FastChannels is fantastic and very helpful. For sources like this in general, are there any tips for getting the guide to update consistently on AppleTV?
Getting 504 Gateway Time-out errors from FastChannels when trying to record some FrndlyTV channels.
After 3 CDVR retries it succeeds. Below is the recording from last night.
Intermixed CDVR and FC logs
2026/05/30 20:00:00.001301 [DVR] Starting job 1780196400-238 Cheers on ch=[140005]
2026-05-30 20:00:00,514 INFO app.routes.play: [play] request ip=172.17.0.1 source=frndlytv channel_id=46 channel_name=Catchy Comedy
2026/05/30 20:00:02.153634 [ERR] Failed to start stream on channel 140005 via M3U-FrndlyTVGracenote: M3U: Could not fetch playlist from nas-1019:5523: GET: http://nas-1019:5523/play/frndlytv/46.m3u8: 504 Gateway Time-out
2026-05-30 20:00:03,286 INFO app.routes.play: [play] request ip=172.17.0.1 source=frndlytv channel_id=46 channel_name=Catchy Comedy
2026/05/30 20:00:04.227164 [ERR] Failed to start stream on channel 140005 via M3U-FrndlyTVGracenote: M3U: Could not fetch playlist from nas-1019:5523: GET: http://nas-1019:5523/play/frndlytv/46.m3u8: 504 Gateway Time-out
2026-05-30 20:00:06,297 INFO app.routes.play: [play] request ip=172.17.0.1 source=frndlytv channel_id=46 channel_name=Catchy Comedy
2026/05/30 20:00:07.160667 [ERR] Failed to start stream on channel 140005 via M3U-FrndlyTVGracenote: M3U: Could not fetch playlist from nas-1019:5523: GET: http://nas-1019:5523/play/frndlytv/46.m3u8: 504 Gateway Time-out
2026-05-30 20:00:11,183 INFO app.routes.play: [play] request ip=172.17.0.1 source=frndlytv channel_id=46 channel_name=Catchy Comedy
2026/05/30 20:00:12.617310 [TNR] Opened connection to M3U-FrndlyTVGracenote for ch140005 Catchy Comedy
2026/05/30 20:00:12.713231 [DVR] Recording for job 1780196400-238 from M3U-FrndlyTVGracenote ch140005 into "TV/Cheers/Cheers S04E10 1985-12-05 The Bar Stoolie 2026-05-30-2000.mpg" for 30m48.821864506s
2026/05/30 20:31:12.205318 [TNR] Closed connection to M3U-FrndlyTVGracenote for ch140005 Catchy Comedy
2026/05/30 20:31:13.012692 [DVR] Finished job 1780196400-238 Cheers
So far 2 out of 4 test recordings show this error.
I have 1-2 test recordings scheduled per day.
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Welcome!
Did you add your feeds through FastChannels?
got it. i suspect the caching i'm adding will help here (reduce total number of API calls)
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OK. I'll hold off on testing it until next release.
I was able to delete two channels using the scraper lost modal.
Now clicking scraper lost does nothing
Tried in 3 different browsers. All of them show an error in the console.
channels?search=&sou…try=&gracenot…:1795 Uncaught SyntaxError: missing ) after argument list
Uncaught SyntaxError: identifier starts immediately after numeric literal channels:1:36
whoopsie.. easy fix. tnx
FastChannels 4.1.0
New: TV Guide (/admin/guide) BETA
A live EPG grid showing a 5-hour window of programming across all enabled channels. Filter by source, feed, category, or search by program title. Navigates forward/back in time and works on mobile with horizontal scroll.
