I've seen the guide on installing Stremio and RD, but I noticed there's a Stremio app on our smart TV. So I just installed it and it seems to have everything under the sun availible. So do I not need the RD or torrent stuff then? Sorry if this is a stupid question, I'm new to this stuff.
You do need additional stuff if you want to watch for free, otherwise ut just links to streaming services.
What additional stuff is needed? I just installed it onto my Shield and enabled all the add-ons it comes with. Didn't do anything else and, well everything is free. What am I missing?
You need torrentio at least (community addon). RD is optional being paid and all but strongly recommended
What is RD if I may ask.
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Well that certainly sounds nice, thanks. Got a beginners guide you can recommend?
Check out https://guides.viren070.me/stremio/setup?debrid=real-debrid#setting-up-a-debrid-service
also linked on FMHY
This should be the top comment. Also stremio bootstrapper for newbies
https://bootstrapper.stremaddon.net/
This is amazing thank you! I was struggling for a little bit.. still have a couple of questions if you don't mind answering - how do I get a real debrid API key and an RPDB key? Thank you so much in advance!
In your realdebrid account, under your account settings etc, there's a place to pull it.
I don't understand. Watched via Stremio on PC fine with all the plugin installs. Does it work differently on a Mac? Are there other extra steps to take? Also, didn't understand what is this debrid service. Any chance streaming directly via Stremio is problematic and demands VPN ( at least in U.S+Germany), and this debrid solves it?
ok, lol, took literally 15 mins until streaming on a shield :)
One of us! One of us!
i usually stream directly from rive and pstream on laptop, how do i setup stremio for samsung smart tv, also is it worth it to use it on laptop for direct streaming too?
If I wasn't a cheap ass pirate, I would award this answer. I'll pirate the award and donate to you instead.
Wasn't the community up in arms a few months ago about RD because they hamstringed their service or stopped something though?
I forgot the situation exactly because I don't use it but I remember there was an outrage for some reason.
They commonly receive takedown requests which they have to act on but generally those files come back extremely quickly or you can just try a different torrent on the list and that usually works.
Would this work for my plex server? When I VPN pirate bay no one can use my plex while im downloading.
Yeah it should be possible
What about torrenting being detected by ISP without vpn? Aren’t you worried about that with RD? Not sure if you are based in USA.
RD acts like a buffer. You aren't torrenting anymore, you're direct downloading from them
There seems to be many providers. Which one do you use? Torbox?
Why would direct downloads obviate the need for VPN?
does RD seed or does it only leech?
They answered what real debrid is, but there are also alternatives, like premiumize and etc
Real Debrid
real debrid
You only need it if your internet sucks
What exactly is the difference between torrentio and RD? Since I can watch everything with torrentio
Only some few things don't have many seeders but that's it
Torrentio means your device is downloading the content via Torrent and if your country / ISP cares about piracy you will need a VPN.
Real Debrid downloads the torrent for you and then hosts it on a server. You do not need a VPN to use this service.
Damn this whole time i been using RD and i thought i needed a vpn . Good to know .
I mean, you might. Depends on your laws. But you can rawdog RD in Germany, and they are quite ... About Yarr Yarr over thar.
Oh ok got it, not sure how much Switzerland cares about uploading, but just in case I did buy the 6 months RD, comes out at 2.5chf/month which is peanuts, if it keeps me safe and gets me better/faster loading I'm all for it
Switzerland is chill about piracy (for now). though it is impt to note that rd has a single ip policy or ban with no refund. if you wish to share the account with family you can consider other debrid providers like torbox (has gotten way better recently, my choice), premiumize etc.
do also get addons like AIOstreams, AIsearch, open subtitles pro, and many more you can find at the stremio addons subreddit.
Quick follow up, if you don't mind? If I want to share with family in the same household under the same IP, can we all watch simultaneously?
yes. same ip is fine. if theyre watching at home and you start watching in the train then its not okay.
Ok thank you for the information, I will look up all those other add-ons you mentioned.
It's my first time using this, very thankful for your help
https://www.reddit.com/r/Piracy/comments/b6rpzx/here_are_some_of_the_main_countries_where_its/
Can you buy realdebird on a visa or Mastercard gift card or it needs to be bought by a credit card?
About the best explanation I've seen. My coworkers never understand me... 😅
Read this post. Explains it well
https://www.reddit.com/r/RealDebrid/s/opF6MSpZXJ
Real Debrid and similar services, caches the whole torrent file for you, so you stream from Debrid servers, not from peers. This is safer and usually avoid ISP detections and in most cases much faster than streaming torrents directly.
