Add the ability to hide irrelevant or empty categories in Xtream playlists.
Users can now manage category visibility through a dialog accessible from
the sidebar header in both VOD/Series and Live TV views.
Features:
- New category management dialog with search filter and select/deselect all
- Visibility settings persisted to database per playlist
- Hidden categories are filtered from sidebar navigation
- New categories added during playlist refresh default to visible
- Database migration for existing installations
Files changed:
- Database: schema.ts, connection.ts (hidden column + migration)
- Backend: category.events.ts, main.preload.ts (IPC handlers)
- Frontend: new dialog component, store method, UI integration
- Translations: en.json
- Documentation: docs/architecture/category-management.md
Add a new standalone ContentHero component (template and TS) that
provides a cinematic hero section with backdrop, poster, title,
description, tags/meta/action slots, and a back button event emitter.
The component chooses backdrop or poster as the background, falls back
to a default poster image on load error, and exposes inputs for title,
description, posterUrl, and backdropUrl.
Introduce extensive cinematic styles for the detail view:
- define CSS custom properties for light and dark themes, poster size,
shadows, and color tokens
- implement gradient vignette, layout sizing, and theming via
:host and :host-context(.dark-theme)
- change container sizing behavior to full-height and hide overflow
These changes create a reusable hero UI and themed detail-page styles
to support a Netflix-style streaming detail experience.
Reorder imports and remove an unused duplicate to improve clarity and
consistency. Reformat multi-argument and long console/log calls,
return objects and function arguments across multiple lines to keep
within line width and improve readability. Update array/object
literals and error handling pushes to use consistent multi-line
formatting. These changes are purely stylistic and do not alter
behavior; they make the code easier to read and maintain.
Refactor the EPG progress panel template to improve DOM structure and
action handling. Move the top-level panel wrapper and header markup so
the "dismiss all" button is rendered consistently when multiple imports
exist. Reorder imports list and per-item blocks so each import item
contains its own header, icon, url and dismiss button. Restore the
per-item dismiss button and adjust classes to distinguish between the
global dismiss-all and item-level dismiss actions.
These changes simplify markup nesting, fix button placement bugs, and
prepare the template for clearer styling and behavior of active and
queued import items.
Register EPG progress panel component and MatSnackBar in AppComponent,
inject MatSnackBar and show a brief confirmation when all EPG sources
are already fresh. Re-enable keyboard handling in Electron-like
environments by switching the tauri check to window.electron and
restoring the keydown listener. Add new English i18n keys for total
counts and an "EPG is up-to-date" message.
Why:
- Expose EPG progress panel so it can be used in the app template.
- Provide user feedback when EPG sync finds no stale sources via a
transient snackbar message.
- Restore cross-platform keyboard shortcuts by detecting electron
instead of the commented-out tauri guard.
- Add missing translations used by the UI.
* EPG data is stored with ISO 8601 format including timezone offset
(e.g., 2025-12-26T16:00:00+01:00)
* When displayed, moment(isoString)
parses it correctly and converts to the user's local timezone
automatically
* No settings needed — times always show in the user's
machine timezone
Update translations and refactor StalkerPortalImportComponent to use
Angular signals and readonly/dependency-injected readonly properties.
- Add new i18n keys: LOADING_SEASONS and NO_EPISODES; adjust
PLAYBACK_ERROR punctuation.
- Replace EventEmitter @Output with a signals-based readonly output and
mark form, constants and flags as readonly.
- Switch to inject() style for services and mark many injected fields
private/readonly to clarify intent.
- Replace DataService import with STALKER_SERIAL_NUMBER token import.
- Improve logging formatting, whitespace and minor code cleanup.
- Minor template/style whitespace fixes.
These changes modernize the component for better immutability,
improve DX with clearer logging, and add missing user-facing
translation strings.
Refactor stalker-series-view template to guard fields with conditionals
so that only available metadata is displayed. Replace selectedItem() with
displayItem() to use the updated selection accessor. Add checks for
director, actors, year/release date, genre/genres_str, imdb and kinopoisk
ratings to avoid showing empty labels.
Enhance stalker-portal-import component by adding reactive form fields
for serial/device IDs and signatures, importing MatProgressSpinnerModule,
and wiring TranslateService and StalkerSessionService into the component.
Include a small loading-container style. These changes prepare the UI for
improved import UX and safer rendering of optional series metadata.
Update info-overlay template to read simplified EPG fields and
avoid indexing into arrays for title, icon and description so bindings
are resilient and clearer:
- Use epgProgram?.iconUrl instead of epgProgram?.icon?.[0]?.src
- Use epgProgram?.title instead of epgProgram?.title?.[0]?.value
- Use epgProgram?.desc instead of epgProgram?.desc?.[0]?.value
- Guard description rendering with epgProgram?.desc
Adjust multi-epg header layout and add search UI styles to support
desktop window chrome and draggable regions:
- Add left padding to #epg-navigation for macOS traffic lights, enable
backdrop drag via -webkit-app-region: drag and set z-index to keep
header above content.
- Exclude interactive elements (buttons, search inputs) from drag by
applying -webkit-app-region: no-drag to maintain native interactions.
- Add extensive styles for a channel search container (search input,
icons, clear button, filter count, animations) and scaffold a program
search container.
These changes improve robustness of EPG data rendering and add styled
search controls while ensuring proper window dragging behavior on
desktop builds.
Add tables, indexes, FTS5 virtual table, and triggers to support EPG
(electronic program guide) data in the shared SQLite connection. The
changes introduce epg_channels and epg_programs tables, multiple
indexes for efficient lookups (by source, name, channel, start, and
time range), and an epg_programs_fts virtual table with triggers to
keep the full-text index synchronized with epg_programs.
Register EPG database event handlers in the Electron backend and
add an IPC handler for bulk-saving channels. The handler deletes
existing channels for a source and inserts new channels in chunks to
avoid large single inserts, returning the inserted count.
These changes enable storing, querying, and full-text searching EPG
data and prepare backend IPC endpoints for importing program guide
data.
Introduce a standalone EpgProgressPanelComponent with template and
bindings to show active, completed and queued EPG imports. The new
component:
- provides a header with title and optional "dismiss all" button when
multiple imports exist.
- lists active/completed imports with status icon, URL display,
dismiss button, and conditional progress bar for loading state.
- shows stats (channels/programs) or error text when available.
- renders a queued section with positions and dismiss controls.
- wires to EpgProgressService observables (imports, visibility and
counts) and implements helper getters (activeImports).
This adds UI for import progress feedback and controls so users can
monitor and manage EPG import operations. Files added:
- epg-progress-panel.component.ts
- epg-progress-panel.component.html
Introduce a lowercase display name index (Map) to allow O(1) resolution
from display name to channel id. Rebuild the index during merged-data
rebuild and use it in channel lookups to avoid expensive full scans.
Add a fallback partial-match pass only when the index lookup fails.
Add automatic and manual cleanup of expired programs:
- Add cleanupExpiredPrograms(hoursToKeep) to remove programs older
than the specified number of hours from epgDataMerged.
- Invoke cleanup after worker fetches (auto-cleanup with 24 hours).
- Expose an IPC handler EPG_CLEANUP_EXPIRED to trigger cleanup on
demand.
Other changes:
- Clear epgData.programs after merging to free memory.
- Log merged data rebuild and cleanup counts for observability.
These changes improve performance of channel resolution, reduce memory
usage by pruning stale program entries, and provide a manual hook for
on-demand maintenance.
Replace full-file parsing with a streaming SAX parser to avoid loading
entire XMLTV payloads into memory. Add support for gzipped feeds by
using streaming gunzip (createGunzip) and piping into a SaxesParser,
allowing incremental processing of channels and programmes.
Introduce:
- StreamingEpgParser class that incrementally builds channel and program
objects and emits batches.
- parseXmltvDate helper to normalize XMLTV datetimes to ISO strings.
- batching constants and response types for channel/program batches and
progress reporting.
