FastChannels - FAST Channels aggregator/manager

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#1987

Not sure if anyone even uses Vidaa (I had mine turned off on my prod server) and noticed Vidaa guide was blank on test box. I went to their website and saw this. I'll keep an eye on it over next week and see if the whole thing is dead.

▎ VIDAA CHANNELS IS CLOSING
▎ Dear VIDAA Channels viewer,
▎ VIDAA Channels is closing on June 30, 2026 - thank you for watching with us.
▎ The good news: your favorite content is moving with you.
▎ Open the VIDAA TV app on your TV to keep watching. On newer VIDAA TVs, you'll find it in the TV Channels> app.
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#1988

Bummer.
I have 55 Vidaa channels enabled in a feed, they are still streaming and the xmltv channels (non-gracenote) have guide data through next Monday morning.

UPDATE: I do see lots of vidaa epg chunk scraper errors in the log

#1989

I highly doubt it'll be missed here. So little channels worth watching over there. Obviously, they're not gonna make a dent against the FAST services so that was that for them

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#1990

I did a little research:
VIDAA the OS rebranded to HomeOS. VIDAA the company? rebranded to V. On my android Hisense TV they introduced Hisense channels to replace VIDAA channels. Hisense channels is based on XUMO in the US (may be different in other countries). Not sure what any of this means for the project or whether it is helpful for you.

#1991

I had a couple of questions in regard to channel numbers. If I set the starting channel number at 7500

  1. How does is the channel number assigned to a particular channel from a particular source. For example, I noticed a one channel from Frndly having a number of 7500 and another one having a channel number of 10,000?

  2. Is there a way to specify the starting channel number for a particular source, and still have it combined into one line up? (Example Plex start at 7500, Pluto start at 7700, etc).

In my example from Q1, I was able to manually filter on a line up and manually update the channel number for each, but it looks like it would be a "one at a time" update.

Or if I want to specify the channels without much manual updating, I would need to create separate feeds?

#1992

Thought maybe there was some recent backend change that need adjusting in your app..

Might have been something else or specific to that program.

#1993

When you set the starting channel number, that's the first one used and every channel in the source is incremented by 1. Take a look at your settings in Channels DVR server for this and all your other sources. That's the setting that matters. The one from FastChannels may not be used in the Channels Source Configuration,

#1994

working fine over here. i'll keep an eye on it though.

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#1995

StreamFAB to prerecord is the only thing that works reliably for me.

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#1996

Yeah for vod (Playon Cloud is an option) and either Prismcast or ah4c for firetv for live tv stuff

#1997

Any way to add a second toggle to the catagory selector in the feed setup to exclude categories?

Like a check for include or a X to exclude.

I would like include all (some channels dont have categories) but exclude only Kids.

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#1998

i have this coming in new version - this work?

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#1999

I :heart_eyes: the Channel Changes Report and use it almost every day.

Next time you're in there can you check the accuracy of the Source Health
It's not reflecting the scrape interval I set

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2026-07-01 17:50:59,355 INFO     app.worker: [vidaa] Scrape job started
2026-07-01 19:50:59,270 INFO     app.worker: [vidaa] Scrape job started
2026-07-01 21:50:59,281 INFO     app.worker: [vidaa] Scrape job started
2026-07-01 23:50:59,279 INFO     app.worker: [vidaa] Scrape job started
2026-07-02 01:50:59,281 INFO     app.worker: [vidaa] Scrape job started
2026-07-02 03:50:59,318 INFO     app.worker: [vidaa] Scrape job started
2026-07-02 05:50:59,280 INFO     app.worker: [vidaa] Scrape job started
2026-07-02 07:50:59,280 INFO     app.worker: [vidaa] Scrape job started
2026-07-02 09:50:59,282 INFO     app.worker: [vidaa] Scrape job started
2026-07-02 11:50:59,279 INFO     app.worker: [vidaa] Scrape job started
2026-07-02 13:50:59,280 INFO     app.worker: [vidaa] Scrape job started

TIA

#2000

Ahh it’s probably not updated since I added that cron style interval. Will fix.

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#2001

We hope so, since your Pluto is recommended
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No pressure

#2002

I just updated the headers to the new Google Chrome version and noticed a new (at least I don't remember it being there) clientTime parameter and added it. These changes probably won't make any difference. Some users are having issues recording a few of the news channels using my project and I can't find any issue in the way it's working. I don't think these changes will have any effect on it,

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#2003

Well. Idk then. Just was reporting that, with out me changing anything on my end, there appeared to be guide data scrapping issue with Pluto, since it happened at least twice now with FastChannels.

With all concern about Pluto being a time bomb, just waiting for them to go full DRM or change things again to make it hard or not possible to work with Channels. Every-time i have a issue of any sort, makes me think...ok. this is it..goodbye Pluto.

#2004

@IDisposable Sorry - missing context.

StreamFAB to prerecord is the only thing that works reliably for me.

#2005

not sure i get what you are indicating here...this looks like an include...

#2006

@blkpanthr
So you're asking for an exclude :x: instead of an include :ballot_box_with_check:
Include everything not marked as excluded :x: