Jumping to start of guide when exiting a channel

Channels Apple TV Troubleshooting
#1

I'm having an issue where with two channels — when I use the Apple TV remote's "Back" button, I get jumped to the very top of the Guide (in whatever Channel Collection I'm in) instead of having the last-viewed channel highlighted when I back out of a channel. Hopefully that makes sense.

I'm pretty sure it has to do with how I set up custom channel logos with a custom Source, because it seems to only work when backing out of a channel that has a custom logo. (This all happened when I tried to fix my custom logos only working on Apple TV, and not iOS).

I admittedly haven't ever quite understood the difference between channel-id, tvg-id=, and tvg-chno in an m3U, so I'm sure I've mangled those as I've gone through trial and error to get my custom logos working, and this is user error.

My first Source is named "Logos" and has six channels in it (logo url changed for privacy), with the first entry and the fourth entry being the problematic ones:

#EXTM3U

#EXTINF:-1 channel-id="6000" tvg-id="8.1" tvg-chno="6000" tvg-logo="http://www.mysite.com/images/tvlogos/wgal8.png?w=360&h=270" tvc-guide-stationid="79329" tvg-name="WGAL-TV",WGAL-TV

#EXTINF:-1 channel-id="27110" tvg-id="27100" tvg-chno="27.11" tvg-logo="http://www.mysite.com/images/tvlogos/abc27.png?w=360&h=270" tvc-guide-stationid="113124" tvg-name="WHTM",WHTM

#EXTINF:-1 channel-id="59850" tvg-id="59850" tvg-chno="5985" tvg-logo="http://www.mysite.com/images/tvlogos/wmar.png?w=360&h=270" tvc-guide-stationid="21230" tvg-name="WMAR",WMAR

#EXTINF:-1 channel-id="60030" tvg-id="60030" tvg-chno="6003" tvg-logo="http://www.mysite.com/images/tvlogos/cbs21.png?w=360&h=270" tvc-guide-stationid="30783" tvg-name="WHP",WHPDT

#EXTINF:-1 channel-id="3002" tvg-id="3002" tvg-chno="3002" tvg-logo="http://www.mysite.com/images/tvlogos/fox43-3.png?w=360&h=270" tvc-guide-stationid="11782" tvg-name="Fox",Fox

#EXTINF:-1 channel-id="3004" tvg-id="3004" tvg-chno="3004" tvg-logo="http://www.mysite.com/images/tvlogos/cwcentralpa.png?w=360&h=270" tvc-guide-stationid="97889" tvg-name="CW",CW

My second source is an HD Homerun, with channel numbers I can't change, and I have one channel that jumps to the top of the guide when I back out of it, and is also in my "Logos" source:

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My third source is a TVE source, and has one channel that jumps me to the top of the guide when I back out of it, and is also in my "Logos" source:

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Any idea how I've mangled things (presumably channel-id, tvg-id, and/or tvg-chno in an m3U) to cause this? I had it working without issue before tweaking things today, but the custom logos only worked without issue on the Apple TV, not on iOS/iPadOS for some reason, so I changed some of those values until the logos showed up everywhere.

Meaning of channel-id, tvg-id, tvg-chno, tvc-guide-stationed; and cautions for each?
#2

this happens to me randomly. i also see the "wrong channel" permutation of this.

appletv4k, pip on.

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#3

A total guess, but I think what is causing this in my situation is that my “Logos” m3u doesn’t end each channel entry with a URL. For example, my Chrome Capture channels end with something like “chrome://192.168.7.180:5589/stream/windy”, but my Logo source has nothing.

When I add a URL to a channel in my Logos source, then it works properly in limited testing, but the channel then loads slower, with “remuxing” activity showing up on the server. I’ve given up on custom logos for now. I’d love to see this added some day. My TV Everywhere has two ABC stations, and they both have the same logo.

#4

I should mention that if I put the TV Everywhere version of the channel in the same collection as my “Logos” source version of the same channel, and I watch then exit the “Logos” source version, the focus ends up on the TV Everywhere version in the guide.