What's New in TIVRA 3.0

TIVRA 3.0 breaks the app out of "just IPTV." The headlines: a Local Media Library that puts your own movies and TV shows — from a Jellyfin or Emby server, or straight off your NAS — alongside your live channels, and Multi-View, which splits your TV into up to 8 live channels at once. Plus a web dashboard that finally behaves on your phone, a proper symbols layer on the TV keyboard, and on-screen shortcut hints. Details below.

🎞 Local Media Library: Jellyfin & Emby

If you run a Jellyfin or Emby server, TIVRA now connects to it as a first-class source. Add it under Settings → Providers → Add Provider — just the server URL and your username/password — and your movie and show libraries appear in the app's new Library section, right next to your IPTV content.

• Your server's artwork and metadata — posters, backdrops, descriptions, and cast come straight from Jellyfin/Emby, exactly as you've curated them.
• Two-way Continue Watching. TIVRA reports playback back to the server, so pause a movie on the TV and the resume point shows up in your other Jellyfin/Emby apps — and vice versa.
• Continue Watching and Next Up rails on the Library home, movie and show detail pages with resume, and watched progress that syncs across your devices.
• Trakt scrobbling covers library playback too.

Full Jellyfin/Emby setup guide ›

🗄 No Media Server? Point TIVRA at Your NAS

You don't need to run a media server at all. Add an SMB share as a library source — server, share name, and optionally a folder (movies and TV shows can point at separate folders) — and TIVRA reads your files straight off the network.

The good part: automatic metadata matching. Based on your file and folder names, TIVRA pulls in posters, artwork, descriptions, and cast for both movies and shows. Name files like Movie Title (2021).mkv and shows like Show Name (2004)/Season 1/... and the Library looks like a streaming service, not a file browser.

Full NAS library guide (naming tips included) ›

🖥 Browse Your Library from the Dashboard

The web dashboard gains a Library panel: browse your movies and shows in the browser, click Play on TV to start something on your television, and hit Sync Library to rescan your sources after adding new files. Library sources can also be added from the dashboard's Providers panel — changes sync to the TV automatically.

🔲 Multi-View: Up to 8 Channels at Once

Long-press OK on any channel in Live TV and choose Multi-View. Your TV splits into a grid of 2, 4, 6, or 8 live channels playing simultaneously.

• Add screens with a picker. Press OK on an empty slot (or the + in the toolbar), then choose a provider, a category (All Channels / Favorites / your visible categories), and the channel.
• Sound follows the highlighted screen. Press OK on a screen to move audio focus, or turn on Audio Mixing to blend the other screens in at low volume.
• Fullscreen flipping. Hold OK on a screen → Fullscreen. Then LEFT/RIGHT switches which stream is fullscreen; OK or BACK drops back to the grid.
• Mix providers. Screens can come from different providers, each using its own connection allowance — two 2-connection providers can drive four screens. If a provider hits its limit, you get a clear message on that screen instead of a mystery failure.

Full Multi-View remote walkthrough ›

📱 The Dashboard Works Properly on Phones Now

The web dashboard has been reworked for small screens. Managing providers, browsing your library, and sending things to the TV now work properly from a phone or tablet browser — no more pinch-zooming a desktop layout.

⌨ Keyboard Symbols & Shortcut Hints

• The on-screen keyboard gains a full symbols layer — press the ?# key. Passwords and server addresses with : / @ ! are no longer a scavenger hunt.
• Shortcut hints appear on screen as you navigate, so the long-press and D-pad tricks are discoverable without memorizing a manual.

🧹 Catching Up: Everything Since 2.0

If 2.0 was the last release you read about, a lot has landed in between. A quick recap of what's in the app today:

• Catch-up TV — replay recent programs from the guide when your provider supports it.
• Multiple providers at once, with cross-provider search and custom categories that mix channels from different providers.
• Country and language filters for the catalog, plus popularity sort.
• Duplicate-version grouping — one entry per movie with a quality picker, instead of five near-identical listings.
• Pause and rewind live TV (60-minute buffer by default, configurable up to 4 hours), scheduled recordings to internal storage, USB, or a NAS, and a recordings library.
• Cloud sync — providers, favorites, and settings follow your account across devices.

How to Update

Sideload the new APK from tivratv.com/#download. The easiest path on Android TV is the Downloader app — open Downloader, enter the URL shown on the download page, and install. Installing over an existing TIVRA preserves all your providers, favorites, settings, and recordings.

Questions? Drop into our Discord or reply to the release email.