Release notes
What's new
Features, refinements and fixes from every TiviGlass update. New versions arrive in the app itself.
Release information is loaded from the same production manifest as the updater.
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TiviGlass 2.3.4. A big one: Christmas themes, TiviMate import, a proper Stremio section, smarter episode playback, richer film and show pages and much better phone and tablet controls.
New
- Seven animated Christmas themes, with a countdown to Christmas in the headings. Find them under Christmas in the colour theme gallery (Premium). The app icon also wears a Santa hat through November and December.
- Import from TiviMate. Bring over your Xtream and M3U services, favourites, renamed, hidden and locked channels, group choices and TV guide sources from a TiviMate backup file. It's in first setup, or Settings › Sync & backup › Backup file › Import from TiviMate. The app has its own file browser, so you can pick the backup straight from the TV or a USB drive. Free on every plan.
- Stremio has its own section in the menu, with Continue watching, your addon catalogues and Discover. You can filter sources by resolution and addon, check addons for updates and set them up from your phone. Search also looks through your Stremio sources alongside the TV service you're using, and the In button says so, for example "My TV + Stremio" (Premium).
- Skip intro, Skip recap and Skip credits cards on films and episodes, using community timings from IntroDB. Free on every plan.
- Next up. When you finish an episode, Home's Continue watching row offers the next one, and the Play button on a show follows where you are: Continue, Next or Play.
- Still watching? After three episodes in a row play by themselves, TiviGlass asks before carrying on, so a TV left on doesn't play all night.
- Film and show pages show the title's logo, a wide backdrop, the age rating, TMDB's audience score and cast photos, when your TV service gives the title its TMDB number.
- Versions. When the same film is on another of your TV services, its page lets you pick which copy to play.
- Hold Left on a programme in the TV guide to go back in time. The longer you hold, the faster it goes.
Improved
- Phones and tablets are much easier to use by touch. On a phone held upright, a bar along the bottom opens your first four menu entries, and All opens everything else. Landscape phones and tablets get a side rail.
- Full-screen playback on a touch screen has a Close button, playback controls and More options within reach, and films and episodes get a seek bar you can drag.
- You can drag channels, groups, posters, Home rows and menu entries into place on a phone or tablet.
- On a narrow screen, Catch Up has Choose channel at the top, which opens a searchable channel list and then gives the programmes the full width.
- Recording timers on a touch screen use Android's own time picker and your 12 or 24-hour setting.
- Audio description: normal audio now plays by default, described tracks are labelled Audio description, and the track you pick is remembered for that channel, film or episode. Choose your preference in Settings › Picture & sound › Sound › Audio description.
- Recordings keep going through short network, VPN and drive dropouts, and long recordings on FAT32 USB sticks are saved in parts instead of failing.
- Smoother on modest boxes like the Fire TV Stick, with less background work while you browse, lighter animated themes and a lighter TV guide.
- Switching away from a TV service that has stopped answering no longer leaves you waiting on it.
- If a backup server address is blocked but still accepts your login, TiviGlass now moves to your next address.
- Searching across all your TV services is quicker.
Fixed
- A sleep timer that had run out could close every later player launch.
- Saving a setting on a nearly full TV could close the app.
- The app could close on NVIDIA SHIELD while checking for a freeze.
- Some TVs signed out of the account on their own.
- Opening a backup file with "Open with" closed the app.
- A recording whose drive failed could take up to two minutes to stop.
- Recently added, removing from the watchlist and favourite show details didn't always work.
- Holding a button in the TV guide could keep it moving after you let go.
- A TV service you removed could come back.
- Long menu values could cut off the row's title.
- Cancelling a guide hand-off said the player couldn't open.
- A channel you matched to a guide by hand didn't show that guide's logo.
- Sports showed a provider's "No EVENT Today" placeholder instead of tonight's game.
- Some Settings sections opened with their rows hidden at the bottom of the screen.
Changed
- Home, Kids, parental controls and backup server addresses are now part of Essentials, and online subtitle search is part of Premium. On Free, the app opens on Live TV. A PIN and locks you set before are kept and come back with the plan. The adult-group age check still asks on every plan.
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TiviGlass 2.3.3. Several TiviGlass accounts on one TV, a Private session, a Fusion you can see working, timers you can edit, and watch history that survives your provider renumbering its films and shows.
New
- Several TiviGlass accounts on one TV. In Who's watching?, choose Add profile, then A separate TiviGlass account. Each account keeps its own plan, TV services and viewing data, and you can switch with Switch account. Up to eight per TV.
- Private session. Turn it on in Settings > Privacy & security and TiviGlass keeps no new watch history, Continue watching, resume points, last channel or recent searches until you end it. Free on every plan.
- Settings > Privacy & security, a new page showing what this TV keeps and sends, with Diagnostics & device log, a Remote technical checks switch, Your data, and every service the app connects to. Free on every plan.
