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Backup to Google Drive

I just downloaded the most recent version of OpenTV. The idea of automatic backup to Google Drive is great!

But when I try to do it, I get the error, "Couldn't connect to Google Drive. This copy of the app isn't authorized to sign in to Google. It needs it's signing certificate registered before Drive backup can work-- a store build will be."

I don't really understand -- is there something else I need to do, or enable, to backup to Drive?

u/mtmirror — 3 days ago
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OpenTV Wrapped is now available — here’s mine from May

OpenTV Wrapped is now available.

It lets you look back at any month or year in your watch history and see the things you spent time with most.

This is mine from May 2026. Apparently I watched 93 episodes of Adventure Time.

To find yours: update OpenTV, then go to Profile → Settings → Wrapped. Pick any month or year and share it if you want.

I wanted to show you what it looks like. Let me know what you think.

u/itsmahmood_dev — 5 days ago
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OpenTV 1.3.0 is live — comments, ratings and profiles, and none of it is required

1.3.0 is out on the App Store and Google Play. This is the community release — the one I said was coming back in July. It took much longer than I told you, and I'm sorry for the wait.

WHAT'S IN IT

Comments are live. Comment on episodes, films and shows, reply to people, like, and see what everyone else thought. Not just your imported TV Time comments any more.

Ratings and character votes are shared. Rate an episode or vote for your favourite character and you can see how your vote sits against everyone else's.

Profiles and following. Follow people, and get a profile carrying your favourites, your lists and your stats.

Sign in with Apple, Google or an email address.

YOUR OLD TV TIME NAME IS TAKEN FOR YOU

If your import carried a TV Time username, OpenTV claims it as your handle automatically when you sign in. You only get asked to pick one if somebody else already has it.

ALL OF IT IS OPTIONAL

Skip the community and nothing changes — same tracker, same import, still fully offline, and you won't be asked twice. There is no account requirement anywhere in the app.

WHAT MY SERVER DOES NOT HAVE

There is no watch-history table on it. None. Your episodes, your dates, your rewatches — none of that is uploaded, and the schema has nowhere to put it. What the server holds is the community half: comments, ratings, who follows whom, and the shelves you choose to publish. If it vanished tomorrow you'd keep your complete history and lose only other people's comments.

THE FIXES YOU REPORTED

Episode synopses are back

The fake next episode is gone. TheTVDB lists a season the moment it's announced and those episodes have no air date yet; my check only skipped episodes dated in the future, so a missing date slipped through and the app offered you an episode nobody has made. That's Foundation's season 4 and the S3E1 on finished shows.

Also: countdowns show just the number, watched films stop reappearing in the watch list, long titles shrink to fit instead of being chopped, titles can be selected and copied, and films now have the same artwork picker shows have.

WHAT'S NOT IN THIS ONE

Private profiles. Anything you publish is public for now — worth knowing before you publish.

Images and GIFs in new comments. Your imported TV Time ones still display; you can't attach a new one yet.

Reconnecting your old TV Time friends. Your export's friend list is preserved and the matching is built, but there's no screen for it yet. It's next, and I'd rather ship it properly than half-show it.

The community is brand new, which means it's empty. Someone has to comment first.

Bugs and feedback right here as always. Thanks for using OpenTV 💛

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u/itsmahmood_dev — 8 days ago