Yeah, appears to stop scraping from initial scrape, and the following been written and stale since.
Must be something I did on this particular setup, because I have a primary Mac mini m2 with same (assume) configuration and works fine, maybe how I got desktop docker path config I think, no worries weekend nuke and reset maybe.
Since he enabled scheduled scraping, I implemented it for my sources to spread the scrapes out
Source Interval Last Scraped Next Scrape
Distro TV 60m 2026-06-25 14:11 PDT 2026-06-25 15:10 PDT
Frndly TV 1440m 2026-06-25 05:02 PDT 2026-06-25 17:01 PDT
LG Channels 720m 2026-06-25 14:07 PDT 2026-06-25 15:06 PDT
Local Now 60m 2026-06-25 14:19 PDT 2026-06-25 15:18 PDT
Plex 60m 2026-06-25 14:24 PDT 2026-06-25 15:22 PDT
Pluto TV 60m 2026-06-25 14:27 PDT 2026-06-25 15:26 PDT
Samsung TV Plus 60m 2026-06-25 14:35 PDT 2026-06-25 15:34 PDT
STIRR 60m 2026-06-25 14:32 PDT 2026-06-25 15:30 PDT
TCL TV+ 60m 2026-06-25 14:42 PDT 2026-06-25 15:38 PDT
The Roku Channel 60m 2026-06-25 14:43 PDT 2026-06-25 15:42 PDT
Tubi TV 60m 2026-06-25 13:47 PDT 2026-06-25 14:46 PDT
Vidaa Free TV 60m 2026-06-25 13:52 PDT 2026-06-25 14:50 PDT
Vizio WatchFree+ 60m 2026-06-25 13:55 PDT 2026-06-25 14:54 PDT
Whale TV+ 720m 2026-06-25 03:07 PDT 2026-06-25 15:07 PDT
Xumo Play 60m 2026-06-25 13:59 PDT 2026-06-25 14:58 PDT
Yeah good plan, unfortunately I even nuked the FC container and database from Portainer and Docker Desktop, re-created my FC through Olivetin and once setup again I only selected few sources (Plex,Pluto,Hallmark) and did my initial scrape and feeds, came back a few hours later and those sources didn’t re-scrape, and logs didn’t show any scraping since initial manual run. I still see the channels and appears to be working on my channels DVR, just will get out of whack in a day or two without the scraping on those few channels.
Check the log to see if it's at least queueing up the scrapes
__main__: [scheduler] Enqueued
2026-06-25 14:06:58,323 INFO __main__: [scheduler] Enqueued lg-channels (cron=6 * * * *)
2026-06-25 14:10:58,306 INFO __main__: [scheduler] Enqueued distro (cron=10 * * * *)
2026-06-25 14:18:58,323 INFO __main__: [scheduler] Enqueued localnow (cron=18 * * * *)
2026-06-25 14:22:58,306 INFO __main__: [scheduler] Enqueued plex (cron=22 * * * *)
2026-06-25 14:26:58,311 INFO __main__: [scheduler] Enqueued pluto (cron=26 * * * *)
2026-06-25 14:30:58,318 INFO __main__: [scheduler] Enqueued stirr (cron=30 * * * *)
2026-06-25 14:34:58,315 INFO __main__: [scheduler] Enqueued samsung (cron=34 * * * *)
2026-06-25 14:38:58,328 INFO __main__: [scheduler] Enqueued tcl (cron=38 * * * *)
2026-06-25 14:42:58,313 INFO __main__: [scheduler] Enqueued roku (cron=42 * * * *)
2026-06-25 14:46:58,315 INFO __main__: [scheduler] Enqueued tubi (cron=46 * * * *)
2026-06-25 14:50:58,330 INFO __main__: [scheduler] Enqueued vidaa (cron=50 * * * *)
2026-06-25 14:54:58,327 INFO __main__: [scheduler] Enqueued vizio (cron=54 * * * *)
2026-06-25 14:58:58,317 INFO __main__: [scheduler] Enqueued xumo (cron=58 * * * *)
2026-06-25 15:06:58,328 INFO __main__: [scheduler] Enqueued lg-channels (cron=6 * * * *)
2026-06-25 15:07:58,335 INFO __main__: [scheduler] Enqueued whale (interval=720m, age=721m)
2026-06-25 15:10:58,306 INFO __main__: [scheduler] Enqueued distro (cron=10 * * * *)
Nope no sign of that,just a long run of the “ app.routes.tasks: XML artifact refresh already queued/running”
What does your Portainer stack compose look like?
services:
fastchannels:
# GitHub home for this project: https://github.com/kineticman/FastChannels
# Docker container home for this project: https://github.com/kineticman/FastChannels/pkgs/container/fastchannels
image: ghcr.io/kineticman/fastchannels:latest
container_name: fastchannels
environment:
# Set the timezone to your local timezone
- TZ=America/Los_Angeles
network_mode: "bridge"
ports:
- "5523:5523"
restart: unless-stopped
volumes:
- db_data:/data
volumes:
db_data:
services:
fastchannels:
# 2026.03.15
# GitHub home for this project with setup instructions: https://github.com/kineticman/FastChannels
# Docker container home for this project: https://github.com/kineticman/FastChannels/pkgs/container/fastchannels
image: ghcr.io/kineticman/fastchannels:${TAG:-latest}
container_name: fastchannels
dns_search: ${DOMAIN:-localdomain}
ports:
- ${HOST_PORT:-5523}:5523
environment:
- TZ=${TZ:-America/New_York}
- FASTCHANNELS_SERVER_URL=${FASTCHANNELS_SERVER_URL:-http://192.168.1.50:5523}
- CHANNELS_DVR_SERVER_URL=${CHANNELS_DVR_SERVER_URL:-http://192.168.1.60:8089}
volumes:
- db_data:/data
restart: unless-stopped
volumes:
db_data:
TAG=latest
DOMAIN=localdomain
HOST_PORT=5523
TZ=US/Eastern
FASTCHANNELS_SERVER_URL=http://192.168.68.210:5523
CHANNELS_DVR_SERVER_URL=http://192.168.68.210:8089
Change this to Continent/City form. Unfortunately, Country/Timezone has been deprecated.
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Thank you Sir, appears to have started scraping, logs are updating… WOW
Thanks… may be all it needed.
Good detective work!
Adding defensive step to that field…
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Maybe add a refence URL to look them up, like
which lists them in order by UTC offset, and mention to pick the Canonical – The primary, preferred zone name
Question:
When I add/delete channels, do I need to manually reload the M3U for each feed in Channels to pick up the changes? It doesn't look like Channels has an "update all" command (for the M3Us; there is an update-all for the EPG).
The brute-force way on Channels admin portal is Settings/Live TV & DVR/Guide Data then Delete & Recreate DB. You can also just go to Admin/Sources/then select your Source and hit Reload M3U. But, to ensure everything syncs, use the hammer.
Just installed this, looks great. Thank you for your efforts.
Looks just like a list of VOD ... It's an interesting idea to create "Virtual Custom Channels" .. I'll think about that one how/if it'd fit in.
I'm getting the following error message:
Channels DVR rejected the request when trying to update a feed:
DVR 403: {"error":"failed to load m3u: Get "http://192.168.68.120:5523/feeds/food/m3u/gracenote": dial tcp 192.168.68.120:5523: connect: connection refused"}
Any ideas on how to fix?