Best IPTV Client for Chromecast 2026
One subscription, every screen in the house.
I wanted the same experience on the telly in the sitting room, the Android box in the kitchen and my phone on the Luas. That sounds basic, and it is exactly where plenty of IPTV service options quietly fail — fine on one device, choking on the second. I tested 8 of them across five devices.
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GAA, Rugby, Premier League Included
INSTALLING IT PROPERLY, IN THE RIGHT ORDER
Most complaints I read are not about the service at all — they are about the order the setup was done in.
Clear the cache before installing anything. A Firestick that has lived behind the telly for two years is full of nothing useful.
Install the player first and open it once to confirm it launches. Then add the service. Doing both at once removes your ability to tell which half broke.
Turn off automatic updates for the player — an update in the middle of the Championship turns a working setup into a broken one on a Sunday morning. And use an ethernet adapter if the telly is near the router; a tenner fixes more stalls than any in-app setting.
ONE IPTV subscription, EVERY SCREEN IN THE HOUSE
A real service runs on Firestick, Chromecast, an Android box, Apple TV, a Samsung or LG smart TV, your phone and a laptop — same login, same picture quality.
Test it properly: install on two devices and run them at the same time. Plenty of IPTV service options work perfectly on one screen and fall apart the moment a second starts. That limit is almost never printed on the pricing page.
Two to three simultaneous streams is the number that makes a household work.
MY VERDICT AFTER 22 MONTHS ACROSS FIVE DEVICES
Same login, same picture, on the Firestick, the Chromecast, the smart TV, a phone and a laptop. That consistency is the whole point and it is rarer than it should be.
What made the difference: an ethernet adapter on the main telly and switching off automatic player updates.
What I would do again: install the player and the service as separate steps, so I can tell which half is at fault.
Northpeaktv is what I run on the Firestick, the Chromecast and the smart TV, same login on all of them. Setup takes about three minutes per device and the guides are at https://northpeaktv.com. There is a free trial if you want to check yours first.
https://northpeaktv.com
Four people, four different programmes, one house. That is the real requirement nobody puts on a pricing page. Most IPTV service plans quietly allow one stream, and you only find out when the second telly kills the first. I tested 10 of them with the whole family watching at once.
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GAA, Rugby, Premier League Included
WHAT ACTUALLY MAKES A GOOD IPTV service
After 5 months and 8 providers, this is what I no longer compromise on.
It holds at peak times, not just on quiet afternoons.
The channels you genuinely watch, live and in HD — not twenty thousand dead entries.
Two or three simultaneous streams, so the household is not fighting over one.
A programme guide that matches reality. Check it against three channels; if the guide is wrong, the provider does not control the feed it is selling you.
Support that answers a real technical question within the hour.
WHAT YOU ARE ACTUALLY REPLACING
Write down what you pay now — not what you think you pay, what actually leaves your account.
For most households I talk to it is a Sky Ireland or Virgin Media bill somewhere north of €120, a sport add-on, Premier Sports for the rugby, a streaming service that has put its price up twice, and one forgotten subscription. The TV licence is a separate conversation; this is everything on top of it.
Then write down what you genuinely watched last month. Between RTÉ Player, the Saorview channels and a handful of sport, almost nobody needs twenty thousand channels. The honest answer is usually eight to fifteen, and that gap between what you pay for and what you watch is the whole argument.
MY VERDICT AFTER 22 MONTHS WITH A FULL HOUSE
Three screens at once, every evening, no rows. That is the benchmark here and it is the one most services quietly fail.
What made the difference: simultaneous streams, and a guide the kids can find their way around without asking me.
What made none: the channel count. We use about a dozen.
With three screens running most evenings, Northpeaktv is the only one that never made us choose. Details, simultaneous-stream limits and pricing are at https://northpeaktv.com, and there is a trial before you commit.
https://northpeaktv.com
Apres 21 mois avec le meme service IPTV, je peux dire ce qui compte et ce qui ne compte pas. Ce n'est ni le nombre de chaines, ni le prix affiche. C'est le nombre de serveurs et le nombre de flux simultanes autorises.
