Thank you for that information. I see from another post you made that you’ve been using Telly 1.5 which eliminates that issue. Did you have to do anything different in the config file for 1.5? I can’t find documentation for it like the 1.1 branch. Would it just omit the filter section entirely in that case? It appears the web interface with 1.5 and its custom lineup would solve all my issues. I only want a handful of channels anyway
There is no instructions for 1.5 that I know of. It is more like xteve in that you set it up in the web interface. You kind of learn as you go. It creates its own configuration file as you work and you will need to delete this file and start over when you mess up. But to answer the question you don't use a filter in 1.5 because you enter each channel one at a time. I did a lot of testing and found that 1.5 is a better version of telly but much more difficult to work with. The best solution for iptv seems to be xteve with emby. Until a solution is found to use xteve with channels i would not recommend using either version of telly. It is a lot of tweaking and unreliable in the long run.
So just to clarify you don’t have to create the Discovery/Device config file described earlier in this tread with 1.5, or do you still do that and just omit the filter part?
You do not create a configuration file. When you first run 1.5 there should not be a config file in the folder. When first run it will pause and wait for you to open a browser and connect to the web interface. Then it will create a file called telly.db That is the config file. You need to delete this file when you want to start fresh. Believe me you will need to start over a lot. At least I did.
I understand now. I’m going to install the Windows version first and play with it before I try rolling it out on my Synology box in Docker.
Good idea I've only played with it on a windows box.
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Well I got everything set up and running with Telly 1.1 (1.5 was a lost cause) and the streaming through channels is perfect. I only have about 10 channels I created. I went into Channels, selected Telly and added lineups to match the channels up with their closest equivalents from DirecTV's lineup. It saved all of that, but I still don't get any guide data in Channels. I have completely deleted and told it to recreate the database twice. Watching the log as it does this it appears to be downloading all of my other lineups & devices (2 HD Homeruns, TVE and Locast) fine, but never downloads guide data for "TELLY". Anyone have any suggestions?
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have you looked into the telly command line for errors at the moment channels is trying to read the epg? I get a strange error message every time when I run telly on MacOS (any flavor) ... the moment I run telly on Windows everything runs smooth and epg is forwarded ...
why tvheadend between hdhomerun and telly?
When I made my own 'emulator' recently and I matched by myself channels in EPG it appeared in the guide, however stream is not playing 
Maybe I'll use it as reminder service of when something is played 
Lots of reasons: To aggregate my hdhomerun and sat>ip tuners, to allow for mux sharing, etc
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I still don’t follow in full concept of sat>ip tuners. Does it require some special converter on the dish?
SAT>IP is essentially an industry standard for network DVB tuners. (Think HDHomeRun tuners, but standardized.)
The devs are investigating adding SAT>IP client support into Channels. If they implement this, then you could cut out Telly, as Tvheadend can act as a SAT>IP server as well as a client.
I never saw such device on my own eyes 
Not surprising if you're in the US as I doubt there are many worthwhile sat services you could use it with. Most consumer-oriented sat services are encrypted and locked into Directv and Dish's hardware. It's not even all that well known here in the UK, as Sky has a similar encryption/hardware lock (though we do have Freesat and many other free-to-air sat services as well). I think it's more known/popular in Europe where it's easier to subscribe to an encrypted sat service and use your own hardware. I ordered my sat>ip tuner from Germany.
I’m in Europe - Poland I read lately a lot about Linux tuners with Enigma from Octagon or Zgemma,they can be even used with Sky card or Canal+ because not everywhere operator enforced lock in full.
Ah....Dzień dobry!
I know if you work at it you can use your own hardware with a Sky card and subscription, but I've never bothered to try because most of what I watch is on free-to-air TV. I've only looked briefly at Enigma/Zgemma receivers but I think they are more like normal set-top boxes rather than network tuners, so I ruled them out because they wouldn't work with Channels. My goal has always been to have just 1 box connected to the TV and use it for everything (Apple TV in my case) since my other half is a bit of a technophobe.
Dzień dobry!
Hah, my goal initial would be the same because my parents are not much into technology and I have Apple TV.
From what I read Enigma tuners can act like network tuners because they allowing card sharing and you can access recordings on the box on home network from the browser. However I don’t know any Apple TV app to connect to such tuner (maybe I should develop one 
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Free to air in Poland is awful and will be till 2022 when mandatory switch to DVBT-2 is required by European Union.
For Sky I have Sky Go but they don’t have app on tvOS.
So similar to you I am trying to find a way for unification in one box
If I could find a way to extract live stream url from my cable operator tv online app life would be much easier with Channels
@beyo77
I'm using http://www.vuplustv.com/ app on my AppleTV. The receiver I have is a Vu+-branded, but I believe that this app could work with other Enigma2 boxes as well.
It's not quite as polished as Channels and if Channels would support Enigma2-tuners or at least some other way to watch encrypted DVB-C (with Conax/CI+ encrypted HD/UHD-channels) here in Europe I would go with Channels. At the moment they sit both on my AppleTV top shelf. Channels for free to air and VuPlusTV for encrypted channels.
=)juha