- use of Readable/Saxes for streaming parsing and reduced memory use.
This change improves performance and memory usage for large EPG files,
enables progress reporting and batch emission to the main thread, and
prepares for handling very large or gzipped EPG sources.
Normalize .coderabbit.yaml structure and add automatic issue
labeling. Move auto_review under the top-level reviews key to match
expected nesting and restore YAML schema comment. Introduce
issue_enrichment.labeling with auto_apply_labels and detailed
labeling_instructions for bug, enhancement, and documentation so
issues are categorized automatically and consistently. Fix minor
formatting and spacing to improve readability and tooling support.
Introduce a shared database schema library for Drizzle ORM and
configure its TypeScript build settings. Move the canonical schema
into libs/shared/database/src/lib/schema.ts and expose strong
typing and table definitions for playlists, categories, content,
recently_viewed and favorites. Add tsconfig.lib.json to set
outDir, declaration output and node types for the shared lib.
Keep apps/electron-backend compatibility by re-exporting the
schema and types from the new shared library (apps/electron-backend
now imports the shared definitions rather than duplicating them).
These changes centralize the database schema as a single source
of truth, prevent duplication, and enable read-only consumers
(e.g. agent-backend) to depend on compiled type declarations.
Add a new mat-menu component for filtering and sorting playlists in the
header area. The filter section iterates playlistTypes and allows toggling
type selection with visual check state. The sort section adds options for
name (asc/desc) and date added (newest/oldest) with active-state visuals
and click handlers that call setSortOptions. A close button is also
included.
Remove unused/duplicate CSS rules from header styles: drop .filter-
container and obsolete .dropdown-menu-header rules to avoid styling
conflicts and reduce dead code. Adjust surrounding selector formatting.
Reduce the settings page container height calculation from
calc(100vh - 100px) to calc(100vh - 70px) so the content fits the
visible viewport when the header height is 70px. This prevents
unnecessary vertical overflow and avoids extra whitespace at the
bottom of the settings page.
Update English, German, and Russian locale files to improve playlist
UI text and provide explicit playlist type labels.
- Rename and adjust several labels: change FILTER_BY_TYPE to a more
descriptive "Playlist Types" and add a new FILTER_AND_SORT string.
- Normalize capitalization for SORT_BY ("Sort By") in en.json.
- Add PLAYLIST_TYPES object with keys for M3U, XTREAM, and STALKER,
providing localized descriptions for each language.
- Keep existing sorting options and parsing messages intact.
These changes make filtering, sorting, and playlist source options
clearer to users in multiple locales and prepare the UI for showing
playlist type choices.
imports and update dispatch calls
Replace multiple direct or wildcard imports for actions with
namespaced action groups from 'm3u-state' (e.g. PlaylistActions,
ChannelActions, EpgActions). Update dispatch calls to use the
namespaced action creators (for example, setAdjacentChannelAsActive,
setEpgAvailableFlag, resetActiveEpgProgram, setCurrentEpgProgram,
setActiveEpgProgram, addPlaylist).
This cleans up imports, improves tree-shaking and readability,
and standardizes how actions are referenced across components. It
also fixes inconsistent import styles (wildcard vs. named) and
prepares the codebase for clearer action organization.
Move playlist reducers into a dedicated reducers module and re-export a
composed playlistReducer built from smaller reducer arrays (epg,
channel, playlist, favorites, filter). This extracts and organizes the
previously monolithic reducer implementation into focused reducer files,
improving modularity and maintainability.
Add simple selectors in the new reducers index for commonly accessed
pieces of PlaylistState (playlists, selected playlist id, epg availability,
active channel, current EPG program, channels list, playlists loaded flag,
current playlist id) so callers can import them from a single place.
These changes make reducer logic easier to reason about, enable
incremental testing and extension of individual reducer groups, and
centralize basic selectors for consistent usage across the app.
a dedicated refresh button and workflow for Xtream in the
recent playlists UI. Show a refresh icon only when the playlist has a
serverUrl. For Xtream playlists, prompt the user with a confirmation
dialog, delete locally cached categories and streams, show a toast that
the refresh started, and navigate to the playlist to trigger re-import.
