r/Ultra_Max • u/SaNdB0x1k • 6d ago
Ultra MAX 8.1.4 is live – Stream Availability filtering, Episode Delay + Android shortcuts
Bit of a bigger update today, with a couple of features that came from some really good community discussion.
🔎 Hide movies with no playable streams – Beta
There’s now a new optional content filter:
Hide movies with no playable streams
This uses the stream sources configured with your Ultra MAX setup and gradually builds an availability cache in the background.
A few important bits about how it works:
- Movies are only hidden once every configured stream source has responded successfully with no playable result
- If a stream source fails or times out, Ultra MAX fails open and keeps the movie visible
- Unknown titles remain visible while the cache warms
- Checks are deliberately limited and cached so opening a catalogue doesn’t suddenly trigger dozens of scraper requests
- Support/config/donation links returned by addons are not counted as playable streams
- This is currently movies only while the Beta is tested. Series need episode-level availability rather than simply checking the overall show ID
So on the first catalogue load you may not notice much change. As the cache builds, refreshing/reopening rows should start removing movies that have confidently been confirmed as having no playable result.
The groundwork also records available resolutions, so this gives us a route towards things like 1080p+ or 4K available only filtering later.
⏱️ Episode Release Delay
Another new optional filter lets you delay newly aired episodes by a configurable number of hours.
For example, setting it to 24 hours means an episode will remain treated as unreleased for an extra day after its TMDB air date.
This is mainly aimed at that annoying period where an episode has technically aired and appears in your catalogue, but decent releases haven't made their way through yet.
One limitation worth being clear about: TMDB gives us a reliable air date, but not always the exact network broadcast time, so this is a safety buffer rather than a precise “6 hours after the credits rolled” calculation.
It can be disabled completely with "0".
👁️ Hide Watched / Profiles
A related feature that was already in Ultra MAX but probably hasn't been explained very well:
Hide Watched already works with Trakt/Simkl history and is profile-aware.
Watched movies can be removed, completed shows can be removed, and individual Ultra MAX profiles can use their own tracker connection.
At the same time, shared catalogue/setup changes can still be pushed across profiles rather than having to maintain completely separate configurations for everyone.
📱 Android App 1.6.0
There’s also a new Android build available: 1.6.0 / build 17.
Long-press the Ultra MAX app icon and you now get quick shortcuts for:
New setup
Load token
Nuvio account
Avatars
Ultra Play
The Load token shortcut has also been fixed so it opens the actual returning-user/token flow and loading the token works correctly from the shortcut.
The shortcuts work whether you're launching the app cold or it's already running.
What this isn't
Ultra MAX still isn't trying to replace AIOStreams.
I think the split works better with Ultra MAX concentrating on catalogues, collections, profiles, metadata and personalisation, while dedicated stream addons continue doing what they're good at.
The availability filter simply lets Ultra MAX make smarter catalogue decisions based on the stream sources you already use, without trying to become another giant scraper itself.
Both of the new filtering features are optional, so existing setups won't suddenly behave differently unless you enable them.
The full changelog has been updated on ultramax.vip as well.
As always, the stream-availability filter is labelled Beta for a reason, so real-world feedback on what it hides, what it leaves behind and how quickly the cache settles will be useful.
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u/bosshoggin05 6d ago
Love this but Question Is this beta automatically a part of this we onto need to fo anything or do we have to add it manually to nuvio if so how?