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Last reply Feb 4, 2021 · posted in DISH Network Support Forum

"Home Media" App removed?

We have DISH, and one feature that we have been making very frequent use of is the "Home Media" app. This "Home Media" app allowed you to access media (videos, etc) from any DLNA server on your network.

After a recent software update to our Hopper, this app now seems to be gone.

We have a fileserver on our network with countless videos on it, and accessing it directly from the Hopper was the most convenient option. We also have a dedicated HTPC, but switching the audio & video inputs over to the HTPC each time is not very convenient for the less technically inclined users in our house compared to simply accessing the content via the Hopper.

Does anyone know if this functionality has simply been removed from the Hopper, or is there a different/new way to access DLNA content?

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CubsWin

Dec 23, 2020

I rely on DLNA quite a bit, but I always found the Hopper Home Media app to be a buggy mess. I finally gave up and moved on to other options. It became obvious that Dish wasn't going to dedicate any resources to supporting the Home Media functions, so I eventually gave up and moved onto other options for streaming my local content.

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bookworm370

Dec 23, 2020

CubsWin said:
I rely on DLNA quite a bit, but I always found the Hopper Home Media app to be a buggy mess. I finally gave up and moved on to other options. It became obvious that Dish wasn't going to dedicate any resources to supporting the Home Media functions, so I eventually gave up and moved onto other options for streaming my local content.

If I may ask, what did you move to and how do you like it? Does it give visuals previews and icons?

CubsWin

Dec 24, 2020

bookworm370 said:
If I may ask, what did you move to and how do you like it? Does it give visuals previews and icons?

Android TV on all my TV's, either through their native apps or an Nvidia Shield Pro. It is definitely much more reliable than the Home Media app was. But I am also currently on Dish Pause and I'm getting all my content through Android TV apps. For the most part, I haven't missed Dish since I have been on Pause. The only feature I wish I still had is PTAT on my locals.

slapshot

Dec 26, 2020

CubsWin said:
Android TV on all my TV's, either through their native apps or an Nvidia Shield Pro. It is definitely much more reliable than the Home Media app was. But I am also currently on Dish Pause and I'm getting all my content through Android TV apps. For the most part, I haven't missed Dish since I have been on Pause. The only feature I wish I still had is PTAT on my locals.

I'm very disappointed!! I have other options for viewing my WD MyCloud server, but the Dish Home App was the easiest. It was always a little "picky", but my wife could use it with minimal "operator" issues.

strikes2k

Dec 26, 2020

slapshot said:
I'm very disappointed!! I have other options for viewing my WD MyCloud server, but the Dish Home App was the easiest. It was always a little "picky", but my wife could use it with minimal "operator" issues.

I ended up setting up a Plex server on a virtual computer. All my TV's have the plex app so I just use that to access my home media. It does have icons, previews, etc....it's like a mini netflix for my own media.

Zorlac

Dec 27, 2020

Had to search to even find out about this. Lame, I used Emby via my Synology NAS and it worked fine.

bookworm370

Dec 28, 2020

I have an Synology DS418Play, never new about it, I'll give it try, thanks!

pattykay

Feb 4, 2021

I forgot to post before, but as of U828 on my sister's Wally, Home Media is still there. It is long gone on the Hoppers, though.

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Yespage

Today at 4:48 PM

KAB said:
What a "pile of slop" review! I liked the show.

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klang

Oct 11, 2026

klang said:
I'm sure I will watch at least the first episode but I am not optimistic.

Here i am over a year later and just finished season 1. Not great but not as bad as I was expecting. Did not care for the barefoot captain stuff but overall ok. Actually looking forward to see what they did for season 2.

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MikeD-C05

Oct 11, 2026

klang said:
Here i am over a year later and just finished season 1. Not great but not as bad as I was expecting. Did not care for the barefoot captain stuff but overall ok. Actually looking forward to see what they did for season 2.

Yeah, the foot stuff was just nasty. I kept thinking of how dirty her feet would get traipsing around shoe-less. Funny, I love being shoe less at home and never wear shoes indoors in my home for long, but seeing her laying on all her furniture with her bare feet hanging out just kind of grossed me out.

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harshness

Oct 13, 2026

MikeD-C05 said:
I kept thinking of how dirty her feet would get traipsing around shoe-less.

Where would this "dirt" come from? Dead skin and dandruff?

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MikeD-C05

Oct 18, 2026

harshness said:
Where would this "dirt" come from? Dead skin and dandruff?

There would still be dirt ,dust in the future I am sure. So walking around the station like she did she would get stuff on her feet. I am sure the robot vacuum is still going to miss stuff, with all those different alien species running around there.

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harshness

Oct 18, 2026

MikeD-C05 said:
There would still be dirt ,dust in the future I am sure.

Where is it going to come from -- specifically?

Why do you think cleaning technology won't improve in the next few hundred years? HEPA filtration was invented as part of the Manhattan Project.

MikeD-C05

Monday at 1:35 PM

harshness said:
Where is it going to come from -- specifically?

Why do you think cleaning technology won't improve in the next few hundred years? HEPA filtration was invented as part of the Manhattan Project.

I don't know, but I still don't like her walking through the station or the academy with out her shoes. It looks unprofessional and very "hippy like" for someone of her status and I personally don't get off to feet, so there is that.

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osu1991

Monday at 1:59 PM

MikeD-C05 said:
I don't know, but I still don't like her walking through the station or the academy with out her shoes. It looks unprofessional and very "hippy like" for someone of her status and I personally don't get off to feet, so there is that.

Stay out of my office. I rarely have shoes or socks on in the office. My office and business is at home though :clapping

MikeD-C05

Yesterday at 12:25 PM

osu1991 said:
Stay out of my office. I rarely have shoes or socks on in the office. My office and business is at home though

Say, I don't wear socks or shoes in my house either. But for a captain in Star Fleet it looks bad to be walking around the academy with no shoes. Gives off 1960 Hippie vibes.

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Jimbo

Yesterday at 4:30 PM

MikeD-C05 said:
Gives off 1960 Hippie vibes.

You say that like it's a Bad thing or something ... :biggrin

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long_time_Dish

Yesterday at 4:38 PM

Well, look at the way she sat in the Captain's Chair. I didn't say the show should have been called "Captain Chair-Whore" for nothing...

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primestar31

Yesterday at 11:00 PM

MikeD-C05 said:
Say, I don't wear socks or shoes in my house either. But for a captain in Star Fleet it looks bad to be walking around the academy with no shoes. Gives off 1960 Hippie vibes.

Just sayin...

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MikeD-C05

Today at 11:17 AM

Jimbo said:
You say that like it's a Bad thing or something ...

For a whole generation of adults it was in the 1960s and 1970s.

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long_time_Dish

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Females wearing any clothing is unthinkable on Ferenginar.

Was never a huge of the Ferengi-centric episodes in Trek...

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