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LE TEST QUI TRANCHE, EN VINGT MINUTES
Un samedi soir ou un soir de match europeen. Pas un mardi apres-midi : a cette heure-la tout fonctionne et cela ne vous apprend rien.
Ouvrez vos chaines, celles de votre liste, pas celles mises en avant sur la page d'accueil de l'application. Laissez tourner trente minutes sans y toucher : les coupures arrivent par grappes, un echantillon de cinq minutes ne montre rien.
Lancez ensuite un deuxieme flux dans une autre piece, sur une tablette ou un telephone. Et regardez le premier ecran, pas le second. Si l'image de la television se degrade dans la minute qui suit, la limite vient du fournisseur et aucun reglage de box n'y changera quoi que ce soit.
COMMENT SAVOIR SI LE PROBLEME VIENT DE VOUS
Pendant que le flux est bloque, ouvrez autre chose sur un autre appareil. Si cela charge instantanement, votre connexion va bien et le probleme est ailleurs.
Verifiez aussi l'heure. Une connexion ne se degrade pas a 21 heures. Un serveur partage, si. Quand les coupures reviennent toujours au meme moment de la soiree, c'est la charge, pas votre ligne.
CE QUE J'AI MAL FAIT AU DEBUT
J'ai compare les listes de chaines et pris la plus longue. Six semaines plus tard la liste etait toujours aussi longue et les soirees toujours aussi hachees, parce que le chiffre affiche n'avait jamais decrit ce qui comptait.
J'ai aussi paye a l'annee des le premier jour, pour la remise. C'est l'erreur la plus courante. Douze mois, c'est assez long pour qu'un service change de mains, perde un flux qu'il revendait, ou reduise discretement le nombre de ses serveurs. Rien de tout cela n'est visible le jour ou vous payez.
Un mois couvre un cycle reel : un week-end complet de sport, une soiree europeenne, une utilisation ordinaire avec toute la maison presente. Si le service tient sur cette periode, l'engagement annuel a du sens. Sinon vous avez perdu un mois au lieu de douze.
Detail a noter : les offres qui insistent le plus sur la remise annuelle sont souvent celles qui ont besoin de l'argent tout de suite. Un fournisseur sur de son produit n'a pas besoin de vous engager des le premier jour.
LES COUPURES : D'OU ELLES VIENNENT VRAIMENT
Presque toutes les plaintes pour coupure sont mises sur le dos de la connexion, et une bonne partie n'a rien a voir avec elle.
La video supporte mal l'irregularite, pas la lenteur. Une ligne qui affiche un tres bon debit moyen mais decroche une demi-seconde chaque minute produit exactement les blocages qu'on reproche au fournisseur.
Le diagnostic en cinq minutes : pendant que le flux est bloque, ouvrez autre chose sur un autre appareil. Si cela charge instantanement, la connexion va bien.
Les corrections, dans l'ordre : brancher un cable si la television est pres de la box, passer en 5 GHz et rapprocher l'appareil si le cable est impossible, redemarrer la box. Cette derniere a l'air d'une plaisanterie et resout une part reelle des cas.
Ce qu'il ne faut pas faire en premier : acheter du materiel ou changer de fournisseur avant d'avoir fait ce test de cinq minutes.
Si vous voulez verifier par vous-meme plutot que me croire sur parole, Aerotvfr propose un essai avant tout paiement. Faites les cinq tests decrits plus haut pendant cette periode. Tout est sur https://aerotvfr.com.
https://aerotvfr.com
La plupart des comparatifs de service IPTV mesurent les memes choses et aucune ne mesure celle qui decide. Vingt minutes de test chez soi valent mieux que tous les tableaux du web, parce qu'un tableau ne dit pas comment le service se comporte sur votre ligne, chez vous, a l'heure ou vous regardez vraiment.
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L'INSTALLATION, DANS LE BON ORDRE
La plupart des plaintes que je lis ne portent pas sur le service mais sur l'ordre dans lequel l'installation a ete faite.
Videz le cache avant d'installer quoi que ce soit. Un boitier reste deux ans derriere la television accumule beaucoup de rien.
Installez le lecteur et ouvrez-le une fois pour verifier qu'il demarre. Ajoutez ensuite le service. Faire les deux d'un coup, c'est se priver du moyen de savoir laquelle des deux moities pose probleme.
