Add addons to TIVRA

Addons bring extra movies, series, live channels and subtitles into TIVRA. You add each one by pasting its link. This page shows where to find a link, how to add it on your TV or from the dashboard, and what to do if something does not work.

What addons are

An addon is a small web service run by someone else. TIVRA asks it for things and shows what it sends back. An addon can provide:

• Catalogs: lists of movies, series or live channels to browse.
• Streams: links that play a movie, an episode or a channel.
• Subtitles: subtitle files for what you are watching.

Many addons do only one of these. A catalog addon fills the Addons page with posters. A stream addon gives you something to play when you open a title. A subtitles addon adds subtitle choices in the player.

TIVRA reads the same addon format that Stremio addons use, so any addon link built for that format works.

Where to get an addon link

Addon developers publish their links on their own sites. A search for the addon's name plus "addon" usually finds it. The link you need ends in manifest.json.

Some addons have their own settings page. Fill it in, and the page gives you a personal link with your choices built in. Use that link, not the plain one.

Two addons you can try right away. Neither needs an account:

Add it on your TV

1. Open TIVRA and go to Settings › Movies & Series › Addons. You can also open Addons in the menu and press Manage addons.
2. Select the link field and paste or type the addon link.
3. Press Add. TIVRA checks the link and shows what the addon provides.
4. Open Addons in the menu to browse what it added.

Typing a long link with a remote is slow. The dashboard is easier, and the addon shows up on your TV by itself.

If an addon has its own settings page, its row shows a Configure button. It shows a QR code to that page. Scan it with your phone, make your choices, then add the personal link it gives you.

Add it from your phone

1. Open TIVRA on your phone and go to Settings › Movies & Series › Addons. You can also open the VOD tab, tap Addons next to Movies and Series, then tap Manage addons.
2. Copy the addon link, then paste it in the link field at the top.
3. Tap Add. The addon shows up in the list below.

Each addon has a switch to turn it on or off, and a menu (the three dots) with Configure, Replace link, Move up, Move down and Remove. To change an addon's link, open its menu, tap Replace link, paste the new link and tap Replace. You can also press and hold an addon to drag it to a new place.

Add it from the dashboard

1. On a phone or computer, sign in at tivratv.com and open the Addons tab.
2. Paste the addon link and press Add.
3. Turn addons on or off, change their order, or remove them in the same list.

Addons sync to your account. Every device signed in to it gets the same list.

Addons that need a debrid account

Some addons only find torrent links. TIVRA does not download torrents. To play those links, the addon needs a debrid account. A debrid service downloads the torrent on its own servers and hands back a normal link to play.

You set this up on the addon's own settings page, not in TIVRA:

1. Get your key (sometimes called an API key or token) from your debrid service's website.
2. Open the addon's settings page. On the TV, go to Manage addons and press Configure on the addon's row. It shows a QR code: scan it with your phone. On a phone, Configure opens the page in your browser.
3. Choose your debrid service on that page and paste your key.
4. The page gives you a new personal link. Paste it in TIVRA with Replace link on the addon's row.

The addon then plays through your debrid service, and its results show up as normal sources.

Until the addon is set up, its torrent results collapse into one row: "Torrent sources need a debrid-configured addon". Select it to get the QR code to the addon's settings page, or to this guide if the addon has no settings page.

What plays without an account

• Addons whose streams are normal web links play straight away. Some free live TV addons work this way.
• Catalog addons like Cinemeta play nothing on their own. Add a stream addon too, or use them to browse.
• Subtitles addons like OpenSubtitles need no account.
• Torrent addons need a debrid account, set up on the addon's settings page (see above).

Live channels from addons show on the Addons page, not in Live TV, in this version.

Troubleshooting