FastChannels - FAST Channels aggregator/manager

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#1820

@KineticMan Question on the players...
Example The X-Files... Only one is on Pluto...
When I try to Play Here, it fails due to the Shaka error 4042...

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If I click Watch FullScreen, a new tab appears (I'm running Windows with the Brave Browser), I get this error:

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If I click Open in new Tab, a new tab appears and it plays with no issues...
If I right click the Play in VLC and copy the link and open it in VLC, again, it plays...
So the question is, what player is it trying to use when I click Watch FullScreen, because I do have a native HLS player installed in the Brave Add-ons...

#1821

Yes, some streams require AES-128 encryption and FastChannels being a HTTP (not HTTPS) server, your browser/Shaka appears to be rejecting it. I set up my personal Chrome to bypass this by setting it as a trusted site.

Less than ideal, but it is what it is.

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#1822

I've got a paid sub to Freecast. Will I be able to access the premium channels?

#1823

I didn't dig into it super deep as the ~18 pay channels I saw were all DRM. So, I hard-coded the scraper to only grab the free channels.

I could experiment more, but would only play in browser anyway if they are DRM channels.

#1824

Thanks, I thought that might be the case.

#1825

Based on your mention of time-zone, I took a look at my compose and found it was set to US/Central. I changed it to America/Chicago and updated to 4.5.0. Scheduled scrapes are now working!

#1826

cool.. btw it SHOULD have worked with that US/Central. sounds like I gots a bug there. will fix for others.

#1827

Hello, I'm getting occasionally an error on the channels app on Apple TV, unable to stream to tuner. When I checked the channels log, I see this:
2026/06/19 12:07:03.679589 [ERR] Could not start stream for M3U-FastChannelsDefault ch9859 Cheers + Frasier: M3U: timeout after 30s accessing cache root /Volumes/DVR/Streaming/hls

#1828

kewl !!!

Just tested and it scraped a fair amount of non duplicates!!

#1829

unsure. if you can watch the FastChannels logs when that happens, that'll be more telling than the ChannelsDVR logs. send em over next time u see it

#1830

It's happening way more frequently now. Here are the logs that I grabbed:
2026-06-19 12:02:30,576 INFO app.gracenote_map: [gracenote-map] remote map refreshed — 1549 rows from https://gist.githubusercontent.com/kineticman/87765d469610233f894c9c225cb4f2ca/raw/gistfile1.txt
2026-06-19 12:02:30,576 INFO main: [gracenote-map] startup remote fetch: OK — 1549 rows loaded.
2026-06-19 12:11:45,315 INFO app.routes.play: [play] request ip=192.168.65.1 source=pluto channel_id=66ba495ffe11e5000881f049 channel_name=Cheers + Frasier
2026-06-19 12:17:30,449 INFO main: [scheduler] Enqueued roku (interval=60m, age=60m)
2026-06-19 12:17:30,603 INFO app.worker: [roku] Scrape job started
2026-06-19 12:17:31,197 INFO app.scrapers.roku: [roku] EPG skip: 197/387 channels (fresh programs or no-schedule flag), skipping content proxy
2026-06-19 12:18:06,175 INFO app.worker: [xml-cache] enqueued refresh job
2026-06-19 12:18:06,175 INFO app.worker: [roku] EPG-only run complete — 387 channels, 942 programs (35.6s)
2026-06-19 12:35:47,129 INFO app.routes.play: [play] request ip=192.168.65.1 source=pluto channel_id=66ba495ffe11e5000881f049 channel_name=Cheers + Frasier
2026-06-19 12:40:22,735 INFO app.routes.play: [play] request ip=192.168.65.1 source=pluto channel_id=66ba495ffe11e5000881f049 channel_name=Cheers + Frasier

#1831

nothing indicating a failure there .. other Pluto channels working?

#1832

I seem to be missing the concept of managing duplicates for feeds. From the Channels tab I see Resolve Dupes. I had hoped that the 'resolved' duplicate logic would make its’ way into a feed.

But if I make a feed from several sources, I can’t figure out how resolve dupes in that feed. Once I add that feed to Channels DVR, the only option I find to remove duplicates is to manually disable channels with Edit Settings for that source. Is there a better way?

#1833

All channels from the fast channels drop out eventually and give the tuner unreachable error. I thought it may be my channels server itself (which is installed on a Mac mini) but all my hdhomerun channels work fine

#1834

Resolve dups looks at your entire list of channels - and disables the exact matches. Like, if you had CNN from 5 different sources, it disables 4 of them.

It doesn't necessarily remove a duplicate from each feed - meaning, lets say you had the one remaining CNN in News feed, and also Weather feed, it could still technically be in both of the feeds.

that make sense? I think that's what you asked at least.

#1835

Smells like a network issue to me... Everyone always tells me nothing unique about their setup, then after troubleshooting, they remember they hve a triple diple reverse proxy.

Not saying that in your case - but there's gotta be something different.

#1836

So I have a feed that uses all sources and I have selected some categories. That feed does have 4 active 60 Minutes for example. There are quite a few that have 6 or 8 identical channels. I gather for Channels DVR I must manually disable extra channels with Edit Settings for that source.

#1837

I'm looking for the correct Gracenote for The grio claics.
Trying to use the EPG from fast channels but when i choose automatic, it populates that Gracenote id that is wrong.
Any ideas?

Thanks

#1838

Which source?

#1839

I'm tring to get the proper guide data for the Frndly tv version.