ESPN+ & FOX Sports with Custom Channels via EPlusTV

Was on 4K here. I’ve had one instance the other day that it picked my OTA tuner over the Container feed. Had to back out and reselect to get the 4K feed.

I got nothing in 4K the whole weekend, but I didn't turn on the flag until sometime Saturday.

I haven't watched all the games but all the ones I have were 4K (not the FS1 ones).

Last night was the first one that I noticed that wasn't.

Post on here during the game and I/we can check.

Watching Spain and Portugal right now, 720p. I'm definitely using the container for local Fox.

720/60 here.

It was coming in as 4K here

Got 4K on the Pregame show

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Yeah I got 4K on the live pregame show too, but when I exited out to guide and went back into the actual recording later it reverted back to 720p. And if I cancel and restart the recording it still shows as 720p.

So it looks like it's demand-based.

Game on 4K -no issues

It seems to be random to me, both games Tuesday were 4K after I changed the pass to start a couple minutes early but yesterday the game was 720p. Go figure.

One thing I've noticed is that even with 4K it doesn't look all that great, there's not a lot of sharpness to it. It's not tremendously better than 720p to me.

Anyone else having trouble with FS1 from Fox One in EPlusTV? FS1 has not worked for me for the last few days. It was working fine earlier (e.g. the earlier stages of World Cup when there were live games on FS1). Now I get the "Connect Lost. Streaming to the tuner failed. Press play to try again. M3U: EPlusTV: Error Getting Content" message. I've tried re-doing the token/credential process, etc, but no luck. Fox, FS2, B1G, etc all work great. Just FS1 with issues.

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Try bouncing the container and then Rebuild EPG

No issues -

Rebooted the server running CDVR and EPlusTV, and FS1 started working again. Well that's embarrassing - troubleshooting 101 - unplug it and plug it back in and see if it works... :slight_smile: Thanks.

Next time it happens, just restart the EPlusTV container.

I once again recommend the above for this container:

If anyone has a surefire way to grab the 4K stream I'd love to know how. I got every 4K stream through Group play and the round of 32. Since then, the round of 16 had a couple hiccups but then the quarters and semis it's only pulling 720p. Since EPlusTV started authenticating through Fox One 4K was extremely reliable across both big Fox and FS1. However, as the World Cup has gone on it no longer is.

Thanks @babsonnexus. Missed that post because I was focused on looking for FS1-specific errors. Great tip. Will look at deploying.

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I didn't see this post either.

Dockwatch also has a cron setting in it and you can set an app to restart at a certain time every day.

I may just do that instead...

News came down today that the Texas Rangers are immediately jumping ship off Victory+ mid-season and moving to BZZR. This is likely not a good sign for the future of V+. Has anyone looked at BZZR integration into EPlusTV (or even heard of that service before)?