User guide · Chapter 8 of 16

Recordings

TiviGlass records to the device, to attached storage, or straight onto a network share. Recording needs a paid plan (Essentials or Premium).

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TiviGlass records to the device, to attached storage, or straight onto a network share. Recording needs a paid plan (Essentials or Premium).

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Record what’s on now

Path: Guide → hold OK → Record, or player → press OK → REC
How
  1. In the Guide, hold OK on the channel and choose Record live (or Record programme). While watching full screen, press OK, move to REC and press OK again.
  2. The Recordings section shows it live with its current size or percentage.
  3. Open that channel’s Record menu again and choose Stop recording, select Stop on its row in Recordings, or use Stop & keep on the recording notification. Everything captured so far stays in your library and can be watched.
Good to know
Recording continues in the background while you carry on watching something else — you don’t need to stay on the channel. If your provider cuts the stream short, the recording says so. A capture that stops well before the programme was due to finish is marked Partial with the length it got — it still plays, and everything captured is kept, but it is never presented as a finished recording. The usual cause is your plan’s connection limit being in use somewhere else: another TV, another app, or a second recording. If the recording is still within its scheduled window, TiviGlass picks it back up on its own. You do not have to leave TiviGlass open. A recording in progress keeps going in the background, and carries on if you go back to your TV’s home screen or swipe TiviGlass out of recent apps. It stops early only if the TV force-stops TiviGlass or restarts, and even then everything captured up to that point is kept and plays. If the programme is still on air the next time you open TiviGlass, recording carries on into the same file.
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Schedule a timer

Path: Sidebar → Recordings → New timer
How
  1. Search for and deliberately pick the channel; TiviGlass never silently chooses the first one.
  2. Pick the date and the start and end times. Five-minute steps carry across the hour, and a timer made near midnight starts tomorrow.
  3. Set it to repeat daily or weekly if you want, then save — it appears under Scheduled.
Good to know
A timer does not need TiviGlass to be open — it wakes the app at the right moment and records on its own. If your TV has blocked exact alarms for TiviGlass, the Recordings screen says so at the top; allow Alarms & reminders for TiviGlass in your TV’s app settings, or timers may not start while the app is closed. If the alarm and a restart recovery arrive together, they still create only one library recording. Scheduled padding (Settings → Recordings) starts every timer a few minutes early and ends it late, which covers broadcasters who never quite run to time.
Safe removal. Canceling a timer, stopping or deleting a recording, and removing a Series Link all ask for confirmation. Cancel receives focus first so an extra OK press cannot remove anything.
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Series Link

Path: Guide → hold OK on a programme → Series link
How
  1. Set the Series Link from any episode of the programme.
  2. New episodes are found in the guide and recorded automatically.
  3. Review or remove rules in Settings → Recordings → Series Links.
Good to know
A Series Link matches on the programme, not on a time slot, so a schedule change doesn’t break it. Saving or re-enabling one queues a scan straight away, and background scans cover every playlist, not only the one currently open. It obeys your storage cap and retention settings like any other recording. Android may defer an archive download until TiviGlass next opens, so set a timer as well for anything you absolutely must not miss.
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Choose where recordings are stored

Path: Settings → Recordings → Recording storage
How
  1. A plugged-in USB stick or SD card appears in the list on its own — just select it. There is no folder to pick and nothing to set up.
  2. Choose folder… opens your TV’s own file picker and is only needed for a folder that isn’t listed. Some TV boxes make that picker awkward to drive with a remote, so use the listed drive where you can.
  3. For a NAS choose Network share (SMB) and enter host, share, folder and credentials, then select Test.
  4. For a Plex library, add the Plex server URL, token and library section so Plex rescans when a recording finishes.
Good to know
SMB2 and SMB3 are supported; the old SMB1 is not. On Android/Fire TV devices whose security provider can’t complete SMB3’s signing setup, TiviGlass automatically retries that connection in SMB2.1 compatibility mode. Network recordings play straight inside TiviGlass — you don’t need a file manager. Changing storage affects new recordings only; existing ones stay where they are, and any recording still in progress when you change it is stopped rather than moved. Unplugging a drive mid-recording ends that recording — whatever was captured stays on the drive.
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Keep storage under control

Path: Settings → Recordings
How
  1. Storage cap sets the maximum space recordings may use.
  2. Keep recordings for deletes them automatically after a set age.
  3. Maximum simultaneous recordings stops you overloading your provider connection.
  4. Clean up recordings now applies the rules immediately.
Good to know
Most IPTV plans allow only one or two connections at a time. If recordings and live TV are fighting each other, lowering the simultaneous limit usually fixes it.