MLB.TV for Channels

It is working fine from my browser. Is it possible the recent update to docker could be causing the issue?

EDIT:

Can confirm this is 100% the problem. Blackout and other username issues on new Docker for Windows version 3.5.2. Uninstalled and reinstalled version 3.5.1 and video plays perfect as before.

These are games I am entitled to from my current location.

Oh yeah sorry I should have mentioned. Latest release is not working. I'm on the one before the latest

sorry guys, i was in vegas the past few days so i didn't see these blackout issues (where every game is showing blacked out) until now. if you see that happen again, try this:

docker exec -it channels-baseball rm -rf /var/www/html/storage/app/*

i saw this happen a few times when i was first building and testing this, but haven't seen it happen since the first release...so i have no idea what causes it. that being said, the above command should fix it any time you encounter it.

there is an shorter (and easier to remember) command coming for this (it's in 1.3.0 but that version won't work without running a second command after installing it so i don't recommend using it for now), but if you run that on 1.2.2 it should clear your cached login information and reload it the next time you try to watch any game.

1.3.0 is still broken. not so much broken as that there's a second command you need to run after installing it to get it to work. there's discussion on it if you go back a bit in the thread...

i'm going to try to get 1.3.1 out this weekend which will fix it. for now though, to make things easier, use 1.2.2.

i actually just deleted 1.3.0 from the repository so people don't get confused when it doesn't work. use 1.2.2 for now until i can get 1.3.1 out there.

Just wanted to chime in and say thank you for all the hard work you are putting into this.

As a future feature request, is there any way to set this up so it pulls channel icons from the internet instead of the server's internal ip as it is doing now? As currently configured there are no guide icons or channel names when watching "away from home" as they cannot pull from the internal lan ip address. Inside network it does work fine and in both locations guide data is correct.

If I setup the container in docker using my internet ip instead of the local ip or localhost the channel icons come through remotely but something is going on internally with docker that causes freezing and inaccessibility after 10 minutes or so (internal or external) which seems more like the way the docker virtual machine interacts with Windows and is not really worth addressing.

Obviously working stable video is more important than channel icons and I do currently have that on 1.2.2 and docker 3.5.1

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that's interesting...channel icons should work either way. i watched more than one game while i was in vegas and the channel icons and guide icons were all there. the reason we went internal is because originally i had them pulling from the internet, but that server went down at one point and people lost the icons. internal prevents that from happening (or should, at least).

can anyone chime in here as to why he would have lost his logos away from home? i haven't seen that happen, my logos are working both home and away.

i can't speak to that at all because i haven't tested nor designed this to work that way. it's designed to use the local IP of the server, not internet IP nor localhost...if you're using it in a way (or trying to anyway) that it wasn't intended to work, that would explain the freezing / inaccessibility issues, but i don't know what would be causing them specifically since like i said it wasn't designed to work that way. if there are any network experts around they may be better able to help you figure that out...but i wouldn't really put too much effort into it. i think we'd have better luck trying to figure out why your channel icons are missing rather than trying to use the internet IP as the app URL.

they dont work in the webui. i think its because the webui is lookding for https images and your container only serves them via http.

really? mine do. i use it all the time to watch games from my tesla while i'm supercharging or waiting for take out...

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right click on the missing image and it goes to https:

take the https away, and it appears:

strange. when i go out for lunch i'll take a picture from my car...it works just fine in my tesla.

can anyone check the braves/phillies game for me right now and tell me if they're seeing the off-air stream for the braves feed?

I am seeing off air on the braves feed. The Phillies feed works fine. They both suck.

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agree on the quality of both feeds lol...this is an interesting bug. fixing it now.

the braves feed is showing off-air because of their suspended game yesterday. the media ID checker is seeing it as in progress but also completed at the same time.

this is going to be a bit of a pain to fix completely. i fixed the braves feed, but i need a rain delay tonight somewhere to make sure i don't break currently in progress games that are in rain delay (need to look at the status for those)...if anyone notices a rain delay in any game tonight, ping me here so i hopefully will see it and have a chance to check the status on that game.

I get the off air notification on the Atlanta feed but not the Phillies feed. I am in Chicago.

On another note I get blackout on the cardinals game.

How that helps.

Thanks,
Gjcamp73

blackout makes sense for you in chicago on the cardinals game because they're playing the cubs.

the off air on the atlanta feed is because it's seeing their suspended game from yesterday as "in progress" but then also as "ended," which is why it's sending the off air feed. i have that fixed already, but i need to make sure it doesn't break games that are in weather delay before i push out a fixed version.

my apologies to anyone who wanted to watch the braves feed tonight, but i can't promise a fix unless one of the current games goes into a delay so i can check it. you should be able to watch the phillies feed as a workaround, though.

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also, no promises but i think i might be close to getting the mlb big inning feed working.

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I have the same issue on the webui and have also narrowed that down to the https as accessing using http also gives me the icon. Not sure if that is browser specific though and I at least still get the channel names so I was not too worried.

However, I think the icon issue, at least for me, has to do with using the internal ip address. When I am on the local network the icons and channel names do show up in the guide on the channels app. When I am away they do not. I believe Channels is setup to fetch guide images in the app from the internet independently rather than pulling them from the server. So when I am away from home and the app is told to pull the image and channel name from an internal ip address at a different location it cannot access such. It does get guide data but instead of the channel name and icon I just get the channel number. To test this theory if I change the ip address in the container to my external WAN IP I can pull the channel icons and names from any location which as stated bring up a whole additional set of issues that there is no need to dive into.

Maybe the https issue could be the cause of both the webui and external guide issues I do not know. Again this is probably the least pressing issue you have but I am glad to see I am not the only one experiencing it at least.

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i am glad in a way that someone else is seeing it, but it's difficult for me to fix something i can't see or reproduce.

i've been on vacation and my server went down during the vacation so now i'm back i will see if i am still seeing the issue