I can login to Xfinity stream from a browser (Mac and windows) so I know my credentials are correct. when I try to add tv everywhere as a source I get the following: authn http status 401 Unauthorized: Data not found. my dvr is running on ubuntu under VMware. also when I tried to login from chome on the same machine I get "your system isn't compatible with Xfinity stream".
Try to login to an individual channel website that's what Channels uses. It doesn't use the Xfinity website
as a test I was able to login to the USA network with my credentials.
here's the channels dvr log when I try to add TVeverywhere as a source. why is it trying to authenticate through adobe ???
2019/08/02 05:58:18 [TVE] Auth starting for Comcast_SSO as XXXXYYYYZZZZ
2019/08/02 05:58:18 [TVE] action=auth mvpd=Comcast_SSO requestor=nbcentertainment
2019/08/02 05:58:25 [TVE] action=navigate url=https://sp.auth.adobe.com/adobe-services/authenticate/saml?noflash=true&m
so_id=Comcast_SSO&requestor_id=nbcentertainment&no_iframe=true&domain_name=adobe.com&redirect_url=https%3A%2F%2Fsp.auth
.adobe.com%2Fadobe-services%2FcompletePassiveAuthentication
2019/08/02 05:58:27 [TVE] action=wait_for_page
2019/08/02 05:58:27 [TVE] action=request type=Document method=GET url=https://sp.auth.adobe.com/adobe-services/authenti
cate/saml
2019/08/02 05:58:27 [TVE] action=request type=Document method=GET url=https://oauth.xfinity.com/oauth/authorize
2019/08/02 05:58:27 [TVE] action=request type=Document method=GET url=https://login.xfinity.com/login
2019/08/02 05:58:32 [TVE] action=request type=Document method=GET url=https://oauth.xfinity.com/oauth/authorize
2019/08/02 05:58:32 [TVE] action=request type=Document method=GET url=https://sp.auth.adobe.com/adobe-services/oauth2
2019/08/02 05:58:32 [TVE] action=request type=Document method=GET url=https://sp.auth.adobe.com/adobe-services/complete
PassiveAuthentication
2019/08/02 05:58:32 [TVE] action=authed
2019/08/02 05:58:32 [TVE] action=wait_for_page done=true reason=auth_finished
2019/08/02 05:58:32 [TVE] action=cookies num_domains=0 num_cookies=0
2019/08/02 05:58:32 [TVE] Auth failed for Comcast_SSO: authn http status 401 Unauthorized: Data not found
Surprise, Adobe is a services company now! They provide a lot of the authentication infrastructure used by most TVEverywhere channels. https://www.adobe.com/marketing/primetime/subscription-revenue.html
The error you get for Xfinity Stream is because Xfinity Stream requires Adobe Flash, which is likely not available on that platform. Do you get the same error when you log into a TVEverywhere channel, like https://www.tbs.com/watchtbs, on the same VMWare virtual machine?
The VM had a really old version of Chromium installed which was causing problems. Once that was upgraded everything started working as expected.
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just wanted to say thanks to the channels team. very fast response to the issue. great job.
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