when you say "refresh all sources", did you do it manually by source, or Force Complete Refresh button?
I'm still not seeing any channel descriptions.
Were you able to add them for any sources?
I refreshed by source, skipping Amazon and Sling.
i'm stumped why they'd magically show back up .. are you positive you didn't turn Amazon back on by accident?
i provide every tag that is given ... most upstream data just isn't that rich.
I was talking about Channel description
what do you want from me? to describe every channel?
Upstream issue (Distro's API sends deeply-encoded entities) ... I can try to clean it before putting in DB.
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The presence of the channels seems to indict me but nevertheless I don't recall touching them. Both Amazon and Sling were disabled when I checked. I don't know by what weird circumstance I could have enabled them.
When initially setting up my channels, I noticed the Sling channels. Fortunately, they were all disabled as were the Amazon channels. The Amazon channels however, only just appeared today. And I did find a way to delete them quickly.
Is there a way to keep FastChannels from automatically enabling new channels it finds? The reason I ask is that I have the channels I want and then all of a sudden a Judge Judy channel pops up. Then I have to go into the admin page, disable it, move to Channels admin, reload M3U and redownload XMLTV. Personally, I don't think Judge Judy warrants that much attention 
Why not make a custom feed with what you want? Wouldn’t that solve your issue?
Dang! I always overlook the obvious. I'll give it a shot!
Sling was that way for me, too, and I didn't turn them on. They just showed up, and gave me a lot of unviewable channels. I went thru and manually disabled all of them. A pain, but doable.
hmmmm.. i personally haven't seen that happen. If anyone catches when it happens and what they were doing, that'd help me diagnose it
Feature Request: Custom Logo URLs
I'd like to have the ability for FastChannel to capture custom logo URLs that can be passed through the M3U vs the Fast Channel version. I have several custom logs uploaded online and would like to use FastChannels to pass those through (don't need to store a local copy, just the URL).
Thanks for considering @KineticMan.
What's the best/easiest way to fix a time-shift problem? One of my favorite channels integrated by this project into Channels DVR is FilmRise Music, they have a great selection of concerts playing! The guide data is rich and populated BUT as best I can I tell it's off by three hours, so nothing's matching up.
FastChannels:
Channels DVR:
What's playing:
That is Peter Gabriel, not Hawkwind.
Those are the Everly Brothers, not Yes.
Any advice appreciated.
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not sure. there is a m3u tag tvg-shift but i've never tested it - especially with a Gracenote ID.
worth a manual test if you're up to it -- maybe disable that channel from that feed (so CDVR doesnt auto duplicate), and make a test m3u custom source like this:
+3 hours (forward)
#EXTM3U
#EXTINF:-1 tvg-shift="3",FilmRise Music
http://192.168.86.72:5523/play/plex/5e20b730f2f8d5003d739db7-67cbd3318fe3ca436b8b0496.m3u8
-3 hours (backward)
#EXTM3U
#EXTINF:-1 tvg-shift="-3",FilmRise Music
http://192.168.86.72:5523/play/plex/5e20b730f2f8d5003d739db7-67cbd3318fe3ca436b8b0496.m3u8
OK I'll play around with that and see what I can figure out. I'll report back once I've got the guide data matching up. Thanks.
If it happens again, try enabling then disabling the Source. You should get a dialog box asking you to confirm disabling and deleting those channels. That beats chasing down every enabled channel from either Source.
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