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    1. The ability to remove the favourite group entirely. I don’t want or need it but when I long press on it and choose delete it just reappears.

    2. Network storage will not autoload on startup when VPN is enabled. Could this be fixed?

    3. Ability to add a small clock in top corner so time is always available (if you wish).

    Hi,

    I have a feature request that I’m surprised if it hasn’t been requested already. The ability to hide (not disable) playlist bouquets/groups so they’re not visible on the TV Guide. Currently when you ‘hide’ them you cannot then access any channels from within that group. So you’re disabling, not hiding.

    I want to be able to add a bunch of channels from different playlist groups (bouquets) to a favourite group (e.g. Entertainment, Sports, etc) and then hide the original bouquets that the channels came from. For example, the sports channels that I watch regularly and therefore want in one ‘Sports’ group, come from multiple different playlist groups, but I want them all in the one easily accessible group and then to hide the rest to declutter. Currently I have about 20 different categories on my TV Guide, I really only need and want 3.

    Auto HDR!

    Surely it’s a must!?

    At first I thought that “Adaptive” was auto, but after a bit of messing around with the settings, clearly it’s not!

    I understand the need for an adaptive option, because as Sam said, not everyone’s equipment is up to displaying full HDR10 or full HLG, so adaptive finds the medium ground, but the difference between selecting HLG for a HLG source or HDR10 for a HDR10 source, instead of setting everything to output in ‘Adaptive’ is absolutely night and day!

    Adaptive just ends up looking like SDR once you’ve compared the two HLG and HDR settings!

    So an Auto HDR setting to go alongside the Adaptive/HDR10/HLG10 settings is top of my priority list! 🙏🏼

    Being able to disable the startup auto shutdown after power cut which is just my saving energy steps would be awesome. Because when turning on power formuler will start but it auto shuts down, i would love to disable it otherwise old people will never use the box LOL

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    a couple of requests..

    - the ability to configure the number of lines displayed in the EPG. This could perhaps be part of a package of updates designed for folks with slightly impaired vision... not that I did not say old people!!!! Giving an option of slightly fewer lines in the guide showing in a slightly larger font might be beneficial to some.

    - enhance the descriptions given for shows in the guide to include date information (date broadcast originally, repeat/new, season/episode) would be useful

    The ability to choose what is saved/restored in the backup/restore function

    also to edit the backup file.

    Reason one of my providers had to change the url, that was the only thing changed, but it rendered my restore file useless all history and favorites gone as they are linked to the url.

    Hi, I'm a new owner of a formuler Z11 max pro and the blueboth remote control.
    really great stuff !


    But

    I would like to know if it is possible for FORMULER to change the Up/DOWN of the CH / PG in mytvonline3
    in the EPG menu the direction is CH =up PG=down

    but when you change channel the CH=DOWN & PG=UP......

    and therefore be able to choose which way to zap channels on mytvonline

    Hi, please be possible to have the info of which channel is going to be recorded like in mytvonline2.

    When you schedule a record in mytvonline3 you don't have the info of which channel is going to be recorded.

    You only have the bar at the top that tells you that a record will happen in that time period. See attached photos.

    Mytvonline3


    Mytvonline2

    Hello

    I would like the following :

    1- Adding a counter numbering every category of VOD and Series, on the menu screen plus the total number of record (it has been done in sources and in pin VOD & Series group but it would be nice to have an overview without having to move to content.

    2 (feature added thx)

    3-For the series, (already asked for MOL2 also), when we overview all the episodes of a season, it is not possible to scroll and read all the text (synopsis) of each episode if it is longer than 3 lines. It should be nice to go on that particularl long synopsis and scroll down until the end to be able to read the entire summary of each episode.

    4-In content when we browse through rearrange pinned VOD groups, we cannot see with every group from what provider it is. It is disturbing because often 2 providers have similar names for the groups, example FR THRILLER, etc So the name of the provider lacks.

    5-In the timeshift it seems that SLOW MOTION x0.6 and x0.3 have disappeared since MOL2 and it was an important feature to look back at some actions in sport or in some direct chanel, it would be also a good idea if it was possible to make slow motion in the replay/catchup.

    6-Add a GENERAL backup option in "Device Preferences" to backup all the (updated) apps installed in the device.

