With Cinaura Pro, the TVs in your home keep each other up to date.
Profiles, sources, folder choices, sign-ins, settings, collections and
watch history move between them automatically. Start a film in the
bedroom, finish it in the lounge. Set up a new TV and it arrives
already configured.
It also works with one TV, which is the case that matters most: a box
that gets wiped or replaced comes back with everything on it, without
re-adding a single source by hand.
The first TV to activate defines your setup. Every TV after that
adopts it. So activate Cinaura Pro on the TV whose sources, profiles
and history you want to keep, and let the others follow.
On your main TV, open Cinaura, then Settings → Library.
Select the Cinaura Pro banner at the top.
Buy or restore Cinaura Pro. If you already own it on this Google
account, it switches on by itself with nothing to enter.
Cinaura returns you to the home page and starts a sync. Your setup
is now the household’s setup. Nothing else to do here.
To check, open Settings → Cinaura PRO. The licence row shows
when this TV last caught up, for example “Synced 3 minutes ago”.
On the second TV, install Cinaura and open it. You do not need
to add a source or create a profile first. If the TV is brand new,
do not bother setting anything up at all, it is about to be
configured for you.
Make sure the TV is signed in to the same Google account, then open
Settings → Library → the Cinaura Pro banner, and select
Restore purchase. Cinaura finds the purchase on the account and
switches Pro on.
The first sync runs on its own. If this TV had nothing on it, your
household setup simply arrives: profiles, sources, folders,
sign-ins, settings and history.
If this TV already had a setup of its own, Cinaura asks one question
before touching anything. See Replace this TV’s
setup below.
Sources arrive before their contents do, so Cinaura starts a
second scan by itself to fill the library. Let it run. The home
page fills as it goes, and Continue Watching appears as soon as
there is any history to show.
Cinaura interrupts you in exactly one situation: the second TV already
has a setup of its own, and your household already has one. There
is no sensible way to merge two different sets of sources and profiles,
so you are asked which one this TV should end up with:
Replace this TV’s setup?
Your Cinaura account has a setup saved from another TV. Using it
replaces this TV’s sources, profiles and watch history. This cannot
be undone.
CancelReplace
Replace takes your household’s setup and discards what was on
this TV, watch history included. There is no undo and no backup of
the discarded version.
Cancel changes nothing on either side. Nothing has been uploaded
from this TV, and nothing has been deleted. The question comes back
the next time you open Settings.
There is deliberately no “keep this TV’s setup instead” button. If you
activated the TVs in the wrong order, select Cancel, and the answer
is to have activated them the other way around. On a TV you have not
activated yet, just activate the one you want to keep first.
Everything that travels is encrypted on your TV before it leaves it,
and it stays encrypted on Cinaura’s servers. Your media files are never
uploaded at all.
Travels, encrypted
Profiles: names, pictures, age limits, admin, PINs
Each profile’s preferences
Watched, resume points, favourites, hidden items
Per-item subtitle offset and audio-track choice
Watch history, every sitting, which is what makes Watch stats a
household figure rather than one TV’s
Source sign-ins: passwords, API keys and OAuth sign-ins
Collections you made, and Favourites
Metadata corrections you made by hand
TV-wide settings: passthrough, frame-rate matching, the Dolby Vision
escape hatch, subtitle styling, library behaviour, which sources show
in the library
Never leaves the TV
Your media files. Nothing in your library is ever uploaded
Artwork and downloaded metadata, which each TV fetches for itself
Your OneDrive sign-in and your Trakt sign-in, see below
Whether a source is reachable from this TV, and how far it has
scanned
A USB drive’s identity, which means nothing on another box
Titles Cinaura could not match to a film or show
The licence itself. Each TV holds its own
Profile PIN lockout counters, so a restored TV starts clean
OneDrive and Trakt both hand out sign-ins that can only be used
once. Two TVs sharing one copy would knock each other out permanently,
so these two stay where they are. Everything else travels.
What this means in practice:
Your OneDrive source arrives on the new TV, folder selection and
all but is disconnected. Sign in to OneDrive once on that TV and it
carries on.
Trakt is connected per TV. Connect it again in Settings →
Sources on the new one if you want it there.
Dropbox, Google Drive, Real-Debrid, Premiumize, TorBox, AllDebrid, SMB
and WebDAV all travel, passwords and certificate approvals included.
Watch state travels filed against a title, not against a file, so an
unmatched rip has nothing to travel under. If some watch state does not
arrive, the usual cause is a file Cinaura never matched. Fix the
match and it starts syncing from then
on.
There is no per-TV sync switch. A TV with Cinaura Pro on it is part of
the household, which is what stops one purchase quietly becoming four
people’s. Two honest ways out:
Do not activate Cinaura Pro on that TV. It keeps working as a
free Cinaura install, with no limits on sources, formats or quality.
Disconnect it.Settings → Cinaura PRO → Disconnect
Cinaura Pro puts that TV into free mode and stops it syncing. Your
purchase is untouched, and Restore purchase brings it back.
Everything leaves your TV already encrypted, with AES-256-GCM, and the
labels rows are filed under are one-way tags rather than names. The
sync database holds no readable title, profile name, hostname or
password, and the key that opens the data is not stored there, so that
store on its own tells nobody what you own or what you watch. Your
media files are never uploaded, see our privacy
policy.
“Not synced yet” on a TV that should have caught up by now.
It has not completed an exchange. Check the TV has internet, then press
Sync in the top bar of the library, which also clears any waiting
period Cinaura was observing.
“Waiting for you”.
The replace question is unanswered on that TV. Open Settings and it
asks again. Nothing syncs until it is answered.
The second TV’s library is empty after it joined.
Normal for a few minutes. Sources arrive before their contents, so
Cinaura queues a second scan automatically. Watch history that arrived
early attaches to titles as that scan identifies them. Let it finish
rather than re-adding sources.
“Your Cinaura Pro licence needs reconnecting before this TV can
sync.”
That TV has not reached Cinaura recently. A connection fixes it, there
is no action to take. Pro itself keeps working for 7 days offline, and
after that it pauses and comes back on its own.
“This TV was set up with a different Cinaura account.”
The TV is holding a licence from a different household, so Cinaura
stops rather than mixing two homes together. Nothing is sent or
changed. If the TV has changed hands, clear Cinaura’s data in your
TV’s own Android settings and set it up again.
A source shows as unavailable on the second TV.
Expected for anything tied to one place: a USB drive plugged into the
other box, or a NAS on a different network. The source travels, the
hardware does not.
OneDrive is asking me to sign in on the new TV.
By design, see above.
Signing in once on that TV is the whole fix.
I replaced the wrong TV’s setup.
It cannot be undone, and there is no backup of the replaced version on
the household. What can be recovered is configuration: re-add the
sources and recreate the profiles on that TV, and from then on it
matches the rest of the house.
Still stuck? Get in touch and include
which TVs are involved and what the Cinaura PRO row says on each.
