Simple box for Mother In-Law

[stdly]

I need a simple IPTV box for my 90 year old mother in-law she only watches a few channels. I have a BuzzTV XR4500 and a BuzzTV X5 C and love them both I have recommended them to others. I wonder if the B5 would be a good choice for her to just watch IPTV at $99.99 Canadian it seems like a pretty good deal and the IR 100 is good I don't use my BuzzTV BT400 it's in a drawer. I also don’t want to use a third party app for her to watch IPTV, to confusing so that narrows it down and BuzzTV 5 is so easy to use and a great interface.

Anyone have any feedback on this box?

[Emporium]

My mom uses a B5.  It is a little on the slower side but it works.  To make her life simpler, I download the M3U file for her account, edited it myself to remove channels she does not watch and to put it in the order she prefers, and I uploaded the file to my pastebin account and set her box to download the M3U file directly from there.   She does not watch any VOD/TV Series and the few times she has wanted a VOD movie, I have simply taken the link from the M3U file from her account, added another channel at the end with a link to the VOD file and she just reboots the box, and it refreshes and she has the movie as a channel   And all she needs to do is +/- through the channels.  She has no concept of EPG layouts, etc...

You can also just hide all the categories she does not watch, put all her favorites in a favorites category and order them the way you want.  I just did it my way because my mom a few times found herself in one of her category and even with a "favorites" button on the remote, I eventually gave up and went over to put it back to the favorites category.  She just wants to press CH+/CH- to go through her dozen or so channels.

For Pure IPTV the B5 is fine.  But I will probably shortly swap her box with the E5, which I find is a lot smoother overall.

 

 

[dishuser]

B5 or L1 are great for iptv

[stdly]

Thanks guys! I appreciate your feedback, maybe the E5 is a better way to go. The L1 with 30 plus updates, which is good wouldn't work as she is not that close to us and has no technical skills even the guide is too much for her.

[stdly]

On 5/14/2025 at 8:12 PM, Emporium said:

My mom uses a B5.  It is a little on the slower side but it works.  To make her life simpler, I download the M3U file for her account, edited it myself to remove channels she does not watch and to put it in the order she prefers, and I uploaded the file to my pastebin account and set her box to download the M3U file directly from there.   She does not watch any VOD/TV Series and the few times she has wanted a VOD movie, I have simply taken the link from the M3U file from her account, added another channel at the end with a link to the VOD file and she just reboots the box, and it refreshes and she has the movie as a channel   And all she needs to do is +/- through the channels.  She has no concept of EPG layouts, etc...

You can also just hide all the categories she does not watch, put all her favorites in a favorites category and order them the way you want.  I just did it my way because my mom a few times found herself in one of her category and even with a "favorites" button on the remote, I eventually gave up and went over to put it back to the favorites category.  She just wants to press CH+/CH- to go through her dozen or so channels.

For Pure IPTV the B5 is fine.  But I will probably shortly swap her box with the E5, which I find is a lot smoother overall.

 

 

Thanks again!

Of topic maybe but what m3u editor are you using. I opened my m3u's in notepad++ and wow.

[Emporium]

6 minutes ago, stdly said:

Thanks again!

Of topic maybe but what m3u editor are you using. I opened my m3u's in notepad++ and wow.

I also use Notepad++

I open a second tab, and then search in the first tab for the channels I want, and then I just copy the 2 lines for that channel (the details and the link), over to the second tab.  Also include the header line at the top which identifies it as an m3u file.

There are other online editors, but I am not too keen of putting anything with credentials online.  Yaya, I know many will jump in and say it is not hard to hack, I agree, but why hand them the key and open the door   

First time you do it, it may be a little time consuming, but after that, changing a channel here or there, is not the end of the world, I just do it directly on pastebin (where I keep my lists).  I used to keep them local on her box, but then every time I wanted to add something I'd have to go over to update her list.  This way, it is online and simple for me to modify from home.   To make things simple, I tried originally creating tinyurl links, but unless you have a paid account, you can't edit the links once you create them. So I just use direct pastebin, raw links, which are simple enough as "h t t p : // pastebin.com / raw / xxxxxx" where the xxxxxx is a unique sequence for each list you create.  And it is case sensitive, but link doesn't change every time you edit it.

[stdly]

Emporium again thanks, I will give this a try even for myself.