Features
Favourites and My List
Two names, one list. A channel you favourite and a film you add to My List are written to the same place, which explains both the useful behaviour and the one odd behaviour you will eventually run into.
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Both names cover the same thing: a table of the channels, films and shows you marked, held separately from the playlists they came from. That separation is what makes the feature useful, and it produces one behaviour that looks like a bug.
Marking something
Channels have three routes:
- Red in the TV guide. It carries Change favorite status by default, which toggles in one press with no menu, and confirms with Added to favorites or Removed from favorites.
- Add to favorites in the channel menu, held open with Long OK or a long press. The row reads Remove from favorites when it is already marked.
- Any key you assign Change favorite status to, in Settings › Remote control › TV guide. It is a guide action only, so it cannot be put on a player key.
Films and shows use the button on their detail screen instead: Add to my list, which becomes Remove from my list with a matching icon once the item is in. The button reads its state from the same table, so a film added from search shows as already added when you reach it by browsing.
Where it shows up
Favorites sits in the channel list navigation and gives you the marked channels of the playlist you are looking at, or of all of them together depending on how the list is scoped. It behaves like any other group: pick it, and the channel list beside it holds only favourites.
My List in the sidebar is the fuller view, with four rows down the left:
| Row | Holds | Empty state |
|---|---|---|
| My Live programs | Favourite live channels, each card showing what is on that channel now | No Programs |
| My remiders | Nothing, in this build | No remiders |
| My movies | Films added to your list | No movies |
| My shows | Series added to your list | No shows |
The name of the first row is not a slip. It lists channels, but the card is captioned with the programme currently showing, pulled from your guide data, so the screen answers “what is on the channels I care about” rather than just naming them. On a playlist with no guide attached the cards fall back to the channel name alone.
My remiders is a placeholder. The row is there, it highlights, and it shows No remiders permanently, because nothing in the app can add anything to it. The reminder tile in the player's tool strip is the other half of the same unfinished feature and does nothing when selected, so that is not the way in either. If you want to be at the television for something, record it instead and watch it afterwards.
Order, and the lack of it
Every one of these listings is ordered by when you added the item, most recent first. There is no alphabetical option, no manual reordering, and Reorder channels in the channel menu is one of the rows that is laid out but not connected.
That has a practical use once you know it. Adding a channel puts it at the top, so re-adding one you already have is the way to promote it: remove, add again, and it leads the list. On a long favourites list this is the only ordering control you have.
Why favourites outlive their playlist
A favourite is not a pointer into the imported channel list. It is a row of its own that copies what it needs at the moment you add it: the name, the logo address, the group, the guide identifier and the stream address.
That is why the advice on a playlist that will not load is to edit rather than replace. Correcting a password, changing a server address or refreshing the catalogue rewrites the channels and leaves the favourites table untouched, so nothing you have marked is lost. Only deleting the playlist clears them, and it clears them completely. Adding the same source again afterwards creates a new playlist with an empty favourites list, however identical the details.
The favourite that will not play
Because the stream address is copied, a favourite goes stale when a provider moves a channel to a different address. The symptom is precise: the channel plays from the normal list and fails from Favorites. Remove it from favourites and add it again from the channel list, which copies the current address.
The same snapshot explains a favourite that has no counterpart at all. A channel your provider withdrew stops appearing in the channel list but stays in your favourites, name and all, and reports a playback failure when you open it. Removing it is the only thing to do, and it is worth a tidy‑up after a provider changes their line‑up.
Favourites belong to a playlist
The playlist a channel was added from is part of the record. Two playlists carrying the same channel therefore hold two independent favourites, and marking it in one does not mark it in the other. Across a combined listing you will see it twice, which is correct rather than duplicated: they are two different streams that happen to share a name.
If you keep a second playlist only as a fallback, mark channels in the one you actually watch and leave the fallback alone. Duplicated favourites are the fastest way to make the list useless.
What is not in this build
Manage favorites appears in the channel menu and does nothing when selected. It is placed for a bulk editor (removing several at once, moving them about), that is not connected yet. Until it is, favourites are managed one at a time, from the channel itself, which is quick with Red and slow through the menu.
There is also no export of the favourites list on its own. It travels inside the app's backup file along with your playlists and settings, which is the thing to take before you reinstall or reset a device.