- Fusion overview shows how far Fusion has got matching your TV services and what it has done on this TV. Choose copies by (Balanced, Best picture or Most reliable) and Prefer copies from decide which copy it tries first. Find them under Settings > While watching > When a channel fails · Fusion. Premium.
- Choose main copy. With Merge duplicate channels on, hold OK on a channel in the guide to pick which copy plays, for example the one with catch-up.
- Edit timer. Change the date, start, end or repeat days of a scheduled recording from the guide or Recordings > Scheduled. Essentials or Premium.
- Connections this service allows, in Settings > TV services > This service. Tell TiviGlass how many channels your service lets you watch or record at once, and this TV never asks for more. Recordings come first. Free on every plan.
- Lock or unlock up to 1,000 channels at once: hold OK on a channel in the guide and choose Select channels. Free on every plan.
- Manage profiles, a new button in Who's watching?, puts each profile's name, what they can watch, On startup and Recently deleted in one place.
- Match details in the Sports Hub. Hold OK on a match for its status, what's coming up and, with several broadcasts, Choose stream.
- Earlier in the guide, for remotes without a Rewind key: next to Jump to now at the top of the groups panel. Earlier programmes and Later programmes can also be given to a remote button.
- Clean up names, in Settings > Channels & groups, takes words like UK: or | HD off every channel name. Premium.
- Restore a backup from a Dropbox or Google Drive link, for TVs with no file picker: Settings > Sync & backup > Backup file > Restore from a link. Premium.
- Restart TiviGlass, in Settings > Help & about > Fix a problem.
- Open TiviGlass when the TV wakes up, in Settings > Home & menu > When TiviGlass starts. Off unless you turn it on, and it may not work on every TV.
- With Match TV frame rate on, choose 50 and 60 Hz only so films start without a black flash. Essentials or Premium.
- Next episode and Previous episode in the player's More menu. Specials now play after the last numbered season.
- Mark a whole season watched or unwatched by holding OK on it.
- Sort A to Z for your own groups, choose which views the guide's group list shows, and a new Premium theme, Code Dust.
Improved
- Your films and shows follow your provider when it renumbers them. Continue watching, History, where you stopped, favourites, your watchlist and folders move to the new listing the next time that service updates, as long as exactly one title matches. Episodes move by themselves in the background.
- Fusion finds more copies of the same channel and starts matching a new service within seconds. The player controls show what Fusion has for the channel you're watching, Playback failed offers Switch source whenever another copy exists, and on Automatic, with a verified copy ready on a separate provider account, it switches away from a dead stream in seconds. Premium.
- Live channels start sooner and recover faster after buffering, and quick CH+ and CH- presses are taken one at a time, in order.
- TiviGlass opens quicker and does less in the background while you watch.
- Automatic updates take turns between your TV services, so a second service is no longer left out of date. An update you start yourself carries on when you leave Settings.
- Adult groups are recognised in many languages, not only English, so they ask first.
- Catch-up on Stalker portals asks the portal's own archive for the programme you picked.
- A refused sign-in is explained: HTTP 403 is your provider turning the connection away, HTTP 429 means wait a few minutes. Neither is a wrong password.
- Channel numbers longer than four digits work from the remote.
- The Sports Hub finds matches more accurately and puts broadcasts of the same match on one card.
- Channels & groups says why a group you didn't hide is missing, and Catch Up says when a programme hasn't started yet or has left the archive.
- Clearer status in Sync & backup, and Account & plan says where your plan was bought.
- Player messages sit above the controls instead of covering them.
- Phones and tablets: browsing follows your rotation setting, full-screen video turns landscape, and the guide fits a portrait screen.
Fixed
- Continue watching, History and favourites breaking after a provider renumbered its films and shows.
- Merged channels losing catch-up when the best-quality copy didn't have it.
- The catch-up seek bar showing many hours for a one-hour programme, skipping in catch-up starting the programme again, and catch-up playing the wrong hour on some Xtream services.
- The screen going black a second time just after a channel starts, with Match TV frame rate on.
- Playback keeps struggling appearing after you skipped back and forth yourself.
- A removed TV service coming back if you left before the removal finished.
- A channel favourited on two copies of the same provider being listed twice.
- The guide preview showing an empty black box before a channel starts. It now shows the channel's logo.
- Fast forward, rewind or resume starting some recordings again from the beginning.
- Pause & rewind stopping without a word, a paused channel starting again when the network came back, and Retry disappearing when a paused stream failed.
- The app closing on some Android 12 and newer boxes when the remote sent a Call or Camera button.
- Scheduled recordings losing end padding when the timer started late, and a repeating timer missing the next airing after the TV was off.
- Essentials owners being offered Premium · Yearly instead of the one-payment Premium upgrade for the difference (£14.99).
- Changing your password on the website wiping profiles, favourites and watch history from your TVs. Sign in again and everything comes back.