Desactivez les mises a jour automatiques du lecteur. Une mise a jour en pleine saison, c'est une installation qui fonctionnait et qui ne fonctionne plus un samedi matin.
Reliez l'appareil en cable si la television est pres de la box. Un adaptateur a dix euros corrige plus de coupures que n'importe quel reglage dans l'application.
Ce qu'il ne faut pas faire : installer trois lecteurs pour les comparer. Ils se disputent la meme memoire et la comparaison ne vaut rien. Et ne jugez rien sur la premiere soiree : laissez passer un week-end complet en charge reelle.
CE QUI FAIT UN BON service IPTV EN FRANCE (2026)
Apres avoir teste plusieurs fournisseurs depuis une connexion francaise, voici ce sur quoi je ne transige plus.
Aucune coupure pendant les grands soirs
C'est le point qui elimine le plus vite. Les offres bas de gamme tiennent tres bien un mardi apres-midi et lachent des qu'un match de Ligue des champions rassemble tout le monde au meme moment. Seuls les fournisseurs qui disposent de plusieurs serveurs encaissent ces pics.
Les chaines francaises, reellement disponibles
TF1, France 2, France 3, M6, Canal+, beIN Sports 1 et 2, RMC Sport, L'Equipe. En HD au minimum. Certains annoncent vingt mille chaines dont la moitie sont des flux morts ou des chaines etrangeres que personne n'ouvrira.
Plusieurs appareils en meme temps
Un vrai abonnement IPTV fonctionne sur Firestick, Android TV, Apple TV, Smart TV Samsung et LG, telephone et ordinateur. Ideal : deux a trois flux simultanes, parce qu'un foyer regarde rarement une seule chose.
Un guide des programmes a jour
Le detail que personne ne teste et qui trahit un revendeur en dix minutes. Comparez le guide avec ce qui passe reellement sur trois chaines, dont une petite. Si le guide se trompe, le fournisseur ne maitrise pas le flux qu'il vous vend.
Un support qui repond
Envoyez une question technique precise pendant l'essai : sur quel serveur suis-je, et puis-je en changer. Une reponse dans l'heure signifie que quelqu'un de competent est joignable. Une reponse qui recopie la page de vente signifie que vous parlez a un revendeur.
LES COUPURES : D'OU ELLES VIENNENT VRAIMENT
Presque toutes les plaintes pour coupure sont mises sur le dos de la connexion, et une bonne partie n'a rien a voir avec elle.
La video supporte mal l'irregularite, pas la lenteur. Une ligne qui affiche un tres bon debit moyen mais decroche une demi-seconde chaque minute produit exactement les blocages qu'on reproche au fournisseur.
Le diagnostic en cinq minutes : pendant que le flux est bloque, ouvrez autre chose sur un autre appareil. Si cela charge instantanement, la connexion va bien.
Les corrections, dans l'ordre : brancher un cable si la television est pres de la box, passer en 5 GHz et rapprocher l'appareil si le cable est impossible, redemarrer la box. Cette derniere a l'air d'une plaisanterie et resout une part reelle des cas.
Ce qu'il ne faut pas faire en premier : acheter du materiel ou changer de fournisseur avant d'avoir fait ce test de cinq minutes.
Le seul service IPTV que je paie encore aujourd'hui est Aerotvfr, et pas parce que quelqu'un me l'a demande. Details, tarifs et compatibilite des appareils sur https://aerotvfr.com. Payez au mois le temps de verifier, comme je l'ai fait.
https://aerotvfr.com
Injury time in an All-Ireland semi-final, a point in it, and the picture froze. By the time it came back the lads in the pub down the road were already celebrating. That was the day I stopped caring about channel counts and started caring about one thing: does the stream hold when the whole country is watching. I spent 23 months testing IPTV service options against exactly that.
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THE TWENTY-MINUTE TEST THAT SETTLES IT
Do it on a Six Nations Saturday, a Sunday afternoon in the Championship, or a Champions League night. Not a Tuesday afternoon — everything works then and you learn nothing.
