Features on Android TV

Sign in with just your email. There is no password. o3IPTV emails you a one-time code, and your first sign-in creates the account.

On the sign-in screen enter your email under “Enter your email to get a one-time sign-in code”, then select “Continue with email”. On “Check your email” type the code and select “Verify code”. “Change email” goes back a step.

#1

Sign a new device in by approving it from a device that is already signed in. It saves typing your email on a TV, a headset or a computer.

The sign-in screen displays a QR code and a short code. Scan the QR code with your phone camera, or in the o3IPTV app on a phone or computer go to Devices > Approve a New Device and enter the code. A declined or expired code is replaced by a fresh one automatically.

#2

See every device signed in to your account and sign any of them out. One account can be signed in on up to 5 devices at once.

Open Settings > Account > “Manage devices”. Choose “Sign out” on a device or “Sign out all other devices”. At the limit the sign-in asks “Choose one to sign out, and this device takes its place.” If this TV was removed, a card explains why and offers “Sign in again”.

#3

Every feature is included from day one. New accounts get 14 days free, no card needed, then you subscribe to keep going.

While your trial runs, Home displays a slim “Free trial” band with the days left (“Ends today” on the last day) and a “Subscribe” button. Settings > Account lists the state and has “Refresh status”.

#4

One subscription covers every device on your account and every feature in the app. It never includes media.

Select “Subscribe” in Settings > Account, or open the paywall when playback is blocked (“Subscription required”). “Choose your plan” lists live store prices, with “Re-check” and “Restore purchases”. If a plan lapses mid-stream you can finish the current programme before the paywall appears.

Google TV bills through Google Play.

#5

One place for your subscription, profile, devices, sync and sign-out. Delete account removes your cloud data.

Settings > Account lists your subscription state (Active, Free trial, Grace period, Expired and so on) with “Refresh status”, “Subscribe” or “Manage subscription”, “Sign out” and “Delete account”. Deleting is finished on a phone or computer at o3iptv.app/account.

#6

Enter your Xtream Codes login and o3IPTV imports your live channels, movies, series and TV guide. o3IPTV is a player and ships no content.

On first run choose “Add your first playlist”, or go to Settings > Media Sources > “Add playlist”. Enter the playlist name, server URL (for example http://host:8080), username and password. “Use a custom EPG guide URL” is optional. Errors say if the login is wrong, no Xtream panel is at that URL or the server is unreachable.

#7

Keep more than one login and choose which one you are watching.

With two or more playlists the sidebar has a “Switch source” row (“Choose which playlist to watch”). In Settings > Media Sources, “Set active” on a playlist card marks it with an Active pill.

#8

Check what a source holds and when it expires. Refresh it, swap its login or delete it from the same card.

Open Settings > Media Sources. Each card lists Status, Expires, Connections (“N of M in use”) and counts for Channels, Movies, Series and Guide Programmes. Choose “Refresh”, “Renew” (new username and password) or “Delete”.

#9

Use your provider's TV guide or point a source at your own XMLTV address.

In Settings > Media Sources choose “EPG” on a playlist. Pick “Use the provider's EPG (recommended)” or “Custom XMLTV URL”. “Update guide” runs the update now.

#10

Exclude whole Live TV, Movie or Series categories from a source. Excluded categories and their content leave the app, and including them again restores them.

In Settings > Media Sources choose “Exclusions” on a playlist. Use the tabs Live TV, Movies and Series. Each category reads Included or Excluded, with “Exclude all” and “Include all”. “Apply and refresh” saves it. Only the main profile can change exclusions.

#11

Get told when your provider adds categories, and choose to exclude new ones automatically until you include them.

Home displays “New since your last review” with “Review” and “Dismiss” when the provider adds categories. The Exclusions dialog has a toggle, “Exclude new categories automatically”, so new categories start excluded until you include them.

#12

The app tells you when a provider account has expired, so a failing channel does not look like a bug.