- Renaming a service on one TV undoing a change made on another TV or the website.
- Clear watch history coming back after the next sync.
Changed
- MENU on the remote opens More in the full player. Holding OK still opens the programme's options.
- Crash reports, the device log and Save a support report have moved to Settings > Privacy & security > Diagnostics & device log.
- Recent searches are shown only to the profile that typed them, signing out clears them, and they're no longer part of Cloud Backup.
- A button job you give an arrow key or OK in the player waits while the controls are open, so the arrows and OK can move along them.
- In the Sports Hub, Recently finished is now Replays & highlights.
Good to know
- A private session changes what TiviGlass keeps. Your TV service still sees what you stream, and your internet provider can still see which servers your TV connects to.
- Fusion still starts on Suggest alternatives. The faster switching only happens with Automatic.
- Adding a TV service switches this TV to it while its channels come in. Use this service switches back.
- The built-in browser clears website sign-ins when you change account or profile, so you may need to sign in to some sites again.
- Finish or stop a running recording before switching TiviGlass accounts.
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TiviGlass 2.3.2. Browse your other TV services from the guide, jump straight to a channel by number, and get more reliable listings, playback and recordings.
New
- Browse another TV service without switching. Live TV's groups panel now lists your services as headings. Open one to browse and play its channels while the rest of the app stays on your current service. Hold OK on a heading for Use, Search and Update. Free on every plan.
- Type a channel number in the guide. Use your remote's number keys to jump to it, with an offer to look in All channels if it isn't in your current group. The guide and full player now match numbers the same way.
- Channel list is now in the player's More menu. Find another channel while the picture keeps playing, without setting up a remote shortcut. Free on every plan.
- Safer changes to your service's login and address. When editing the service you're using, Save changes checks the connection before saving. If it fails, choose Go back or Save anyway. Leaving with unsaved changes asks first.
- Your remote's number keys now work on every PIN prompt, including the household PIN. How to enter your PIN also lets you choose between the on-screen keypad and keyboard entry.
- Recordings, timers and Series Links from all your TV services now appear together, with the service named when it isn't the one you're watching.
- Move channels by picking them up. In Favourites or one of your own groups, choose Move, press Up or Down, then OK to put the channel down. Back cancels the move. Posters and categories in Movies and Shows move the same way.
- New app icon and TV banner.
Improved
- Clearer playback errors. The player explains what your provider answered instead of only showing a spinner. Network refusals such as HTTP 511 and 513 stop with advice, and an expired service shows its expiry date when your provider supplies it.
- Large TV guides can carry on updating after a background update runs out of time, keeping what has already downloaded. Updating the guide yourself always checks for a newer copy.
- All channels from all services shares its 5,000-channel limit fairly between services, so one large line-up can't crowd out the others.
- Multi-view returns the highlight to the pane after you change its channel and keeps its sound there. Switching sound with Dolby passthrough is more reliable, and a full layout explains how to make room.
- Back-to-back recordings on the same channel hand over at the programme boundary instead of overlapping.
- A timer interrupted while starting retries automatically. Recordings also keep Wi-Fi out of power saving and give your provider more time to free a connection before reconnecting.
- Partial recordings say when another recording from the same service was running at the time, helping you check connection limits.
- Movies and Shows explain whether an empty category is caused by filters, a failed update or a source with no titles.
- Better compatibility with password-protected M3U streams, Kodi-style User-Agent and Referer options, and streams that require session cookies.
- Very large customisation sets group cloud uploads into intervals of 5 to 15 minutes. Sync now still runs straight away.
- Stats for nerds shows the sound actually leaving the box and whether Even out volume is acting on it.
Fixed
- Live channels reconnecting by themselves every two or three minutes.
- Large guides losing listings after updates, or keeping a week for some channels while others only had an hour. When space is tight, upcoming programmes take priority over the furthest days.
- A large guide running short of space while another service's share sat unused.
- Stalker guide rows staying empty after switching services or after the box ran low on memory.
- The channel list sliding up and down while you move through programme times.
- Sound being louder or quieter in the guide preview than in full screen, and Even out volume switching itself off between them.
- H.264 channels failing to start on some boxes, including NVIDIA Shield, with Reduce live TV delay on.
- Channels buffering forever without a useful message. Once retries are exhausted, Playback failed offers Retry and Get help.
- The behind-live figure counting down to LIVE after the rewind buffer stopped recording, even though you were still behind.
- Stalker Device IDs and serial numbers returning after being cleared, or changing between beta and stable versions. Device-conflict refusals now stop repeated sign-in attempts.
- M3U catch-up from Xtream Codes servers opening live TV or the wrong time instead of the selected programme.
- Changing a service's address creating a duplicate, or bringing its old address back through cloud sync.
- The app closing on some older Android 9 TVs with limited memory.
- Timers showing Failed after their recording recovered and finished.
