That makes sense! I really appreciate the explanation.
I suppose I didn't understand as I rarely watch anything live. I can't stand commercials. So, I pre-record everything. I even start recording some shows which I end up watching live, just to create a recorded buffer. Then, I can skip through commercials and catch up by the end of the live broadcast.
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That's a good way to do it too -- no doubt. This is just an alternative approach that some like (including me), especially for those of us that use a two screen approach to watching TV.
For example, as I'm typing this Titanic is on the big screen (premium channel), which I've seen many times -- and even owned on DVD. I know it well enough, I can enjoy "watching it", without giving it 100% of my attention.
I set it up earlier today when I was watching one of my virtual channels, and the auto switch happened when the movie started. I haven't touched the remote since this morning. This just offers another option for your TV experience. 
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Most of our movie collection falls into that category of not requiring 100% attention. I'll have to give your channel changing idea a try. It's another example of how much flexibility Channels DVR offers. Sweet!
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Gotta say, being able to exclude channels from Comskip processing is still one of my favorite OliveTin-for-Channels features. Perfect for premium movie channels and PBS:
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Thanks for the reminder 
Moved Sources from one server to another and it's so much trouble to update
Source Priorities, Channel numbers, Hidden&Favorites, Passes, cron jobs, Fake Channels pointing to Real Channels, Comskip Disabled, etc 
Does anyone have a working sample for the "environment variables" section for MacOS (preferably with ChannelsDVR on a NAS)? I have Docker and Portainer working (I think), but I'm stuck at what the environment variables/Docker Compose section would look like.
I have ChannelsDVR running on a NAS (WD MyCloudEX2Ultra). Thanks for your help.
You might want to try the new OliveTin EZ-Start option I launched yesterday. It allows you to spin-up OliveTin with just two env vars, and then you can use an OliveTin Action to figure out the rest:
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Great idea! Does this also work with OTA channels? I just tried turning off Comskip processing for my local PBS (on channel 28.1) but got this error:
I'm seeing that too. Easy fix. I'll push an update tomorrow.