Set up Masjid TV in 10 minutes

1. Install the TV app

You need: an Android TV, Google TV or Amazon Fire TV, or any Android TV box or stick plugged into a normal TV. There are two editions with the same screens and settings:

• Masjid TV for Android 6 and newer (most TVs and boxes from 2016 on): download.
• Masjid TV Classic for older TVs and boxes with Android 4.4 or 5: download.

Not sure? The address jiiimu.com/api/download.php opened on the TV itself picks the right edition automatically. (On the TV: Settings → About → Android version.)

1. Download the app from the Masjid TV page: the Classic version for Android 4.4 to 5.1, or the Standard version for Android 6 and newer. Not sure? Classic works on every TV.
2. Get it onto the TV with one of these:
   • USB drive: copy the file to a USB stick, plug it into the TV, open the TV's File Manager and open the file.
   • Downloader app: install “Downloader” from the TV's app store, open it and type jiiimu.com/api/download.php.
   • Send Files to TV (free app on the phone and TV): send the APK from your phone.
3. If the TV asks, allow “Install from this source / unknown apps”, then press Install and Open.

2A. Set it up on the TV (no internet, no account)

1. When the app opens, choose Masjid screen.
2. Type the masjid name, search your city (any country) and pick it, then press Save & start. The screen already shows Azan and Iqamah times for your city, with your time zone and daylight saving.
3. Press OK on the remote at any time and choose TV settings. Use the arrow keys and OK:
   • Masjid & Azan times: city, calculation method (12 to choose from), Asr (Shafi'i/Hanafi), far-north rule, and for each prayer either Auto (with a small adjustment in minutes) or Fixed (one clock time every day).
   • Iqamah gaps: for example Asr 15 min after Azan, Maghrib 10 min. The gap repeats every day. Or choose Fixed time for a prayer.
   • Jumu'ah & Ramadan: Jumu'ah Azan, prayer and Khutbah time, a Friday note, Ramadan mode, Suhoor end, Taraweeh time and a Hijri date correction.
   • Display: screen design (six different layouts: Mihrab, Timetable Board, Horizon, Medallion, Lantern and Daylight, each with its own colours), colours (Emerald & Gold, Royal Blue & Gold, Burgundy & Gold, Midnight Black & Gold, Turquoise & Copper or the light Sand & Teal), Iqamah countdown style, “Prayer in progress” style, how long it stays (default 2 minutes) and 12-hour or 24-hour clock.
   • Notices: messages that scroll along the bottom (Eid prayer, Janazah, classes).
4. Press Save. Everything is stored on the TV.

2B. Control it from your phone

1. Install Masjid TV from Google Play on your phone and choose My prayer times.
2. Put the phone on the same Wi-Fi as the TV (the masjid router, or the phone's own hotspot). No internet is needed.
3. Open the Masjid TV tab → Add a TV. Scan the QR code or type the 6-digit code shown on the TV.
4. Change things any time: Iqamah gaps, Jumu'ah, Ramadan, notices, posters, Janazah notices, the full-year timetable and the TV design.

2C. Phone link: use your phone with no internet

The TV app has its own small web page. A phone on the same Wi-Fi as the TV can open it and set the TV clock, Iqamah times, Jumu'ah, Ramadan, notices and the masjid details. No internet, no account and no app to install are needed. It works on Android phones and iPhones.

1. Put the phone and the TV on the same Wi-Fi: the masjid's router (it does not need internet), or the phone's hotspot (connect the TV to the hotspot once in the TV's network settings).
2. On the TV press OK → Phone link. Scan the QR code with the phone camera, or type the address shown (for example http://192.168.1.23:8080) and the 6-digit code.
3. Tip: add the page to the phone's home screen so it opens like an app.

2D. After a power cut

When the power comes back, the TV starts Masjid TV by itself.

• TVs that keep the right date and time (they have a clock battery or get the time from the network): the prayer times simply carry on. Masjid TV never asks for the time.
• TVs that lose the time: some start with a factory date such as 2015, others bring back an old saved time (the clock stood still while the power was off). Masjid TV notices both and does not show wrong Azan times. It shows “Please set the time” until the time is set, in any of these ways:

• Phone: scan the QR code on the TV and open the page. The TV takes your phone's time straight away.
• Remote: press OK and set the date and time with the −/+ buttons (it starts from the last time the TV knew).
• Internet: if the TV is online, the time is set by itself within seconds.

