Is someone trying to hack my channels dvr?

Channels DVR Server
#1

for some time I noticed the following in the logs, Is some bot going through my system?

2026/07/13 14:41:30.620042 [ERR] Failed to fetch station 1185 for channel 17597 on X-M3U: Invalid station ID: 1185
2026/07/13 14:41:30.620223 [ERR] Failed to fetch station 1187 for channel 17598 on X-M3U: Invalid station ID: 1187
2026/07/13 14:41:30.620239 [ERR] Failed to fetch station 1188 for channel 17599 on X-M3U: Invalid station ID: 1188
2026/07/13 14:41:30.621367 [ERR] Failed to fetch station 6558 for channel 17710 on X-M3U: Invalid station ID: 6558
2026/07/13 14:41:30.621384 [ERR] Failed to fetch station 6559 for channel 17711 on X-M3U: Invalid station ID: 6559
2026/07/13 14:41:30.621396 [ERR] Failed to fetch station 6560 for channel 17712 on X-M3U: Invalid station ID: 6560
2026/07/13 14:41:32.136969 [ERR] Failed to fetch station 6559 for channel 17711 on X-M3U: Invalid station ID: 6559
2026/07/13 14:41:32.185173 [ERR] Failed to fetch station 1188 for channel 17599 on X-M3U: Invalid station ID: 1188
2026/07/13 14:41:32.211134 [ERR] Failed to fetch station 6560 for channel 17712 on X-M3U: Invalid station ID: 6560
2026/07/13 14:41:32.246020 [ERR] Failed to fetch station 1185 for channel 17597 on X-M3U: Invalid station ID: 1185
2026/07/13 14:41:32.250203 [ERR] Failed to fetch station 6558 for channel 17710 on X-M3U: Invalid station ID: 6558
2026/07/13 14:41:32.251131 [ERR] Failed to fetch station 1187 for channel 17598 on X-M3U: Invalid station ID: 1187
#2

Nothing so nefarious.
You have some custom channels using invalid gracenote station ID's.
Most likely FastChannels.

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#3

Just go edit your m3u file and remove them. When I switched to using DIRECTV Stream deeplinks, I picked up 4 stations like that. Mine are WNBA subchannels in the DTV app.

#4

Good. for me the 17000s are adbtuner so I will look there thanks.