What does this do? I just got a ‘false’ reply
Sounds like you clicked the link, and it says false because the hack is not enabled. To enable it you need to upgrade to the prerelease and then run that curl command in Terminal. It will return true, and you will see edl files next to all your recordings.
Nice, one less cron job now 
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I had upgraded to the pre-release, but I was trying with a web browser. It worked fine with curl on the terminal. Thanks!
Still wonder what it does though. Is this now fully automatic, or am I supposed to call this URL periodically?
It’s automatic after the commercial detection is run; I tested it out this morning with Good Morning America. It also sets the EDL to 3 from the 0 that’s in the Logs/comskip edl.
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All of my recordings now have edl!. 
I think I just died and went to DVR Heaven. My total dream has come true due to Channels and Devs.
@tmm1 Awesome…thank you so very much for being a fantastic developer and person. I cannot express my fullest gratitude enough. 
(of Joy)
P.S. Now husband will finally fully use Channels. And I won’t have to intervene at all! Happy Days
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I also want to thank @timstephens24 for publishing his script to provide the ability address to prior recordings and then run as a cron job on latest recordings. Although, I didn’t have to use based on @tmm1 new curl (including update of previous recordings) I was very impressed…and was ready to run.
Very glad that others have published their solutions as it is a tremendous help for those of use who are script challenged. Makes me more very much interested in learning more. Thanks again.
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Seriously, the responsiveness of the channels devs is truly awesome. That was less than 24 hours from my suggestion to incorporate the functionality to actually implementing. This in itself is well worth the monthly fee (and gratitude)!
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Just to let you all know: @avdp @timstephens24 @tmm1
You have created a commskip monster in my household 
My husband loves this so much, he now wants this capability on ATV…he is not satisfied with just the Shield (running Kodi) which I was planning on installing in the bedroom. Go figure! Should have known he’d want more.
Hopefully, I can now install our Kodi capable Shield in the LR and use a secondary feed (off an HDMI switch) to the bedrom. We have ATV4 in most rooms but he’s so enthralled with Channels using Kodi (with edl…full Comskip) on the Shield, he already wants more. Guess it’s possible to add Kodi to all atvs with a developers account, but currently (without) can only use for 7 days.
Any other ideas for this conundrum would be appreciated. 
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MrMC works off EDLs (Kodi 16 port so not sure what skin he likes) so he could use that with the ATV4/ATV4K. That’s what I was actually testing out support for EDL support for back in July when I initially wrote that script. I generally use that for movies but TV is Channels/Hulu/DTVN Beta.
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I’ll try again…tested MrMC with .txt but not .edl…didn’t work (was also using DLNA).
We have used MrMC (on DLNA from Emby). I’ll try with direct and the .edl. If this works, it will be a perfect solution.
Edit: Note: previously, only tried on iOS, not tvOS. Thanks for the suggestion…as I’ve learned to trust your previous recommendations I’m very hopeful.
I wouldn’t recommend ever using DLNA again (it also dissolved In Jan 2017). MrMC has native Emby/Plex support, but edl’s won’t work mapped that way. You’ll need to directly map with SMB or NFS for them to be used.
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Well, I was sure that you were the original poster suggesting to use Plex DLNA as a basis for MrMC playback (used for metadata), which I then applied to Emby…as Plex sucks. Guess I am losing my mind…expected for those of us 70+, is my only excuse.
Anyway, as usual, I can’t get a hold of even one ATV4 in the household to test…unless I want to go outside in the cold at midnight…NOT.
Tomorrow is another day, looking forward to testing direct MrMC playback with the edls. At least, the NFOs created by Emby serve fantastically for the Kodi metadata…hopefully, also MrMC with direct.
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MrMC direct works great in both iOS and tvOS…utilizing the Emby created NFOs…so local info. A few aren’t making an NFO match but the edl is spot on. At times MrMC is a pita, but comskip is working. Awesome.
Thank you again!
Anytime! I just try to suggest things that work 
(and why I recommend Channels to everyone)
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Update to the edl hack
My husband is finally using MrMC to watch our Channels recordings, due to the addition of comfree playback on MrMC (offered by edl addition to Channel’s recordings).
Ironically, the first one (he is now watching) was recorded from TCM (already commercial free). We’ll see if his next choice has comms on the recording so he can really test the edl file addition on the original Channels recording.
Edit: He just started watching a recording with comms. His evaluation: It worked perfectly.
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As per above, I’ve got MrMC working using smb…also found that with so many files in the Channels Movies folder that if I setup a playlist (with all Movie files) and as a favorite, there is an immediate load of all files.
Previously, just using the smb path it took 30-60sec to load the files.
Thanks again for guidance and great advice.
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I just wanted to throw out my appreciation for this thread! As a new user to Channels I am still learning but the comskip ability is really awesome!
I just set everything up last night and tried out MrMC today with a couple of recordings and I am really impressed! I was already impressed with the ability to double tap my remote in the Channels App (using both on Shield TV) but having the player just auto skip the commercial is awesome!
I wish I had starting using this months ago! (although, it was the official port to Android TV that made me look at this app again).
Thanks again!
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I had my first chance tonight to watch several back-to-back recordings that were recorded using the edl function. I watched all of these via MrMC on the Shield TV device. Wow! Even with rare occasion comskip doesn’t push fully to the end of the commercial break it’s an easy skip or two to get through it. Thanks so much for this!
Now for a question - I just started testing the DVR on the Shield and noticed it doesn’t save the edl file like on the Windows 10 version. I assume this is because the Shield DVR version is older. However, I wanted to double check that there isn’t still something I could do to make this happen. Any ideas? It is still workable for me to just use the Channels App if I end up going with the Shield as the DVR but wanted to check all my possible options.
You need to enable the edl option with the command in this thread