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Colour theme Premium
Path: Settings → Appearance & theme
How
- Pick a theme from the swatches.
- Create custom theme builds your own from Shell, Accent and an optional Progress colour. Select Progress to change programme and playback bars independently; Default progress colours restores their original colours.
- Duplicate current is the easy way to start from a theme you nearly like.
Good to know
TiviGlass keeps a dark TV-friendly backdrop, with brighter panels and clear separation between the background, cards and raised controls. Changing the theme changes the shell and highlight hues without losing that contrast. The theme applies from the very first frame at startup, so there’s no flash of the default colours. Without Premium the app stays on its standard theme.
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Layout, logos and the clock Free
Path: Settings → Appearance & theme
How
- App text & layout size switches between compact and comfortable spacing, for the whole app. To change the TV guide on its own — bigger text, or more channels on screen — use Guide text size and Guide row height under Settings → TV guide (how-to 14).
- Movie & show poster size chooses Small, Medium or Large covers for every library filter, including Favourites and Watchlist.
- Group menu layout chooses the original horizontal pills or a Left sidebar for Live TV, Movies and Shows.
- Channel logos and Channel logo size control whether and how big logos appear. Off removes the whole tile, including the two-letter coloured stand-in a channel gets when its provider has no logo, so the row is just the channel name.
- Fix cut-off screen edges pulls the picture in if your TV crops the edges.
- Time format and Date & time locale set how times are written.
Good to know
Left sidebar is the default. It keeps each library’s Views, Groups and Tools together in the existing panel, including Favourites, Watchlist, History, Recently added and filters where available; the old pill rows are removed from the content area. The TiviGlass heading, account details, clock and divider remain in place. Pick an item to return to the content; press Back in the library panel for the main app menu. Choose Horizontal pills here if you prefer the original layout.
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Use your own channel logos Free
Path: Settings → Appearance & theme
How
- Put PNG, JPG or WebP files in a folder, named after the channel — for example BBC One.png.
- Select that folder as the Local logo folder.
- Set Preferred logo source: playlist first, TV guide first, or local folder first.
- After adding files later, select Refresh local logos.
Good to know
Matching ignores case and punctuation, so “bbc one.png” works too. If a logo is missing or fails to load, TiviGlass falls through to the next source and finally to a coloured letter tile.
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Rearrange the menu Premium
Path: Settings → Menu & sections
How
- Open Customise navigation menu.
- Move sections up and down, hide the ones you never use, and rename any of them.
- Change a section’s icon if you prefer a different shape.
- A section marked Off has been switched off under Settings → App sections, which is a different thing from being hidden here — it is not in the menu at all. Press Off and it comes back, unhidden, in one press.
Good to know
The menu layout travels with the profile, so switching viewers re-themes the sidebar in one step. Without Premium the sidebar uses the built-in order.
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Remap remote buttons Premium
Path: Settings → Remote & buttons
In the live-player button editor or Shortcut keys, assign Channel list (live player) to browse and search your current channel order without leaving playback, or Recently watched channels (live player) to open the recent-channel row. Use a normal button press; both custom actions require Premium. Last channel still switches straight to the previous channel. Back closes the channel list.
How
- Button behaviour opens separate editors for Live player, Movies & shows and TV guide. The guide editor lets you assign spare buttons to Favourites filter, Page channels up/down, Jump to now and Jump to top. Arrow keys, Select and Back keep their guide navigation roles. Guide Select & preview opens the preview settings separately. Button remapping requires Premium, and every row that edits it carries the Premium badge. Without it you can still look through the editors and set your buttons up — your choices are saved and start working the moment you upgrade — but until then each button keeps its built-in behaviour, which is the one the editor shows you. A choice that is waiting is listed underneath as Set to … — needs Premium, so the list never claims a button does something it does not.
- Inside a button editor, Colour shortcuts previews four actions for that screen. Apply it to set red, green, yellow and blue together, then adjust any button individually. Other buttons and long presses keep their settings. Use the existing key-learning editor for remotes that send different key codes, including Formuler models.
- Shortcut keys assigns spare, colour and number keys to actions like Screenshot, Last channel, Jump to now in the guide, or Open recordings. This is the same Premium feature as button behaviour, and behaves the same way without it.
- Back button chooses whether Back hides the controls first or exits immediately.
- Seeking keys sets which keys skip forward and back.
Good to know
Interface mode on this page is free: choose Automatic, TV / remote, or Phone / tablet. It changes this device immediately and survives restarting or signing out; it never changes your other devices. Remote button customisation remains available in every mode, including phones with a keyboard or remote; paid shortcut features still require Premium.
To close the TV app without scrolling to Exit, leave playback and any dialog first. Press Back from the guide (from the category row when using horizontal groups) to open the menu and show the confirmation, then press Back again within 3 seconds. A child profile returns to the profile picker instead. Phone / tablet mode follows Android Back behaviour.
Bindings are per context — live TV, movies and shows, browsing and the guide can each behave differently. Per-device binding profiles mean a cheap box with a four-button remote can be set up separately from your main TV. One action is worth knowing about even if you never remap anything else: Options for the focused item opens the same menu as holding OK, so a remote that can't hold reliably still reaches every channel action.
To close the TV app without scrolling to Exit, leave playback and any dialog first. Press Back from the guide (from the category row when using horizontal groups) to open the menu and show the confirmation, then press Back again within 3 seconds. A child profile returns to the profile picker instead. Phone / tablet mode follows Android Back behaviour.
Bindings are per context — live TV, movies and shows, browsing and the guide can each behave differently. Per-device binding profiles mean a cheap box with a four-button remote can be set up separately from your main TV. One action is worth knowing about even if you never remap anything else: Options for the focused item opens the same menu as holding OK, so a remote that can't hold reliably still reaches every channel action.
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Sounds and the sleep timer Free
Path: Settings → Remote & buttons
How
- Turn the startup sound on or off.
- Turn Interface sounds on or off. This switch controls your device’s navigation and click sounds for remote buttons across menus, dialogs and playback. Each press sounds once; holding a button does not repeat the sound.
- Set a Sleep timer to stop playback and turn off after a chosen period.
- You can also set one without leaving what you are watching: More → Sleep timer on the player controls.
Good to know
On-screen messages, programme reminders and recording notifications are always silent. Remote button sounds come from your device, so its System sounds setting (sometimes called Touch sounds) has to be on as well. The sound and volume depend on your device. Volume, Home and power buttons keep their normal system behaviour. The sleep timer counts down on screen as it approaches, so it never cuts off a film without warning. Both places set the same timer, so one turns the other off.