Multiple Profiles

[Kalihusband]

Will we eventually have the ability to create multiple profiles.

[speedingcheetah]

Been requested multiple times...

Profiles

Make profiles like Netflix. I don't want to see all my wife's crap and she doesn't wanna see mine. Would be great to each have our own DVR subsystems.

User Profiles (for playback position & watched/unwatched)

My son (in college) and I often watch the same basketball game, but only one playback position gets ‘remembered’. So often times, whoever starts the game second will end up jumping into the game at the position the first person was at (instead of, say, the beginning). If we had multiple user profiles, then the playback position and watched/unwatched state of recordings could be saved per profile. Thoughts?

Parental Controls / Restricted Profile

When in the restricted profile mode on the shield the channels app keeps crashing. Usually 1-3 seconds into the app loading. I got as far as doing a search and every time I tried to schedule a pass the app would stop. Other times just moving the focus down the menu items the app would crash. We need to use the restricted profile or my son will install 10,000 games. I also had the app crashing in normal mode but not near the frequency. The shield has not been upgraded to Oreo.

User Profiles / basic parental controls

I would love to see some very basic type of parental controls / restrictions. One possibility would be user profiles which would have the option to be PIN protected. So I would see it working like this: In the settings you configure the profiles. They are very simple … you give a name, option to be PIN protected or not, then you just choose the channels permitted to be viewed in that profile (maybe you can hide channels from the all channels view and also be able to choose favorites for that…

Feature Request: multi-user support

There have been previous requests for “profiles” going back to last April, however it would be implemented. I thought it was a “nice to have”, but it’s never created any problems in my house with too much on the screen or people deleting or messing up the progress info. Ensuring that all the existing clients are closer to parity with iOS/tvOS (excepting for platform abilities) or a Win10 UWP would be higher on my list.

TLDR....may be "planned" thing...but no time table for such a feature.

[MikePHall]

Truth is all they would need to do is create a users database table with recording entries that has link to a recordings table entry that maintains a count of users for that recording. And when that count goes to zero (because all users selected delete) is when the actual recording gets physically deleted.
Also, I would keep a New/Unwatched flag in the users table and not the recordings table so new episodes would still appear as new to the users who haven't watched yet.

[Macnbaish]

@MikePHall

Truth is all they would need to do is create a users database table with recording entries that has link to a recordings table entry that maintains a count of users for that recording. And when that count goes to zero (because all users selected delete) is when the actual recording gets physically deleted.

So every user would have to interact with a recording before it gets marked as watched or deleted? I don’t think that would work well.

I think you’re grossly oversimplifying how tough it would be to properly implement multiple users. It would be nice and it’s been often requested, but let’s not pretend that it would be “easy” for them to do. Anybody familiar with programming knows that often things are way more complicated than they seem. Without the source code and a deep understanding of the underling architecture, we can’t really say how “hard” anything would be to implement.

[MikePHall]

It would work perfectly. A user only wants to know what is new to them. This way a recording a user hasn't watched won't disappear because another user watched and deleted it. I Never suggested that this is the full programming for it just that this is a core piece of the logic. Of course there is more to it than just a couple of flags but it isn't complicated for even a fairly competent developer. FYI I am a programmer.

[Edwin_Perez]

Works great in EMBY and Plex. ChannelsDVR is not really a family DVR but a personal DVR meant to be used by 1 person. UPNEXT does not work if you have more than 1 user.