Guides
Adding your media
Servers, cloud drives, network shares, Live TV, and the files already on your machine.
All guides
Connecting Plex, Jellyfin, Emby and Silo
How to sign in to each of the four, what to do on a television, and what happens when you connect more than one.
Cloud drives and network shares
- Pro
How to connect Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive or a WebDAV share, pick the folders photon reads, and what a drive cannot do.
Adding a Live TV subscription
- Pro
How to connect an Xtream Codes login, how often the channels and guide refresh, and what the caches hold.
Playing local files
- iPhone
- iPad
- Mac
How to open a video from the Finder or the Files app, make photon the default player, and find the file again later.
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