Channels Collection on Apple TV Shows Wrong Channel

Channels Apple TV Troubleshooting
#1

I've got a kids channel collection with things like the Disney channels and the last item is PBS Kids (via ADBTuner). The collection looks fine in Safari, but on Apple TV PBS Kids is replaced by my local NBC channel. I've removed PBS Kids, and re-added it, but after force quitting the Channels app on Apple TV and reloading it, NBC is still there.

Any ideas what I could be doing wrong?

Thanks!

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#2

Considering you’re using IPTV sources, your channel ids are probably colliding.

Ensure each channel has its own id.

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#3

The source url in Channels is http://192.168.1.193:5592/channels.m3u and the m3u appeared to be using the channel-id correctly:

#EXTM3U

#EXTINF:-1 channel-id="1" channel-number="4" tvc-guide-stationid="10462",KFOR 4 NBC
http://192.168.1.193:5592/stream/1

#EXTINF:-1 channel-id="2" channel-number="8" tvc-guide-stationid="10614",KOCO 5 ABC
http://192.168.1.193:5592/stream/2

#EXTINF:-1 channel-id="3" channel-number="9" tvc-guide-stationid="10826",News 9 CBS
http://192.168.1.193:5592/stream/3

#EXTINF:-1 channel-id="4" channel-number="97" tvc-guide-stationid="43200",PBS Kids OETA
http://192.168.1.193:5592/stream/4

#EXTINF:-1 channel-id="5" channel-number="98" tvc-guide-stationid="11097",SYFYHD
http://192.168.1.193:5592/stream/5

but given this isn't the only source those didn't seem like very unique channel-id's. I didn't see a way to edit these myself in ADBTuner, so I deleted and re-added them to ADBTuner which generated much more unique looking values:

#EXTM3U

#EXTINF:-1 channel-id="304750381991485631842826324898497109546" channel-number="4" tvc-guide-stationid="10462",KFOR 4 NBC
http://192.168.1.193:5592/stream/6

#EXTINF:-1 channel-id="317274650627073265624622566187629984482" channel-number="8" tvc-guide-stationid="10614",KOCO 5 ABC
http://192.168.1.193:5592/stream/7

#EXTINF:-1 channel-id="300406752216648913453398486022876281107" channel-number="9" tvc-guide-stationid="10826",News 9 CBS
http://192.168.1.193:5592/stream/8

#EXTINF:-1 channel-id="273112097237956915347202910554060058365" channel-number="97" tvc-guide-stationid="43200",PBS Kids OETA
http://192.168.1.193:5592/stream/9

#EXTINF:-1 channel-id="54364188263986303061466649371676481428" channel-number="98" tvc-guide-stationid="11097",SYFYHD
http://192.168.1.193:5592/stream/10

After re-adding PBS Kids to the Kids collection Apple TV is behaving correctly.

Thank you very much!

#4