Duplicate "channels-dvr" entries in macOS Privacy & Security (Sequoia)

[Ahwman]

Hi everyone,

I’m seeing a strange issue on my Mac (running macOS Sequoia) where the Privacy & Security settings are being flooded with duplicate entries for channels-dvr.

This is happening in two specific sections:

1. Local Network

2. Files and Folders

I’ve attached screenshots showing the behavior. In the Local Network section, most are toggled "On," but there's at least one "Off," and in Files and Folders, the list is getting quite long.

Is this a known bug with how macOS handles the binary updates, or is there a recommended way to prune these "ghost" entries without breaking the DVR's permissions? I'm considering running tccutil reset, but I wanted to check here first to see if there's a specific cause or a less "nuclear" fix.

Thanks for the help!

[Fofer]

@Ahwman

Is this a known bug with how macOS handles the binary updates

Yes I have these too, there have been some other mentions of this, in the discussion threads here.

[chDVRuser]

When I was playing around with it on my M4 Mac Mini I found if you install it as a background system service you won't have that issue.

[ERR] Failed to load HDHR lineup

Is your Channels DVR Server running as a Daemon or a User Agent? I quit running it as a User Agent because I would get prompted to allow Local Network Access for channels-dvr every time I did a pre-release update. I my research of running down many rabbit holes, I saw something in the Apple Developer Forum that the user prompt to allow a program Local Network access is based on some UUID in the program. All I remember is someone was complaining about the same thing happening every time Chrome…

Privacy & Security pop-ups, when updating CDVR server on macOS Sequoia+

I'm not a developer, but this makes sense. Appears when you install Channels DVR Server as a System Daemon, it doesn't require permission for Local Network access. macOS automatically allows local network access by: Any daemon started by launchd Any program running as root Command-line tools run from Terminal or over SSH, including any child processes they spawn

And contrary to this Install Note https://getchannels.com/dvr-server/#macos

• If you would like to run the DVR as a background service, open Terminal.app and paste: ~/Library/Application\ Support/ChannelsDVR/uninstall.sh && ~/Library/Application\ Support/ChannelsDVR/install.sh --system. Note that the hardware transcoder is not available when running as a service.

I was able to use hardware transcoding

[Ahwman]

Excellent suggestion to install as a service and hopefully this prevents the redundant entries in security and privacy. FYI, I was able to remove the duplicate files and folders entries for Channels DVR but cannot remove them for local network. Were you able to remove these entries?

[chDVRuser]

@Ahwman

cannot remove them for local network. Were you able to remove these entries?

Never tried or looked into how to.
They're still there even after uninstalling Channels DVR.

I'm seeing the same thing for node when I update PrismCast installed with Brew.