PlayOn Home User Guide.

This guide will walk you through all PlayOn Home features. If you have any additional questions about how to use PlayOn, feel free to email our support team at support@playon.tv.

Creating & Managing Subscriptions and Scheduling

PlayOn allows you to subscribe to your favorite shows – this means that PlayOn will automatically record new episodes as soon as they become available.

 

Creating Subscriptions

To create a subscription, simply browse to one of your favorites shows.  Once you have browsed to where the actual episodes are listed (Full Episodes, for example), the Subscribe button will appear in the top section above the video listings (next to the Record All button). Click on the Subscribe button to create a subscription for that show.  Give the subscription a name or use the default name and that’s it!

 

Managing Subscriptions

Any subscriptions you’ve added will be listed under the Subscriptions section in the dash. 

 

Each subscription will list the folder recordings are saved to, the folder (channel) the show is recorded from, the number of episodes that have been recorded, and the date of the last recording.

 

Subscriptions can be removed at any time by clicking on the X.  Unsubscribing will not result in recordings being deleted…it will only stop future recordings.

 

You can click on the green or red dot the left of your subscription to check the validity of that subscription. If the dot is red, there is something wrong with the subscription. Clicking on the red dot will give you instructions on how to fix it. If the dot is green – there is no action to take, but clicking it will make PlayOn check to see if there are any new recordings.

 

Record All

Another option to support binge watching is to hit the Record All button that appears once you have browsed to where the actual episodes are listed (Full Episodes, for example). This will add all of the episodes that appear in the listing into your recording queue. You can drag and drop them to rearrange the order in which they appear.

 

Scheduling

Our scheduling feature allows you to set a specific time of day for your recordings to occur.  So, for example, you can tell PlayOn to make recordings at a time of day when your PC is otherwise not in use.  Scheduling is also useful for those with data caps -- use this feature to record during off-peak hours when unlimited (free) data is available.

 

Configuring scheduling is super easy.  Simply click on the moon symbol at the top of the recording queue.  Check the box for 'Use Off-Peak...' and then set your preferred time for recordings to occur.  Just click the Save button to save your changes. If you'd like to take it a step further and schedule a specific time and day of the week, you can do so by clicking on the Advanced Settings link. In the Advanced Settings window, just untick specific hours for each day for which you don't want recordings to be made.  Boxes that are left green will define what days and times it's okay for recordings to be made.



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