Your best bet at requesting a channel is to post on their public Twitter or Facebook they are more responsive to requests on those platforms and you will most likely get a response from a rep.
Since the NASA app is available on (I believe) all the devices that support DirecTV Stream and the app includes the NASA TV stream (plus a whole lot of on-demand content), the lack of the channel within the DirecTV Stream app seems at most an inconvenience. You would have to start a different app, but having done that, you get all the additional content. That's one of the advantages of the live streaming services - they use the internet and devices that supports lots of other internet apps, so you get access to the content from those apps without depending on the streaming service to decide to include it directly.
I just checked, and that does seem to be the case. Like DirecTV Stream itself until very recently, NASA has an app for Android and for FireTV, but apparently hasn’t taken the additional step to create an Android TV version. That has been true of a number of fairly major apps. I have no knowledge of the details involved - I wonder of there is something making the creation of a fully supported Android TV app more difficult. Like Android, but unlike FireTV and the rest of the apps, it runs on a wide range of devices not controlled (or ported to) by the platform developer (Google), and that might make it less standardized and so more difficult to support. (This may be why some app providers list specific Android TV devices they run on.) OTOH, lots of apps do manage, and even if they don’t successfully run on every Android TV device, they apparently do on major ones. You could contact NASA and see if they have any plans to port their app to Android TV. And yes, with regard to getting the linear channel on DirecTV Stream, posting on their Twitter and Facebook feeds is likely the best way to get the request noticed.
lou_do
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Not sure if you are aware, but there is a nice NASA app you can download on many devices.
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jtshep1
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Yea have it on a roku, be nice to have the live channel on DTV stream.
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Tiger593
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Your best bet at requesting a channel is to post on their public Twitter or Facebook they are more responsive to requests on those platforms and you will most likely get a response from a rep.
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Jrandomuser
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Since the NASA app is available on (I believe) all the devices that support DirecTV Stream and the app includes the NASA TV stream (plus a whole lot of on-demand content), the lack of the channel within the DirecTV Stream app seems at most an inconvenience. You would have to start a different app, but having done that, you get all the additional content. That's one of the advantages of the live streaming services - they use the internet and devices that supports lots of other internet apps, so you get access to the content from those apps without depending on the streaming service to decide to include it directly.
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jtshep1
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Yea I have the app on a roku. But would love to have the live feed as a channel.
the NASA app not on the Osprey DTV stream box.
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Jrandomuser
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I just checked, and that does seem to be the case. Like DirecTV Stream itself until very recently, NASA has an app for Android and for FireTV, but apparently hasn’t taken the additional step to create an Android TV version. That has been true of a number of fairly major apps. I have no knowledge of the details involved - I wonder of there is something making the creation of a fully supported Android TV app more difficult. Like Android, but unlike FireTV and the rest of the apps, it runs on a wide range of devices not controlled (or ported to) by the platform developer (Google), and that might make it less standardized and so more difficult to support. (This may be why some app providers list specific Android TV devices they run on.) OTOH, lots of apps do manage, and even if they don’t successfully run on every Android TV device, they apparently do on major ones. You could contact NASA and see if they have any plans to port their app to Android TV. And yes, with regard to getting the linear channel on DirecTV Stream, posting on their Twitter and Facebook feeds is likely the best way to get the request noticed.
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