Concur, I see the same with PrismCast using native streams for Fox and NFL Network:
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Is there any benefit to using the Fox One streams through EPlusTV, as opposed to PrismCast?
Only thing I can think is that EPlusTV provides a scraped XMLTV EPG and PrismCast doesn't.
If we can find the gracenote station ID's for all of our Fox One channels, then no benefit in EPlusTV, other than for users that can't run PrismCast.
And take my comments with a grain of salt. I'm only using EPlusTV for the Fox One Linear channels. I don't have "lanes" setup for sporting events.
At this moment, EPlusTV is far less resource intensive and machine intrusive than PrismCast, and much more intuitive to set up. Not knocking PrismCast, I love what it does, but I'm staring at a permanent Chrome session on my task bar right now because I had to install the NPM version to get acceptable performance in Windows; the Docker just didn't cut it. This is as opposed to EPlusTV, which is just serving up streams from the Docker for pretty much no overhead. I almost never have to think about what EPlusTV is doing, whereas PrismCast needs a bit of babysitting.
With time, though, a lot of that may change. PrismCast has a ton of development going on and is getting better all the time, so many of these small issues may disappear! Perhaps it will even incorporate the way EPlusTV does logging in to providers (or something like it), and maintain native streams without having to do as many page-loading steps, thus making things more efficient. I guess what I'm trying to say is that at this particular juncture, EPlusTV has some advantages, but that may not be true in the future.
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PrismCast is in no way a replacement for EplusTV. Fox one works mush better here than there.
Might you share your NPM install? I had to use Poweshell to restart on reboot and a desktop shortcut to another PS script to restart for config changes. Still have to export/import configuration for app updates.
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FS1 and 2 natively work with TVE in Channels, the only issue that we're having is our local Fox station. And if it doesn't work with E+ then Prism is the only alternative.
That's what's triggering this feedback, local Fox stopped working with E+ for some reason.
Looks like Fox sports app is shutting down.
EPlusTV already has the Fox One login that works great, so no issues here. Also, if you are using anything else like ADBTuner, I can confirm that FS1, FS2, and Fox Deportes all work very well in the native app and will release something for the community release soon. PrismCast also works very well with the regular Fox website.
The only channel that could be an issue is Fox Soccer Plus, as it is part of the fox sports TVE but not in Fox One.
And Fox local which went away.
In short: Can Channels DVR tape the NBA games on Prime Video? Can ift record locals networks if I have Fubo sub? YoutTubeTV sub?
Details: I want to DVR the NBA playoffs and it's spread across Prime/ABC/ESPN/NBC. I have the individual subscription to Prime Video and will be subscribing to DirectTV stream or YouTubeTV Sports or Fubo for the other networks. Unfortunately DTV or Fubo can't DVR or even watch the Prime games. Before I setup the ChannelsDVR and EPlusTV etc, I just want to know if anyone can confirm if recording the Prime Video NBA games will work?
Also, with ChannelsDVR (w/o E+) allow me to record the non Prime games? Will it work with DTV, Fubo and YouTubeTV - I think I recall in the past that I didn't get the local networks with one of those (Fubo?)?
Sorry for not reading through the thread if this has already been answered.
Hi there,
in order to record events with channels you will need to setup an add on called Prismcast.
The software is designed to allow for capturing of live tv.
The application does use a fair amount of resources but we have a strong group of folks that enjoy the application.
I wish i had better news.
thanks
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Prime is a one off, there's no channel guide for that and I don't know of a solution that can handle this easily.
With prismcast, can you watch the recording on ChannelsDVR while it's in the middle of recording and start from the beginning or do you need to wait until it's finished recording?
The source has nothing to do with whether you can watch a recording in the beginning or the middle. Channels takes care of that.
You willhave to setup all our sources and make sure the channels being used have guide data in channels.
If all goes correctly and you take the time to setup Prismcast and your channels based on your provider, it will be up and operational.
Hardware doesn't have to be purchased and the solution can probably be up and running with your desired channels in a couple of hours based on your level of experience etc.
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But like I said, it can't handle Prime. Everything else is fine assuming you can get your local ABC via prism. I can't.
There are other ways to handle Prime video but they are much more complicated.
There was an issue with how the playlist was being parsed. There is a pull request ready for tony to review on github that should fix this issue.
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Great! Looking forward to the fix because Prismcast has gotten flaky lately with selecting the proper Fox channel on their website.