You could in theory turn off Gracenote for all Pluto channels, then they'd all fall into the Standard bucket.
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For the best possible metadata, with the best available artwork, you're better off keeping Pluto served via two M3Us: one Gracenote, and one non-Gracenote (for the channels not covered by the first.)
Then, create one Channel Collection that combines both M3U outputs into one list in your Channels client. M3Us from combined Channel Collections can be shared with other apps too:
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I've checked that and the channel in question is in both of the feeds I've created. I assume channels can exist in multiple feeds.
I do notice that all of my feeds show a number of channels but the M3U shows fewer. I have a feed with all Pluto Channels and the Feed shows 531 channels but the M3U shows 251. If I open the M3U in a text editor sure enough it doesn't have all the entries.
I originally deduplicated before removing a bunch of redundant sources. Pluto was the one that remained but maybe not for all.
make sure those channels are marked as OFF in gracenote field, then do a re-scrape.
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I'm working on adding "Custom Channels" feature to project (@babsonnexus idea!). The idea is to input a website with a HLS stream in it and you can add to FC. The detector searches the site for a HLS stream and then during play request, it goes back to that site and requests fresh URL for the stream (if needed) and presents to client. Also ties into proxy if headers/refer is required.
I have added a bunch of sites (and YouTube) to the detector. I'm soliciting some suggestions if anyone has any sites that you might be interested in. Stuff like NBC News, ABC News, Webcams, etc.
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Wow, so cool! I'd love to integrate more webcams again. Lots are on YouTube these days:
Hollywood Beach Broadwalk, FL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmkAbDUEoyA
Santa Monica Beach, CA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfDDEVBgvWM
The San Diego Zoo has some nice ones too: Live Cameras | San Diego Zoo
More here: Decorah Eagles Cam - watch live footage of Bald Eagles | Explore.org
Venice Beach, CA: BEACH CAM - Live streaming webcam from Venice Beach, California
In a previous discussion back when "the Kister Method" was a thing, I created a Google Sheet with links as appropriate live streams were found. Many of these may be dead by now but it may provide some inspiration...
I didn't check every stream, but every site you listed is supported and pulled out a valid HLS stream. so you'll be a happy customer 
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Sweet! During two weekends this past month, YouTube also hosted a few dozen live Coachella streams, I was able to cobble together some CDVR recordings, but it would be super awesome to have a better, more elegant system in place for streaming/recording events like this, on-the-fly.
Livestream info: Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival
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Here are a few sites which have had some interest in the PrismCast thread.
PrismCast doesn't work well for me. So, I'd love to be able to stream these with FastChannels.
yea i love that site (and the weather channel one). unfortunately, they dont actually stream a video file. it's just a dynamic website so something like Chrome Capture or Prismcast is necessary to capture the screen then transcode to a video stream.
Ok, thanks for the explanation. These weather sites are more like a static webpage than video.
I've enjoyed Retrocast too, the transcoding requirement for it to work with streaming software is a bummer, but also, the "app" seems to time out far too quickly and frequently, resulting in this:
Keep the ideas flowing though!
Yeah, that's annoying. The wait interval is longer than the play time. Also, I haven't been able to get RetroCast to play audio through PrismCast.
I've noticed that both Pluto and Samsung TV Plus have channel groups named Pluto and Samsung TV Plus. I guess in them are channels that are not sorted properly according to channel groups. These groups are not present in kineticman's standalone Pluto docker nor Matt's Samsung TV Plus standalone docker.
I have no idea what you are asking
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In Pluto there is a channel group Pluto TV and in Samsung TV Plus there is a channel group Samsung TV Plus. These groups don't seem to belong here because they are not proper channel categories and they are not present in your standalone Pluto docker nor in Matt's standalone Samsung TV Plus docker:
I suspect it's the Feed Name that I tie into the XML Output as a category. I do that for Automatic Channels support on CDVR.
As example, on my personal feeds, I have a feed called Music. So, the XML tags it with the actual Category of "Music", then the source name "Samsung TV Plus" then one more tag of "Music" because that's the name of my feed (yes, I know it's duplicated - but say Music feed was called "Music Feed" that's what would get tagged.
Those are the ones that are showing up as blank categories in the FastChannels interface.
ok I improved that for next version hope to get out this weekend.
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Worked. Thanks!