The app is a remote control for DirecTV receivers. Its a stripped down version of the consumer app that allows set top boxes to be grouped for control. Unfortunately the remote control has been stripped down from the control in the consumer app by removing the DVR comtrols in the top segment that has backup play pause fwd rev and skip. The control is only useful for live TV.
Here's a hot tip - Businesses want to time shift live international events like EuroVision and FIFA football matches to suit North American schedules just like consumers.
Not sure why someone went to the trouble of intentionally making the app so limited, but that's the fact. Yeah, I get it that it's original software spec said "lets bartender tune groups of TVs to same channel" and some newly minted software engineers were taught that extra features means extra bugs. Didn't anyone teach them that customizing borrowed code features in a one-off app forks the code base, raises maintainence cost, and introduces bugs?
This app also strips out the app's content search capability and ability to stream content to the iPad.