Are you 100% sure? When I read this (link below) I said for the extra $20 a year for a vpn decided to use it too
https://www.reddit.com/r/RealDebrid/s/opF6MSpZXJ
That post gets it pretty wrong considering RD doesn't seed and even if you were to download the torrent from RD to your machine, you're not seeding either. So yeah, no need for RD and VPN. Just use one or the other. I have a VPN sub and a RD sub. I don't use my VPN with RD.
Just to add on to what others have said.
You would also want RD for speed factor. Usually whatever you request is already cached somewhere on the RD servers, so loading is fast.
It does make the free part of streamio less so, but you sign up, load the RD info into Torrentio add on, and you are done.
From reading around this sub RD is an internet cache service , in case of screamio integration it downloads the thing you want to watch and streams it to you or anyone else who wants to watch it , basically a.middle man that helps whit buffering and ISP complains
Personally never used it but my country doesn't give a shit about piracy ,and my problems whit stremio aren't buffering
This will sound stupid but when searching community add ins for terrentio nothing comes up?
Here you go
i've been using torrentio without RD, and it seems fine. feels weird to pay for a pirate service, especially since charging money for pirated content reduces the life time of their service, someone gonna go after them eventually.
but i only watch like popular movies and shows, so lots of seeds. we seriously need that decentralized p2p network soon tho. it will be better than RD and only thing it will cost you is a little disk space and a little bandwith (which you should already be donating, SEED you fks. you dont have to seed terrabytes of data every month like i do, but still, seed a little, dont be a leech.) impossible to take it down too!
Do it "need" it, though?
No. I've used without RD myself for years. However my country does not care, I only bought RD when I wanted a more seamless experience on highest quality
This is what you want.
https://www.reddit.com/r/StremioAddons/s/zTHcLVuTrQ
https://torrentio.org/install/
Just for info. I dont know which site is legit, but im sure someone will tell you.
Debrid service, otherwise you are torrenting. Debrid service handles that for you (meaning you dont have to pay for vpn) and provides you with a list of cached and uncached torrents. Cached are ready for instant playback (think netflix speed) while uncached need to be downloaded
Alright, I understand that much now. But, since my internet speed is fast enough, why would I need a debrid service? I guess it's just not for me.
Just because your speed is fast enough without debrid doesnt mean the seeders internet is fast enough. I dont rely on seeders to view my media, i can play it back instantly with a debrid service. I also find higher quality releases that are ready to he played instantly such as a 190 gb lord of the rings remux. I dont need to wait on seeders to help me download it, its just ready to play.
Oh! Okay I see! I didn't know that part! It would be like streaming a UHD remuxed movie and not having to wait... interesting!
The add-ons follow your account. So if you login you won't have to install anything new.
Assuming you had your add-ons on a previous device.
Search the subreddit all your answers are there.
You just have to have additional stuff in your PC or mobile app. So it will transfer over into your TV. You don't usually have the versatility to do anything standalone in the TV app.
Buut if you set it up on pc you already set it up on all the other devices too
you need to configure your account to stream linux iso's through the web, then just install the tv app and login.
these are all the os they support https://www.stremio.com/downloads
tip: the app on roku is fake, do not install
app support r/stremio
addon support r/stremioaddons
Ok. This confirms it. I saw 2 Stremio apps on our Roku tv which I installed, then saw handler to a telegram and sketchy looking font choice on login, which triggered some BS radar so I didn’t login and uninstalled both.
do your country care about piracy? if yes rd is needed
if no, torrentio will work fine
What does "rd" mean? I use stremio just with movies addons
RD stands for Real-Debrid.
There are other debrid services with different pricing btw
I myself use real debrid, but I wanted to let others know that there are options
what are they
torbox, premiumize
Note that real debird only allows for one IP adress, torbox allows unlimited connections.
thank you kindly
Google it lol
Torrentio supports multiple debrid services as well
downvote this man^
No. Stop being lazy and look into it for 2 seconds. At least now you know there are many debrid services now thanks to him
stop gatekeeping and just tell the good people of reddit what other services you recommend or use.
No one is gatekeeping anything. The other guy said to Google it because the top results are going to be what most people are using.
I said that I am using real debrid myself...what am I gatekeeping?
Do your due diligence
they said theres other options, i asked like which ones, they declined to answer which other ones.
I'm just curious but aren't you scared using them? I'm a EU citizen and it's a EU company. They said if any law firms will contact them they will give them information and in their terms they store everytihng to up to 1 year. In negative reviews they also doxxed people emails and info some I'm really skeptical about this company
It's much better than fearing my ISP of detecting torrent traffic.
