Missing local ABC WTVD for couple of weeks

#1

Hi,
I have both HDHomeRun Prime and TVE set up. I noticed sometime in the last two weeks it no longer appears in my lineup. I have tried rescanning and have updated to the prerelease 2025.03.26.1743. Neither have helped. Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks, Doug

#2

Does ABC recognize your correct location (geolocation)?
Use a browser on your Channels DVR Server (or a wired device on the same network)
Go to https://abc.com/watch-live/ and link your provider (Log In > Link TV Provider).
Does it show WTVD as your local station and let you stream it?
Mine shows a different station (where it thinks I am) and lets me stream it on the live website.

My Provider (Xfinity) gave me a new IP address which is geolocated outside my location, so trying to stream ABC with Channels DVR TVE gets an error.
[ERR] Failed to start stream for ch6001: TVE: abcgo: 1037:Unable to retrieve required files for playback. Please try again in a few minutes.

Are you toggling the TVE locals checkbox to rescan your TVE local channels?

Screenshot 2025-03-30 at 09-51-44 Channels Settings
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#3

Thanks for the tips. I have ABC TVE back.
The only question now is why did HDHomeRun suddenly lose ABC a couple of weeks ago. It may have happened during a half hour power outage. Today I toggled HDHomeRun power, then ran re-scan network, then reload lineup and ABC is still not showing up in HDHomeRun. All the other locals are there.
Any ideas to try?

Details for getting TVE ABC back.
I checked the ABC website and it appears to be a local feed. I couldn't really tell except for the logo of our local station appearing in the NCAA broadcast I was streaming, so I assume it is the local. I then toggled the TVE checkbox to force a rescan and that caused ABC to show up! Yay!
At first I didn't think it worked because long ago I had set the TVE ABC to "do not use". I didn't need two sources and the HDHomeRun source seemed like the better way to go.
I set the TVE source to favorite, redownloaded the guide for TVE, and I'm back in business.

#4

Does your ABC station/channel appear in the HDHR channel lineup on its webpage?
If not, have you tried to rescan channels on your HDHR Prime?

#5

Good thing you are here to remind me of all the things I should have known to try but didn't.
Pulling up the old HDHomeRun app to rescan worked like a champ.
Thank you so much for responding! I don't do this enough to remember the finer points.

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