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Recordings

The Recordings screen lets you watch and manage your recorded content. For scheduling new recordings see Recording Schedule.

Views

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Ready Recordings All recordings available to watch
What's New Shows recorded recently

Recording Details Popup

Selecting a recording opens the Recording Details popup. Available actions depend on the recording's status:

Action Description
Play Play from the beginning. Only shown if a video file exists.
Resume Resume from where you previously stopped.
Unwatch Clears the resume position.
Delete Remove the recording from the list and delete the video file.
Finds All Show all similar programmes across the guide.
Archive Move the recording to an archive location. Only shown if multiple recording directories are configured.
Close Close the popup.

Show Art

The Recordings screen can display TV show artwork. See Additional Setup for configuration details.

Recording Flags

The coloured remote control buttons toggle per-recording flags, useful in multi-user households for tracking who has watched what.

Flag Keyboard Remote Roku Android
Red Alt-R Red Long 🆗 đŸ”Ŋ 🆗 Long 2ī¸âƒŖ
Green Alt-G Green Long 🆗 đŸ”Ŋ â–ļī¸ 🆗 Long 5ī¸âƒŖ
Yellow Alt-Y Yellow Long 🆗 đŸ”Ŋ â–ļī¸â–ļī¸ 🆗 Long 8ī¸âƒŖ
Blue Alt-B Blue Long 🆗 đŸ”Ŋ â—€ī¸ 🆗 Long 0ī¸âƒŖ

Archive Recording

The Archive popup lets you move a recording to a different folder, drive, or network share. Recording directories are configured under Additional Setup.

Keyboard and Remote Control Shortcuts

In the Recordings list

Action Keyboard Remote Roku Android
Play selected recording Ctrl-P â¯ī¸
Toggle sort mode Ctrl-S âšī¸ Long â¯ī¸
Jump to 0–90% of list 0–9 0–9
Show hidden menu bar Home Info/Menu

While playing a recording

Action Keyboard Remote Roku Android
Play / Resume Space, Ctrl-P â¯ī¸
Pause Space, Ctrl-Q â¸ī¸ â¯ī¸ â¯ī¸
Stop and return to menu S, Ctrl-S âšī¸ 🔙
Fast-forward F, Ctrl-F ⏊ Long â–ļī¸ (TS only) N/A
Rewind R, Ctrl-R âĒ N/A
Skip forward (60 s default) Ctrl-→ â­ī¸ â–ļī¸ â–ļī¸
Skip back (30 s default) Ctrl-← âŽī¸ â—€ī¸ â—€ī¸
Short skip forward (10 s) → ⏊ Long â–ļī¸ Long â–ļī¸
Short skip back (10 s) ← âĒ Long â—€ī¸ Long â—€ī¸
Skip xx min/sec number + Ctrl-← number + â­ī¸ Number menu + skip Number +
Show info bar and timeline Ctrl-B Info/Menu 🆗 🆗 or â„šī¸
Show EPG Overlay F1 N/A Long 1ī¸âƒŖ
Toggle aspect ratio F7 N/A N/A

Skip sizes and units are configurable in config.xml under the Playback section. The FF/RW behaviour setting also affects which operation is performed for the FF/RW/Left/Right keys — see Advanced Setup.