- Popular, Most watched on TiviGlass and More like this failing for M3U playlists, Stremio addons and some Stalker portals.
- Titles without dates appearing in the wrong order when browsing recently or oldest added across services.
- A streaming-platform filter emptying a service that has no titles from that platform.
- Parental controls switching themselves on after an update when an older PIN had only been used for Kids Mode.
- On shared TVs, adding the same provider login under another account could bring back the previous account's saved favourites, history and recordings.
Changed
- All TV services in the guide is now called All channels from all services.
- Films and shows from adult or locked categories ask first from every browsing list, including Home and Search. Renaming a category doesn't remove its protection.
- The first time an existing Ask for the PIN before opening setting asks on this TV, it explains why and offers Enter PIN or Stop asking. Stopping the prompts requires your PIN.
- Back from the side menu lands on Settings instead of Exit. Press Right from Settings to reach Exit.
- Merge duplicates has its own card in Channels & groups > Tidy up. More settings at the top opens the remaining options.
Good to know
- Browsing another service doesn't change your active service. Choose Use and confirm to switch.
- Reset settings to defaults preserves your parental-control settings while a PIN is set.
- Older TVs on your account may still bring back a service's previous address until they are updated too.
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TiviGlass 2.3.1. A big look-and-feel update: a new side menu and player controls, new Movies, Shows, Search and Recordings screens, Match listings for fixing a channel's guide, and a snappier remote all round.
New
- New side menu. Every entry fits on one screen, with Settings and Exit always at the bottom. The card at the top shows who's watching and which TV service is on: press it to switch profile or service without going into Settings. OK or Right on Live TV, Movies or Shows opens the section with its groups beside the menu, with Find playing channel, Jump to now, Surprise me and Filters as buttons at the top.
- New player controls. One band across the bottom of the picture: what's on and the clock on top, progress and what's next (or the seek bar) in the middle, and named buttons underneath. On live TV that's rewind, play/pause and fast-forward together, then Favourite, Info, Record and More. On films and episodes it's Sound, Subtitles and More.
- Know when you're behind live. After a pause or rewind the controls say BEHIND LIVE and how far behind you are. Live, with a red dot, takes you back.
- Sound on the player's info line. The line under the clock shows the sound format after the picture details, for example DD+ 5.1 or AAC Stereo. Show resolution as, in Settings > While watching > Player controls & clock, swaps the exact size for a label such as HD or UHD.
- Sound timing in the player. More > Sound has audio tracks, Fix sound and Earlier or Later timing together, for the channel or title you're watching.
- Match listings. Choose where a channel's programme listings come from: hold OK on a channel in the guide, press More while watching it, or open its options in Search. The closest matches come first, with what each one has on over the next few hours, so you can compare it with what's actually on. Press OK and the guide row fills straight away. It's free on every plan.
- Match listings for every channel at once, in Settings > TV guide > Missing listings. Channels with no listings come first, with scored suggestions beside them. Accept all takes every best suggestion at or above the score you choose. No listings for this channel keeps a row blank on purpose, and Use automatic match hands a channel back to the app.
- A panel beside the posters in Movies and Shows on a TV. Smaller posters fit more on screen, the panel describes the one you're on, and OK on a poster moves into it so you can play, resume, or add to favourites, watchlist or groups. Prefer one press? Set Select on a poster to Opens the title in Settings > Movies & shows > Browsing.
- New show page on a TV, with seasons, episodes and the highlighted episode side by side, opening on the episode you watched last. New movie page too, with Play, Resume and Play from start, and Watch the trailer when your service has one.
- Channels & groups is now one full screen, with Show & hide, Arrange, Rename and Tidy up. Open it from Settings, Movies, Shows, or Edit in Channels & groups on any guide group.
- New groups arrive hidden. Turn it on in Tidy up and groups your provider adds later stay hidden, so a tidy guide stays tidy. Free on every plan.
- Customise Home. Show, hide and arrange your rows with a small map of Home that changes as you go, choose what TiviGlass opens on, or pick a ready-made layout: Balanced, Live TV first, Movies & shows first or Just the essentials.
- Customise Sports and follow your teams. Following is free: your teams get a star and their own row at the top, and their matches come first. With Essentials or Premium you can also record every match. Teams are picked up from the title or the subtitle, so listings like Kansas City Chiefs at Buffalo Bills work too.
- Customise Kids. Choose which age groups and channels show in Kids and Kids Mode, and add any channel by name. Hold OK on a show or channel and choose Not for Kids to take it out.
- Recordings is one list with Recording now, Scheduled, Series Link and Library, each with a count, and a panel showing the details, the full reason if something didn't record, and the Stop, Delete and Cancel actions. Recordings in progress also show in the Android TV notification panel on boxes that support it.
- Show programme times, in Settings > TV guide > How the guide looks, puts each programme's start and end under its title.
