Feature Request: Sync/Import from All Sources - 1 Click!

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#42

I shouldn't have to recreate everything when there is already a built-in feature that is very simple to use. The only issue is they removed the automatic client synchronization when collections were introduced.

Favorites DID work before, exactly as designed. Set them on the server for favorites or blocked/removed channels and all clients would update.

All we're asking for is the automatic sync to be restored so we don't need to go to each device when a new channel gets added or changed.

No need to overcomplicate things with Collections when there was a perfectly working feature before

#43

This sometimes worked, but was not consistent across source types and client device types.

Settings, including a channel's status, have always been considered a client-specific thing, and were unique to each client. To alleviate this situation, server side settings and channel collections were introduced.

#44

It always worked for me, until the developers removed it. I get everyone here loves Collections and that is the default answer. The point of this feature request is for those of us that don't like/use collections to have the sync feature restored (in some fashion or another).

I for one do not like the complexity of Collections and will not use them since it does not fit my very simple use case (set the channels I favorite or block server level and all clients pull the same settings).
I do not want to have to manage favorites / blocks for the server, and then manage it separately for Collections, and then have to remember to manually change it in both places when I get a new channel or want to prefer a different source. Over complication when having it in one place was super simple before.

Everyone commenting here to switch to Collections is missing the point of a Feature Request and instead is shouting "do it my way" when there is already a Sync button in the client, why not just make it call the sync automatically on launching the app?

#45

Agree ... have that as an option.

#46

"Sync button in the client with ability to sync automatically when launching the app"

Where is this setting?

#47

There is a Sync button in the Android client; Apple clients have never had a sync button that I recall.

Historically, the process was: channel properties were brought into the client upon first launch; subsequently, all future changes to a channel's status was localized to where the change was made and did not affect other devices. (Meaning, future status changes on the server did not affect the client, and a client's changes did not affect the server nor other clients.)

I understand your request, and you are welcome to it. However, how you claim things always worked or used to work regarding syncing channels is not accurate. The current supported method is through Channel Collections. You don't like that option and want to do it differently; you are welcome to ask, but I doubt the situation will change. (I would not be fully surprised if the sync option was actually removed from the Android client in the future to keep consistency across platforms.)

#48

Consistency I had to laugh at this because there is no Consistency at all you know how many features Android is missing LMAO. Downloads is one for example.

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#49

I'm surprised this wasn't even a feature yet. It helps prevents all the headaches that comes with hiding channels

#50

When you gonna change your SageTV background to purple.

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#53

Does this mean what I think it means?

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#54

there's bad implementations, and there's whatever this is. what is the sense of an initial sync if favorites are per-client? i have multiple clients. if they all had channels installed and configured at the same time, their favorites lists would be synced. you then have the option to manage those favorites from each client. sounds pretty damn cool, until you realize any changes after that are client-side only! collections are great, but NOT a replacement for synced favorites you can set from clients.

how is going into the server UI to edit a "favorites" collection more convenient than doing it directly from the client? how does my family who doesn't even know about the server UI add favorites that sync? oh we should all just have one tv, or they should leave notes on the counter for dad that they need some favorites added.

if you could edit collections from the clients, the defenders would be onto something. as of right now they just sound like fanboys. you can search and find countless threads asking why it unctions like this, or why there isn't the option to at least sync after the initial set up.

these devs pick some hilarious hills to die on. there are 50 other client settings on the server already. is "sync favorites each launch" really that crazy? what about an API endpoint for people that really want this? god your PBRs must be hell.