Home displays “<name> has expired” with “Manage”. Pressing Play offers “Manage Playlist” or “Play Anyway”. Previews say the channel's playlist has expired.

#13

o3IPTV keeps your channels, movies, series and TV guide fresh without you opening Refresh.

This happens by itself every day, and the app displays a “Library updated” toast. The first import of a large catalog can take minutes. Settings > Media Sources > “Refresh” updates right away.

#14

A large banner at the top of Home with trending movies and shows that match your library.

The banner sits at the top of Home. Left and Right move through titles. Select opens the title, and the banner also offers “Watch Now”, “More info”, a heart and “Add to My List”.

#15

Resume movies, episodes, live channels and catch-up where you left off. Positions follow your profile to every device.

It is the first rail on Home. Select resumes a card. Long-press Select asks “Remove from Continue Watching?”. If your version is missing, “Play in a different language?” names the language before it plays.

#16

Ranked rails of what is trending on TMDB, limited to titles you can actually play from your source.

Move down the Home rails to “Top 10 Movies” and “Top 10 TV Shows”. Only titles playable in your playlist appear. Select opens the title.

#17

Rows picked for you, such as “Because You Watched”, a rotating Smart Discover shelf and hand-picked lists like “Complete Sagas”.

Move down the Home rails. “Because You Watched” follows your history. Smart Discover rotates themed shelves such as “Short Movies for Tonight” or “Korean Thrillers”. Editorial rails include “Complete Sagas” and provider rows like “Popular on Netflix”.

#18

See what is new in your source, and jump to major networks from brand cards.

Home has “Recently Added Episodes”, “Recently Added Movies” and “Recently Added Channels”, plus Top TV Channels. Select a brand card to open the channel, or pick from “Choose a Channel” when it has several.

#19

Twelve genre cards open a screen of movies or series in that genre, matched to your own library.

Find the genre cards near the bottom of Home. A genre opens with Movies and Series tabs and the rows “New releases”, “Popular now” and “Top rated”. Choose Rows or Grid, and Popular or Newest. Kids profiles see six kid-safe genres.

#20

Find channels as a logo grid or a list, with sorting and categories. Numbers sort naturally, so ESPN 2 comes before ESPN 11.

Open Live TV in the sidebar. Categories are on the left, channels in the middle, preview and programme details on the right. Press Right from a category to reach its channels. Sort categories by Provider order, A to Z, Most channels or Newest, and channels by Provider order, A to Z or Channel number.

#21

Favorite and recently used categories sit at the top of the list, and categories your provider just added are marked New.

The list starts with Favorites, “Recently watched”, “All channels” and “New”. Star a category (“Add category to favorites”) to move it to the top. Favorite categories sync to your other devices, and pinned and starred rows stay on top when you sort.

#22

Every channel tile or row names the programme that is on now, taken from the TV guide.

Each channel row names the current programme. Focus a channel to see now, up next, minutes left and the description in the right column. Guide, Favorites and Home rows show it too.

#23

Preview a live channel inside the list without leaving it.

Select a channel to start a muted preview in the right column. Select the same channel again for full screen. The hint reads “OK Preview · Hold OK Favorite”. The Guide works the same way. Settings > Playback > “Keep preview playing while browsing” controls whether it continues as you move.

#24

Press and hold Select on a channel for quick actions: favorite it, set a reminder or watch it full screen.

In Live TV long-press Select on a channel. The menu offers “Add to favorites” or “Remove from favorites”, “Remind me: <programme>” or “Remove reminder”, and “Watch full screen”.

#25

Logos load from your provider first, then from the o3IPTV logo service, then a clean placeholder. You can set the color behind them.

Open Settings > Customization > “TV logo background” and pick a color. “Reset to default” undoes it.

#26

Type a channel number on a remote with digit keys to jump to that channel while you watch live.

Turn it on in Settings > Playback > “Number keys (channel zap)”. It is off by default. While watching live, type a number with the 0-9 keys. It maps to the channel's position in your list.