Fixes & Improvements
- Frndly TV — reduced scrape failures from periodic re-logins; stream paths now cached across workers to cut redundant API calls at play time
- ViewTV streams — fixed playback for SSAI/session-variant streams via HLS relay; fixed segment drops caused by mrouter cross-domain redirects
- Stream detector — ad network CDNs (Google, Amazon) no longer mistaken for the target stream
- Audit worker — geo-blocked and unreachable sources now abort early instead of running to completion; fixed audit results not always persisting to DB
- Scheduler — fixed timezone cache corruption that caused workers to log/schedule in UTC
- Gracenote — added 190 Samsung TV Plus and Fubo TVTV station mappings
- Misc — Fubo disabled by default on new installs; Safari favicon fixed; setup checklist no longer flags disabled sources
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@KineticMan Love the new EPG...
Request, is there any way to have the top line (with All Sources) be static and always on screen when you scroll down?
@KineticMan Another request on the new EPG...
When the EPG page loads, could it be listed alphabetically by all channels instead of being grouped by the Source?
What I mean is... if "All Sources" is shown, then I would like to see all the channels by name.. Like how the Channels page is listed...
Then if I want to see only the Samsung source, I can select that in the drop down box...
In other words, I'm scrolling down (and the Distro is listed first), and I see a show I want to see... I select it but for whatever reason, it doesn't play... well, if all the channels are listed together, I just click the next channel with that same show...
Currently, if it doesn't play, I now have to do a search for that show or know which other Source has that channel...
I hope this makes sense...
Just to add, sometimes I don't know what I want to watch, I just want to scroll until something catches my interest...
Followup 2... In relooking at the request... how about an option to just display all the channels not by group...
For example, if "All Sources" is selected, then by selecting "Default" under Feeds, would just show them all alphabetically...but not grouped.
I'll just remove grouping by source and sort alphabetically
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@KineticMan Issue with Sorting... I thought this was looked at earler by bnhf? Something about sort orders, upper case letters coming first...
So here's a screenshot of the Distro group under Guide...
Notice DJ Central and DRIVE comes before Daystar and DeFinance Media?
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Capital letters were coming before lowercase and numbers etc.. already noted and will address in next version.
Another Guide request...
Using Brave and notice that the page lists high mem usage
Are you noticing that the Guide web page is slow in response and using a lot of memory?
I guess due to it loading all the guides on one page...
Maybe breaking them down like the Channels page, only list so many channels per page?
This Guide page is slowing becoming my go to page, replacing my usage of the Channels page...
Would it be possible to add the Play Next/Previous buttons, like what the Channels page have?
Channels web playback has gone way downhill since about last October. I think I'm the only one who cares but it still sucks. It used to be pretty good over the previous few years then out of nowhere it began to be terrible.
Still not working in v4.1.0
Hmm same JS error?
Same channel
Firefox
Uncaught SyntaxError: expected expression, got '}' channels:2:1
getDOMListeners resource://devtools/server/actors/inspector/event-collector.js:272
getListeners resource://devtools/server/actors/inspector/event-collector.js:340
hasListeners resource://devtools/server/actors/inspector/event-collector.js:226
hasEventListeners resource://devtools/server/actors/inspector/event-collector.js:807
hasEventListeners resource://devtools/server/actors/inspector/node.js:445
form resource://devtools/server/actors/inspector/node.js:239
write resource://devtools/shared/protocol/types.js:374
write resource://devtools/shared/protocol/types.js:272
write resource://devtools/shared/protocol/Response.js:101
write resource://devtools/shared/protocol/Response.js:49
sendReturn resource://devtools/shared/protocol/Actor.js:254
Brave
channels?search=&source=&feed=&category=&enabled=1&presence=missed&drm=&language=&country=&gracenote=&gracenote_mode=&duplicates=&epg=&new=&resolution=&sort=name&dir=asc:1795 Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected end of input (at channels?search=&source=&feed=&category=&enabled=1&presence=missed&drm=&language=&country=&gracenote=&gracenote_mode=&duplicates=&epg=&new=&resolution=&sort=name&dir=asc:1795:209)
Maybe the double quote marks around the channel name "Non-Stop \u002790s" here on line 1795
onclick="openMissingModal(1019, "Non-Stop \u002790s", 3, false)"
Since I only have the issue with this one channel.
Use an extinguisher on that 
maybe it'll help. 