So looking to enhance my setup (2 Channel Services, Backend and Frontend, plus Threadfin in between) to pull in and modify and arrange all of my channels on the Frontend Channels servers to now include only active EPlusTV channels. I used my Backend Channels DVR to setup an automatic Channels Collection and it works fine.
However, I want to export it to Threadfin to be able to merge it with my filtered list of channels in Threadfin. When I try and export the M3U, in my case:
http://192.168.x.x:8088/dvr/collections/channels/4/channels.m3u?format=ts&codec=copy
When I go to threadfind, I get 0 channels. I downloaded the above m3u to look in notepad to see what it was pushing over, and all I see is this:
#EXTM3U
Have I attempted to use the export feature in a manner it isn't intended to be used?
And yes, I realize that the above is a fluid list of channels, I have everything set to refresh every hour so that only in the event of the programming being the first thing of the day and I had to manually refresh, everything else would be there later in the day to start watching live through my front end channels server).
I suppose I could just add the EPlus Channel Collection on the backend server, but I do use Threadfin to export out to TiviMate to have multiple windows on one screen. Yes, I have a problem, yes I have admitted to it, and no, it's not something I care to see anyone about. 
Thanks