#27

A grid of channels against time with the current programme highlighted. Page earlier or later, filter by category and search.

Left and Right move across programmes, Up and Down across channels. Right at the end extends the window, and Left at the first programme opens the sidebar. The top bar has the category picker, “Search channels”, “Back to now” and refresh. “Refresh Guide” appears if the guide is empty.

#28

Open a programme to read about it, watch it, favorite the channel, add it to a list, set a reminder or record it where recording exists.

Long-press Select on a cell. The menu offers “Add channel to Favorites”, “Add to list…”, “Start Over” when catch-up applies, “Record” or “Cancel recording”, “Record series” or “Cancel series”, “Remind me” and “Reminders”.

#29

Restart the programme that is airing from its beginning, when your provider keeps an archive for the channel.

Long-press Select on a Guide cell and choose “Start Over”, select the “Start Over” badge on an eligible cell, or press the Start over button in the player controls.

#30

Watch past programmes from channels whose provider keeps an archive.

Open Catch Up in the sidebar. Channels with an archive say “N day archive”. Open one to see past programmes by day (All, Today, Yesterday, dates), with “Search programs”. Select plays. In the Guide, select a programme that already aired inside the archive window to play it.

#31

Get a reminder before a programme starts. Reminders sync across your devices and profile.

Long-press Select on a Guide programme, or on a channel in Live TV, and choose “Remind me”. A banner appears 5 minutes before the start with “Tune in” and “Dismiss”, only while the app is running. Review reminders from the Guide menu under “Reminders”.

#32

Browse as a grid or a list, with sorting, category filters and search inside the screen.

Open Movies or Series in the sidebar. The toolbar has Category, search, Grid, List and Sort. Sort offers Default order, Recently added, Oldest added, newest or oldest release year, and A-Z. The default rail is “Recently Added”, or “New Episodes” for series.

#33

Read about a film before you play it: synopsis, ratings, cast, trailers and similar titles, with artwork and details from TMDB.

Select a movie. Buttons include “Watch Now” or “Resume”, “Start over” when you have a resume point, a heart, “Add to list…” and “Download”. Below are Cast, Director, “Trailers & Clips”, “More Like This” and “Recommendations”. Select an actor to see their other titles “In your library”.

#34

Pick a season, scan episodes with stills and progress, and resume the next episode in one step.

Season chips (“Season 1”, “Specials”) sit above the episode list, which has progress bars. “Watch Now” plays the next episode, or “Resume”. Episode and season downloads are on the same page.

#35

Watch a trailer from a title's page.

Select “Trailers & Clips” on a title page. The trailer opens in the YouTube app on your TV, and the row is missing if YouTube is not installed.

#36

See how much of a film series you own, and jump to the next film.

A movie page lists “N of M movies in your library”, “Current movie” and “Next in collection”. “Complete Sagas” rows on Home have one card per saga.

#37

When your source has several copies of one title, such as other languages or qualities, pick the one you want and see its file size.

“Watch Now” picks a copy by your preferred audio language. Otherwise “Choose a Version” lists copies with the playlist name and size. In the player, Options > “Change version” swaps copy and keeps your position.

#38

Near the end of an episode a card offers the next one with a countdown, so a binge needs no clicks.

A card says “Up next” with “Playing in Ns”, “Play now” and “Cancel”.

#39

Open a title you started and choose to carry on or begin again.

Opening a partly watched title asks “Continue watching?” with “Resume” and “Start over”, and says where you left off.

#40

One search across live channels, movies, series and episodes in your sources, with recent searches and suggestions.

Open Search in the sidebar, or press the voice or search button on your remote. Chips: All, Movies, Series, Channels and Sports. “All categories” narrows by category. Results start with “Top Results”, and “Recent searches” has “Clear”.

#41

Narrow the screen you are on: Live TV, Movies, Series, categories and genres each have their own search.

Live TV has “Search channels” with results grouped “In <category>” and “Other matches”. Movies and Series have “Search movies” and “Search series”. In a genre use “Search this genre” or “Search all Movies/Series”.

