eagles game through NFL+ is on the guide and is not playing
It took me a couple of tries, but it started and is rock solid so far.
Works here. 720P @ 30FPS.
Yeah I reauthed, remade epg etc and the. It worked. But I did that all last night too. The guide is just not stable, or not tracking updates.
From the other forum:
FS1 and FS2 come from foxsports.com , not fox.com
fox.com has redesigned their website (since launching Fox One) and now allows you to stream your local station there when you select your provider. That has been broken in Channels for awhile.
The Channels developers have not updated Channels DVR to use that yet.
Was 4k fixed from FS1?
I assume fox.com is not DRM'd and can be integrated into channels (for now)
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My recording last night via NFL+ Premium didn't work, it gave the following error message. Any idea what to do? TIA
Ditto from my CDVR log:
2025/09/04 20:27:27.590456 [DVR] Error running job 1757031600-ch9001 NFL - Dallas Cowboys at Philadelphia Eagles (NBC) - NFL+: could not start stream on channels=[9001]: M3U: Could not fetch playlist from 192.168.1.219:8020: GET: http://192.168.1.219:8020/channels/2.m3u8: 404 Not Found
2025/09/04 20:28:31.632724 [DVR] Starting job 1757031600-ch9001 NFL - Dallas Cowboys at Philadelphia Eagles (NBC) - NFL+ on ch=[9001]
2025/09/04 20:28:31.632724 [DBG] Scheduling wake timer for scheduled recording in 23h58m30s
2025/09/04 20:28:31.651840 [ERR] Failed to start stream on channel 9001 via M3U-ePlusTV: M3U: Could not fetch playlist from 192.168.1.219:8020: GET: http://192.168.1.219:8020/channels/2.m3u8: 404 Not Found
2025/09/04 20:28:31.652196 [DVR] Error running job 1757031600-ch9001 NFL - Dallas Cowboys at Philadelphia Eagles (NBC) - NFL+: could not start stream on channels=[9001]: M3U: Could not fetch playlist from 192.168.1.219:8020: GET: http://192.168.1.219:8020/channels/2.m3u8: 404 Not Found
Here are my E+TV settings: I also confirmed that http://192.168.1.219:8020/channels.m3u has the m3u .. However, when I tried (this morning) to manually go to http://192.168.1.219:8020/channels/2.m3u8 it says "404 not found"
I know you're getting bombarded Tony, but I have another request for NFL games. For my local channel games the guide data just shows up as team vs. team (Sunday's game here shows up as Buccaneers vs. Falcons for example). Would it be possible to add 'NFL - ' to the guide data in front of the team names? This matches the other sports and that way my pass will work, it's looking for that keyword. I think that was the way it worked last year.
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For those having problems with NFL+, I noticed when I logged into nfl.com that my providers were not linked anymore (all I have is my cable TV and Prime). So make sure that you have your providers and subs set up there, looks like they reset them every year.
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Nice catch! Mine were logged out, too. I checked in E+TV, and it seems like it doesn't want/need me to login to my NFL.com account, just Fubo (for me) and Amazon Prime, right? I'm not missing anything there?
I only used it sporadically last year, but I noticed that NFL provider game streams in EPlusTV started a little later than advertised. That would explain the initial 404 Not Found errors. I'm not sure how often or how long Channels tries to reload a stream in that situation -- perhaps it gave up at some point? I know NBC had last night's game listed as an 8:15 EDT start, and kickoff didn't actually happen until ~8 minutes after that, and perhaps the stream wasn't available for a few minutes after that? You could look at the EPlusTV logs too.
Loading the stream today would obviously return a 404 error too, since there is no game active.
That should be simple enough. I'll make a note for the next update.
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The container pulls games from NFL+ since that's how it can stream them from Prime etc. So you have to have your providers linked at nfl.com. The login token is on the webpage in the NFL section, below the providers.
Okay, I just set this up. This was a lot less complicated than I was afraid it was going to be. Very cool. Thanks!!
A question, though. I have Series Passes set up by TeamId. Those do not seem to be being recognized in the EplusTV feed. Is it missing? Different?
Can you share an example for a particular team and ID? I don't think EPlusTV currently supports it, but perhaps it's possible somehow.
In this definition, the TeamId of 238 identifies games with South Carolina's Football Team in it. Seems to work across the HDHomeRun Tuner and the U-verse TVE feeds for ESPN and similar. But it didn't pick up a game from EPlusTV:
TBH, I'm not sure how I found them, but I've been using it for at least half a dozen teams.
UPDATE: Any way to create a Pass for an NFL team? shows one way of getting a team ID (search for the team by name, and click to schedule a "Team Pass", which is just a Season Pass with a TeamId filter.
ALSO: This game appears in the SEC Network schedule next Friday at 5 AM EDT, for comparison purposes. My "Team Pass" sees that, but it's obviously a delayed recording.
I don't think team passes are going to work for this container, the guide data doesn't have that info.
For a specific team all you need to do is create an advanced pass with 'EventTitle contains team name' (e.g. Falcons) and 'category = SportsEvent'. Might also want to add 'tags = live' to only get current games, but it won't be needed for this container because every game is live unless you have NFL Network enabled. If you only want Gamecocks games on E+ it won't be an issue, but if you are using it not just for this container but for something like YouTube TV or Sling or your cable provider you might get repeat games if you don't have that tag.
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I'm trying this out because I may be moving exclusively to this sort of thing. I'm on the verge of cutting my provider (AT&T U-verse) and going to OTA/ESPN U/Peacock/Paramount/Hallmark, which means most of my sports viewing will be coming from ESPN Unlimited via EplusTV (instead of from TVE authenticated by U-verse). Even with a ridiculous discount on U-verse, this looks to save me $80/month.
To this point, Channels has been the backup plan for my wife (when provider has an issue, or loses retransmit), and my main way of watching sports (via TVE, with the U-verse IPTV system as my backup), and I'm looking at what happens once U-verse is no longer primary for the wife, or even a backup for me.
BTW, the team ID has been great, and grabbed games where the title was junk.
Is the big noon football game on Fox working for anyone? I'm getting 503 service unavailable.
I'm seeing a 4K stream for Iowa @ Iowa State right now, with the "Enable UHD/HDR events?" option checked under the Fox Sports provider.
However, the "4K" category isn't in the XML and the "Only grab 4K events?" toggle isn't working. Those will be fixed on the next update.
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