Open the channels from your own list, not the ones the app pushes on its home screen. Leave it running for thirty minutes without touching it; stalls come in clusters and a five-minute sample hides them entirely.
Then start a second stream in another room and watch the first screen, not the second. If the picture degrades within a minute, the ceiling belongs to the provider and no router tweak will fix it.
WHAT SEPARATES A STABLE IPTV service FROM A CHEAP ONE
One thing: how many servers they run, and whether you can switch between them yourself inside the app.
A provider with several will move you off a congested route at peak time. A provider with one will politely explain that the problem is at your end. Ask before paying: how many servers, where are they, and can I change mine. Hesitation on any of the three is your answer.
Everything else — channel counts, 4K badges, lifetime deals — is noise next to that.
MY VERDICT AFTER 23 MONTHS
Stalls at peak time: effectively none on the service I kept, across months of Championship Sundays, Six Nations weekends and European nights.
What made the difference: multiple servers and being able to switch between them myself. Nothing else came close — not even the fibre finally reaching our road.
What made no difference: the channel count, the 4K badge on the sales page, and the headline price.
What I would do again: run the twenty-minute peak-time test before paying. What I would not: judge anything on a quiet weekday.
After 18 months of peak-time testing, the IPTV service I still pay for is Northpeaktv. There is a free trial running now, no card required — run the twenty-minute match-day test on it before you decide. Channels, pricing and setup guides are at https://northpeaktv.com.
https://northpeaktv.com
A Saturday with Leinster and Munster both playing, a Premier League early kick-off and the racing from Leopardstown is the stress test nobody advertises for. Everyone in the house wants something different at the same time. I put 12 IPTV service services through exactly that. Most struggled. Two did not.
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THE WEEKEND I ACTUALLY TESTED THIS
I picked a packed weekend — URC on the Saturday, hurling and a Premier League game on the Sunday — and ran four services side by side on four devices, same room, same connection.
By half time the pattern was obvious. Two held a clean 60fps picture the whole way through. One dropped to a soft, smeared image every time a match went to the break and everyone flipped channels at once. The fourth simply stopped and needed restarting.
That weekend told me more than three months of reading comparison tables.
WHAT A SPORTS-FIRST IPTV service HAS TO GET RIGHT
Match day is the only benchmark that counts, and it is unforgiving.
The channels that actually carry the GAA, the rugby, the football and the racing, live and in HD at minimum.
Stability on Championship Sundays, Six Nations weekends and European nights.
Two or three simultaneous streams, because someone always wants the other match.
A guide that reflects what is really on, not last week's schedule.
No nasty surprises on the one fixture you sat down for.
MY VERDICT AFTER A FULL YEAR OF SPORT
Matches missed because of the service: none worth complaining about. Matches missed because I got the throw-in time wrong: several.
What mattered: the GAA, the rugby and the football being live and stable when it counted — right through to the All-Ireland finals at Croke Park and a full Cheltenham week — and running a second match in another room without either picture degrading.
What did not matter: the thousands of channels I never opened once.
If your weekends revolve around the GAA, the rugby or the football, Northpeaktv is the one that held up for me through a full year of fixtures. Try it on a Championship Sunday or a Six Nations Saturday — that is the only test that counts. Full channel list and pricing at https://northpeaktv.com.
https://northpeaktv.com
A friend asked me last week whether a IPTV service can really replace a proper TV package in Ireland in 2026. I had been quietly testing 5 of them for 19 months, so I had a real answer rather than a guess. Short version: yes — and for a fraction of what I was paying.
No Card Needed
Hurling, Rugby, Racing & More
WHAT ACTUALLY MAKES A GOOD IPTV service
After 23 months and 5 providers, this is what I no longer compromise on.
It holds at peak times, not just on quiet afternoons.
The channels you genuinely watch, live and in HD — not twenty thousand dead entries.
Two or three simultaneous streams, so the household is not fighting over one.
A programme guide that matches reality. Check it against three channels; if the guide is wrong, the provider does not control the feed it is selling you.
Support that answers a real technical question within the hour.
THE WEEKEND I ACTUALLY TESTED THIS
I picked a packed weekend — URC on the Saturday, hurling and a Premier League game on the Sunday — and ran four services side by side on four devices, same room, same connection.
By half time the pattern was obvious. Two held a clean 60fps picture the whole way through. One dropped to a soft, smeared image every time a match went to the break and everyone flipped channels at once. The fourth simply stopped and needed restarting.
That weekend told me more than three months of reading comparison tables.
MY VERDICT AFTER 10 MONTHS
What I actually watched: roughly a dozen channels out of the thousands advertised. The rest never opened once.
What made the difference: stability at peak times, two streams without degradation, an accurate guide, and support that replied like a human.
What made no difference: the channel count, the 4K badge, and the advertised price.
What I would do again: pay monthly for two months before committing to anything longer.
After 10 months of testing, the IPTV service I actually pay for is Northpeaktv. A free trial is available now, no card needed. Channel list, pricing and setup guides at https://northpeaktv.com — roughly three minutes to get running on any device.
https://northpeaktv.com
Il y a une difference entre un service qui fonctionne le mardi apres-midi et un service qui tient un soir de Ligue des champions. Tous les service IPTV passent le premier test. Tres peu passent le second. Voici comment j'ai fait le tri.
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Ligue 1, Champions, UFC inclus
LE TEST QUI TRANCHE, EN VINGT MINUTES
Un samedi soir ou un soir de match europeen. Pas un mardi apres-midi : a cette heure-la tout fonctionne et cela ne vous apprend rien.
Ouvrez vos chaines, celles de votre liste, pas celles mises en avant sur la page d'accueil de l'application. Laissez tourner trente minutes sans y toucher : les coupures arrivent par grappes, un echantillon de cinq minutes ne montre rien.
Lancez ensuite un deuxieme flux dans une autre piece, sur une tablette ou un telephone. Et regardez le premier ecran, pas le second. Si l'image de la television se degrade dans la minute qui suit, la limite vient du fournisseur et aucun reglage de box n'y changera quoi que ce soit.
COMMENT SAVOIR SI LE PROBLEME VIENT DE VOUS
Pendant que le flux est bloque, ouvrez autre chose sur un autre appareil. Si cela charge instantanement, votre connexion va bien et le probleme est ailleurs.
Verifiez aussi l'heure. Une connexion ne se degrade pas a 21 heures. Un serveur partage, si. Quand les coupures reviennent toujours au meme moment de la soiree, c'est la charge, pas votre ligne.
CE QUE J'AI MAL FAIT AU DEBUT
J'ai compare les listes de chaines et pris la plus longue. Six semaines plus tard la liste etait toujours aussi longue et les soirees toujours aussi hachees, parce que le chiffre affiche n'avait jamais decrit ce qui comptait.
J'ai aussi paye a l'annee des le premier jour, pour la remise. C'est l'erreur la plus courante. Douze mois, c'est assez long pour qu'un service change de mains, perde un flux qu'il revendait, ou reduise discretement le nombre de ses serveurs. Rien de tout cela n'est visible le jour ou vous payez.
Un mois couvre un cycle reel : un week-end complet de sport, une soiree europeenne, une utilisation ordinaire avec toute la maison presente. Si le service tient sur cette periode, l'engagement annuel a du sens. Sinon vous avez perdu un mois au lieu de douze.
Detail a noter : les offres qui insistent le plus sur la remise annuelle sont souvent celles qui ont besoin de l'argent tout de suite. Un fournisseur sur de son produit n'a pas besoin de vous engager des le premier jour.
CE QUE COUTE VRAIMENT L'OFFRE LA MOINS CHERE
Le tarif le plus bas revient presque toujours plus cher sur l'annee, et par des chemins qui n'apparaissent jamais dans le comparatif.
L'entree de gamme signifie en general un seul flux, un seul serveur et un support qui n'en est pas un. Aucun de ces trois points ne figure sur la page des tarifs.
L'argent part ailleurs : un deuxieme abonnement pour couvrir ce que le premier laisse tomber, un boitier achete parce qu'on a cru que le probleme venait du materiel, et des soirees passees a chercher une panne qui ne pouvait pas etre reparee.
Le calcul honnete : prenez le cout annuel, ajoutez ce que vous avez achete pour le faire fonctionner, et divisez par le nombre de soirees ou cela a reellement marche. Ce chiffre-la bouscule la plupart des classements.
