v0.14.111 — Extra Guides and tidier Settings

OpenIPTV is in active development. Some features are experimental while development goes on; features may be added, break and/or be removed at any time. New releases can come out several times a day as bugs are found and fixed. Thank you for testing! If anything doesn't work as it should, please report it on GitHub Issues. If you have a feature request, please open an issue on GitHub.

What's new

New

• Extra Guides. Settings → Playlists & Guides → Extra Guides lets you add TV guide files (XMLTV) for channels your playlist has no guide for. They can be plain .xml, .xml.gz or zipped, as long as they unpack to XML. OpenIPTV does not provide guides; community sites publish them, and a web search for "XMLTV EPG" is a good place to start. Your playlist's own guide always comes first, then your extra guides in the order you set.
• Smart matching. Channels with no guide are matched to your guides. Channels that already have a guide are never changed, and a doubtful match is skipped rather than guessed. US local stations are matched by call sign or by network and city.
• Matching Mode. Choose how strict matching is. Explicit links a channel only when its guide ID is exactly the guide's. Standard (the default) also accepts an exactly matching channel name. Optimistic also accepts names that are merely alike, which finds more channels but will sometimes guess wrong.
• Change Guide. Hold OK (TV) or long-press (phone) a channel → Change Guide to pick which guide it uses, search the guides, say "No guide for this channel", or go back to automatic. Your choice beats everything, and a guide that is down never empties the channel.
• Review Guide Matches lists every matched channel so a wrong one is easy to fix.
• Extra guides and your hand-picked guides are included in backups.
• Settings are tidier. The main page went from about 38 rows to about 20. Related things now live together: Playlists & Guides, Watching (Playback, Start-up, Channel Lists, TV Guide Layout), Appearance, and About & Advanced. One Refresh Now row asks which refresh you want. Nothing was removed.

Improved

• Smoother remote navigation in Settings (TV). The focused row stays centred, every page opens on its first row or your current choice, and the (i) buttons no longer get in the way of Up and Down.
• Picking a guide for one channel now loads only that channel, so it takes seconds to about a minute on a TV instead of minutes.
• Guide updates are gentler on providers and on a TV: unchanged guides are skipped, and a download that goes quiet is given up on instead of leaving the screen stuck.

Fixed

• TV guide missing for some or all channels after a refresh. When a provider answered with an empty guide, OpenIPTV treated it as a success and cleared part of the guide it had. It now keeps your current guide and tells you the provider sent an empty one.
• Stations listed more than once (for example HD and SD versions) now all get the guide. Before, only the first one did.
• A damaged backup no longer stops a restore halfway.

Previous release (v0.14.103 — 2026-11-11)

• Hide or rename a single channel (hold OK or long-press a channel).
• Choose which categories are shown, and new TV guide display options.
• Text Size and Player Transparency settings.
• Guide Data: choose how many days of guide are kept, and see when each guide last updated.
• Start on Boot and Start on Wake on TV.

OpenIPTV is a player only — it does not provide any channels, streams or playlists. You need your own.

Install

Install on phone/TV via Downloader code 2687835, or adb install -r app-release.apk. Car video companion from Settings or OpenIPTV-car-video.apk. Auto-updates supported.

Earlier releases have been removed; this is the only current version.