That's amazing news! Have you worked up any sort of an M3U yet, for whatever customer type and region you're in?
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Yes my last pull request is current, just like what you linked above. I should clarify my comment on timing.
When the last update to Osprey firmware dropped, and the wake went to Home Screen instead of last channel, this took a few second longer. This caused the key input to channel to fail. When I set the Osprey to not wake to Home Screen, all my old timing went back to normal, no change to script needed.
New bnhf/ah4c:latest (aka bnhf/ah4c:2024.05.12) pushed with updated M3U editor -- now supporting a channel-number tag. Thanks to @KompilerDJ for the update!:
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I don't seem to be getting the correct data. I think I'm following, and I see hits like this:
But when I do a Copy - Copy as cURL (cmd), and I paste that into a file -- I'm not seeing the JSON. And, a JSON viewer doesn't like it either. any idea where I might be going off the rails?:
curl ^"https://api.cld.dtvce.com/discovery/metadata/channel/v5/service/allchannels?sort=OrdCh^%^253DASC&clientContext=dmaID^%^3A753_0^%^2CbillingDmaID^%^3A753^%^2CregionID^%^3AFSAZHD_FSAPNMH_OV2+RegC+Phoenix+AZ_FSN+Arizona+SPOT_FSAZHDA_BTN4OF_BG10O2H_BTN3OF_BTN2OF_MLB+Ari+Dbacks+Choice+SPOT_BGTN4HD_BGTN3HD_BIG10HD_ARI+DBACKS+sb+RSN+SPOT_RegC+Phoenix+AZ_FSAZHD1_BS+Arizona+OOM+B^%^2FO_FSN+Arizona+RSN+SPOT_OV+Phoenix+AZ+753_OV+Phoenix+AZ+DMA+753_OV+MeTV+Allowed+SPOT^%^2CzipCode^%^3A85268^%^2CcountyCode^%^3A013^%^2CstateNumber^%^3A4^%^2CstateAbbr^%^3AAZ^%^2CusrLocAndBillLocAreSame^%^3Atrue^%^2CbRegionID^%^3AFSAZHD_FSAPNMH_OV2+RegC+Phoenix+AZ_FSN+Arizona+SPOT_FSAZHDA_BTN4OF_BG10O2H_BTN3OF_BTN2OF_MLB+Ari+Dbacks+Choice+SPOT_BGTN4HD_BGTN3HD_BIG10HD_ARI+DBACKS+sb+RSN+SPOT_RegC+Phoenix+AZ_FSAZHD1_BS+Arizona+OOM+B^%^2FO_FSN+Arizona+RSN+SPOT_OV+Phoenix+AZ+753_OV+Phoenix+AZ+DMA+753_OV+MeTV+Allowed+SPOT^%^2CdeviceProximity^%^3AOOH&fisProperties=ISF^%^3A1.3^%^23chlogo-bwdb-mytv^%^2C47^%^2C35^%^23chlogo-clb-guide^%^2C60^%^2C45^%^23chlogo-cdb-gcd^%^2C87^%^2C66^%^23chlogo-bwdb-player^%^2C120^%^2C91^%^23chlogo-bwdb-fplayer^%^2C120^%^2C91&include4K=true&is4KCompatible=false&isFtue=true&_tz=1715543115564^" ^
-H "accept: */*" ^
-H "accept-language: en-US,en;q=0.9" ^
-H "authorization: Bearer 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.rp/9WhT7ah2wmhDLdjbD74gWk89JLAw9QN+b2j0BH0A=" ^
-H "cache-control: no-cache,no-store,max-age=0,must-revalidate,reload" ^
-H "origin: https://stream.directv.com" ^
-H "priority: u=1, i" ^
-H "referer: https://stream.directv.com/" ^
-H ^"sec-ch-ua: ^\^"Chromium^\^";v=^\^"124^\^", ^\^"Google Chrome^\^";v=^\^"124^\^", ^\^"Not-A.Brand^\^";v=^\^"99^\^"^" ^
-H "sec-ch-ua-mobile: ?0" ^
-H ^"sec-ch-ua-platform: ^\^"Windows^\^"^" ^
-H "sec-fetch-dest: empty" ^
-H "sec-fetch-mode: cors" ^
-H "sec-fetch-site: cross-site" ^
-H "user-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/124.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"
Looks like a curl command I should then run, but it's not quite right for that either...
You have to paste the curl command in a terminal and add the "-o filename.json" flag to output it
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Sweet, thanks! Trying to do it using Windows curl wasn't happening for some reason, but looks like I got it switching to Debian and bash.
Something weird when using XFNITY ... It asked me if I wanted to open the link in STREAM or SILK Browser ... I had to answer to always use STREAM ... I do not get this using ADBTUNER.