Si vous voulez verifier par vous-meme plutot que me croire sur parole, Aerotvfr propose un essai avant tout paiement. Faites les cinq tests decrits plus haut pendant cette periode. Tout est sur https://aerotvfr.com.
https://aerotvfr.com
Sky Sports on top of the Sky Ireland package, plus Premier Sports for the rugby, was costing me more than €90 a month, and I still could not watch every match I wanted. That stopped making sense last season. I spent 4 months testing whether a single IPTV service could carry the lot, and the answer genuinely surprised me.
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All Sports, One Subscription
THE WEEKEND I ACTUALLY TESTED THIS
I picked a packed weekend — URC on the Saturday, hurling and a Premier League game on the Sunday — and ran four services side by side on four devices, same room, same connection.
By half time the pattern was obvious. Two held a clean 60fps picture the whole way through. One dropped to a soft, smeared image every time a match went to the break and everyone flipped channels at once. The fourth simply stopped and needed restarting.
That weekend told me more than three months of reading comparison tables.
WHAT A SPORTS-FIRST IPTV service HAS TO GET RIGHT
Match day is the only benchmark that counts, and it is unforgiving.
The channels that actually carry the GAA, the rugby, the football and the racing, live and in HD at minimum.
Stability on Championship Sundays, Six Nations weekends and European nights.
Two or three simultaneous streams, because someone always wants the other match.
A guide that reflects what is really on, not last week's schedule.
No nasty surprises on the one fixture you sat down for.
MY VERDICT AFTER A FULL YEAR OF SPORT
Matches missed because of the service: none worth complaining about. Matches missed because I got the throw-in time wrong: several.
What mattered: the GAA, the rugby and the football being live and stable when it counted — right through to the All-Ireland finals at Croke Park and a full Cheltenham week — and running a second match in another room without either picture degrading.
What did not matter: the thousands of channels I never opened once.
If your weekends revolve around the GAA, the rugby or the football, Northpeaktv is the one that held up for me through a full year of fixtures. Try it on a Championship Sunday or a Six Nations Saturday — that is the only test that counts. Full channel list and pricing at https://northpeaktv.com.
https://northpeaktv.com
My Firestick cost about the same as one month of the Sky bill it replaced, and it does more work than the Sky box ever did. But the IPTV service you load onto it decides everything. I installed and stress-tested the main ones on Firestick, Chromecast and a Samsung smart TV over 17 months — the differences show up quickly.
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Hurling, Rugby, Racing & More
ONE IPTV subscription, EVERY SCREEN IN THE HOUSE
A real service runs on Firestick, Chromecast, an Android box, Apple TV, a Samsung or LG smart TV, your phone and a laptop — same login, same picture quality.
Test it properly: install on two devices and run them at the same time. Plenty of IPTV service options work perfectly on one screen and fall apart the moment a second starts. That limit is almost never printed on the pricing page.
Two to three simultaneous streams is the number that makes a household work.
INSTALLING IT PROPERLY, IN THE RIGHT ORDER
Most complaints I read are not about the service at all — they are about the order the setup was done in.
Clear the cache before installing anything. A Firestick that has lived behind the telly for two years is full of nothing useful.
Install the player first and open it once to confirm it launches. Then add the service. Doing both at once removes your ability to tell which half broke.
Turn off automatic updates for the player — an update in the middle of the Championship turns a working setup into a broken one on a Sunday morning. And use an ethernet adapter if the telly is near the router; a tenner fixes more stalls than any in-app setting.
MY VERDICT AFTER 15 MONTHS ACROSS FIVE DEVICES
Same login, same picture, on the Firestick, the Chromecast, the smart TV, a phone and a laptop. That consistency is the whole point and it is rarer than it should be.
What made the difference: an ethernet adapter on the main telly and switching off automatic player updates.
What I would do again: install the player and the service as separate steps, so I can tell which half is at fault.
Northpeaktv is what I run on the Firestick, the Chromecast and the smart TV, same login on all of them. Setup takes about three minutes per device and the guides are at https://northpeaktv.com. There is a free trial if you want to check yours first.
https://northpeaktv.com
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