    7-In MOL3 for the backup and restore feature: allowing to restore backup (portals, fav, history on CH+VOD+Series) on another device. Exactly like when you change smartphone or buy a 2nd one, you need to transfer your data to another device.

    8-Improve the search feature: like in MOL2 search after 3 characters and narrowing the search when typing without pressing ok,

    and also remove the "accents" in foreign languages like French (é and ê, or è should be equivalent to e; or a, à , o, ô etc...) because sometimes the title is written without or with accent or some keybords don't have all the accents and trêma. So show the movie in the search results, even if "la mome" is typed instead of "la môme" for example.

    9- Same problem never corrected on MOL2 and MOL3 : when you change language, the device is then stuck in an infinite loop showing 'loading' with a blue circle without ever stopping like if there was a bug.You need to press 3x "back" or home for that to stop and you are not sure that you gave enough time for this change to apply...!

    10-I noticed that unlike MOL2, in MOL3, the "Lock Menu" PIN is the same as the "Lock up Categories", these are 2 different things: "Menu Lock" has another purpose as Adult Categories and is not only for children. When there is a sudden internet or iptv provider outage, some people try everything...including sometimes modifying or deleting the portal....because they know nothing in technology and are lost...hence the utility to protect by a separate PIN the SETTINGS and especially at least the SOURCES while leaving them use their own PIN or the default PIN for Adult content.

    I would like to get back 2 separate and different PINS, like in MOL2. One could chose to lock Adult Categories with the default 0000 PIN, but to lock the Menu/Settings+Sources with another PIN kept secret.

    I noticed today though that the Parental Settings PIN in the Launcher Settings can be different from the PIN in MOL, but nevertheless, there is a need for 2 separate PIN's in MOL3, to destinguish Menu Lock and Adult Lock.

    11-For practical reasons of what portal will appear 1st without having to pin and rearrange everything, it woud be interesting to be able in Content Source to switch the order of several Portals (swap between them). That is to say to put the Portal nr3 for example as Portal nr1, otherwise, you have to delete all the Panels and start again to encode them to put them in the desired order. Just a long press on the panel in the left column to select it then move it up or down, exactly like you reorder pinned groups or Favorite channels

    I will try to insert here 2 requests and suggestions made in another thread that complete my point 8 about the universal search but mostly for the VOD & series:

    Quote from cedel

    1-I understand what they all say, and it disturbs me also a lot, it's really not as intuitive and easy to find the loop when you enter in the VOD. Before in MOL2 you made simply: All, and OK then you saw the loop,

    Now in MOL3 when entering in the VOD you land on "Favorite" but , if you don't have anything in the category "Favorite", and in "History", you can click "ok" , or try right arrow or left arrow or up.. as many times as you want, you cannot find the loop.. instead.. it's tedious to go down 2 or 3 times to a category or to Newly Added.. then move arrow to the right.. then move arrow up. 'it requires at least 4 press of a button if you are not wrong..

    I strongly suggest to ADD A LOOP in the left menu, directly VISIBLE on Top of Favorite. Then problem solved.

    2- The search is maybe universal, which is a good thing, but contrarily to MOL2 where the search was dynamic and automatic since the 1st or the 2nd caracter typed narrowing the search while typing, which was very fast and useful, here in MOL3, it is not "dynamic", in other words it was simultaneous while you were typing..but here not ! You are forced to write all the title or name then exit the Keyboard and try a search...and maybe you wrote wrong so you need to start your search from the beginning.. in MOL2, u could just add a space, or delete/add 1 letter.. then you found automatically.

    The fact that it is not dynamic (search in real time) is also a big step backwards when comparing speed and easy way of similar dynamic search in MOL2.

    11-For resellers and shops that use to often add or modify a new portal, it would be good have an option "Save" beside"Connect", because the subscription may not be all the time in function or not created already, you may want to program portals to activate them days or weeks later for exemple if you ship a box already programmes. The option save instead of connecting could prevent unwanted "IP BAN" from the provider after a few trials without proper subscription by the provider.

    Also, repeating or updating points 6 and 7 here, an option to simply copy and restore or install the same portal data in just a few steps from a USB drive to several machines would be a great feature.

    Thank you for the good work! :OK_hand:

    Edited 17 times, last by cedel (December 20, 2023 at 5:39 PM).

    When editing favorites. When going through your list you can go by page but when you select a channel to move from say bottom to top, you have to move it up one channel at a time. Not by page.

