OwnTV v4.1.1

v4.1.1 — 2026-07-14

📡 Stalker / Ministra portal support

• New source type: Stalker (MAC portal) — add a portal with just a Portal URL + MAC address
  (no username/password). Third source type alongside M3U and Xtream, with the same Default-playlist
  toggle, playlist switcher, per-source Auto refresh, Backup & Restore (the MAC is encrypted like a
  password), and TMDB enrichment. Available everywhere sources are added — including the
  first-run setup wizard, so a portal + MAC is enough to onboard.
• Test connection before saving (handshake + profile check), with clear errors for a bad MAC,
  an unreachable portal, or clock drift ("check the TV's date & time"). When the portal reports a
  subscription expiry, the result shows it.
• MAG User-Agent presets (MAG250/254/270/420) in the add-source form, plus the per-source
  User-Agent override, so a portal's UA whitelist change never needs an app update.
• Live TV from a Stalker portal plays on both engines (ExoPlayer preview/fullscreen + mpv
  compatibility mode), with embedded subtitles, zap, and the engine toggle. Stream URLs are minted
  at play time and silently re-resolved if they expire mid-session (Stalker links are
  short-lived) — a long live watch survives a ~2–4 h token reset.
• Movies & Series sync and play: per-category catalog import with a shared concurrency budget
  (movies + series import simultaneously, with a bulk single-dump fast path where the portal
  supports it), lazy per-season episode loading, and next/previous/autoplay across a season — each
  episode mints its own fresh stream link. External player playback works too.
• Downloads work for Stalker movies and episodes like any other source: the link is resolved
  when the download starts, and if it expires mid-download the app fetches a fresh one and resumes
  from where it stopped (HTTP Range).
• EPG & catch-up: now/next comes from the portal's short-EPG API; the full guide uses an XMLTV
  feed (advertised by the portal, or pasted in Settings → EPG). Channels with a provider archive
  get the existing catch-up features — Guide "Watch from start", the Live TV catch-up picker, and
  live rewind.
• Fast, resilient sync: bulk get_all_channels fast path (thousands of channels in seconds)
  with paged fallback, and transient portal errors (HTTP 429/5xx) retried with backoff so a hiccup
  never drops a category. Re-syncs and auto refreshes are non-destructive (favorites, history and
  progress survive).

🧭 Sidebar Menu Customization

• Show only the icons that match your playlist. A playlist that only has VOD no longer clutters
  the side menu with Live TV / Guide; a Live-only playlist hides Movies / Series / Downloads. Open
  Settings → Sidebar Menu Customization and switch Behavior between Static (manually
  hide any of the six icons — Home, Live TV, Movies, Series, Downloads, Guide) and Dynamic (the
  icons auto-adapt to what the active playlist actually contains).
• Dynamic reuses the existing per-source content counts (Home & Settings always show; Live/Guide
  show when there are channels; Movies/Series when their tables have rows; Downloads when Movies or
  Series exist — Live has no download). Counts re-evaluate on their own after every sync, so the
  rail updates the moment content arrives. With the top-bar picker on "All playlists", counts are
  unioned across the profile's sources.
• Static is the default (all icons visible) — existing users see no change until they opt in.
  Settings is always pinned at the bottom and can never be hidden; hiding every browse icon lands
  the app on Settings.
• Focus & fallback: if the section you're viewing becomes hidden, the app jumps to the first
  still-visible browse item (or Settings if all are hidden); opening the screen lands focus on its
  first row.
• The mode and hidden-icon set are part of Backup & Restore.

✨ Improvements

• Favourites from the TV Guide. Add or remove a channel from Favourites without leaving the
  Guide: long-press a channel label for the channel menu (favourite toggle + the existing EPG
  match options), or use the Favourite button in a programme's details dialog. Stars show up
  immediately in Live TV, Search, and the Home rail, and the Guide's "Favorites" sort refreshes in
  place.

• Subscription expiry in Manage sources. Each Xtream and Stalker playlist row now shows an
  "Expires …" note with the account's end date (read from the provider when the screen opens).
  M3U playlists have no account, so they don't show one.

• Deleting a playlist now shows its progress. Removing a source with a huge catalog
  (hundreds of thousands of channels/movies/episodes) can take a while — the source row in
  Settings → Manage sources now shows a "DELETING…" badge with a spinner until the removal
  finishes, and the row's Edit/Re-sync/Delete buttons are hidden meanwhile so it can't be
  touched mid-delete. The removal also now always runs to completion even if you leave the
  Settings screen while it's working.

🐛 Fixes

• Updating from 4.0.x/4.1.0 could crash the app at launch (database self-heal). If a large
  playlist or EPG import was ever interrupted mid-sync (TV standby, low memory, force-stop), the
  import speed-up that temporarily drops SQLite indexes could leave some of them missing. That was
  invisible in daily use, but the next app update re-validates the whole database schema — so the
  update crashed the app on every launch until the previous version was reinstalled. The database
  now self-heals: the final migration and every database open recreate any missing index or
  search (FTS) table (idempotent and effectively instant on healthy installs), every index-restore
  pass shares one canonical index list so a gap can never persist again, and the post-import index
  rebuild now covers the rating-sort indexes it previously missed. Verified against every public
  upgrade path (v1.0.0 → current) — updating preserves all playlists, favorites, history and
  progress; no reinstall needed.
• Hidden categories are now respected in the TV Guide. Categories hidden via Customize no
  longer appear in the Guide's "Category" dropdown, and their channels stay out of the guide grid
  (matching Live TV). The dropdown also now shows your category renames and keeps manually
  reordered categories pinned first, like the Live TV rail. If the category you were filtering
  by gets hidden, the Guide falls back to "All" instead of showing an empty grid.
• Download retry & failure polish. Retrying a download now stops the old attempt before
  starting fresh (previously the two could race and corrupt the restart); a failed download keeps
  its real partial byte count instead of showing 0; and a resume that finds the file already fully
  downloaded is marked completed instead of failing.

🔧 Under the hood

• Sync engine split into per-source-type modules. The single large SyncManager was split
  into a thin dispatcher plus XtreamSyncer, M3uSyncer and a shared SyncSupport toolbox
  (chunked inserts, stable upserts, category refresh, pruning) — groundwork for the upcoming
  Stalker portal source type. No behavior change; import/sync logic and logging are identical.
• Migration tests modernized. The database migration test suite now runs every chain to the
  current schema version (it had stopped at v9), and gains a regression test that deliberately
  drops indexes from a v12 database and asserts the new self-heal repairs it during the upgrade.

Full Changelog: v4.1.0...v4.1.1