Cloud sync and pairing

Typing a provider password into a TV remote is miserable. Cloud sync exists so you don’t have to: set your sources up in a browser, then pair each device once and it pulls them down.

It is entirely optional. The app works fully offline with sources added on the device itself.

Signing in

The panel uses a magic link — enter your email, get a link, click it. There is no password to create or forget, and no login on the TV at all.

Note

Sign-in emails are rate limited. If you ask for several in a row you will be told to wait a few minutes; asking again immediately doesn’t help, and neither does trying a different address, because the limit covers the whole service rather than your account.

Pairing a device

1. On the device, open Cloud sync. It shows an eight-character code and a QR.
2. In the panel, go to Devices and enter the code — or scan the QR with your phone, which opens the panel with the code already filled in.
3. Give the device a name. It suggests one (“Android TV”, “Windows PC”) so you can skip this.

Codes expire after ten minutes. Get a new one by reopening the screen.

Pull and push

Pull brings the panel’s sources down to the device. Push sends the device’s sources up.

Favorites are the exception: they sync both ways, automatically, as soon as you star something. Everything else is deliberately manual, so a device can never quietly overwrite work you did in the panel.

If the panel changed since your device last pulled, a push warns you before it overwrites anything.

Profiles

An account can hold several profiles, each a complete separate setup — its own sources, its own metadata keys, its own favorites. Each device picks which profile it syncs. See Profiles and PINs.

End-to-end encryption

By default your provider credentials are stored server-side, isolated from the rest of your data and only ever returned to devices you have paired.

You can go further and turn on end-to-end encryption in the panel’s Security tab. You choose a passphrase; your credentials are encrypted with a key only your passphrase unlocks, and the server never sees either. Paired devices are then each sent the key individually.

Caution

Nobody can recover the passphrase — not even us. There is no reset, because there is nothing on the server to reset it with. That is the point of the feature. Use the panel’s Generate button and save the phrase in a password manager.

A device that hasn’t been given the key yet shows its sources as needing attention rather than connecting with empty credentials. Send it the key from the panel’s Devices tab.

If you think a device has been lost or compromised, rotate the key in the Security tab. That re-encrypts everything under a new key and every device has to be sent the new one — which is exactly what locks the lost device out.