probably buy one

Mine worked right away. You can use the app DRM Info (available both on Mobile and Android TV) to check Widevine security level. My phone and Shield report Widevine L1, however when I open Netflix on the phone it reports using L3 (Playback Specification tab). L1 is the most secure version that allows high-quality playback, L3 allows the screen grabber to work but only at lower resolutions.

I feel like this is a pretty hard limit concerning all digital grabbing methods. Perhaps it would be possible to 'duplicate' the Shield's output at different resolutions (and thus Widevine certifications)?

I did manage to downgrade and found out the following:
Netflix is not working on android 7
Netflix is working on latest shield software, but android screen grabber isn't. This is a known issue of this software and there is no known workaround yet.

So I downloaded the APK from playstore on shield, configured the parameters to connect to Hyperion server. And started the screen grabber.
I don't see LED changing. Hyperion server screen grabber shows black screen. I changed grabber setting to internal grabber, anything else I need to change? Where can I find more details?

For this, i've downloaded the Hyperion Grabber app, set up the correct IP of the server and used the same port for PROTO (19445), but i'm not seeing any of it in the dashboard/remote-control pages, they don't show up as source.

Have been fiddling with different channels and priorities but can't get this to work. The only thing which is captured is the windows' server screen over Qt.
Anyone with ideas on how to get the Android Hyperion Grabber app to work on the Android (9) Tv?

Earlier today, Netflix started showing up as 'incompatible' on the Play Store for rooted and unlocked Android devices. However, the app itself continued to work fine, leading some (including myself) to think it could have been an accident. However, Netflix has now confirmed to us that blocking modified devices from downloading the app was intentional.

With our latest 5.0 release, we now fully rely on the Widevine DRM provided by Google; therefore, many devices that are not Google-certified or have been altered will no longer work with our latest app and those users will no longer see the Netflix app in the Play Store.

If you're not familiar with it, Widevine is a Google-made DRM technology that works across various desktop and mobile platforms. Widevine categorizes devices into three security levels, ranging from all processes running in the Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) to not running anything in TEE at all.

However, the Play Store listing seems tied to a device's SafetyNet status (which is used by Android Pay), rather than the Widevine TEE. For example, Artem's bootloader-unlocked stock Pixel is still on Widevine Level 1, the most secure level, but fails SafetyNet because it is unlocked.

What isn't exactly clear is why only the Play Store listing is blocked, but the app itself continued to function normally. I tried both Netflix 4.16 and 5.0.4 (the latest version, from today), and both worked without problems on my unlocked and rooted Galaxy Tab S (which is labeled as Widevine Security Level 3). Maybe at some point the app will stop working, but that does not appear to be the case right now.

If you have a blocked device, I recommend following the Pushbullet channel for Netflix on APKMirror (click the Pushbullet button on that page) so you can continue to receive updates outside the Play Store.

Netflix has started blocking rooted devices from installing their app. Currently, this only affects devices that use the Google Play Store. This means that, for the time being, Amazon devices are not affected, so rooted Fire TVs and Fire TV Sticks still have no problem installing and using Netflix.

The new adoption of Widevine for Android devices using the Google PLay Store could mean that Netflix is going to start cracking down on rooted devices, in a similar manner to how they began cracking down on VPN use not too long ago. For the moment, everything is fine for rooted Fire TV devices, but that may change in the near future.

I had a funny feeling that the first generation devices would be compatible given the bootloader situation. Suffice to say, if you happen to come across anything that may open an avenue for 2nd generation device owners, please post back here and let us know.

I also would never recommend the FTV devices ever use the APP to install the MagiskSU. I think that even us with fully unlocked bootloaders should only use the .zip binary installer thru TWRP to even attempt any testing.

Hello,
i'm currently struggling with EmteriaOS on Raspberry Pi 3b+ because the system is rooted by default.
I wanted to install Sky Go, Netflix and other apps but most of them don't work with a system that is basically unrootable.

I tried apps like "Hide my Root", "RootCloak" and others - no success.
I tried using the app "SuperSU" and unroot completely - no success.
I tried to deactivate and delete the "Superuser" app installed by default - no success.
I tried to change the root permissions in the developer's settings - can't be found.
I even searched for the "su" file in /system/bin and /system/xbin - not there.

Is there ANY way to unroot this system? There are many users who aren't really into rooting their devices for reasons like the one above, so at least being able to choose what to do with their systems would be appreciated.

i would cancel my suscription to "sky" or else if i had one when they didn't allow me playing on an a rooted devices, but netherless, i have TV-Boxes which have already root access and they are running most of these apps ?????

@DrRokko What separates the Raspberry Pi from those chinese TV Boxes you find online is that it can be shaped in whatever you want and its purpose can be changed with just a SD card swap, so it's pretty much a no brainer when it comes to choose between that and a closed system that only does one thing.