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The arrow buttons move a highlight around the screen — that highlight shows you where you are. Press OK (sometimes labelled Select, or it's the button in the middle of the arrows) to open or play whatever's highlighted. Press Back to leave the current screen and go up one level — pressing it enough times always gets you back to the very start.

On a channel or a movie poster, try holding OK down for a second instead of just tapping it. On several screens that opens a small extra menu — adding something to Favourites, or hiding a channel you never watch — that a quick tap doesn't show.

Press Back repeatedly. Each press backs out one step — out of a settings screen, out of a menu, out of a channel list — until you land on the main screen with the tabs (Live, Movies, TV Shows) across the top or side. You cannot break anything by pressing it too many times.

Right — inside VesperTV, a playlist just means one connection to one IPTV subscription: either an Xtream Codes login (a server address, username and password your provider gave you) or a direct link to an M3U file. It's the thing that actually supplies the channels. VesperTV itself has none built in.

Yes — go to Settings → Add Playlist and add as many as you have. Every playlist you turn on gets merged together into one combined set of channels, movies and shows, so you're not switching apps to use a second subscription.

Most IPTV subscriptions only allow one device to watch at a time. If you want to watch on a different device — your phone, say, while the living room box is technically still "connected" — turning that playlist's switch off here first releases the one connection your subscription allows, so the other device can use it. Nothing about the playlist itself is deleted; flipping the switch back on brings it right back.

You'll find this switch on the playlist's own settings screen, usually near the top, labelled something like "Playlist enabled."

Some providers give you more than one server address for the exact same account. If you add those extra addresses as backup servers on a playlist, VesperTV will automatically try them, in order, whenever the main one won't answer — including mid-stream, if a channel you're actively watching drops. You don't have to do anything when that happens; it happens on its own.

Open a playlist's own settings and look for Group Management. It lists every category your provider sends — sports, movies, international channels, whatever they are — with a switch next to each one. Turn off anything you'll never watch, and it disappears from your channel list entirely (and VesperTV stops even downloading information about it, so it's not slowing anything down in the background either).

Yes — that's what Hidden Channels is for, found under Settings → Playlist Manager → Hidden Channels. It's separate from Group Management above: Group Management hides an entire category, Hidden Channels hides individual channels one at a time, without touching the rest of that category. Anything hidden this way can always be found again and switched back on from that same screen.

Highlight a channel, movie or show and hold OK down for a second — a small menu appears with an option to favourite it. Favourited channels and groups are pinned together in their own spot for quick access, and they stay favourited even if you switch which playlist is active, since favourites aren't tied to any one provider.

EPG stands for Electronic Programme Guide — it's just the schedule data: what's airing right now on each channel, what's on next, and (in the fuller guide) what's on for the rest of the day. Your provider usually supplies this automatically alongside your channels.

Now/Next is a simple list: each channel with what's playing right now underneath it, one programme at a time. Timeline is a fuller schedule grid — channels down the left, hours of programming laid out across the top, so you can see what's on later this evening at a glance. Switch between them in Settings → Theme → Live TV guide. Pick whichever one you find easier to read; they show the same information.

Two options, depending on the problem. If your provider's schedule data is incomplete, you can point VesperTV at a different, more complete guide source yourself: when adding or editing a playlist, there's an optional Custom EPG (XMLTV) URL field — paste a guide URL there (your provider or a public XMLTV source can supply one) and leave it blank otherwise to use the provider's own.

If the guide data exists but is showing up on the wrong channel, that's a matching problem, not a missing-data problem — see the next question.

A guide source identifies channels by an internal code, and sometimes that code doesn't line up with what your provider calls the same channel — resulting in a channel with no schedule showing at all, or someone else's schedule. EPG Matching, under Settings → EPG → EPG Matching, lets you manually tell VesperTV "this channel's schedule actually comes from that guide entry." There's also an Auto-Match button that tries to pair everything up automatically first, so you're usually only fixing a handful of leftovers by hand, not doing the whole list yourself.

