Discovery Channels have stopped working again

[Lawreb]

Today I woke up to notice that all of the Discovery Channel recordings failed overnight. The error message is: Failed: could not start stream on channels=[6114 ]: TVE: Cable provider authentication failed

I can watch just fine on a browser, and "update password" didn't seem to help either.

I'm on Spectrum. Did this happen to anyone else overnight?

[jxxaxxy]

Just tried it with my Hulu. It seemed to take a long time to authenticate the channel. But it did come up for me.

[mtnbkr60]

No issue with YTTV authentication.

[jasonmcroy]

I am on Spectrum and no issues here. I did just test Discovery after seeing your post and it took about 45 seconds to load, but it did authorized and finally play.

[chDVRuser]

Using Xfinity.
I've been getting failures authenticating the Magnolia channel for recordings lately.

Magnolia recording failed no login form found

Failed to reauth starting a recording at 12:20pm. I was able to reauth the channel later by viewing the channel live. Appears it was a timout? [error_screenshot] Logs have been submitted as a7df2777-362d-47d7-8094-59fffc1316bd.

Appears to be Channels DVR is timing out waiting for something and aborts the recording.
[TVE] action=wait_for_interstitial err=timeout

If I then view the channel Live, Channels DVR will authenticate without errors.

[babsonnexus]

@jxxaxxy

Just tried it with my Hulu. It seemed to take a long time to authenticate the channel. But it did come up for me.

Same for me and Cox. However, after I did one station everything went quickly again.

Looks like my next Discovery-family recording is scheduled for Sunday. I'll keep my eyes peeled.

[Lawreb]

Thank you guys so much for confirming that everything is still working for you. Since I’ve been through this before, I thought maybe they were having technical difficulties with Disco again.

Here’s how I solved it:

1. I removed Spectrum from the sources.
2. I logged out of Spectrum from the browser.
3. I reset my Spectrum password.
4. I re-added Spectrum as a source.

Then bam… Bob’s your uncle! All is seeming to be working again, except for the NFL Channel, which is a separate issue.

And for those who are wondering about the password reset, it just didn’t work without that step.

[chDVRuser]

@babsonnexus

Looks like my next Discovery-family recording is scheduled for Sunday. I'll keep my eyes peeled.

Not sure if it's the same with Cox, but my Xfinity Discovery channels re-auth every 7-8 days.

[babsonnexus]

@Lawreb

except for the NFL Channel, which is a separate issue.

Tell me about it...

Oh wait, you did!

NFL Network "Cable provider authentication failed" December 2022

Spectrum here. I can watch via browser on a computer, but Channels tells me “Tuner Unreachable”.

[bantar]

I'm failing on Frontier FIOS, but this started 2 days ago. Was able to get YouTubeTV to authenticate discovery. Haven't fought FIOS yet to get it working again.

[babsonnexus]

@babsonnexus

Looks like my next Discovery-family recording is scheduled for Sunday. I'll keep my eyes peeled.

Forgot to come back and say that there are no issues from Sunday's recording; looks like is started right when it was supposed to with no hiccups in the first few seconds that I can see.