viwX 1.5.1

Fixes:

• News clips failed to play with KeyError 'Brand'.
• Error messages when opening an empty 'Continue Watching' list.
• Stream-only FAST channels stalled in advert breaks.
• Programmes are now reported as having been fully played when the user has skipped to the end while playing.
• Some programmes were missing in IPTV EPG.
• Search now requests the same number of items as a generic web browser does.

New Features:

• Paid items are excluded from search results based on the setting 'Hide premium content'.
• On most live channels it's now possible to seek back up to 1 hour from the moment the channel is started.

viwX 1.5.0

Fixes:

• ViwX failed to start with 'FetchError: Forbidden'. An issue only experienced by users of OSMC and possibly some other systems that still use OpenSSL v1.1.1.

New Features:

• Episodes in 'Continue Watching' now have context menu item 'Show all episodes', which opens the programme folder with all series and episodes.
• Trending now shows programmes with episodes as folder, rather than playing the first episode of series 1.

viwX 1.4.2-beta.1

Fix for user of OSMC (2024.5-1) and other O.S's running openssl1.1.1

Fixes: viwX fails to start with FetchError: Forbidden

viwX 1.4.1

Fixes:

• Yet again sign-in errors. Now affecting both new users and existing users who had signed out.

viwX 1.4.0

New features:

• Support for signed programmes. (Enable the new setting 'Use signed programmes whenever available').
• Live hero items (those in orange on the main menu) now have a context menu 'Watch from the start'.

Fixes:

• Collection ITV sport failed with KeyError('collection')
• Again occasional sign-in errors for new users. Hopefully the final fix.
• A rare failure to list live channels.
• Adapt to changes at ITVX causing submenu 'My ITVX' to fail sometimes.

viwX 1.3.0

Fixes:

• Freezing streams on Kodi 21 (Omega).
• A lot of timeout errors, particularly when trying to sign in or open a stream. Only experienced by new users and users who did a fresh install.
• All categories failed to open with KeyError('encodeEpisodeId') due to a change at ITVX.
• A workaround for a bug in ITVX causing full news programmes to fail with FetchError('Not Found').
  Opening these programmes on the ITVX website will show a page with "Oops something went wrong". This is a temporary workaround to enable you to continue watching these programmes via viwX while ITVX address the issue.
• Sometimes an episodes listing failed with KeyError('guidance').

New Features:

• Support for IPTV Manager.

viwX 1.2.1

Fixes:

• All categories failed to open with KeyError('pathSegment') due to a change at ITVX.

Changes:

• Schedules of live channels are now listed up to 6 hours in the future (was 4 hrs).

viwX 1.2.0

Functionally the same as Beta.2, plus some fixes for recent changes at ITVX that had a rather severe effect on viwX.

Fixes:

• All categories failed to open due to various changes at ITVX.
• Error on opening some series named 'Other Episodes', due to changes at ITVX.
• Some sub-collections failed with error 'Not Found', due to error in ITVX data.
• Added support for hero and collections items of type 'page'. Fixes some collections being empty, or hero item not shown.

New features:

• Added a 'My itvX' entry in the main menu with:
  • My List: ITVX's My List.
  • Continue Watching: supports continue watching on different devices and different platforms.
  • Because You Watched: recommendations by ITV based on a recently watched programme.
  • Recommended: general recommendations by ITV.
• All programmes and series now have a context menu item to add/remove the programme to/from My List.

Other changes:

• When not signed in, a user is now always offered to sign in via viwX's settings when an item was opened that required authentication.
• Search now respects setting 'Hide premium content'.
• Brushed up README thanks to JohnVeness.

viwX 1.2.0-beta.2 (1.1.92)

Fixes for some issues with new features that could occur immediately after sign in/out.

version 1.2.0-beta.1

Changes

• Added a 'My itvX' entry in the main menu with:

  • My List - ITVX's My List.
  • Continue Watching - support for continue watching across different devices and different platforms.
  • Because You Watched - recommendations by ITV based on recently watched programmes.
  • Recommended - general recommendations by ITV.

• All programmes and series now have a context menu item to Add/remove the programme to/from My List.

• When not signed, a user is now always offered to go to settings to sign via the add-on's settings when an item is opened that required authentication.

• Added support for hero and collections items of type 'page'. Fixes some collections being empty, or hero item not shown.

• Search is now respecting setting 'Hide premium content'.

• Brushed up readme thanks to JohnVeness