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Multi-view and Catch Up

Multi-view and Catch Up in TiviGlass: up to four channels at once.

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Guide listings are cached within a storage budget. TiviGlass can trim optional old or distant listings and fetch missing windows when you open them, where your guide source still provides that day. Current programmes and recording/reminder references are preserved. The database file may keep freed space for reuse.

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Watch up to four channels Premium

Path: Sidebar → Multi-view

The panes take most of the screen, and a bar along the bottom holds everything else. Its top line names the pane you are on (Pane 2 of 4), whether it has the sound, and what is on it now, from your guide; a pane with no guide shows its channel’s name, and a locked channel’s programme is never shown there. The clock sits on the right, with one line about provider connections under it. Its buttons are Layout (with the arrangement in use beside it), Channels, Live sport, Presets and Full screen. Each pane shows its number and channel name in its top corner, clear of the subtitles. While your channels load, shimmering panes follow your selected layout, with the bar in its usual place.

Changing a pane’s channel: focus a tile and press Select (on a touch screen, tap the pane). That opens a chooser aimed at that pane and titled Change pane N’s channel, with a small drawing of your layout that lights the pane you are filling — your other panes keep playing, and picking a channel swaps just that one. Hold Select instead to watch that pane full screen. The helper line at the very bottom of the screen says what Select and Hold Select do on the pane you are on.

Mix TV services: Open Channels or Change channel on a pane. Choose a TV service at the top of the group chooser, then choose a group and a channel or its programme cell. You can use a different provider for each pane; changing the service in this picker keeps your other panes playing and leaves your main TV service unchanged. All channels searches the selected service’s available line-up. Back to groups returns to the group chooser; its Cancel button closes the picker. This works for adding tiles and replacing one tile. Show hidden groups remains optional, and individually hidden channels remain excluded.

How
  1. Press Down from the panes to reach the bar along the bottom, then open Channels. Press OK on a channel to put it in the mosaic, and OK again on a ticked one to take it out — the same list does both. Pressing OK on an empty tile opens it too.
  2. Pick an arrangement with the Layout button: Side by side, Stacked, Big top + two, Big left + two, 2 × 2 grid, or Big + three. Each one is drawn as a picture of itself, and the one in use is marked In use.
  3. Focus a tile and turn Sound on for it — audio follows one tile at a time. The pane with the sound has a speaker beside its name, and while you are on the bar it keeps a faint outline, so you can always see which picture you are hearing. Press OK on a playing tile to open its channel picker and replace that pane directly. Hold OK to watch the pane full screen. On touch screens, tap to choose a channel and hold to watch full screen.
  4. Choose Full screen to expand the entire mosaic and hide the sidebar and the bar along the bottom. Your channels keep playing, and you can still move between panes for sound or press OK to change a channel. Press Back to return to setup and restore the navigation sidebar; on touch screens, tap once to reveal Exit full screen, then tap the button to leave. The button starts hidden and hides again after three seconds without another tap. The first tap reveals it without opening the channel picker; long presses still open a single channel. This expands the whole arrangement; holding OK still opens just one channel in the full-screen player.
  5. Or start from Live sport to fill the mosaic with what’s on now, and save any arrangement as a preset: give it a name and press Save. Each saved preset shows its arrangement and how many channels it holds; press OK on one to load it, or the bin beside it to delete it (you are asked first).
Good to know
The channel list holds exactly as many channels as your arrangement has tiles, so everything you tick is on screen. If it says it is full, press OK on the pane you want to replace, untick a channel in Channels, or pick a bigger arrangement from Layout. The picker shows the TV source and a programme timeline for visible channels. Use Earlier, Now and Later to browse the guide; choosing a channel or programme selects that channel for live playback. Hidden groups includes channels from hidden categories only when you ask; individually hidden channels stay hidden. How many tiles you get depends on your box, not your IPTV plan: multi-view runs a separate decoder per tile, so TiviGlass offers two, three or four according to what the hardware can sustain, and only the layouts that fit are listed. Weaker boxes are told up front that they can’t manage it. TiviGlass checks measured memory as well as Android’s low-memory label, so custom TV firmware cannot disqualify a high-memory box with a stale label. Each tile uses one connection from its own TV service. Limits apply separately: one pane from each of two different provider accounts can work even if each account allows only one connection. Other viewers and recordings using those accounts still count towards their limits. The connection line on the bar names a service, in red, when its known limit is smaller than the number of panes using it. Saved presets remember every channel’s TV service and order; older single-provider presets still load. Arrangements remain saved under the main TV service from which you opened Multi-view, and only services available to your current profile can play. A locked channel, or one in a locked or adult group, never plays in a pane without the PIN or the age question. A pane that holds one, from a preset or saved before the lock was set, shows Locked instead of playing. Hold OK on it to watch it full screen, where you are asked; once it is unlocked it plays in Multi-view too, for as long as that unlock lasts. Choosing a locked channel in Channels tells you to play it once first, and Live sport leaves locked channels out.
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Replay what already aired Free

Path: Sidebar → Catch Up

The selected channel and day choices share a separate card. Programme rows show the title first and broadcast times underneath, with Record aligned on the right. When a description is available, select the Details info button or hold OK on the programme to read it. The reader uses the same Page up, Page down and Close controls as Movies and Shows. Spoiler-free mode keeps sports descriptions hidden here too.

Choose Order categories, select a category, and use Earlier or Later, then Save. Catch-Up and Live TV share this saved order for the current profile and service; other categories keep their positions and All stays first. The category rail wraps at either end, and moving beyond the first or last channel wraps within the filtered list.

How
  1. Narrow the list with the group chips along the top, or leave it on All. Each chip carries the number of archived channels in that group, and a group with none is not offered at all.
  2. Search or pick a channel from the Channels with archive list on the left.
  3. Choose a day, then a programme.
  4. Press OK to watch it, or schedule it as a recording.
  5. If a day cannot load, choose Try again directly on the error screen.
Good to know
Only channels whose provider advertises an archive appear here, and each shows how many days back it goes. Catch Up is free — TiviGlass simply asks your provider for the past programme. How that request has to be worded differs between providers: some archives are addressed in the provider’s own local time rather than UTC, and some are served only as a streaming manifest. TiviGlass reads both of those from your provider when it connects and adapts automatically, so there is nothing to configure. If a whole archive opened the wrong programme on an older version, open Settings › TV services and choose Update now on that service once so the new details are picked up.