KTLA 5 News

I have 6700 channels showing in my guide but no 6900. I'm with Spectrum. When I go into the channels settings I see it show up way at the bottom as 6973 but it has an arrow pointing to the right pointing at nothing whereas all the other channels show logos and stuff.

I am in the LA area.

Yup I just did a control upgrade this morning when I saw this thread. (greedy for more channels)

Since you're in the LA area, you may be experiencing the same client bug I see with this channel: Channels merges the KTLA News TVE channel with your OTA/cable KTLA, and doesn't present it in the guide. If you move your TVE source to a higher priority it will show. (No idea why they are being merged, but I have experienced this problem.)

Then you found it. You should also see it in your GUIDE if sorted by Channel at the bottom or under L if sorted by name. @tmm1 plans to make it look "nicer" with a nicer logo in the future app beta (at least on ATV). But there will be NO GUIDE. It will simply says News.

It will also show up under On Now. Like any channel you can select the channel and add it to your favorites to make it easier to find until the sort is fixed. The plan to add under K for KTLA in the future for the proper sort in the client.

Even when I put TVE on top of my OTA it's still not showing. Yours shows when you do that right?

Well what do you know. The channel shows up on my iPhone but not the web. I don't really care as long as it shows up on my Apple TV. Will find out after work.

Not really sure what you mean. As you know you have your DVR Sources that have a particular order. My OTA is last since it only has those channels not used by any of my other Sources.

TVE Channels "only" show up in TVE Login Sources. Not with HDHomerun's.

On your client you also have all of the Sources and each client can have it's own Source order.

Anyway, I have 2 DVR's and 8 Apple TV's (seldom use my iPad's or iPhones for this but have in the past). I have not problems getting everything on all of my clients. I add my source order the same for all of my clients but that is my choice. If you are using a client with the NEW SORT ORDER maybe you are using NAME ORDER instead of Channel Number Order which would mean it is under LA-KTLA5 for now.

Status of KTLA for me:

Being a native Angeleno, I’d LOVE to see KTLA...but I currently reside in SWFL.

It is listed as available in both of my TVE sources - Xfinity and YouTube TV...however no guide ever appears (even just News). Logo doesn’t even appear in Channels Guide.

Only area I see Logo is in TVE source detail page.

@DebbieFL I was told by @tmm1 that the next ATV Beta will looks nicer. I take that to mean it will have a better ICON. Also, it would be renamed in the ATV Beta Client to drop the LA- part of the name so the sort works better. I have not received that new Beta yet. Not sure how that would affect other clients.

So for now on the ATV Beta I see this:

Guide Data. KTLA 5 (as the channel name) then on the right in the detail is just says LA-KTLA 5. I just click on that to watch the channel.

On Now. It has kind of a standard logo. Not like the real KTLA 5 logo which I expect to change in the future. But to watch the channel I just click on it. I also made it a favorite and organize next to the OTA KTLA 5.

And to be clear there is NO GUID DATA. It is simply 24 hour News. Not the same as the OTA KTLA which is 80% News and some other shows which require Guide data.

Now if you are talking ONLY about the DVR that is different. I personally don't care about that since I do not use to watch shows.

BTW.. This is exactly the same for these:
6970 NY-CBSNEWS
6972 LA-CBSNEWS
6973 LA-KTLA

OH. In the DVR you can EDIT the source like any other channel and go to the bottom. Do you see the CHECK MARK? If not you need to RESCAN them like any other channel.

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Thanks, but all IS setup as you state on my Channels DVR.

@tmm1

While you are poking around (SSH) on my setup for the other problem, could you kindly check this out for me?

TIA

Hopefully @tmm1 can help out. It works very nice and once you get it you will probably like it since you are a KTLA 5 fan. BTW... I my daughter in law is using the standard ATV DVR App. Not the beta. I also have both the ATV DVR Beta and normal ATV App and both work the same. So maybe does not matter about the ATV App except for the New Sort and the soon to be release update to these channels (rename and icon).

The web UI didn't show channels missing guide data. This has been fixed in v2019.08.15.0007

This bug only affected Android clients, and should also be fixed with v2019.08.15.0007. LMK if it works or not. (I cannot test here since I don't have KTLA OTA).

See my PM to you...posted 2-3 minutes ago.

So the bug was in the server, not the client? Interesting, but makes sense because I noticed it on both the FireTV and iOS clients.

I'll have to check this out tomorrow, since I have to wait a bit to update the server. Thanks for the heads up.

Thank you for the explanation. This makes sense now. I'm just running the "stable" version, so I guess I'll have to wait until the next Stable version before these show up, In hindsight I wish I'd downloaded the pre-release version now before TVE hit stable.

Worked for me with new version. Thanks for adding. Viewing KTLA Live is a great bonus for us native Angelenos.

Success with @tmm1 addition on newest version. Fantastic!.

BTW: Now, I’ll have to monitor my data usage. :joy:

Just checked with 2019.08.15.0159 and FireTV 2.1.10, and the guide issue has indeed been fixed.

Thanks for all of the awesome work, Aman and team!

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Great!

Hm I didn't think iOS was affected. Is it fixed there now too?