TV editor user guide

Tidy your TubPlayer categories and channels with your TV remote.

  1. Open the editor
  2. Find your way around
  3. Select items
  4. Rename, move, show or hide
  5. Save or discard
  6. Tidy up names
  7. Channel logos
  8. Your own categories
  9. Copy or move channels
  10. Favourites
  11. Reset

1Open the editor

  • Categories: hold OK on a category in the menu and choose Manage Categories.
  • Channels: hold OK on a channel in the TV guide and choose Manage Channels. You edit the channels of the category you have open.
The category menu with Manage Categories highlighted
Hold OK on a category
If you have set up a parental PIN for editing, the TV asks for it first.

2Find your way around

The editor fills the screen:

  • The list in the middle: your categories, or the channels in one category.
  • The actions down the left. Press Left from the list to reach them, and Right to go back.
  • Find at the top. Press Left again from the actions, or Up from the top of the list, and type part of a name. Clear empties it.
  • The bar at the bottom tells you what each key does where you are, and shows a message after each change.
Manage Categories with Sports selected
Manage Categories, with Sports selected

3Select items

  • One at a time: press OK on a row. Press OK again to deselect it.
  • Several: hold OK and choose Select multiple items. Then press OK on each row you want, or press it again to leave it out.
  • A block: hold OK and choose Select a block. Move to the last row and press OK. Everything between is selected.
  • Everything: choose Select all on the left.

The number selected shows at the bottom of the actions. An icon in the bottom corner shows when you are selecting several or a block. Press Back to clear the selection.

Three channels selected as a block
A block of three channels

4Rename, move, show or hide

Press Right on a selected row to step along it:

  • The logo (channels): OK changes it. See step 7.
  • The name: OK lets you type a new one. Leave it blank to get the provider's name back.
  • ↺ on a renamed row: puts the provider's name back.
  • ▲ and ▼: OK moves one place. Hold OK to move to the top or the bottom.
  • The eye: hides or shows. Hidden items stay in the list, struck through, so you can show them again.

With several rows selected, ▲, ▼ and the eye act on all of them.

The cursor on the move up arrow of a selected row
On ▲: OK moves up one place, hold OK moves to the top
At least one item must stay visible.

5Save or discard

Nothing changes on your TV until you choose Save. A dot marks each row you have changed.

Changed your mind? Discard throws away everything since you last saved.

If you press Back with changes still to save, the TV asks whether to Save, Discard changes or Keep editing.

6Tidy up names

Select the items first. Then choose from the actions:

  • Modify selection:
    • Make beautiful: removes the country prefix (such as "UK|") and stream quality (such as HD or 4K), then uses Proper Case. Untick any you do not want.
    • Proper Case, UPPER CASE or lower case
    • Restore provider names
    • Use playlist logos (channels): puts the playlist's own logos back.
  • Search and replace: remove a word, replace it with another, or hide the items that contain it.

For example, "UK| NEWS HD" becomes "News".

The Modify selection menu
Modify selection

7Channel logos

  • One channel: move to its logo and press OK. Pick a logo from the library. You can change the search and the country.
  • Many channels: select them and choose Find logos. Each channel gets the library's exact match, where there is one.

A channel showing a logo you picked has a new logo tag. To go back to the playlist's logo, use Use playlist logos under Modify selection.

The Change logo window with logos for TNT Sports 4
Change logo
Your picks are saved only on this TV.

8Your own categories

In Manage Categories for TV:

  • New category: type a name and choose Create. It goes to the top of the list, with a custom category tag.
  • An empty category stays out of the menus until it has channels. Copy or move channels into it from Manage Channels (step 9).
  • Delete category: deletes the selected custom categories and the channels in them. Channels that were moved into one go back where they were. A provider's category can only be hidden.
The New category window with a name typed
New category

9Copy or move channels

  1. In Manage Channels, select the channels.
  2. Choose Copy to category or Move to category.
  3. Pick a category, or + New category… to make one.
  • Copy puts a copy of each channel at the bottom of that category.
  • Move does the same and hides the channel where it was.

A copy is a channel of its own. You can rename it, change its logo, hide it or move it, and the original does not change. It plays the same stream, with the same guide and Catch-Up. In the editor it has a copy tag and says where it came from.

The Move to category window
Move to category
Three channels tagged moved to My Sports
Moved: the copies appear in My Sports when you save
A channel that is already in that category is skipped, and the message says so.

10Favourites

  • Add several at once: in Manage Channels, select the channels and choose Add to favourites. Favourite channels have a favourite tag. When everything selected is already a favourite, the action reads Remove from favourites.
  • Edit your favourites: hold OK on a channel in Favourites and choose Manage Channels. Order them with ▲ and ▼. The eye is replaced by ✕ to take a channel off the list, and + puts it back.

The virtual playlist works the same way.

Favourites with Sky History 2 marked to be removed
Sky History 2 comes off Favourites when you save
If Protect Favourites is on in your parental settings, the TV asks for your PIN first.

11Reset

Reset puts the list back the way the provider supplied it. Choose Reset on the left, then:

  • Order
  • Visibility: shows every item again
  • Names
  • Logos (channels)
  • Everything

Like every change, a reset waits for Save. Your own categories are never deleted by a reset.