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Set a reminder Free
Path: Guide, Search or Sports Hub → hold OK → Set reminder
How
- Set the reminder on any future programme — from the guide, from a guide result in Search, or while watching (hold OK on the video, then look under Next).
- Shortly before it starts, a small countdown card slides into the corner over whatever you’re watching. It doesn’t black out the picture — carry on watching if you want.
- Choose Watch now to switch straight away, Not now (or Back) to cancel, or ignore it — it tunes automatically at zero.
- Change the countdown length in Settings → Menu & sections → Reminder countdown (10 seconds to 1 minute).
- Review everything in Sidebar → Reminders.
Good to know
The countdown appears inside TiviGlass and needs no notification permission, so it works even with your TV’s notifications switched off. Reminders are per profile and remember which playlist the channel came from — if that’s a different playlist, TiviGlass switches to it for you. They survive a reboot.
A reminder is only offered for a programme that has not started yet — there is nothing for a “starting soon” card to warn you about once it is already on. Once one is set, the same place offers Cancel reminder instead. If Android has not granted TiviGlass exact alarms the action still works and says so: the reminder may arrive a few minutes late.
A reminder is only offered for a programme that has not started yet — there is nothing for a “starting soon” card to warn you about once it is already on. Once one is set, the same place offers Cancel reminder instead. If Android has not granted TiviGlass exact alarms the action still works and says so: the reminder may arrive a few minutes late.
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Make sure reminders actually arrive Free
Path: Settings → This device → Reminder delivery
How
- Check the Reminder delivery status line.
- It only ever reports a problem with reminders that arrive while TiviGlass is closed — the in-app countdown always works.
- To fix those, allow TiviGlass notifications in your TV’s Android settings, and grant it permission to show full-screen alerts if your TV asks.
- Return to TiviGlass — the status updates straight away.
Good to know
There are three honest answers, not one: reminders are Ready; they work while TiviGlass is open but only raise a notification when it’s closed (common on Android 14 and newer, which restricts full-screen alerts); or their timing may drift because your TV limits exact alarms. TiviGlass says which, rather than failing quietly.
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The Kids section Free
Path: Sidebar → Kids
How
- Open Kids for a simplified screen of children’s channels, favourites and shows.
- Everything is bigger, brighter and reachable with fewer presses.
Good to know
A profile marked as a Child opens straight into Kids and cannot leave it. What appears is drawn from the playlists and categories you allowed for that profile. Like the Sports Hub, Kids reads its shows out of your guide, so on a very large channel list they fill in over the first minute or so rather than appearing all at once.
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Kids Mode, time limits and bedtime Free
Path: Settings → Parental & Kids → Kids Mode & screen time
How
- Set a daily time limit and a bedtime window.
- Select Start Kids Mode now to lock the TV into the Kids section.
- To leave, choose Grown-ups: exit and enter the PIN.
Good to know
When the limit runs out or bedtime arrives, the TV shows a friendly message instead of just stopping. The allowance resets the next day.
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Apps and web shortcuts Free
Path: Sidebar → Apps
How
- Your apps lists what’s installed on the TV; press OK to launch.
- Web shortcuts open a site directly.
- Focus a tile and follow the visible menu-dot hint: hold OK or press Menu to pin, hide, lock or uninstall it.
- Rescan picks up newly installed apps.
Good to know
Hidden apps aren’t gone — they stay under the Hidden group. A PIN-protected tile asks for the parental PIN before it opens, which is a neat way to keep a store or browser out of a child’s reach.