The Settings Screen

One screen governs panel-wide behaviour, in eight tabs. This page is the map, not the manual — most settings explain themselves in the panel with a tooltip; what follows is where to look and which decisions actually matter.

The tabs

Interface — the panel’s own presentation: default language for every account, date and time formats, list sizes, dashboard behaviour and the message of the day.

Security — the hardening set documented in Security and Blocking: reCAPTCHA, brute-force thresholds, login flood limits, the admin IP allow-list, and connection policies like refusing empty user agents or second-IP sessions.

API — the switches for the panel’s programmatic surfaces, including disabling player API endpoints you do not use.

Streaming — the deepest tab: segment length and list size, probe sizes, on-demand wait and scan behaviour, buffer sizes, FFmpeg build selection (8.0 or 7.1, CPU and GPU), output enable/disable switches and restreamer variants. Change one thing at a time here and watch the dashboard — every value trades latency against resilience somewhere.

MAG — portal behaviour for set-top boxes: container, default STB types, portal theme and device messages.

Logs — what gets recorded and for how long: per-class retention windows that the cleanup job enforces, so visibility never quietly eats the disk.

Database — connection and maintenance parameters for the panel’s own database.

Info — versions and environment, the fastest answer to “what build am I on?”

Two habits worth keeping

Settings apply panel-wide; per-server dials live on each server’s edit screen and per-content options on each stream or movie. When a value exists in both places, the specific one wins — so tune globally only what you mean globally. And after streaming-tab changes, give the dashboard ten minutes before the next change: cause and effect, one at a time.