Sorry, out of ideas. When I got the sign in page, I had the source turned off.
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Try signing in with the Spectrum source turned off.
If that works, save it and then turn it on.
I had the same thought, it made no difference.
Has ROAR gone drm? I am using the fast channel on channelsdvr through provider login
yeah they indeed are. Although I am not sure if it is an Australian thing, if I got to the website or the app there are no live channels, only content on demand available?
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Just to test, I tried a different username to see what would happen, sure enough - it says credentials are not valid.
I deleted my tubi account and recreated it , verified email, configured in fast and scraped - still get 0 channels.
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Yes I just logged in manually, but couldnt via fastchannels..
I also retired the cox provider credentials this morning in fast channels and tried spectrum as provider without any cox provider association in fast channels and got the same error.
I do see the spectrum login splash and it autofilled, but auth fails.
I don't personally have Spectrum - and when I sign in with the test creds, it works fine. I'm guessing there is a different flow when it auto-detects your IP?
Let me work on this one.
found it - they changed something on their API. Fixing and i'll get a small patch out today.
Hey Im having some weird issues
Setup: BM1000H HDMI encoder capturing a TiVo Stream 4K → ah4c → FastChannels. Single tuner.
Symptom: Picture goes soft/blurry every 5 or 10 minutes during live playback, on all channels.
Key finding: This only happens when playback goes through the FastChannels Player companion app (com.fastchannels.player). When ah4c drives the native Sling TV app directly instead, the picture stays clean with no blur at all. Same TiVo, same encoder, same HDMI capture path the only difference is which app is actually rendering/playing the stream on-device.
Since the native app is clean and only the FastChannels Player wrapper shows the issue, this points at something in how that companion app decodes/renders video specifically. Has anyone else compared native-app vs. FC-player-app picture quality directly and seen a difference?
found it -- you guys were on the right track. the spectrum scraper was sharing a browser profile from TVE , and it was carrying over cookies. I'm isolating Spectrum into it's own browser profile and should allow you to sign in.
explains why I was able to sign in fine - and you guys weren't. it must have cached some cookies during development.
I've been using the FastChannels ah4c bridge with Sling a fair bit to watch movies, and have seen no such video issue. I've used both Capture Cards and several different encoders during this viewing.
My only guess is that single encoder uses CDVR's built-in FFMPEG for encoding and maybe his system is underpowered?? I assume AH4C uses it's own?
I read it as he's using an encoder-connected streaming stick either way, with ah4c -- but is comparing using the FastChannels ah4c bridge, vs using ah4c with the Sling app and deeplinks.
Version 5.3.1 pushed
- Spectrum: rejects sign-in sessions that resolve to the wrong account (SSO carryover guard), isolates its browser profile from the shared TVE one (with self-healing migration), forces a fresh sign-in on credential change or manual "Clear sign-in," auto-fills username from a verified session, and refreshes its access token proactively before expiry
- Tubi: persists each account's device_id instead of minting a new one every scrape — fixes intermittent re-scrape failures caused by Tubi's fraud detection flagging the rotating fingerprint
- Gracenote boot-time exclusion wipe now logged instead of silent
- Pluto: redacts credentials from boot-request error text
Is there anything else I could do to troubleshoot my issue?
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I'm a bit suspicious of your encoder, as I don't believe I've ever heard of anyone using that brand. Do you have a Capture Card you can try instead?
Although I prefer encoders myself, I am using a couple of these for testing -- and they're working fine:
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also -> The built-in Fire player (exoplayer) does do adaptive bitrate grabbing the best resolution according to bandwidth. It is a possibility that it's knocking him down to a lower bit-rate automatically??
I could experiment with forcing the highest bit-rate -- let me dig into this one.
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I am also suspicious about the HDMI encoder or the tivo 4k stream box I may have to just return this HDMI encoder and purchase capture card that you suggested
This is the HDMI encoder that I have
https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256812164541777.html?spm=a2g0o.order_list.order_list_main.11.1c511802PuqfkQ&gatewayAdapt=glo2usa
I don't think is no issue with the app itself it Has to be my setup