To add channels to favorites on sparkle, Pick the channel you want and long press the enter button till the window opens. Then Add to Favorites
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Tivimate manual: link from reddit:
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That doc is from a Facebook group where I am a admin. John M did a great job on it.
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So glad my IPTV provider uses a proprietary app and NOT Tivimate. The hype here about Tivimate has been strong but it sounds like itās a big mess now
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Very odd. I use TiViMate daily and have absolutely no issues. Nothing has changed for weeks or months. Functioning just fine.
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Cool glad itās working for you @Miki. I donāt use it anymore as my IPTV service has itās own app. just reading some of the comments in this thread it sounds like itās gone downhill fast and Sparkle and others are now better. Just glad I donāt need to use it anymore. Have a great day!
Thereās definitely been a few changes since 4.7.0
I had no problem directing my recordings to external usb and with one of the recent updates I can only record to internal storage. Someday Iāll have to revert back and setup all over again if they donāt fix it.
I believe it was @Powerfader who told me about sparkle a long time ago and I purchased it. It had a feature that I wanted that tivivimate did not and that was sparkle recognized my homerun tuner to make it easy to add antenna channelsā¦and as pointed out here timeshift(which I really dont use). I did reach out to tivimate (back in the day 
) about adding the features I wanted and got nothingā¦that being saidā¦Tivimate is still the best imho and its what I use(along with channels dvr). Great vid Troy about sparkle as it is a top player and deserves mention. My only gripe is it has to be tied to google in order to use it. Sign out of the playstore and poof goes sparkle.
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I always disable the playstore because it doesnāt matter how often I force stop it, 2 minutes later itāll be running in the background again and yes with my paranoia, I canāt imagine what type of info itās collecting while running and how much resources itās using. Now I have 2 apps that wonāt work without it enabled, Sparkle and Debrid Stream. Bummer 
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Iāve literally tried them all, had sparkle for almost a year and barely used it. For me tivimate is my go too. Timeshift is a great feature but Sparkle is much more clunky to use at least for me it was.
If they could combine the features of the two apps into one it would be amazing.
For now Iāll stick with tivimate, having a provider with solid catch up eliminates the need for time-shifting.
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And to think Iām no expert. So the complaints are most likely just lack of experience. Had Sparkle gone wih some other payment than Google I would certainly try it. Is it pay per year or do they have lifetime now? Sure hope they add more features like TiVimate has and then I could see it being competition for Tivi. Have a great weekend @MarkxG.
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One time 19.99 payment
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I saw yesterday that Tivimate raised their price to 11 something a year on renewals .
I bought lifetime about 3 yrs ago. $20 for Sparkle lifetime is a great deal.
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Not sure what I did wrong, I never was asked to pick a password for Sparkle even after I paid for lifetime. I can not get it to open past where you add Xtreme code and info.
āCorrectionā Dumb PapaS, got Sparkle to work with play store disabled by signing in using the shared account method. 
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the shared account feature is new to me. I havent used sparkle in over a year but today I set it up and there it was. 
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Thanks so much Troyā¦ I made the switch to Sparkle and love it! Wayyyy better than TV Mate
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Itās great that we all have choices. For me, Tivimate is everything I could ever wish for in a player and more. I have automatic updates turned off for my apps and I donāt think Iāve ever updated Tivimate since first installing it last May. It works flawlessly.