Features
Other settings
The Other panel collects the settings that belong to a screen rather than to the player: how search behaves, when a reminder appears and what it does when nobody answers, and whether the next episode starts by itself.
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Open Settings and choose Other. The panel that opens holds four groups: Search, Reminders, Recording and VOD. Recording keeps a copy of what is playing and has its own page; this page covers the other three.
None of these settings changes a stream. They change how a screen behaves around one: what search looks at, when a reminder interrupts, and whether a film or an episode ends by moving on.
Getting to Other, and the two shortcuts
Other is a row in the settings overlay, and each of its groups opens a panel of its own. Two screens also carry a gear that lands directly on the panel they belong to:
- The search screen's gear opens Other › Search, because its five switches are answers to questions the search screen raises.
- My List › Reminders has a gear that opens Other › Reminders, next to the list those settings govern.
Both routes go through the same settings overlay, so the parental PIN still applies where it is set, and Back walks up through Other to the settings root exactly as if you had navigated in.
Search
Five switches control search. The defaults are chosen so that a fresh install behaves the way the screen did before these switches existed.
| Switch | Default | What it changes |
|---|---|---|
| Prefer voice search | On | Opens search with the microphone already listening instead of waiting for the keyboard. Typing still works, and a device with no speech recogniser reports that voice search is unavailable. |
| Show search history | On | Keeps submitted terms on the search screen and offers them back. History records what you submit, not every letter you type. |
| Show favorite channels first | On | Orders matching channels with favourites at the top. The rest of the group still follows the normal alphabetical order. |
| Show past programs without catch-up | Off | Includes programmes that have already aired on channels with no catch-up. They can be looked up but not played, so the default keeps the Programs group actionable. |
| Stay on search screen when switching channels | Off | Keeps the search screen up after a result starts playing. Off, the player takes the screen, which is what most viewers expect. |
The search itself is explained in search: what it matches, the four result groups and their limits, and why the spelling in your playlist is the one that counts. These five switches change the order and the extras around those results, never the matching rule.
Reminders
The Reminders panel controls how a programme reminder announces itself and what happens when nobody answers it. The reminder feature itself is reached from the guide: hold OK on a programme that is on now or still to come, or long-press it on a touch screen, and choose Remind me.
| Row | Values | What it changes |
|---|---|---|
| Remind before program start, min | 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 10, 15, 20 or 30 | How early the popup appears. Zero means as the programme starts. The value is stored with each reminder when it is created. |
| Popup timeout, sec | None, 5, 10, 15, 20, 30, 40, 50 or 60 | How long the popup waits for an answer. None leaves it up until it is answered. |
| Default action | Watch, Watch later or Dismiss | What an unanswered popup does when its timeout runs out. |
| Wake up from sleep mode | On or off | Asks the device to wake for a due reminder. Best effort and may not work on all devices; existing reminders are re-armed when the switch changes. |
Watch switches to the channel, which is the quickest route for a reminder you set deliberately. Watch later keeps the reminder without interrupting what is already playing. Dismiss drops it, which suits a reminder that has already served its purpose.
A reminder is a database row first and an alarm second. That is why it survives the thing a television box does most often: killing the app while it is asleep. The alarm moves the row to due; if there is no screen to ask on, the question arrives as a notification, and opening the app asks it again. A reminder whose programme has ended is removed, so the list does not accumulate entries you can no longer use.
Setting, cancelling and finding a reminder
Open the guide and move to a programme. A cell that is on air or still to come can carry a reminder; a finished programme cannot, because there is nothing left to warn you about. Hold OK or long-press, then choose Remind me. A toast confirms the title and the time, and the same menu row now reads Cancel reminder for that exact slot.
My List › Reminders lists everything pending, soonest first, with the channel, the time and how long is left. A row can be cancelled there; the gear on that screen opens the settings above. The lead time is applied when a reminder is created, so changing it later does not move a reminder that is already waiting — the same rule the recording paddings follow.
VOD
The VOD panel has one switch, Autoplay next episode, on by default. Both fullscreen players read it: an episode ending moves to the next one, and a film reaching its end is handled by the same switch. Turn it off and playback stops at the end instead, leaving you on the player controls.
The switch is the only autoplay setting the app offers, so it is deliberately shared rather than duplicated per screen. A series and a film library that disagreed about what happens at the end would read as a fault. The rest of the movies and shows screens are described in movies and shows.
Recording
Recording sits in the same panel and is covered separately. It holds the folder recordings are saved to and the two paddings — how early to start before a programme and how long to keep recording after it ends. See recording for the folder rules and what each failure message means.
Where the settings are stored
Every switch on this page is stored in the app's own database, not in the playlist and not in a file you manage. Three things follow from that:
- Refreshing a playlist leaves the settings alone, because the import replaces channels rather than app data.
- Backup and restore carries the switches to another device, along with favourites, reminders and channel overrides.
- Clearing the app's data resets them to the defaults listed above, and removes the reminders and favourites with them.
Nothing here needs an account. The settings are local to the device until you choose to back them up, which is also why the app cannot recover a forgotten parental PIN for you. The parental controls page explains that consequence in full.