If you have more than one playlist active, Channel Pairing lets you link a channel on one to its equivalent on another — for example, the same sports channel offered by two different providers you're subscribed to. Under Settings → EPG → Channel Pairing, an Auto-Pair button matches channels with matching names automatically; anything it can't confidently match, you can link by hand instead.

While watching a paired channel, a small swap icon in the player controls lets you switch straight to its paired equivalent with one press — useful the moment a channel starts buffering badly or drops out entirely on the provider you're currently using. If a channel fails to load in the first place and it has a pairing set up, VesperTV will also offer that same switch right on the error screen.

Think of it like the "Last channel" or "Recall" button on an old cable remote. While watching live TV, a clock-icon button in the player controls (furthest to the left, since it's about going backward) shows the last few channels you were watching before this one — say you went from ESPN to RDS to LCN to TVA Sports, Recall shows exactly that list, and picking one switches straight back to it. No need to dig back through the whole channel list to find where you just were.

Movies and TV Shows are browsed as a grid of poster artwork, organized into rows by category — much like Netflix. Arrow left and right to move along a row, up and down to jump between categories. Picking a show takes you into its list of seasons and episodes rather than playing something directly.

VesperTV remembers exactly where you stopped in any movie or episode. A "Continue Watching" row appears at the top of the Movies and TV Shows tabs with anything you're partway through, so picking up tonight where you left off last night is one press, not a search.

There's a Search option (usually reachable from the top of the screen, or via a dedicated Search button on the tabs) that searches live channels, movies and TV shows all at once, each shown as its own row of results — no need to switch between the three.

Hold Select on any category in the Movies or TV Shows groups list and choose Expand catalog to open that whole category as a full poster grid, instead of just the one scrollable row you'd normally see in the browse view — handy for a big category where scrolling sideways would take a while. Press Back to return to normal browsing.

Yes — Settings → Theme has a set of colour palettes to pick from, plus the Live TV guide layout choice mentioned above. Purely cosmetic; nothing about how the app works changes based on which one you pick, so feel free to try a few.

The error screen names what failed and offers a Retry button — try that first, since providers do have brief hiccups. If the playlist has backup servers configured, VesperTV is likely already trying those automatically behind the scenes. If you've set up a Channel Pairing for that channel, you'll also see an option right there to switch to its paired equivalent on another playlist instead of waiting.

If none of that helps, the problem is almost always on the provider's side, not the app's — the same channel failing everywhere for everyone using that provider is the usual sign of that.

Join the Discord server — that's the fastest way to ask a real person. Mention what device you're on (phone, Formuler box, Fire Stick), what you were trying to do, and what happened instead. You can also open an issue on GitHub if you're comfortable there.

No. It contains no channels, no streams, no playlists and no subscription of any kind, and none are supplied or sold. It is an empty player until you point it at a provider you already have — via Xtream Codes credentials or an M3U URL.

What you connect it to, and whether you're entitled to that content, is between you and your provider.

There is no catch, no trial, no pro tier and no advertising. It's a personal project released under GPL-3.0 because that felt like the right thing to do with it. The licence means it stays that way, even if someone forks it.

No analytics, no crash reporting services, no accounts. Your playlist URLs and credentials are stored on the device and are sent only to the provider you entered, because that's who serves the streams. The source is public if you'd rather verify that than take a stranger's word for it.

Android phones and tablets, Android TV boxes (developed against Formuler hardware) and Amazon Fire TV sticks. One universal APK covers all of them and adapts its layout to touch or D-pad automatically. It also runs on Windows 10 and 11 (64-bit): download the zip, extract it and run nox_iptv.exe — no installer or admin rights, and it opens fullscreen.

Sideloading keeps it free of store policies, listing fees and the review friction that tends to follow anything IPTV-shaped. The download link here always points at the latest release, and the app can check for updates itself.

Join the Discord server for bug reports, suggestions and general discussion, or open an issue on GitHub. Either way, your device model, the app version and what you were doing at the time make it enormously easier to fix.