4 – Tivimate Settings

Here’s how I have set my Tivimate Settings.

I would set them this way if I were you if you’d like to get the most of the software app.

Open your Tivimate App

Settings > General
  • Turn on last channel on app start = on
  • Confirm exit by second press Back = on

(The rest is all off)

Settings > Playlists

If you go into the playlist (exemple: IPTVTek)

  • Update internal hours = 24 (every 24 hours the channel list will be updated)
  • Update on app start = on (every time you start Tivimate, the channel list will be updated)

(The rest I haven’t touched)

Settings > Playlists

Playlists sorting = By name

Settings > EPG >EPG Sources

If you are using my Free channel list, for the EPG (Electronic Program Guide) to work correctly, make sure this is listed:

mediatek.ca xmltv <– something like that

http://epg:epg@mediatek.ca:81/xmltv.xml

-or-

http://username:password@mediatek.ca:81/xmltv.xml

(One or the other, doesn’t make a diffrence)

Also if you have “edge.bz” with poutine.tv

http://edge.bz:8080/xmltv.php?username=<username>&password=<password>

Here’s the trick, ill give you an example and add something at the end, this will help to download 7 days of EPG from them. Make sure you don’t enter more than 7.

http://edge.bz:8080/xmltv.php?username=john&password=123456&next_days=7

Default source = Off

Settings > EPG
  • Past days to keep EPG = 1
  • Store Program description = On
  • Update interval hours = 16
  • Update on app start = On
  • Update on playlists change = On
Settings > Appearance
  • Panels timeout, sec = 15 (How much time the Display Info Bar stays on screen when switching channel etc)
  • Show Black screen when switching channels = OFF

Settings > Appearence > Logos: (Nothing to change in there)

Settings > Appearence > Groups:

  • Groups sorting = By name
  • The next 4 options = On

Settings > Appearence > TV Guide:

  • Channels sorting = By name
  • Preview = On
  • Channel names editor = Off
  • Show channel numbers = Off

(All the rest is ON)

Settings > Appearence > Player > Channel List:

(Everything is On, except:)

  • Autoplay Channels = OFF
  • Autoplay channels = OFF (There is 2 of them, both OFF)

Settings > Appearence > Player > Info Panel

(Everything is = ON, except)

  • Show info panel at the bottom when switching channels= OFF (Unless you want to see it at the bottom, turn ON)
  • Show description when switching channels only

Settings > Appearence > Player > History / Recent channels

(Everything is ON, unless you’d like to change it to your liking)

Settings > Appearence > Player > Menu

(You can set this to your preference. This is a menu that appears at the bottom when you press the down button on the remote)

Settings > Appearence > Player > Clock

  • Off (Turn on if you want to see the time on your screen all the time while watching TV or movies)

Settings > Appearence > Language

Settings > Appearance > Font Size

  • Large (This is how big the EPG letters are on your screen etc)

Settings > Appearance > Background Color

  • Blue Gray

Settings > Appearance > Selection Color

  • Blue

Settings > Appearence > User interface transparency %

  • 50
Settings > Playback

Settings > Playback > Buffer Size

  • Small (This is Important for buffering issues)

Settings > Playback > Audio Decoder

  • Hardware

Settings > Playback > Video Decoder

  • Hardware

Settings > Playback > Auto frame rate (AFR)

  • OFF

Settings > Playback > Select surround audio track by default

  • OFF (You can turn this ON if you have a stereo system that supports surround sound. If you are only using TV, keep this OFF)

Settings > Playback > Audio passthrough

  • ON

Settings > Playback > Tunneled Playback

  • OFF

Settings > Playback > Use External Player

  • No

Settings > Playback > Skip steps

  • (30 sec, 30 sec, 10 sec, 10 sec)
Settings > Remote Control

(All Off)

(The rest you can configure to your liking)

Settings > Parental Controls

(Enter a code to lock your settings, adult content etc) – Ill leave that to you LOL

Settings > Other

Settings > Other > Search

  • All On

Settings > Other > Reminders

(Configure to your liking)

Settings > Other > Recording

(You won’t be able to Record for now) It’s something I could check into by having you record to my computer here at home, I will have to test it first and I would need everyone to pitch in $$ to purchase a Hard Drive. This might be an interesting option.

Settings > Other > VOD

Autoplay next episode = OFF (If ON, when watching a TV show, it will play the next episode automatically. 

Settings > About

Send anonymous statistics to improve the app = OFF

Auto update app = ON (If a new version of Tivimate comes out, it will update it automatically) **NOTE: if you haven’t paid for Tivimate and are using a hacked version, I would set this to OFF.

This about sums it up!

Enjoy!