Hallmark Family not authorized

I subscribe to YTTV and all 3 Hallmark Chanels are part of my sub and have always worked on Channels. Last week I lost Hallmark Family on Channels, but it works just fine on YTTV.

I get this error:

HALLMARKDRAMA
notAuthorized: You are not authorized to view this content.

Looks like google is causing issues again.
Doing a re-scan should help.
I'm using Philo to get the channel on TVE and it seems to work.
When I first tried the station, I saw some delay but retried the stream and it cam back online and played.

Can you watch on https://www.watchhallmarktv.com/playback/item/hdlive

Well now I have lost all of the hallmark channels. They all have this error.

http response: GET: https://www.hallmarkchanneleverywhere.com/data/JSONlivehcgc.json?nocache=5: 404 Not Found: "<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC \"-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN\"\"http://www.w3.org/TR/htm…TTP Error 404. The requested resource is not found.

\r\n\r\n"

Well it looks like Hallmark has changed their URL. https://www.hallmarkchanneleverywhere.com/signin.html No longer exists so that explains the failure to auth.

Yes.

They moved their TVE platform from hallmarkchanneleverywhere.com to watchhallmarktv.com back in 2020. They recently redesigned the site as part of the brand refresh which broke all of the hallmarkchanneleverywhere.com redirects that Channels still relied on to fetch the stream URLs.

Didn't Hallmarkdrama become HallmarkFamily ... all 3 Hallmark Channels are working on XFINITY TVE.

Drama rebranded to Family on 2/28, Movies & Mysteries rebranded to Mystery on 3/6. Even though they rebranded the stream URLs didn't change, "hmd" is still the stream for Family and "mm" is still the stream for Mystery, but channels needs to adapt to their new json API to fetch the akamai auth tokens for the streams. The generated tokens expire after about 2 days, which is why it's still working for some users.

After my last update to the pre-release 2024.03.19.1510 today I noticed I was getting errors on all 3 Hallmark channels served by Philo. After rescanning they no longer appear in the list of scanned channels. I see them when I rescan, they just don’t appear in the list where I can select my favorite channels. I can watch them in the Philo app on my Apple TV. Miss having them in channels.

Yes - that does works

Looks like channels dvr will need to update their GET web link. Not working here on Spectrum either.

All 3 gone today ....

Mine were gone a couple days ago

I'm still alive today because my wife doesn't know yet. :joy: :grimacing: :flushed:

Hopefully, the devs will be able to fix it soon. :pray:

Can't you just create a Virtual Hallmark channel?
You have recorded every Hallmark Movie, right? :laughing:

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Great idea! :joy:

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