#42

Today's matches, what is on next, sports news and highlights for the competitions you follow.

Choose Sports Hub in the sidebar. Use the sport and league filters, then browse “Featured today”, “Next up”, “Latest news”, “Your leagues”, “Coming up” and “Today in sports”.

#43

A ranked row on Home of the biggest matches today, with the live score or kick-off time. Part of the Sports Hub.

Find the Top 10 Sports Events row on Home. Each card shows a live score or the kick-off time. Select opens the fixture.

#44

Pick the leagues you care about and see today's matches and upcoming fixtures for just those.

In Sports Hub open “Choose leagues”. The editor has “Search leagues”, “My leagues”, “All leagues” and “Edit favorites”. Your choice syncs to your other devices.

#45

Follow a whole competition: fixtures, the table, the knockout bracket and top scorers.

Open a competition from Sports Hub. Tabs: Overview, Fixtures, Table, Bracket and Scorers (goals, assists, cards).

#46

Open a match for the score, stats and goals, then play a channel from your own playlists that carries it.

Open a fixture for the score, match summary, stats and goal timeline. “Match Channels” lists channels from your playlists named after the fixture, found by channel name or guide programme. Pick “Preview” or “Watch Now”.

#47

Browse team and player pages. Heart a team to put it on Home and in Favorites.

Open a team for standings, form, squad, manager, venue, colors and highlights. A player page has age, height and career stats. Choose “Add to favorite teams” to follow it. Teams appear in Favorites and on Home.

#48

Play, pause, seek, change volume and move between channels or episodes with controls that suit each device.

Select shows the controls. On movies and episodes Left and Right seek 10 seconds, CH+ and CH- (or Page Down and Page Up) go to the next or previous episode, and Play/Pause toggles. Menu opens Options.

#49

Zap to the next or previous channel without going back to a list.

While watching live, tap Up or Down to zap. Hold Up or Down, or press CH+ or CH-, to open the channel list. Press Right to open the full Guide on this channel.

#50

While you watch live, press Left to open a channel list over the picture. Zap, change group or reach the Live TV browser without stopping the stream.

Press Left while watching live. The list opens on the playing channel, with a “Previous channel” row on top, and Right pages its schedule. Select tunes and keeps the list open. Left again opens the groups column. Left once more reaches Live TV with the stream still playing. Back closes one level.

#51

Pause a live channel or step back a little, and on TV see how far behind live you are.

Pause with Play/Pause or go back 10 seconds from the controls bar. A “LIVE” chip and a readout such as “-42s” show how far behind you are. How far you can go back depends on your provider.

#52

Jump to another episode or season without leaving the player.

Select the “Episodes” button in the controls. A panel lists seasons and episodes, so you can jump without leaving the player.

#53

Change how the picture fills the screen: Fit, Fill, Stretch, 16:9, 4:3, 21:9 or 1:1. It resets to Fit the next time.

Open Options > Aspect ratio, or assign it to a color button in Settings > Playback > “Colour buttons”.

#54

Pick another audio track when a stream carries several languages or formats.

Open Options > Audio. Track names include the language and format.

#55

Nudge the sound earlier or later when it drifts from the picture.

Open Options > Audio > “Audio sync”. Earlier and Later move it in 0.1 s steps, up to 2.0 s either way. “Reset” clears it. It is remembered per title.

#56

Turn on subtitles from the stream's own tracks, or choose no subtitles.

Open Options > Subtitles and pick an embedded track, or “Off”.

#57

Download a matching subtitle when the stream has none. A free OpenSubtitles account allows 20 downloads a day.

Sign in at Settings > Playback > OpenSubtitles. In the player choose Options > Subtitles > “Search online”, pick a language and a result. Downloads are cached. Sign out “on this TV” or “everywhere”.

#58

Shift subtitles earlier or later when they do not match the speech.

