FruitDeepLinks — Universal Sports Aggregator for Channels DVR

Both last night and tonight I saw the game listed in one of the custom channels created for the Prime service.

As an attempt to fix that tonight I tried deselecting the Amazon Peacock option in FDL filter. That had the effect of removing it from Prime but it still didn’t show in the Peacock channels.

How many Peacock lanes did you configure? Too few and you'll miss events.

I’ve had 5 lanes configured for Peacock and all of the lanes showed “idle” for the relevant time periods.

But your question @bnhf spurred me to review the ADBTuner page of FDL where I noticed I had configured it for 10 lanes. I recreated the Peacock custom channels (very easy with project one click) this time with 10 lanes and can now see a Peacock NBA game scheduled a couple days from now.

If I’m understanding what happened here it seems the ADBTuner page on FDL governs how many lanes will be used to layout the programming and if you want access to all that programming you need to create at least that many lanes in your ADBTuner custom channel source. Let me know if this understanding is correct or not and my apologies if my terms aren’t quite right.

@bnhf @KineticMan Thanks so much for these projects and all the support. I’m really appreciating FDL, OliveTin and Project One Click

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Yes, you're right

For bigger streaming services (ie. Peacock, MAX, Paramount, VIX), I typically recommend about 10-20 lanes. Peacock has a lot of rights in their hands so 5 lanes is too small.

My plan was to disable the sports I don't watch (more than half) so it didn't seem like there'd be that many events to accommodate. But yeah...if too few lanes is an issue why not have a bunch. I was using fewer lanes to make the visual guide more manageable.

This leads into another question I have about search results for NBA games in FDL and YouTubeTV (with guide data from Xfinity) show up differently.

When I do a general search for "NBA" in the CDVR web client I see a bunch of results. One is NBA Basketball and clicking on it returns a list of all YouTubeTV results which are all games I'm interested in. None of the FDL games show in this list.

Also in the general search results are individual NBA games that include the Prime games and others from FDL.

I'm wondering if there's a way to get all NBA games to show in a single search or Season Pass.

Results for NBA with icon circled that has all NBA games on from YouTubeTV guide data:

Same search results with individual games only on Prime via FDL that aren't included in NBA Basketball icon above.

Thats becuase theres different sources of guide data being used. "NBA Basketball" is from Gracenote and those individual NBA games are from FDL.

For stuff like this, I recommend using Channels collections and advanced passes for stuff like this

I use Channels Collection to set up a collection similar to this

Cool. Will check that out.

Has anyone been able to get Prime Video FDL working on Android TV without going the ADBtuner route. I cannot get them launch on my Google TV Streamer and Nvidia Shield. FDL work for other providers. Thanks.

FWIW I believe it fires on Fire sticks. If there’s a new schema to call for Android TV, I’m sure I could add it. I don’t personally have a device to test with.

I will happily test it if anyone can provide it.

Yep. All my configs were developed and tested against Android TVs. The olive guy is developing his for fire sticks primarily. The prime video one seemed a bit trickier to get working using this approach if I remember properly. I had to make a subtle change to my encoder settings I think to get them to follow through all the way to live.

It's true when I was working with @KineticMan and @turtletank to get all the pieces in place for the FruitDeepLinks to ADBTuner integration initially, I used FireSticks (as they're my daily driver devices).

However, since I started packaging custom configs with Project One-Click (which is part of OliveTin-for-Channels), all of the configs have been developed and tested cross-platform:

Providers:

Configurations:

And, of course all this can be done right from the CDVR WebUI, using Project WebUI+:

And you have it set up to be able to import custom configs, so people can put their own in, or use different ones if your defaults aren't working for them.

Yes, absolutely. If one wanted to use a custom config with Prime Video for example, including deleting any previously configured lanes for that provider, you'd set it up like this -- along with pasting the JSON into the highlighted field:

This will also create/update the CDVR Custom Channel Source for this provider. It's a very easy and very quick way to deal with large numbers of FruitDeepLinks ADBTuner lanes.

I am not using it for ADBTUNER, just as part of the direct m3u feed so there is no config to tweak.

There are a lot of places that could be failing. Without the Custom Configs we use in ADBTuner, you have no way to handle profile screens, jumping to live or really anything if the "deep link" URL doesn't work all on its own.

EDIT: As I think about it a bit more, I suppose you're just using the remote to handle those things. :slight_smile:

EDIT2: Anything in the CDVR or FDL logs that might give us a clue?

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Yes, I am simply looking to launch the Prime Video app. I use the remote to get by the profile selection.

I will take a look at the logs and post them.

A new race this weekend. Tested today as ADBTuner channels and seems to work. Thanks!

Apple seems to be pushing through Sky Sports's coverage today. Seems to be working out just fine.

I had to add some new search text to one of my configs to get it to mash the DPAD_CENTER enough to get it to live. It didn't see the word "watch" on screen through ADBTuner text search image capture. Using the text search term "formula 1" worked though. Thanks again for another flawless provider integration!

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I assume you mean you're trying to access the streamlink directly instead of using adbtuner?

Streamlinks can be hit or miss on android since they're usually used for ios/tvos. Prime probably needs a different type of deeplink for android.

@Jean0987654321 yes I am. Streamlinks work for all apps except for Prime and Victory+.