But now that you said that, I will look into non-EU alternatives
How does it work?
A Debrid service effectively torrents/downloads content on your behalf and sends it to your device, meaning your IP/device is never exposed to the torrent pool.
This means you can stream or download content without the need to use a VPN to hide from your ISP. Your traffic is automatically encrypted between you and the Debrid service over HTTPS.
Your ISP can’t see the content of that traffic, so they won’t be able to tell you’re pirating GoT, but they will still see you connecting to a Debrid service. For complete anonymity, you can still use a VPN for even further obfuscation.
Ah cool, would that work as a source for something like Sonarr/Radarr?
Unsure, I’m not familiar with those apps unfortunately
Idk what the difference is between the TV app and the other versions, but the TV app gets me an ISP flag every time I use it. All of my others devices that use stremio are fine though. I'm using Google TV btw.
Weird. I use a google tv and never had a problem with stremio. Do you use a debrid service?
I use Rd, but it's only on my TV that I get flagged. I've been using stremio for years and it's great everywhere else for some reason
India ✌️
Do not just use torrentio. Unless you are too poor to afford a debrid service you should be using one.
Streaming directly from grassroots seeders puts unnecessary demand on their networks, which on average makes it harder for seeders to justify long term seeding.
The hit is negligible on popular torrents.
Also, why seed media if you know people will be streaming off it? If you don't like the demand then stop seeding it lol. That's 1 or 2 out of the hundreds per torrent.
Because I care about archiving media
Private trackers exist that are more strict on things like that.
PopcornTime has been around since forever and public trackers are still doing fine as they did back then.
Stremio is great
Get a real debrid account and install the torrentio addon, in stremio, then connect the addon to real debrid, using the key (torrentios setup page links to it)
If you get RD account why do you need torrentio? Isn’t the idea with RD is not to torrent?
Do you need real debrid if you have a VPN? I guess I don't understand what real debrid does
Premium torrent links. Much higher quality of streams generally.
I dont understand it either
Make sure you have a vpn though and turn it on before opening Stremio
If you are using a Debrid service, VPN can be almost safely be ignored
Why did you say almost? I have never used a VPN when using a debrid service. You don’t need to
Because piracy shitholes like Germany find a way to f you over, i personally don’t use one either, hence the „almost“. Additionally: better be safe than sorry.
Read this. The information is all over the place. Reality is a debris service does not hide your IP
https://www.reddit.com/r/RealDebrid/s/opF6MSpZXJ
you don't need a vpn if you're using a debrid service
That’s is categorically false.
It doesn’t hide your address what so ever
"This is categorically false" while not knowing what you're talking about. Oof.
You are both a bit off IMO: You don’t indeed need VPN with a debrid IF you trust the debrid to not get sued/busted and then leak your IP to the man. Also you don’t likely need VPN even if the debrid gets busted IF only uploading is considered illegal in your country, as with debrid you per se are not uploading anything.
So go read this post and tell me if I am still wrong. What am I interpreting wrong?
https://www.reddit.com/r/RealDebrid/s/opF6MSpZXJ
And can you explain this? And really, not asking to be a dick but just want correct information out there.
https://troypoint.com/warning-stremio-user-gets-copyright-notice-from-isp/
He misconfigured and opened a torrent instead of a debrid link. That would require rd to forward dmcas, which they don't. If they did, it's time for torbox.
Thanks. Truly Appreciate it
This long post?
https://www.reddit.com/r/RealDebrid/s/i6UsbWpsaD
Torbox > rd
Stremio by itself isnt illgal at all
Your right. It isn’t. But torrenting is and if you think these billion dollar companies do t know what’s going on your are naive. Your up ip is being sent to the debird. It’s not being blocked. Get a vpn to hide your ip.
Basic 101
Torrentio scraper will not work if you have a VPN on
Works perfectly with my vpn on every time
You downvote me all you want but you clearly have no idea what your talking about.
And didn’t downvote you friend. Not being a dick but explain this to me.
https://troypoint.com/warning-stremio-user-gets-copyright-notice-from-isp/
Plus this is pretty spot on
https://www.reddit.com/r/RealDebrid/s/i6UsbWpsaD
Wow “A” Stremio user got a warning! I was sayng torrentio is blocking VPN”s which is true, I use a vpn myself why wouldn’t I? But if I have issues with a torrentio download I turn off VPN and guess what it works!
Lucky you
assuming thats lg webos, i dont recommend it as the app cant do dolby vision on mkv files, only mp4s. id recommend getting a cheaper androidtv box (firestick is the exception, do NOT get the firestick)
Why not a fire stick?