Keep existing refresh IPC logic for non-Xtream (M3U/local) playlists.
Also add English translations for the Xtream refresh tooltip and dialog
messages, and surface errors via snackbar on failure.
This enables safe re-importing of remote Xtream playlists while preserving
favorites and recent items.
- Enableplayer global config and component options:
- set Artplayer.AUTO_PLAYBACK_TIMEOUT to 10000 to reduce autoplay
timeouts.
- enable autoPlayback, playsInline, airplay, backdrop, mutex and set
theme on Artplayer instance to improve playback behaviour and UI.
- add autoSize, autoMini, pip, screenshot, aspectRatio and fullscreen
settings for a consistent feature set.
- Harden channel URL check to avoid null errors:
- use optional chaining when checking channel.url for m3u8.
- Move StreamFormat import ordering and clean unused enum entry:
- remove DPlayer from VideoPlayer enum and related commented code.
- remove DPlayer component imports, declarations and template branch,
simplifying player selection and eliminating dead code.
- Tidy component decorator formatting and fix template array trailing
commas to preserve style consistency.
These changes replace the deprecated/removed DPlayer integration with a
fully configured Artplayer, improve runtime safety, and clean up unused
code.
Update several packages in package-lock to newer minor/patch releases
and align Angular ESLint packages with the Angular 20 toolchain. Key
changes include:
- Upgrade @rx-angular/* to 20.0.0 to match other framework updates.
- Bump runtime libs: artplayer, axios, hls.js, rxjs, semver, uuid,
zone.js to patch/minor versions for fixes and compatibility.
- Update @angular-eslint packages to 20.3.0 to match Angular 20.x.
- Refresh eslint, @eslint/*, eslint-plugin-import, prettier, and
semantic-release to more recent releases for linting/CI stability.
- Add explicit rxjs 7.8.1 entries under some Angular DevKit node_modules
to ensure consistent resolution.
These updates address compatibility with Angular 20, pull in bug fixes
and security/maintenance patches, and stabilize dev tooling and CI.
Use channel.url instead of channel.id when updating the favorites
ordering in the playlist store. The change ensures the dispatched
setFavorites action contains the correct identifierurl) that the
store and downstream logic expect, preventing mismatches between the
UI order and persisted favorites.
- Removed unnecessary imports from header, account-info,
loading-overlay, navigation-bar, season-container, serial-details, and
vod-details components.
- Updated template syntax to use structural directives more efficiently in mpv-player-bar, account-info, navigation-bar, season-container, serial-details, and vod-details components.
- Enhanced readability and maintainability of the code by organizing imports and using Angular's async pipe and structural directives appropriately.
- Adjusted TypeScript configuration to use "bundler" for module resolution for better compatibility with modern build tools.
- Replaced the existing favorites component HTML structure with a new app-favorites-layout component for better organization and maintainability.
- Removed unused styles from favorites.component.scss.
- Updated favorites.component.ts to utilize the new layout component and streamline imports.
- Enhanced detail-view styles for improved responsiveness and layout consistency.
- Adjusted navigation component to conditionally render elements based on playlist type.
- Introduced a new NavigationItem interface for better type safety in navigation items.
- Refactored search results component to utilize new search-form and search-result-item components for cleaner code and separation of concerns.
- Updated vod-details component to handle portal ID retrieval more robustly.
- Made various style adjustments across components for improved UI consistency.
- Added `StalkerSearchComponent` for searching VOD and series content.
- Integrated search form and results grid with loading states.
- Implemented item selection and details display for VOD and series.
- Created a new `StalkerShellComponent` for navigation and routing.
- Established routing for Stalker module with nested routes for VOD, series, and favorites.
- Introduced a centralized `StalkerStore` for managing state and API interactions.
- Enhanced `StalkerSeriesViewComponent` to display detailed information about selected series.
- Updated styles for improved layout and user experience.
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