A playlist no longer has to replace the previous one — it can simply be added. Channels from two providers live in one list: groups with the same name merge into one, while channels with the same name stay separate — marking a favourite, hiding or renaming a channel of one provider does not touch the same channel of another. Several playlists are part of the extended version; the first one stays free, as before.
They have a section of their own now. “Playlists” shows how many channels each one holds and when it was last refreshed. A playlist can be refreshed — all at once or one at a time — reordered, renamed, replaced in place or deleted. Replacing is deliberately separate from deleting: it keeps favourites and channel order, so you can switch providers without losing a year of sorting. Playlists loaded from an address also refresh by themselves every six hours: provider links are short-lived, and a stale one looks exactly like a broken app.
Every playlist carries its own TV guide. It is taken from the playlist itself, but you can set your own address and a backup one for channels the main feed does not cover. The shared address and an imported file still work for every channel — only now they come after the playlist’s own source. Previously there was a single guide for the whole app, and a second playlist with its own address simply overwrote the first.
Settings can be moved to another TV. Tick what to send — channels, app settings, parental controls, baby-monitor cameras — get a six-character code and enter it on the second set. Boxes running the previous version can receive it too: they take what they understand.
The right-hand menu has a new “Media” section: video from a USB drive, from SMB network folders and from DLNA servers, with device discovery on your network.
The channel list can look different now. The “Presentation” view is a full-screen grid of logos, four channels per row with what is on each; pick it in the appearance settings, next to the familiar side panel.
The baby monitor can hear. Sound joins motion tracking: a child cries first and only then starts moving. A stalled camera is now revived by the monitor itself instead of being shown as a frozen frame pretending to be live.
The first screen has been redesigned: one line instead of two half-screen headings, and three clear ways to load a playlist. It fits the screen at any text size.
The on-screen keyboard now fits at large text sizes. At 115% and 130% the bottom rows, along with the “Done” key, ran off the edge, and there was no way to finish typing.
The favourite marker in the TV guide moved next to the channel name. It used to hang as a separate badge at the right edge, where it was unclear what it referred to.
Playlists larger than two megabytes are no longer lost. Such a list was not saved and disappeared after the box restarted; playlists are now kept as files, and the limit is gone.
Fixed a crash when opening a camera. A camera opened from the side menu just to take a look started the baby monitor’s meters on top of the live stream, and the app closed as soon as the picture appeared.