Channels DVR Extras: the Chrome extension

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#23

Thanks for the reply, sending my best to you in your recovery!

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#24

Best wishes for a full recovery and a happy, healthful future.

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#25

Great idea! There are a lot of people that watch content using the web interface. It would be great if you could implement automatic commercial skipping while viewing.

Thank you,

Morris

#26

@mjitkop

Thank you so much for all your hard work creating this Chrome extension. It’s been incredibly helpful for those of us who aren’t as technically inclined.

I have a feature suggestion regarding manual recordings. Right now, it looks like manual recordings have to be scheduled one day at a time. It would be amazing to have an option for recurring daily or weekly manual recordings, for example, setting a specific channel to record automatically at the same time every day.

This would make the feature even more powerful and convenient. Thanks again for everything you’re doing!

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#27

I agree with you and I will look into it whenever I have some free time.

#28

The "create manual recording" function isn't working for me any longer, anyone else?

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#29

I'm out of town right now. I will check later in the evening when I'm back home.

#30

@Fofer, at what point did it fail? Can you describe how far you were able to go with it?

#31

That's the error I get, after I've entered the details, when I click "Submit."

#32

Ok, thank you. I will check it out later.

#33

@Fofer I was not able to reproduce your issue; it's working fine for me.

Channels DVR server version 2026.04.09.0236
Browser: Microsoft Edge version 146.0.3856.109

Anything changed recently on your system?

#34

Hmm, nothing notable has changed, at least nothing I can think of...

I am running Channels DVR server version 2026.04.12.0247
Browser (Mac) version is 147.0.7727.56 (Official Build) (arm64)

I was, however, able to create a manual recording using OliveTin though, thanks to a quick fix from @bnhf:

I'm not sure why this Chrome extension is giving me that "Failed to fetch" error when I try submitting a request. I'll try testing on another Mac or PC when I get a chance.

#35

When you have a few minutes, could you please reproduce the error? Once you have the error pop-up, close it and then in the main Manual Recording window, please open the java console. It will have valuable information for me to look at.

#36

This is what I see:

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#37

Can you expand the TypeError?

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#39

Thanks. At first glance, it looks like it didn't get an acknowledgement from the server.

I'll investigate.

Thank you for reporting this.

#40

I just noticed now that the IP address and the port number of your server were missing in the request:

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Also, it should be looking at http:// and not https:// so I don't know where this is coming from.

What was the URL of the main browser window when you opened the Manual Recording window?

#41

Ah, that explains it. I was connecting to the CDVR web interface via my laptop using the remote URL bookmark (my.channelsdvr.net) instead of using its internal LAN IP (http://10.0.1.21:8089)

Once I switched to using the internal LAN IP instead, the Chrome extension worked again for creating a manual recording. Thanks!

#42

Thank you for the clarification!

So now I need to add support a remote connection.
That will be in the next version. No ETA.