Improved
- Snappier all round. The highlight keeps up with the remote, and Home, the guide, Sports, Movies, Shows and Settings do much less work with each press. You'll notice it most on slower boxes.
- The TV guide has a fresh look: a bright highlight bar, the current time and the group you're in on the time row, finished programmes dimmed, and gaps with no listings shaded. The top shows LIVE, how far through a programme is and the minutes left. Programme titles are bigger and easier to read.
- Search shows the highlighted result beside the list with everything you can do with it, keeps your results on screen while you type, finds channels by number, and has separate Channels and Programmes filters. You can search a single TV service without switching what you're watching.
- Multi-view gives the panes the screen, with a bar along the bottom naming the pane you're on and holding Layout, Channels, Live sport, Presets and Full screen.
- Settings has a fresh look and highlights the page you've just come back from.
- New timer spells out in plain words what will be recorded and when.
Fixed
- Watching some channels slowly filling up the box's storage, mostly on M3U, Stalker and Stremio services. Recording them did the same.
- Live TV dropping and reconnecting after skipping back or forward once the rewind buffer had stopped recording.
- Timers that had already recorded staying under Scheduled, so you had to delete the same programme twice. They now leave Scheduled once recorded. A timer that couldn't record stays there saying why.
Changed
- Every menu, option list and question now slides in from the right as a full-height panel, the way More does in the player. A question dims the screen behind it until you answer.
- Set EPG channel is now Match listings, everywhere it appears.
- Programme times no longer sit under titles in the guide by default. Turn on Show programme times if you want them back. The programme you're on always shows its times at the top.
- The Live TV, Movies and Shows buttons at the top of Home are gone, because the menu opens those. The bar under the featured area now filters Home: Everything, Recently watched, Favourites or Watchlist.
- The Live recommendations setting is gone. Turn the Recommended live now row on or off in Customise Home.
- The banner after a channel change no longer has buttons. OK brings up the controls.
- The channel list in the player now opens on the right.
- In Search on a TV, press Right to reach a result's actions. Phones and tablets have a … button on each result.
- Multi-view's buttons have moved from the top to the bar along the bottom. Press Down from the panes to reach them.
- Recording storage: plugged-in drives are under On this box, and Choose folder is now A folder you choose under Somewhere else.
Good to know
- Choosing listings downloads nothing. The row switches straight away to listings already on this TV, and the next guide update brings in the source you picked. Your choice survives TV service updates, and with Cloud sync on it follows your account to your other TVs.
- Customise Kids choices apply to every profile in your household.
- Phones, tablets and narrow screens keep the earlier layouts for Movies, Shows, the show page and Search, without the side panel.
- The Movies panel only shows a film's plot once its details are on this TV. It never asks your TV service, so browsing doesn't use up your connections.
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TiviGlass 2.3.0. A big update: smoother video, sound fixes for boxes that lost audio, quicker search, easier getting around with the remote, and a long list of fixes.
New
- Settings reorganised into clearer pages, with search at the top. Moving them around didn't change any of your settings.
- Playback learning switch in Settings > Picture & sound > Fix picture problems. Turn it off and every channel starts on its normal settings. Crash protection stays on either way.
- Try player User-Agent. If your provider refuses a live channel, the Playback failed card can try it once more with a media player's user agent. If that works, it asks whether to keep it.
- Loop lists round. Pressing down on the last item of the menu, Home, a settings page, a list or a picker takes you back to the first, and up on the first takes you to the last. Holding the button still stops at the end. It's on by default, and you can turn it off in Settings > Remote & buttons > What buttons do.
- CH+ and CH- now move a screenful at a time on every screen and popup. Hold one to keep paging. A shortcut you've set on those buttons still wins.
- Page Up and Page Down change channel on live TV, for remotes whose channel buttons send those keys.
- You can favourite channels from any of your services, straight from All Playlists and your own groups.
- Guide rows with no listings now say so, and Missing listings helps you fix them.
- Free trial countdown on Home, with the plans one press away.
Improved
- Much less slow motion and jerky video. TiviGlass used to switch a video format to software decoding for a week after any unexplained close, even the TV being switched off at the wall. Now it only does that when it can see the decoder actually crashed. Old switches like that end when you update. If your picture was jerky until you pressed Reset playback learning, this is the fix.
- Reset playback learning keeps protection after a real crash and tells you the date it ends. If you gave channels their own decoder, it offers to clear those too.
- Less buffering right after you turn the TV on. Automatic updates now wait while you're watching.
- Search should be a lot quicker on big line-ups.
- Back now steps out one level at a time. On Live TV, Movies and Shows, Back opens the groups first, then the main menu, then once more within 3 seconds leaves the app. If you opened the menu yourself, Back just closes it.
- Player menus (More, playback options, sources, subtitles, record) open as a side panel, so the picture stays in view. Popups across the app are tidier and a little smaller.
- The guide's info area beside the preview no longer changes height, so the grid stops jumping as you move between programmes. Press Info for the full details.
