I’ve enjoyed the popular FAST providers (Pluto, Plex, SamsungTV+ and Tubi) in CDVR for years now but prior to that tip it had been a manual chore to have an up-to-date Channels Collection for each provider in our guide. Every couple of weeks I’d go in and check to see what’s new and manually update / sort. With the “automatic channels excluding every source but this one, including just the airings have a space as keyword, in other words, catch everything” that tedious chore is no longer necessary but it is also not the easiest thing to explain to a brand new user. So my initial thought was that — OliveTin and Project One-Click are so great. Especially for new users looking to expand their sources in Channels DVR without having a lot of technical history with these ingredients. And for example, when Project One Click first creates the docker for Pluto, just like it automatically adds it as a Custom Channels source to CDVR, wouldn’t it be cool if it gave the option to also create a Channel Collection for it, that is always dynamically kept up to date? It’s a much better of a way to set up the “complete” guide than manual maintenance so I figured the more people that know about it, the better. I wish I’d known about it sooner! So that was my suggestion here. Even just including it as a “tip” similar to the Bookmarklet, would be a welcome addition. From my perspective it’s all about sharing ways to make it easy for new users to supercharge their CDVR management.
Then after that I thought, as a separate functionality, if OliveTin could help with discoverability. Because with the dynamic updating of the Collection now, we might not even know new channels have arrived. They are buried in lists hundreds deep. I appreciate the email updates OliveTin can manage but it’s not the same as seeing it when on the couch, looking at the UI on TV.
So if OliveTin could create a Channel Collection called “New,” (or “Recent Adds,” or “Recent Additions”) with the user being able to choose which source(s) are being tracked, that would be a majorly cool solution for anyone enjoying these FAST channels with hundreds of channels and new ones arriving all the time. It would put all of our recent additions from one, some or all pre-selected sources and then we could just browse in that Channel Collection from time to time to see “what’s new.”
I see this discussion forked off and I appreciate and applaud all of your efforts here. Amazing stuff!