Multiple reasons. They are now removing and blocking piracy and/or questionable apps? Plus, they are now moving away from Android to Linux. It really sucks because I bought a huge Amazon firetv a year or two ago and now they’re doing this.
Android was about to start messing with things as well. They were going to block users from installing apps made by unverified developers. But many people were pissed off and now Google changed their mind. Things will still change though supposedly in the future.
As for myself? I’m on Apple TV. It’s extremely fast compared to the crappy fire stick and you can still side load apps. But, compared to Android side loading? It’s like hard mode in a game. There’s multiple ways to do it and some aren’t free but will last longer. I have Kodi instead of using Stremio, YouTube ad blocker and I could probably get emulators for gaming.
Xiaomi or google or onn, eveery other non legit stuff stay away! 16gb ram supposedly can't fuckin even log in on stremio, those chinese made up android 8 boxes
yup, as far as I'm aware you'll need an account + install the addons you want , the settings etc is much easier on a computer then just log in on your tv.
Yeah it's the same app because it's a legitimate app that's purpose is to congregate your subscriptions into one HUD viewer.
It just has a backend to it that lets you customize stuff to your liking.
Stremio will not have any content unless you have a content add-on.
Yes it is, you only need to set addons to stremio and (I highly recommend) getting a debrid service (Real debrid or torbox) and it will give you every show and movie in 4k without any buffer for like 3 dollars a month
Looks like an LG TV?
Not sure how old your TV is but my LG from a few years back has a lot of issues with Stremio playback. I think it’s partially the performance of the TV sucks and the OS is also garbage.
I noticed many features were missing from the regular Android TV version, so I ended up getting a Fire TV stick.
If I were you, I’d recommend getting either an Onn streaming stick (Walmart), or a Google Streamer. That would make stremio work a lot better and give you a much better TV watching experience for basically all of your apps.
Yeah a lot of brands cheap out on their smart TVs, pretty sure mine has 1GB of storage and 1GB of RAM, which isn't enough for pretty much any feature length movie, let alone 4K moview
I've been using it for a while and it works great. Only issue is that I can't fast forward above 1x or it'll lose the sound, and this is just happening in my TV.
Yes only crappier
It is the same one
Yes, but it keeps filling the storage or cache on my tv and j cant use it. I haven't figured out how to sort it, so use my tablet and plug that in via hdmi.
It's the same thing but you need to set it up if you want it to be the streaming service that you want it to be.
Yes! If you connect it to an account and you add the configs and addos needed you can watch for free. Use real debrid if you are in a country where piracy is actually punished (its like 18 euro for 6 months or something)
It's pretty much the same you just gotta add a couple of things and you'll be all set
If this is the lite version, like on Apple devices, you may need the streaming server component which is missing. You need to host that somewhere else. Either on your own VPS or with a service like elfhosted. I personally host myself but the elfhosted description seems pretty good
https://docs.elfhosted.com/app/stremio-server/
Not a stupid question. If you are new you are right to ask these things instead of fucking up. You'll see it's far better to waste a bit of time and effort learning this, instead of paying taxes to Netflix/HBO/Disney/Prime/etc,etc,etc.
It is never late to start treading the right path, which is to not feed Corporations
I have been using stremio for a bit and its great, but I think im noticing my internet slowing down since I downloaded it? Anyone has similar experience?
Download it on your phone or pc , create an account, add Torrentio addon , then connect to the same account on your tv , happy watching !
that looks like tizen and stremio is not on tizen,buy a cheap broken chinese android tv box and try to fix it
RDs limitations on IP, each device in a house has its own IP related the home network, is the main IP to the house the only crucial factor? Can anyone shed a bit of light on the specifics please, as I wouldn't be watching on one specific device all the time. Does it have automatic detection to ban?
I can imagine if I wanted to watch something via mobile whilst out of the house like on a night shift or something I'd need a 2nd account?
Ok, one answer answers everything, you can use that account even on the moon, with different internet, what you CANNOT do is watch at the same time, for example: at home and you at the same time, error warning 1. Then you will have a second warning but I think it is a complete ban
yes
Hey everyone! Sorry the newbee has a question to! Currently im watching thinga using torrentio… i have no other problems with the connection etc… I live in Europe btw! With 1 GB of internet speed… do i still need the RD?
I've been using it for almost 4 years on my LG tv. No support on Samsung tho
stremio was released natively on LG in 2024
https://blog.stremio.com/stremio-is-now-available-on-lg-tvs-for-models-2020/
stremio runs on Tizen 2019+ models since 2023
https://blog.stremio.com/stremio-is-now-available-in-the-samsung-tv-app-store/