Can't Add Hulu Live to sources

$49.99/mo + tax for the first 3 months then back to the regular price of $79.99/mo + tax.

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So, an interesting thing happened this morning. I updated the server to beta v2024.05.20.1236. Upon restarting, I received 2fa passcode emails from Hulu. There's no way to enter the code while the system is starting up. I have never seen that happen before.
Perhaps they will want 2fa for any little change?
Logs have been submitted: 954c49dd-ecd9-4ec6-a2ad-7c7df85e2472

We did, but compatibility mode is required for ADBTuner. I've been using the deeplinks for about a week now with ah4c, and am feeling very good about the custom scripts for what I'm calling SPEED_MODE.

Capturing the deeplinks is a bit of an advanced skill, though probably anybody who's motivated can get it done. That's required no matter which project you're using.

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Is that with your fire stick setup or are you using the Ospry boxes others are using?

FireStick 4K Max's with a 4-port URayCoder 4K. So far the only M3U that's been completed is for the Phoenix area with a sat sub.

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I just switched to YouTube TV and TVE works great! I did have to setup a family account and share my service with that new email to get around the 2 factor. Also I had to rescan a couple of channels that failed.

Then I tested with ADBTuner using ONN devices with my LinkPi. OMG the speed of tuning and picture quality is 1000% better. I cannot tell a difference now between TVE and my LinkPi setup. When Hulu TVE started failing the only reason I knew is because the picture quality of all channels started sucking. Then I realized Channels failed over to my ADBTuner Hulu channels.

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Hey Seth, I appreciate your update, and am intrigued. I'm not quite ready to dump Hulu yet.
However, are you saying that YouTube TV does have 2 factor authentication for the primary member? But, with a YouTube TV managed family group, the other family members are not required to use 2 factor authentication? Hmmm.... :thinking:

YTTV and Hulu both have 2FA authentication.
I had to drop YTTV due to lack of baseball stuff and no TVE that I could use on my Synology.
Moved to Fubo and I'm getting what is needed and TVE works.
No 2FA.

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Yep that is correct. I just used user name and password (i created a seperate gmail account for just channels tve though)
Also the picture quality with YTTV compared to Hulu is like standard def vs HD. Im blown away...

There isn't anything we'll be able to do about the bad password situation. The 2fa situation, we maybe will be able to figure out how to get it inputted properly, but I haven't seen a situation before now that didn't work the way we tried to do it.

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I sure am hoping for a way to get our Hulu Live working with Channels again and really appreciate all of the hard work you developers do and the support you offer for your users. We just jumped ship from Spectrum less than 2 months ago and Hulu/Disney fits our household well.
It looks like 2fa is the way streaming tv (and just about everything else) is headed.

Getting the most out of channels is a challenge.
I truly appreciate any and all options that have been worked on by the community.
The docker containers and options for the ONN boxes have made it a solution with good custom options.
My browser on Google keeps getting blocked by Google.

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Is this in reference to my "wrong password" issue (screenshot above), or something else? Sure hope I'm not hearing that I have to switch streaming providers? :grimacing:

I just noticed many channels from HULU are no longer seen by Channels: Bravo, SyFy, etc. I tried re-scanning, but nothing updated. Any suggestions?

Hi Janie, I think that we lost about 64 Hulu Live TVE channels over the weekend. In rescanning, they are not able to be authenticated by the Channels DVR server software. I know that the developers are aware of the problem and have been working on a possible solution. I'm waiting and hoping. If Hulu/Disney has made the authentication process too complicated, we may have to try another streaming content provider. In the meantime, we can still access our preferred programming directly through the Hulu app. (ugh...)

Hey Richard, I'm on a Synology server too. Does the hardware we're using make a difference in how the software authenticates the channels through our streaming provider(s)?

I am pretty sure SyFy and Bravo are no longer TVE clear channels. Anything under the NBC/Universal Banner are not TVE Enabled now. So you can't get them via Channels you would need the App, a browser or An alternate way to get them like ADB Tuner For Channels

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Thank you. I've also noticed that some content can be recorded on PlayOn from Hulu. That is another way around it.

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We're trying SlingTV also and the same channels are not available to Channels DVR.

That's interesting. I saw that @slampman has had some success in switching over to YouTube TV. I may try that at some point. Although, I suspect that we're eventually going to lose all TVE access, regardless of which provider we chose.