    Example - if I add a channel to my favorites. It will automatically add to the bottom of my favorites. I want this channel to be at the top of my favorites list. So I edit my favorites…I can scroll down to bottom using page down to get to the channel I want to bring to top. I select the channel. But I have to bring it up to top one by one instead of page upping to get to top.

    Hello here is what I suggest:

    1: Have the complete actor display of all the movies and series in order of release and have a summary of their careers

    2: Collect sagas when selecting a movie from a saga

    3: Have directly on the vod display the formats available hd fhd 4k dv next to watching have a button other sources available.

    Is it possible to extend the channel history to 30 channels ( i have this on my Z10pro,with two providers),so that you have all most watched channels available for quick zapping,instead of 15 channels,as it is now?

    Why they take these features off is mind Boggling! Obviously we want to see what program is going to record! But it gets replaced with a red line 🤷🏼‍♂️. Makes no sense. thanks for pointing that out though. Its Like taking the Record & remind function off the my tv online 3! Which was perfect how it was.

    More options for subtitles

    • positioning

    • more size option

    • persistent size that stays the same for whatever movie (currently the size and location varies heavly

    • subtitle drop down and not adds up when going from obe to two lines. No need to have the subtitles in the middle of the screen.

    1. Would be awesome if genre categories could be added to VOD / Series, so all entries get labeled with genre from tmdb.

    Then it would be easier to find a new thriller movie for example to see.

    2. When "scrolling" forward / backward you get a thumbnail of where you are, similar to how it works on Netflix.

    3. For recorded material, the Info-button does not work, would nice to see information about the resolution and frame rate.

    Thanks for all your work, you are doing great stuff! 🏆

    Edited once, last by niklas (August 20, 2023 at 10:33 AM).

    Since air sync remote z doesn't work and the alternative zanc is bad and not intuitive at all, I wish formuler developers can provide a local web page to add portal/url like its done by another competitor box

    Attached pictures

    The ability to:

    1) Set the folder that recordings go to such that they are not hidden so other Apps can see them

    2) Show more VOD/Series titles on screen than just 1 line and half of another - When searching for something to watch it would be nice to fill the screen then only if I select the item does it give all the details about the show - In this way someone could scroll a screen (30-40 shows) at a time vs only 1 line of 5 or 7

    3) Have larger single recording files - Recordings currently are in .TS format which seem to have a max size of 2GB so a show/movie creates multiple files

    4) change the recording format/quality to reduce file size

    5) See the file size of recordings - 1 hour of old cartoons is very different from 1 hour of 4K videos

    6) Have user creatable favorite groups for VOD/series so if you have 4 people in family each could have their own favorite list

    Hello,

    Please add a feature that when zooming in during a movie this is not done via Aspect Ratio as this changes the relationships in the result.

    Better is to crop to 16:9 as you have the option in VLC, this causes a center zoom without any aspect ratio relationship issues (long heads, circles becoming ellipses, ect...)

    Many thanks !

    :smiling_face:

    Hello, I will have a request regarding external vod players. Would it be possible to open in an external drive without it being the default? Let me explain if at the moment we select an external player we will be forced to open in this player impossible to use the player integrated into mytv3, so it would be cool if we could leave the built-in reader as default and have a button to open in an external reader when we want. Thanks in advance if you make this change. Good day.

    Hi, in order not to post many ideas/requests or bug reports every time I find something, I regularly edit my post #144 of 26th June, adding points after points.

    I have so far already 10 requests. Or would it be better to reply to this thread and make a new request each time ?

    For example yesterday I added point nr 10: the necessity of restoring 2 separate PIN, 1 for parental/adult content, and 1 PIN, different, for Expert administrator to prevent a "noob"(non-tech user) to erase accidentally portals, change crucial settings etc... A hard reset is in any case always possible to bypass and erase the admin PIN code for "Menu Lock". I noticed today though that the Parental Settings PIN in the Launcher Settings can be different from the PIN in MOL, but nevertheless, there is a need for 2 separate PIN's in MOL3, to destinguish Menu Lock and Adult Lock.


    Anyway, I hope the dev's will have a look at my requests to make MOL3 the best ever. :smiling_face:

    Thanks.

    Edited 2 times, last by cedel (September 15, 2023 at 2:57 PM).