- Locked and adult channels ask the same way everywhere. Channel up/down skips them and says how many it skipped. Once you unlock one, it stays unlocked until you leave the app.
- The Sports preview now uses your Even out volume, Boost quiet audio and Surround sound settings, so it plays at the same level as full screen.
- Certificate errors are explained in plain words, and the first thing to check is your TV's date and time.
- Adding a service: the Test now shows what a Stalker portal actually answered. Xtream setup quotes your provider's page when it sends one.
- A new TV signing in waits to take your cloud backup before it backs up anything itself.
Fixed
- No sound on some channels on BuzzTV P6/P6L and other boxes with little audio memory
- Silence when your TV or receiver refuses Dolby or DTS. It now restarts once with the sound decoded on the box.
- Sound going missing when going from the guide to full screen
- Frozen picture or stuck Dolby sound when going full screen with Match TV frame rate on
- Match TV frame rate not changing the refresh rate on Android 11 boxes like the Shield
- Constant buffering when a provider is struggling
- Channels not coming back after a drop with rewind switched on
- Full screen closing and the mini player going black while an update ran
- The Guide button in the full player taking you to the first channel in Favourites instead of back to what you were watching
- Big guide sources taking minutes to import, or hanging
- Channel updates on app start waiting while the guide was open
- One service not loading hid all your other services in Live TV
- Favouriting a channel from another service's row could remove it
- Hidden groups stopping their channels getting guide listings in Favourites and your own groups
- Group previews in the guide changing your last used group
- "All your groups are hidden" now shows, with a way to bring them back
- Holding OK on a guide row with no listings did nothing
- Some working channels being stopped as "your provider sent a web page"
- A channel that was already playing and then gets a web page now retries once
- App crashing on channel change when a user agent had curly quotes or emoji
- Popups darkening the picture behind them
- PIN switches in Parental & profiles not actually asking for the PIN
- A second PIN prompt showing as a blank screen
- Change PIN opening with old digits filled in
- Recordings and timers not starting when TiviGlass was closed or the box had just woken up
- Recordings crashing the app on Android 15 when Android refused to start them
- Timers and reminders now fix themselves as soon as you allow Alarms & reminders, with no restart
- A nearly full drive now stops a recording cleanly and keeps what was recorded
- The guide not refreshing after Android stopped an automatic update part way
- A Multi-view pane freezing after you moved the sound to another screen
- Holding Back on Android 16 going back two steps instead of one
- A damaged settings file crashing the app on every launch. It now resets once and tells you.
- Check for updates not working with automatic checks off
- Your TV service logins could be uploaded unencrypted during a short server problem. Now they wait until they can be encrypted.
- Backup files on a shared TV including another account's services
- With cloud sync on, updating a TV from 2.2.7 or older could overwrite newer Remote & buttons settings from another TV
Good to know
- Match TV frame rate is now off by default. This update turns it off once on every TV. If you use it, turn it back on for each TV. It no longer syncs between TVs.
- Surround sound, Audio passthrough, Adjust sound timing and Even out volume now stay on each TV and no longer sync between TVs.
- If you use a parental PIN, you'll now see prompts in the places you switched them on. That's expected.
- With Send crash reports on, TiviGlass also sends a short, numbers-only summary of how smoothly video played, at most once a week. Nothing you watch is named.
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This update adds refreshed themes with animated backgrounds, better live pause and rewind, and group previews in the guide. It also fixes the guide stalling during updates, groups that opened empty, and playback that kept retrying streams that could never play.
- Refreshed the theme gallery. You can now preview a theme before applying it, and there are new Graphite, Amethyst and Cyberpunk-inspired colours plus seven animated backgrounds: Aurora, Deep Current, Ember, Snowfall, Rainfall, Starfield and Autumn. A new Background motion switch turns the animation off, and reduced-motion settings are respected. Themes you saved before still work.
- Reworked live pause and rewind with a rolling buffer on supported streams. Each device can store it in app storage or on a connected USB or SD card.
- Moving between the guide preview and full screen now keeps the same channel, your pause state and your rewind history.
- Added seek steps of 10, 20, 30 or 60 seconds. The remote, the on-screen buttons and touch double-taps all use the same step.
- Added Last Channel to the player's More menu, and physical Last Channel buttons on remotes now work.
- Added optional group previews. Rest on a group to browse its channels while your current channel keeps playing. Previews follow the highlight almost straight away and don't move your place in the list.
- The guide no longer waits for an update to finish. It loads straight away during Update on app start, and you can change groups while an update is running.
- Saved channels now appear before the programme listings finish loading, and a group's channels and schedule appear together.
- Moving down to a channel just below the bottom of the guide now shows that row, instead of jumping a whole screen.
- Up from the first group in the sidebar now reaches Browse, Tools and the controls above them, including with list wrapping on.
