Problems With Hulu Live TV app on Apple TV

I’ve found some apps just don’t behave well on different devices. I got an iptv box recently and Netflix is the app that is not behaving while it works fine on every other device. Oddly Hulu, Apple TV, prime, etc all run fine on the ip box. My tv is an old Sony with no apps, so I’ve become accustomed to using various add on devices. I’d say the firetv stick is most reliable for the big name apps.

fwiw, new location with fiber internet. Connected appletv with Hulu and rarely any issues. Tried on WiFi as well as ethernet and Hulu is usually at least 90% fine regardless of what we watched. However we were gifted an android iptv box and it’s pretty glitchy for live tv. I found we get over the air broadcast channels ok using a simple antenna so I canceled the Hulu live tv. Ya, we miss out on some on-demand stuff, but for the cost savings, it’s a no brainer. Turns out we are within 22 miles of the broadcast antenna locations and most are coming from about the same location so orientation of an antenna doesn’t need to change. I made a simple bow tie antenna that looks like cat whiskers, got the screw connector to coax converter called a balun, and bingo, live tv for free. Obvious location is critical so this may not work for everyone plus it does lack the extra ondemand available with the full Hulu. But if cost savings is important to you, it’s worth a try.

I just spent the last roughly 18 hours on and off the phone with Hulu support. Last night from roughly 11 PM to 3 AM, this morning from 7 AM to about 20 minutes ago. It's now 11 AM mountain time. My difficulty started with (bear in mind. I had no problems whatsoever for the past year with my live TV Hulu). After having watched live TV on both my Safari browser and on my Apple TV device last evening about 630 or 7 o'clock, my browser suddenly ceased to function with Hulu. After much back-and-forth and jumping up and down and talking to a support person, it was determined that somehow my Hulu said that I had lost my location and that I needed to establish my home I did that, and after much machination ( a couple hours ) was able to get my live TV to work on my Safari browser. For the next couple of hours, I watched a couple of streaming programs on my Apple device, that is my Apple TV, on Peacock and Acorn. And at roughly 10:00 PM. I thought I would turn on live TV to see if Saturday Night Live was on. I was shunted to a screen that Hulu said that I needed to reestablish my location so I logged off and logged back on and got the same message. I contacted Hulu support and spent three hours attempting to get my live TV on Hulu back working on my Apple TV device, all to no avail. I was told they would give me a one week credit for the problem I was having without fixing the problem of course. This morning at 7 AM I reestablished contact with Hulu and spent the next four hours on the phone with a very nice gentleman from Columbia who is probably pulling his hair out because we determined absolutely nothing. He believes that it is a problem with my Internet service provider. However, as many of the other posters on these August pages have stated none, that is absolutely none, of my other apps have any problems whatsoever, only Hulu. I agree, wholeheartedly with those who have said that this is not an Apple device problem, this is definitely a Hulu problem. I feel like saying yeah I'll take a Mulligan on this.

Please tell me this will be resolved. It drives me crazy and correct, it doesn’t do this on any device and I also have a Roku in another room where it works perfectly.

I corrected the issue by getting rid of Hulu.

Same complaints for years; Hulu seems committed to never fixing the Apple TV Hulu app.

To confirm my understanding, you are able to watch Hulu live TV app run from an iPhone or iPad cast via AirPlay to your Apple TV connected TV? If yes, this will solve my problem. Thank you!

Yes. You can try Hulu+live for 30 days free I believe.

I responded to your post as it’s the most recent. My issues are similar, spinning wheel of death freeze ups, programming will not start. Switch to Hulu app on Samsung TV and it’s fine.

I can't access the Hulu tv