That's expected behavior. It only happens once per FireStick, assuming you select the option to use Stream (Xfinity Stream) every time.
OK because I have never seen this before when provisioning a new FiresTick ... even when i use my own script to test.
this is what I use to launch XFINITY without getting that Prompt.
set "channel_url=https://www.xfinity.com/stream/live/HBOHW/5232923399725817105/HBOHW"
adb -s %device% shell am start -n com.xfinity.cloudtvr.tenfoot/com.xfinity.common.view.LaunchActivity "%channel_url%"
That'd be an easy enough change to make. I'll do that for the next ah4c build.
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New bnhf/ah4c:latest (aka bnhf/ah4c:2024.05.14) built today with support for DirecTV deep links (many thanks to @kyl416 for his discovery!). The included M3U contains satellite customer ResourceIDs for the Phoenix area. If you're a stream customer, and/or from a different area, you'll need to use the method described a few posts back to get your callSign and resourceId values for each channel.
For now anyway, I'm using scripts/firetv/dtvdeeplinks as the STREAMER_APP. Once someone has done, and submitted an M3U for DTVStream, I'll clone a set of companion scripts for stream accounts.
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New :latest and :2024.05.15 pushed today with tuning speed improvements for Xfinity and DTV (Satellite) accounts. Down to about 8 seconds for DTV with a FireStick 4K Max 2 as the target device.
Both seem to be responding well to leaving their respective apps running at the end of a virtual tune, provided KEYCODE_BACK and KEYCODE_HOME are executed first.
Since it's still possible to have a failed tune based on bad M3U data or whatever, a screen capture is being done after x seconds with an OCR scan performed. If the results of that scan match words found on either app's default "landing screen", the app will be killed and a re-tune performed.
Results have been encouraging in initial testing. Credit to @tree2369 for the idea.
It works but it is a really slow in closing the stream. I was watching also on VLC took a while to close the playing stream. It takes over 10 seconds to close the Stream.
We can play around with that. In the case of Xfinity Stream, it takes around 35 seconds to tune if the app is closed. So, I'm waiting 40 seconds before doing the screen capture and OCR, in case the virtual tune started with the app killed.
This is the function in bmitune.sh that's doing the check:
tuneCheck() {
sleep 40
ffmpeg -i $encoderURL -frames:v 1 -y $streamerNoPort/screencapture.jpg -loglevel quiet
tesseract $streamerNoPort/screencapture.jpg $streamerNoPort/screencapture
grep -q "Filter\|Today" $streamerNoPort/screencapture.txt
if [ $? == 0 ]; then
echo "Deeplink tuning appears to have failed. Killing app and re-tuning..."
$adbTarget shell am force-stop $packageName
tuneChannel
else
echo "Deeplink tuning appears to have been successful!"
fi
}
Also, if you want get rid of the OCR check altogether, you can simply comment out tuneCheck in the main() function. The downside is that it's a hassle, if the virtual tune fails, to get back on track without something like this.
EDIT: BTW, if the OCR scan is complete, closing the app shouldn't take any longer than before. If you stop the stream before that's done though, the scan will complete and the all-important KEYCODE values sent before the virtual tuner is available again. If you have more than one tuner, tuning to something else should grab the next device in line.
Is it possible to add an ADB Check to see if the package is running by checking the pidof ?... I am ok as I have 4 tuners but others with less will run into issues.
It's not a question of whether the package is running, it's a question of whether it's actively streaming or not. I also have an audio check function, which as I'm writing this occurs to me might work with Xfinity -- as I don't believe there's audio if there's no video stream. DirecTV on the other hand, plays last channel audio even it's not showing the video.
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Awesome work, glad my idea has helped but all credit has to go to you guys for coding all this for free, very generous.
One problem I am running into on my app atm is, I think, if a tuner hasn't been loaded for a while and I load the previous most channel, I think it thinks its already there in the app ready to go - but it had actually timed out and doesn't end up loading - but then the next tune usually works. Will do some more testing this arvo - I think going back to the input key event 4 21 23 3 instead of a simple input keyevent 3 would fix my issue as it gets rid of the current media session I believe - but it also is rather nice loading in a stream and not even getting any of the UI elements of the app (keeping the media session 'active').
When you have a moment, can you confirm there's no audio when the Xfinity Stream app is sitting on the guide? If so, I'll switch to an audio based tuning check -- which I can run every x seconds, and consider the tuning successful when audio is detected. That should result in a given tuner being released more quickly.
Was thinking with my previous reply, I may have to introduce a pre tune command to solve this problem.
I am loving adbtuner with its tuner management, UI and delaying the video being sent til media is playing.
Does your ah4c have similar features? As I'm not sure how easy it will be for me to put in a pre tune as a google-copy-paste coder 