- Channels that your provider lists in more than one group now show in all of them. Before this, some groups opened empty even though their channels played fine elsewhere. Adult groups were affected most.
- Added clearer Browse and Tools tabs to the library sidebars, and bulk Show/Hide for channels and groups, including all current filtered results.
- Hidden groups are now restored with Reset all groups in the All channels options, or from Settings > Channels and groups.
- Improved manual guide matching. You can search by channel name, alternative name, guide ID, source or programme title.
- Large TV guide downloads that get interrupted now pick up where they stopped, and each source shows a clearer status.
- M3U setup now lists the available groups before importing, so you can choose what to include.
- When a provider sends a web page or error notice instead of video, playback now stops straight away and shows what the provider said, instead of working through reconnect attempts first. Retry is still there.
- Improved recovery for streams that won't start, slow-starting channels and guide previews on portal services.
- Fixed Multi-view going silent with three or four screens open on some boxes. When you move the sound to another screen, it may skip forward a few seconds.
- The user agent in Settings > This device > Advanced now also applies to recordings and to the Home, Sports and Multi-view previews. Auto-detect now tests several channels, so it picks the right user agent more often.
- Channels from a service with missing sign-in details now show an error straight away.
- On Android 10 and below, including every Fire TV Cube, a format no longer switches to software decoding after one unexplained close. It only switches if the same thing happens again within a day.
- Fixed the next-episode countdown for series autoplay.
- Recordings that get interrupted can now resume on their own, without reopening the app.
- Improved Home shortcuts, library filters, detail pages and layouts on smaller screens, and added visible Options buttons for touch users.
- Improved Stremio phone setup, and changes to your account's TV sources now sync automatically while TiviGlass is open.
- Cloud backup now shows a clearer status, and there's a local backup option for TVs whose file picker can't save files. If your sign-in details can't be encrypted at that moment, backup now stops and tells you instead of saving them unencrypted.
- You can now delete your account from inside the app.
- Adult categories now ask for age confirmation when no parental PIN is set.
- General reliability and security improvements.
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This update lets you choose which screens TiviGlass opens on, mixes different TV services in Multi-view, and fixes several causes of failed background updates, lost data and choppy playback.
- Added Startup screen and Home tiles: choose the screen TiviGlass opens on and which rows appear on Home, saved per profile on each device.
- Added Movies opens to and Shows opens to, alongside Live TV opens to, with All, Last used group, Favourites, All Playlists, Watchlist, History and Recently added.
- Live TV can now also open on one of your TV service's own groups, so a family TV can start on the kids' group.
- Multi-view can now mix channels from different TV services, including services that allow only one connection at a time. Choosing a channel for one pane leaves your other panes playing.
- Added Choose groups to the TV Guide to browse several groups together.
- Added Playing channel to jump back to the channel that is playing, without restarting it or moving the guide time.
- Added a Channel list to the player: search your current channel order by name or number while playback continues.
- Added manual reminders for anything your guide does not list, and a choice of which device a reminder appears on.
- Added a one-step setup for the coloured buttons on your remote.
- Added quick access to picture size and the clock from the player menu, and a quick TV service switcher.
- Added a progress-bar colour to custom themes.
- Added Startup profile on this TV, to open an unprotected profile automatically on that device only.
- All enabled guide sources now contribute to a playlist's guide, with higher sources winning where listings overlap.
- Improved TV Guide matching, including a scan that can refresh your guide sources before it runs.
- Catch-Up now continues into the next programme instead of stopping at the end of the one you chose.
- Improved frame-rate matching, including on older boxes.
- Added Reload episodes for shows whose episode list did not load fully.
- Premium: improved Fusion source switching, and a recording that loses its source can now continue from another one automatically.
- Linking an OpenSubtitles account now uses your OpenSubtitles.com sign-in details, with clearer messages when it fails.
- On the website, you can now edit a playlist's live favourites for each profile from your account, and purchase confirmations are emailed after checkout.
- Fixed automatic updates restarting from the beginning when Android stopped them part way. Large movie and show libraries are now fetched in shorter passes that carry on where the last one stopped, and the TV guide is refreshed first.
- Fixed background updates never running at all on some boxes, along with a crash on those devices. Updates that begin while the device is offline are now skipped rather than repeated.
- Added Last update, per source under automatic playlist updates. A playlist whose channel update keeps failing now pauses on its own and says why, while its TV guide keeps updating.
- A damaged local database is now repaired instead of deleted, so saved channels, recordings, parental locks and watch history are no longer lost.
- Fixed choppy playback, out-of-sync sound and an unexpected message about switching to another version of a channel after an unrelated crash or force stop. Hardware decoding is no longer turned off for a week in those cases.
- Fixed recordings that could stay stuck on "Recording now" after the app closed, which blocked later recordings until TiviGlass was restarted.
- Fixed Back not responding in some full-screen playback situations.
