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Wi-Fi or Ethernet for TiviMate?
“Use Ethernet” is standard advice and it is often right — but not always, and it is worth testing before buying an adapter. What each stream needs SD: around 3 Mbps HD (1080p): around 8 Mbps 4K: 25 Mbps or more Measure at your real viewing hour, not at midday. Evening congestion is exactly when buffering appears. Use…
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Organise Channels and Favourites
A large playlist is unusable until it is organised. TiviMate has good tools for this and most people never open them. Build a favourites group Highlight a channel, open the context menu and add it to favourites. Create several named groups rather than one long list — separating by household member or by type is…
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Using TiviMate on Multiple Devices
Two separate limits get confused here: the TiviMate Premium licence, and how many streams your service allows at once. They are not the same thing. The app licence A TiviMate Premium licence is tied to your account with the developer and can be moved between devices. It governs app features — recording, multiple playlists, and…
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Set Up Parental Controls in TiviMate
TiviMate has a working PIN lock. It is straightforward to set up, but it is worth understanding what it actually protects. Set a PIN Open Settings → Parental controls and set a PIN. Do not reuse the device unlock code — children usually know it already. Lock channels or whole groups Highlight a channel in…
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TiviMate Subtitles Not Working: Fixes
Subtitles fail in TiviMate for one of two reasons: the track is not there, or it is there in a form the app cannot render. Telling them apart saves a lot of time. Check whether a track exists During playback, open the menu and look at the subtitle list. If it is empty, the stream…
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Fix Audio Out of Sync in TiviMate
Audio drifting away from the picture has three common causes, and the fix differs for each. Changing settings blindly usually makes it worse. 1. Use the built-in audio delay During playback, open the menu and adjust Audio delay in small steps. If a fixed offset corrects it and it stays corrected, you are done —…
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How Catch-Up TV Works in TiviMate
Catch-up (sometimes called archive or timeshift) plays programmes that already finished. It is genuinely useful and widely misunderstood, because most of it depends on your provider rather than the app. What has to be true Catch-up only works when the provider stores the broadcast and exposes it, and when the guide data marks which programmes…
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TiviMate on Google TV and Chromecast
Google TV runs on Android TV underneath, so TiviMate works natively — but a few things differ from a standard Android TV box. Installing TiviMate is on the Play Store, so no sideloading is needed on Google TV. Search from the device rather than the phone app; results are more reliable that way. If you…
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TiviMate vs IPTV Smarters: Which to Pick
Both apps play the same playlists, so the choice comes down to how you actually watch. Here is the honest split. Interface and remote control TiviMate is built for a directional pad. Every action is reachable without a cursor, which matters on a Fire TV or Android TV remote. IPTV Smarters leans on a touch-style…
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How to Record Live TV in TiviMate
Recording is a Premium feature and one of the main reasons people upgrade. Setup is short, but the storage choice matters more than most guides admit. Choose storage first Go to Settings → Recordings → Storage. Internal storage on a streaming stick is small and slow; a USB drive formatted for the device is far…