Feature Ideas

When scrolling list of channels, when reaching the bottom of the list, allow the next "down" input to "loop" back to "channel 2" to make it easier to scroll. Sometimes you need to "go around the horn" to find the channel you want.

I know that you are prioritizing the Apple TV app but it would be amazing to have the app available for iPhone and iPad as well. When traveling, I don’t tend to bring my Apple TV with me but I do bring these devices.

When a friend or family member shares their Plex server with you, their libraries should appear as selectable sources in Bunny Ears TV. Users should be able to enable multiple shared libraries alongside their own, so channels are built from a combined pool of content. This would be especially useful for households where one person has a large movie collection and another has a deep TV library — combining them would make the channel lineup feel much more complete. The app could show a list of all available servers and libraries during setup or in settings, with toggles to include or exclude each one.

One feature idea I wanted to suggest: Plex music videos as a source for channels. Plex already supports artist-linked music videos, and they show up on the artist’s main page in both the web app and Apple TV app. The problem is that Plex barely does anything with them. They’re kind of hidden away, and there’s very little browsing or control. As far as I understand it, Plex handles these by either: using a global music video folder, or finding them inside the artist folder structure alongside music files If the files are organized in artist-named folders, Plex links them to the artist page automatically. Beyond that, the only other practical way to browse them is to expose that same music video folder as a separate Home Videos library, which is pretty clunky since Plex doesn’t really have a true music video library type or agent. What would be amazing in BunnyEarsTV would be the ability to pull those artist music videos from Plex and treat them as channel content. I’m new to the beta, so I’m not sure how much metadata you’re already pulling from the Plex API, but I assume the path would be something like: pull artists identify artist-linked music videos use that data to build themed channels If the API exposes those linked videos cleanly, this could open up some really fun possibilities using your genre/tag/channel logic. For example: Yo! BunnyTV Raps7200 Seconds (a 120 Minutes-style alt/indie channel)Earbangers BallNew Wave TheaterCountry Fried TV Basically, it would let people turn Plex’s mostly buried music video support into something that actually feels alive and usable like a real MTV/VH1-style cable experience, which feels totally in the spirit of what BunnyEarsTV is doing. Anyway, just wanted to throw that out there because it seems like a really natural fit for the app.

It would be great to have Bunny Ears check for playlist changes in the background and update the channel without any manual intervention. Since Plex doesn’t push notifications when a playlist is modified, polling is the only way to catch changes. Even a refresh interval of 15 to 30 minutes would make a huge difference.

It would be awesome if those of us using Plex Live TV could also integrate it into the guide with over the air TV stations running through our Plex server. This would give us actual live channels integrated with our custom channels.

Have channel logos overlaid while watching video, preferably on the bottom right, see through like network and cable channels

Once the app has gone public and those who pay for the app, that we have the option to disable the default channels in favour of our own custom channels.

It would be helpful if the Bunny Ears reported active playback sessions back to Plex so they appear properly in Plex Web Dashboard and Plex Dash. This would benefit anyone who uses Plex’s server-side monitoring tools, especially people managing shared servers, checking current playback remotely, or expecting Apple TV playback to behave like other Plex clients in the dashboard. Right now, if playback is not being reported in the standard way, the session can feel invisible or incomplete from the server side. A good implementation would be for the app to send normal playback timeline/progress updates to Plex during session start, playback progress, and stop events, using the identifiers Plex expects for an active client session via the Timeline API.

The ability to use Jellyfin would be fantastic. Seeing as it's open-source I can't see why this couldn't be an option.

I am loving the custom channels using my Plex playlists. One improvement would be when there are multiple series in the playlist, there should be more variety on what gets played instead of a marathon binge of the same show. I scrolled right and the same show continues for at least the next 24 hours. Any way to tweak this to get more variety? Example, I have all my DC cartoons in a playlist and Super Friends is playing non stop without variety. Thanks.

When you are watching a show, the standard controls (ie, Up/Down/Left/Right/Select) don't behave the way more mainstream streaming apps do. Makes it a bit unintuitive. Would be great to have a different control option. When watching a show: Enter pause show and pop up the controls menu from the bottomOne left click takes you to rewind buttonTwo left clicks take you to restart buttonOne right click takes you to fast forward buttonTwo right click takes you to subtitles button Something along those lines... a mix of netflix/plex controls that most people will be comfortable with. Right now I end up clicking to restart the show every time.. :-)

Just had to say it out loud. Bloop. :-)

I have my account and then my kids have home plex accounts that limit their content based on ratings. Need that functionality mirrored here so I can let the kids use it without them seeing TV-MA and R rated content.

I'm getting random movies that jitter, where the video stutters but continues to play with the audio playing normally. The only pattern I could see, so far, is that it happens with movies that are h265. But not all h265 movies jitter, some play fine. This seems to happen in the guide preview window as well as in full screen. I'm running a Windows Plex Server and playing on AppleTV4K, both connected by ethernet, and all updated to latest stable releases. Will try to post a video.