When one of the streams is interrupted for whatever reason, why does multiview throw up a triangle '!' error instead of doing an auto reload? Channels auto reloads recordings, is this a live TV thing? Because I pretty much never watch live except for multiview.
Seems kind of silly to toggle over to the interrupted channel and manually do a reload channel command when channels could just do it itself. You could just throw up the rotating three dots indefinitely if the channel doesn't come back.
Multiview has worked perfectly for me, and is an awesome upgrade to the live tv experience!
@maddox is there any possibility in the future to launch multiview from normal playback.
Eg. Swipe down - long press channel in quick guide - add to multiview ?
Thanks devs!
Auto multi-view option! Pick between PIP or Multi-view.
Has anybody noticed a situation where certain channels will play fine if they are the first channel selected in Multiview, but you get the triangle if it isn’t first? I’ll have to diagnose more to see if there is a pattern. (I didn’t review all 200+ posts before this, so not sure if somebody has already reported this).
It should also reload quicker instead of waiting for the 32sec timeout.
Some refinements have come to Multiview. These include:
I was hoping for a higher limit, like 6 at least:
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There's no plans to increase past 4. So there's no need to mention it over and over.
Any chance getting a black background so it matches any letterboxed channels? Those of us with OLEDs black background would certainly benefit. Thanks a ton.
I tried the multiview yesterday and it was glorious!
I am seeing an issue today where when I start the first stream works but when I choose a 2nd stream the first one freezes?
Both streams are local OTA channels sourced from a HDHR Flex Duo. Also now I wish I would’ve chosen the 4 tuner one!
I did send in diagnostics thru the beta app but let me know if I need to send anything else.
Awesome job by the way!
And you sure nothing was recording in the background using the second tuner?
As of the latest TestFlight beta, the background is always black when Roomy Spacing is off.
Good call! I was not recording anything on the other tuner but the HDHR app was open and running so that may have tied up the 2nd tuner. It’s working like a dream now!
iPad
Multiview on. I can get Multiview to crash (not the whole app) if double click settings then quickly hit it again.
Big asterisk- I am using a touchpad keyboard with iPad so maybe I’m clicking faster than the app was expecting.
Edit- tested it a little more. If I have setting up (from Multiview) and click using the touchpad anywhere out of the expected Multiview Settings popup twice, it kills Multiview. Doesn’t seem to happen with touch
This is running on macOS Channels App:
Roomy Off - The bottom two streams are not filled in.
Roomy On - The layout is overlapping each other.
This is not a macOS app. This is the iPad app running on macOS.
This is likely because the window is free to resize, unlike the target devices of Channels. This isn't something we exactly test on as it's not an official target, we just offer it because it works.
But I can take a look at it. Good catch.
The layout used to work correctly prior to the last update.
Thanks for that info! We did make more use of the screen, so I'll compare the change with before the change and see if we can get this working correctly again.
Got it. It wasn't actually crashing it. It was incorrectly dismissing both the modal and the Multiview. This was actually happening in other parts of the app too. Good catch.
Fixed in the latest TestFlight beta:
Looking at it, it's performing the same way before the changes. So nothing has really changed. It's just as I said.
We'll look more into it if we have time, but as I said, this is not exactly a tested target for us. But with multi-window and resizing on iPad here, we'll have to handle this soon as we get ready for iOS 26 optimizations, and the iPad app running on the Mac will gain any of the improvements made for free.