Open Options > Subtitles > “Subtitle sync”. Earlier and Later move 0.1 s at a time, up to 10 s either way. “Reset” clears it. It is remembered per title.

#59

Change the font, text color and background of subtitles, and see a preview first.

Open Settings > Playback > Subtitle style, or Options > Subtitles. Font: Default, Serif or Monospace. Text color: White, Yellow, Cyan, Green or Magenta. Choose a Background. “Subtitle size” offers S, M, L and XL.

#60

Watch faster or slower than normal.

For movies and episodes open Options > Playback speed and pick 0.5x, 0.75x, 1x, 1.25x, 1.5x or 2x.

#61

Clean up the motion lines on interlaced live channels.

Open Options > Deinterlace while watching a live channel.

#62

See what you are really playing: resolution, frame rate, codec, HDR, audio format and buffer.

A pill in the controls displays the resolution tier (SD to 8K), frame rate, codec, Dolby Vision, HDR10 or HLG, and Atmos, 7.1 or 5.1. Options > Info lists Player, Resolution, Frame rate, Video, Dynamic range, Audio, Language, Live buffer and Buffered.

#63

Keep the video in a small window while you use something else.

Press Home while playing. The player shrinks into a small window on devices that support it.

On Google TV, press Home while playing.

#64

When a stream stalls, the player enlarges its buffer, retries and tries another format. Plain messages say what went wrong.

Specific cards explain problems: “All connections in use” (with “Switch to another playlist”), “Not supported on this device”, “Title Unavailable at Source” (with “Try Another Version”), and “VPN Unreachable”. The player reconnects on its own.

#65

Stop playback by itself after a set time.

Open Options > Sleep timer and pick Off, 15, 30, 45, 60 or 90 minutes.

#66

Save movies, episodes or a whole season to the device. The queue shows progress and checks free space first.

On a movie page choose “Download”, then “Cancel download”, “Retry download” or “Delete download” as needed. On a series page download an episode, “Download Full Season” or “Download Remaining Season Episodes” (“Downloading N of M”). The app asks which version and refuses when space is short.

#67

Open Downloads to play saved titles without a connection, search them and delete them.

Choose Downloads in the sidebar. Tabs: “TV Recordings”, “Movies”, “Series” and “Search downloads”. A saved movie offers “Play offline”. Delete from the same screen.

#68

Pick the folder or drive for downloads and recordings.

Open Settings > Downloads > Download location, and Settings > Recording > Recording location. Choose Internal storage, USB / SD storage or “Network share (NAS)”. For a NAS enter the server, share, folder, username and password, then “Test connection”.

#69

Record the live channel you are watching to a file.

While watching live, select the Record button in the controls. The REC chip shows it is running. Stop recording to save. Clear messages appear if storage is full or a one-connection provider is in use.

#70

Record an upcoming programme from the Guide, with extra minutes before and after the start.

In the Guide long-press Select on a programme and choose “Record” or “Cancel recording”. Settings > Recording sets Start early and Run over. Items appear in Downloads > TV Recordings as “Upcoming” and “Recording now…”.

#71

Record every airing of a title on a channel with one rule, and decide how many episodes to keep.

In the Guide long-press Select and choose “Record series”. Each series rule lets you set how many episodes to keep, change the padding or choose “Cancel series”.

#72

Watch what you recorded, grouped by show, and see what is coming up.

Open Downloads > TV Recordings. Rows: Series, Upcoming and Library. The library groups by show with a watched dot and “Delete watched”. Settings > Recording can delete after watching or delete the oldest when full.

#73

Each person gets a profile with their own favorites, Continue Watching, lists and reminders.

With several profiles the picker opens at launch. Later, use the profile row at the top of the sidebar or Settings > Account > “Switch profile”.

#74

Add, rename and delete profiles, change avatars and mark a profile as Kids.

Open Settings > Account > “Manage profiles”. Add, edit or delete a profile, set its name and use the “Kids profile” toggle. The maximum number of profiles comes from your account.

