Lost DVR we tvos12 update

Channels DVR Server
#1

I have not been able to get the DVR up on any of my appletv 4’s since I upgraded to TVOS 12. Can anyone help

#2

Can you click Submit Diagnostics at the bottom of the Settings tab

#3

On your PC, open the DVR web page (http://127.0.0.1:8089) and uncheck and recheck the bonjour checkbox. This should make it appear on your Apple TV.

#4

It worked.
Thanks

#5

I’ve seen this advice offered several times and I’m curious: If the Bonjour service check-box is checked, should Bonjour not be advertising? What does un- and re-checking it accomplish? Why does that sometimes “fix” things?

#6

Ths morning, none of my Fire TVs can see the dvr. iPads do see it. Android phone sees it. HDHomeRun sees it.

Wife upset. Need help. Resetting Bonjour did not help. Cannot connect to:

http://192.168.48.1:57000/auth

#7

What do you get from the status page or logs?

#8

Having the same issue with both AppleTV and iOS. It’ll sometimes connect for a few seconds and then disconnect and say it can’t find the server. Resetting Bonjour seems to momentarily fix it but it just goes right back to disconnecting. Nothing abnormal in the logs.

#9

Same here. I updated from the web interface and then re-started two of three Fire devices. The one I didn’t update still sees everything…the other two won’t find the server. If I try to connect to remote DVR the Fire TV returns “DVR Access Failure” com.android.volley.TimeoutError

Will go back a version help? How is that done.

#10

I should add I’ve already stopped/started Bonjour a dozen times…

#11

Which update: FireTV or Channels app?

#12

I did the update to 2018.09.21.1704 from the web interface.

#13

That build has a bug. A new build will be available in the next 30min with a fix

#14

Yep. That seems to have fixed it. Thanks.

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#15

There’s a broadcast announcement sent out advertising the service when it first starts. As per the spec that only happens on initial boot and network changes. The rest of the time the service is listening for mdns lookups and responding to them, but doesn’t do any unsolicited broadcasts. Bugs in the Oreo bonjour client stack (as well as some bugs on the server stack) were causing lookups to fail, so forcing the broadcast via uncheck/recheck was an effective workaround.

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