The time then stays right until the next power cut, even if the TV's own clock is still wrong. If the TV corrects its own clock a little later (for example from the network), the question goes away by itself. To avoid the question altogether, put the TV or box on a small UPS, or keep it on Wi-Fi with internet.

3. Update the app on the TV

When a new version is published, the notice bar on the TV says so. To update:

1. Connect the TV to the internet.
2. Press OK on the remote → App update.
3. Press Download & install. If Android asks, allow “Install unknown apps” for Masjid TV once, then press Install now.

Your masjid's saved times and settings are kept.

4. Official Azan times for your city

Masjid TV can publish Azan times for each city. In your phone settings choose Azan & Iqamah → Azan times → “Official Azan times” (or on the TV: TV settings → Masjid & Azan times → Azan times) and sync once. Days that are not published use the automatic time. To adjust them for your masjid, press Download official times in Yearly timetable: they are copied into your own timetable and any day can be edited. Your own edits always win.

5. Your own timetable (one year, two years or more)

If your masjid has a printed timetable, you can load all of it at once, for example two years in one file. Days in the file use its times; all other days use the automatic times.

• Make the file: type or paste the timetable into Excel or Google Sheets, one row per day: date, Fajr, Sunrise, Dhuhr, Asr, Maghrib, Isha, and if you like the Iqamah times. Save it as CSV (Excel: File → Save As → CSV; Google Sheets: File → Download → CSV). An empty template is offered on both pages below.
• Any usual layout works: column names such as Subah, Zuhr, Luhar, Asar, Magrib or “Isha Jamaat”; dates like 01/11/2026, 2026-11-01 or 1 Nov 2026; times like 3:22, 15:22 or 3:22 PM. Times without AM/PM are read the way printed timetables mean them (3:22 under Asr is 3:22 PM).
• Without internet, from a phone: TV OK → Phone link → scan the code → Timetable tab → Choose timetable file. Check the first days shown, then Send to the TV. The same tab downloads the TV's times as a CSV and removes an uploaded timetable.
• On the website: Yearly timetable → Import CSV (any years). All days are saved at once, and each TV gets two years ahead at its next sync.
• On the website you can also fill a year from the automatic times and edit any day, or change a date range (set Isha Iqamah for all of Ramadan, shift Maghrib by +1 minute for a month).
• If your masjid has its own Jumu'ah time, Fridays keep it instead of the file's Dhuhr time. A notice on the TV reminds you two weeks before the timetable ends.

6. Ramadan & Jumu'ah

• Ramadan mode is automatic (from the Hijri calendar). Use the Hijri correction (±2 days) after the moon is sighted, or force it On or Off.
• During Ramadan the screen shows the day number, Suhoor end, Iftar and Taraweeh, and says “Time to break the fast” at Maghrib.
• Ramadan countdown: in the last 60 days before Ramadan the screen counts the days to 1 Ramadan (it follows the Hijri correction).
• On Fridays Dhuhr becomes Jumu'ah. Set its Azan, the prayer time (minutes after Azan or fixed), the Khutbah time and a note.

7. Hadith in the footer

Between your notices, the bottom of the screen slides hadith about prayer and good deeds (more than 70, each with its reference, such as Sahih al-Bukhari or Sahih Muslim; the short famous ones also in Arabic). Each notice of the masjid is shown first, then three hadith, then the notices again. A different hadith starts each day. To show short reminders instead, choose Footer → Short reminders in TV settings, on the phone page (Masjid tab) or on the website (Settings).

Troubleshooting

• The times differ by 1 to 3 minutes from our timetable. Use the per-prayer adjustment, choose another calculation method, or type your own times.
• Summer nights are very short or the sun never sets (far north or south). Choose a far-north rule in TV settings, or use fixed times.
• The TV's clock is wrong, or it says “Please set the time” after a power cut. Set it from your phone with the phone link, with the remote, or connect the TV to the internet (see After a power cut). The app uses your masjid's time zone.