#75

A Kids profile keeps adult titles out of browsing and search for that profile.

Turn on “Kids profile” (“Hides adult content for this profile”) in Manage profiles. Kids profiles also see six kid-safe genres on Home.

#76

Protect a profile with a 4-digit PIN that is asked whenever someone switches into it, on every device.

In Manage profiles set a 4-digit PIN on a profile (it then reads “PIN protected”). Switching to it asks for the PIN. “Forgot PIN?” emails a 6-digit reset code.

#77

Lock adult channels, movies and series behind a PIN across the whole app.

Open Settings > Parental controls and choose “Set a PIN”. While locked, adult content is kept out of every list and needs the PIN to play. “Unlock adult content” lasts the session. “Lock adult content now”, “Change PIN” and “Remove PIN” are in the same place. Locked titles read “This title is locked”.

#78

Keep your favorite channels, movies, series and teams in one place, per profile. Favorites also appear in a row on Home.

Choose Favorites in the sidebar. Rails: Live TV, Movies, Series and Teams. Long-press Select (or press Menu) on a favorite for options. An item from another source reads “Only in <source>”.

#79

One tap on a heart favorites a channel, title or team. The app then offers to add it to a list too.

Use the heart on movies and series, the Guide menu, the Live hold menu and the player. In the player a sheet says “Added to Favorites. Add it to a list too?”.

#80

Group favorites into your own lists, such as Sports, Kids or Documentaries. Lists sync across your devices.

In Favorites pick “New list” (presets or “Custom name…”), then “Add items”. To reorder, press Select to pick an item up, move it with Up and Down, and press Select to drop it. “Add to list…” is on details, the Guide menu and the player.

#81

Favorites, lists, positions, reminders, exclusions, sources and more follow your account to every device automatically.

Nothing to switch on. Favorites, lists, favorite categories and teams, Continue Watching, reminders, exclusions, profiles, sources (credentials encrypted), VPN profiles and the OpenSubtitles login sync. Settings > Account lists “Synced” with the time, and “Sync now”.

#82

Sign in on a fresh device and your sources and preferences come back by themselves.

After you sign in the app displays “Restoring your sources” with phases: Preparing source, Validating, Live Channels, Movies, Series and TV Guide. Large catalogs can take minutes.

#83

Send only the video of one source through your own WireGuard VPN. If the VPN drops, playback stops rather than going direct.

Open Settings > Media Sources, choose a playlist, then “Connection”. Paste the contents of your provider's WireGuard .conf, or use “Remove VPN” and “Renew connection”. Provider sign-in (Proton, Mullvad and others) is done in the phone or computer app and arrives by sync. A VPN pill marks the source.

#84

The app speaks 11 languages: English, Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic, French, German, Dutch, Turkish, Italian, Polish and Swedish.

Open Settings > Customization > “Language” and pick System default or a language. Arabic keeps a left-to-right layout so the remote keeps its meaning.

#85

Set the languages you want and the app picks matching tracks for you.

Open Settings > Playback and set the preferred audio and subtitle languages. They apply automatically, and “Off” means off.

#86

Choose between faster channel changes and fewer stalls.

Open Settings > Playback > “Live buffer” and pick Low, Balanced or High.

#87

Switch to software decoding when a channel shows garbled or green video.

Open Settings > Playback > Advanced > “Video decoder”. Choose Software only when a channel misbehaves. It applies on the next playback.

#88

Give the red, green, yellow and blue buttons on your remote a job in the player.

Open Settings > Playback > “Colour buttons”. Assign each button to Play / pause, Options menu, Favourite, Aspect ratio, Restart (VOD), TV Guide (live) or Last channel (live). The default is None.

#89

Find the version, support contact, Terms of Use and Privacy Policy, and the reminder that o3IPTV ships no content.

Open Settings > About. It lists the version, Support ([email protected]), Community (Discord) and Legal. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy open from QR codes (“No browser on TV, so scan a code”).

#90