Possible to enable geolocation in WebOS browser?

[Chris Bard]

I have found a site called Locast that will stream live tv for some home markets in the US. It’s a free service but they do ask for donations. However, I am unable to get it to run on my LG tv’s browser. The site returns an error saying that I refused a request for geolocation. Due to licensing agreements, the site needs this enabled and running on the browser to validate viewers aren’t streaming into non-US markets. Is this possible or am I out of luck?

[George Hofmeister]

14 hours ago, Chris Bard said:

I have found a site called Locast that will stream live tv for some home markets in the US. It’s a free service but they do ask for donations. However, I am unable to get it to run on my LG tv’s browser. The site returns an error saying that I refused a request for geolocation. Due to licensing agreements, the site needs this enabled and running on the browser to validate viewers aren’t streaming into non-US markets. Is this possible or am I out of luck?

Hi Chris,

Geolocation is, from what I can find on the web, supported by webOS right back from the days of Hewlett Packard:

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The problem is that sites now have to request your location by way of a pop up prompt, but this is something that the webOS browser does not currently support.

 

The above is a case in point, it works in Firefox, Opera etc as I can click on the pop up but not so on webOS.

However the test for geolocation at HTML5Test shows it as being 'broken' although this is for a 2016 model, but in comparison Samsung's Tizen browser from 2015 appears to work: