Ok great. I’ll check it all out.
I noticed this with News as well. Unfortunately, Pluto genres are a complete mess. I had Teen Mom showing it had the News genre.
Yikes! And totally understood about Pluto tags, I had low expectations there to begin with...
If there's anything else I can test with regards to this feature and de-duping just let me know.
Love this implementation, although like @Fofer I'm seeing some oddities. I made a "Live Sports" collection almost identical to the screenshot in your first post and noticed these:
- The manually added channels at the top aren't de-duped. All of the manual channels are from my DirecTV TVE source.
- The automatic channels that show up are seemingly grouped by alphabetical order and not channel number? I see the ACC Network, BIG 10 Network, and CBS Sports Network coming before ESPN even though ESPN has a lower channel number.
A small feature request while I'm messing around with new collections: it would also be nice to be able to limit the automatic channel filters to specific sources. That way weird Pluto tags could be excluded, but I could also more easily create a "Local news" collection by only including live programming from my HDHR!
Yeah, I'm working on improving this.
Weird, it should be the same order as they usually are, I'll confirm.
I've had the same thought today. On my Movies collection, I have specific movie virtual channels added to it, then I used the rules to add all the other available movies. But then, all the movie virtual channels I specifically did not add....got added!
I think being able to exclude certain sources in the rule would be helpful.
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De-duping and channel order have been resolved in the latest TestFlight beta.
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I am having an issue now where it sorts the auto channels by channel number but it separates it in blocks based on the TVE source. For example: channel 680 from TVE source 1 is followed by channels 1, 2, 3 from TVE source 2 and then it goes to channel 672 which is from TVE Source 3. Essentially it’s all in numerical order but in different chunks.
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Ha, that makes sense based on how it works. Ok cool, I'll do a final sort after they're all found.
Sorting is as expected now, thanks! I'm still seeing duplicates between manually added channels and automatic channels.
I'm still getting channels added from sources that have been excluded after the latest update.
In the latest pre-release and TestFlight beta, Source exclusion has been added to the rules. Pick which sources you want excluded, and automatic channels will not be pulled from them.
Be sure you have both the updated dvr pre-release and the updated beta client. These are all coming out fast. You posted before the new TestFlight version was even up there, so that's probably why. You need the updated client too.
Man, you are churning these things out fast! I updated the TVos beta not less than 10 minutes ago and was still behind the curve. Just updated again and that did the trick. Thanks!
Make sure you all the way up to date. But I think I'm seeing dupes still too on my production setup. I'll check it out again.
Amazing work! Question! Will the dropdown button to sort these auto channels from number order to alphabetical work? right now it seems to be a dead button. Id like to be able to have some channels be numerical and others alphabetical.
No, this is not a sorting behavior, this exists as a quick action to sort your manual channels. (It was added last week before we even had these rules) It has no effect on the channel collection in real time.
As the original post says, all dynamic automatic channels, will be added at the end of the list of manual channels.
Gotcha. Thanks for this and for all your hard work! Can't tell you how much these little changes affect quality of life and discoverability 
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With the latest TestFlight beta of the iOS/tvOS app, the channels are finally truly de-duped.
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This started dupes for me, with multiple HDHR.
For example, if I have channel 4.1 accessible from 3 different HDHR, the auto channels collection will pick it up 3 times.
Yeah I just noticed that too. It's de-duping compared to the original manual channels set in the Channels Collection, but not stacking like it normally does with the resulting automatic channels.
BE RIGHT BACK!
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