- Android's Remove animations setting is now respected throughout, including the LIVE dot, padlocks and long scrolling names.
- Fixed some M3U playlists being sorted into the wrong sections, and improved large pasted playlists, playlist sync, TV source setup, search results and duplicate-channel handling.
- General reliability and security improvements.
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This update fixes a bug from 2.2.6 that could show paid Premium and Essentials features as locked, even on fully active, fully paid accounts.
- Fixed some paid features appearing locked throughout the app after updating to 2.2.6, despite an active paid plan.
- Your account and payment were never affected; this only affected what the app displayed. No action is needed after updating.
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This update improves live TV playback, remote controls and everyday navigation.
- Fixed an issue where Back could stop responding during live TV on Fire TV Cube.
- Improved pause, rewind and fast-forward when opening channels from the TV Guide.
- Improved channel switching and the Recently watched panel.
- Improved returning to your selected channel in the Guide after closing playback.
- Improved playback recovery on slow or buffering streams.
- Added separate default TV sources for Live TV, Movies and Shows.
- Fixed the TV Guide button-settings shortcut and made remote customisation clearer.
- Improved channel-name cleanup for large TV sources.
- Improved TV Guide updates when navigating between screens.
- Added clearer messages for incomplete recordings and TV source connection checks.
- Added “Keep me signed in” to the website.
- General security and reliability improvements.
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This update refreshes Settings, Movies, Shows and Catch-Up, adds more viewing controls, and improves playback, TV Guide and recording reliability.
- Redesigned Settings with a single dashboard, clearer labels, improved search and optional help text.
- Refreshed Movie details and Shows browsing with easier access to Play and Resume, a pinned season selector and clearer episode options.
- Select a cast member to find matching movies and shows available from your TV source.
- Improved Catch-Up layouts, full programme descriptions, category reordering and wraparound navigation.
- Added Reload stream to live-player menus, with an optional remote shortcut.
- Added station information for radio and audio-only streams, including track titles and artists when available.
- Added manual subtitle searches by title, season and episode.
- Added Darts and competition filters to the Sports Hub.
- Multi-view channel selection now starts with a searchable group chooser.
- Added optional sequential Guide numbering and channel names or logos inside programme cells.
- Added channel-name prefix filters and easier access to renaming or restoring all channel names.
- Hold Left in channel and group lists to jump to the top.
- Added an Interface mode setting with Automatic, TV / remote and Phone / tablet options.
- Improved voice-search compatibility on Google TV devices.
- Added Update TV guide controls to refresh listings without updating the whole TV service.
- Fixed interrupted Guide downloads, improved background retries and added clearer per-source update status.
- Improved Guide scrolling and fixed the Channel logos switch.
- Strengthened recovery after hardware-decoder crashes and improved playback on services with connection limits.
- Decoder preferences now stay on the device where you set them.
- Improved volume levelling with surround sound when using Automatic passthrough.
- Fixed Series Links failing to schedule recordings on manually matched Guide channels.
- Improved network-storage recording setup and reminder delivery while devices are idle.
- Fixed duplicate TV services caused by differently formatted server addresses.
- Fixed keeping guest profiles when signing into an existing account.
- Improved phone and tablet sign-in, playback gestures and brightness restoration.
- Existing Stremio sources now support entering addon URLs securely from your phone.
- Improved loading screens, retry controls, reduced-motion support, remote navigation and general stability.
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This update improves everyday browsing, adds more control to Multi-view and the Sports Hub, and addresses playback, TV Guide and synchronisation issues.
- Navigation and Home: Simplified the main navigation, improved Home layouts and fixed issues with saved scroll position and custom row ordering.
- Movies and Shows: Added clearer sorting controls, including Highest rated and Most watched by me. New recommendation rows and a dedicated More like this tab for Shows make discovering titles easier.
- Trending: Added Find in my services to help locate titles within your available libraries.
- Sports Hub: Added team and league search, plus options to reorder and hide sports categories.
- Multi-view: Added a programme timeline with Earlier, Now and Later controls, alongside a fullscreen layout. Press OK to change a pane’s channel; hold OK to watch it fullscreen.
- TV Guide: Start watching while listings continue loading. Improved guide-data searches, progress messages, retry controls and cached-listing storage management.
- Playback: Fixed delays with the Resume / Start over prompt, protected saved progress when cancelling, and improved handling of expired links when returning to playback.
- TV services and sync: Fixed a cause of duplicate services, expanded duplicate recovery and strengthened protection against damaged synced credentials.
- Recordings and reliability: Improved USB access checks, recording-limit guidance, handling of incomplete episode information, Settings readability and Reduce motion support.
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Account privacy and reliability improvements
- Fixed cloud-data cleanup when deleting an account through beta.
- Improved account isolation for setup measurements when signing out or changing accounts.
- Signed-in setup measurements now distinguish actual playback and displayed prices from failed playback and empty dialogs.
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