I know people were getting blocked when attempting to add it as a source. I would love to revisit it but I just remembered that is why I went back with Hulu.
The issue is stillhappening with youtube tv.
When i want to add it as a source, i simply create a fresh email address and invite it to my family.
I think i will probably just leave it and move the phantom people around.
One person for ADB Tuner and one person for TVE.
For TVE, I think it still depends on what you're running Channels DVR on.
Ask and you get users saying it works on a certain platform and other users saying it doesn't for them.
That’s a good point! I’m running channels from Docker on my synology Nas
What are you running channels on?
Same here, although I don't sub to YTTV. Just slimmed down my Xfinity sub.
If you started a topic asking for users to report which platform they're using that works, the topic would quickly get piled on and run off-track. And users arguing that what someone was using doesn't work for them.
When i use YTTV in Channels on my Synology, i create a google account and invite it to my family along with the onn boxes connected to ADB Tuner.
if i decide to stop it, i wil siply disable the source rather tna deleting it. When i need to start YTTV again, i will just remember to invite my channels fictional users for ADB and for TVE when needed.
Most of the worth while channels are gone so using alternative sources to grab content.
@rpaulmerrell For your Channels DVR YTTV TVE (not ADB Tuner), is that running in a Synology package or in a Docker Container on your Synology?
The channels docker image will not work with YTTV. I had to install channels on a standalone Linux VM. I don't use windows for Channels so I couldn't speak to whether YTTV works with that or not.
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I'm using the package version of Channels on my Synology.
I create an account on gmail just for Channels and it will usually validate and log in on the first time.
I will then invite the new email
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So far
WORKS
- Windows
- Linux VM
- Synology Package
- Channels DVR TVE Docker image on Synology NAS
- Channels DVR TVE Docker image (bnhf image) on Synology NAS
FAILS
- Channels DVR TVE Docker image on Synology NAS
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Yeah I don’t use windows either and while I have a spare Mac just on the network I like channels on my synology better
What’s the difference between synology package and the docker image?
The Synology package install runs the executables on Synology custom linux and uses an older version of chrome.
The docker image install runs the executables on Alpine linux in the container and uses a newer version of chrome.
Nobody (besides google) seems to know what platform differences the headless chrome sees from its point of view, causing it to work or not work.
Actually the Docker image uses Chromium not Chrome. For good reason of course, as Linux Chromium is cross-platform and Linux Chrome is not (amd64 only). There are many potential reasons for TVE to fail, but given a number of people have reported YTTV failures with Docker, I thought I'd spin-up a test image built with Chrome.
This custom image worked great for me with YTTV -- no different than CDVR running in a Proxmox LXC, or on Windows. Hopefully, one or two of those people reporting failures (@slampman?) will be willing to confirm functionality with a custom-built image as described here:
This should be relatively easy to add to Project One-Click, both the custom image build and the spin-up -- if it proves out...
Ahh, didn't know that.
I would try it, but don't have a YTTV sub or a google account and the below sounds confusing.
Reading this Use YouTube TV to sign in to network sites - YouTube TV Help makes me think that only the Family group manager's credentials will work for TVE, but not any invited Family group members?
Family groups
- Only the family manager’s sign-in info will work to log in and stream directly on the specific network site.
So how would creating a new google account and inviting it to be part of the Family group allow that family member to access TVE?
I sure will! I'll test it out this weekend 
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That is confusing. However, at least as of the moment, creating a family account and adding a second e-mail address with 2FA disabled does work for TVE.
Let's hope that "help" info is outdated rather than foreshadowing.
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I want to trial YTTV TVE this week to see if it works on;
- Channels DVR Synology package
- Channels DVR TVE Docker image
- bnhf's Channels DVR TVE Docker image
I'm not invested in the google eco-system, so I've started from scratch.
I created a google account and gmail with 2FA that I'll use as my primary google account to get a trial of YTTV.
Not clear if these steps are correct to get a username and password to use for Channels DVR.
- I've read I can create another google account without a gmail address using accounts.google.com/SignUpWithoutGmail
- This is the second account I want to create without gmail and without 2FA to use with Channels DVR.
- Sign into my primary account, create a family group, invite my second account to join it and get my YTTV trial sub using my primary google account.
- Now I should be able to use my second google account username/password for Channels DVR YTTV TVE.
Does this sound correct?
Just create another Gmail account, it doesn't have to be a non Gmail address
Then follow this
https://support.google.com/youtubetv/answer/7251139?hl=en
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