That makes it looks like they added Discovery Family and dropped Cooking, Diy, Food and Travel.
Yikes-- and indeed, those are all display "Network Not in Your TV Package" when clicking on them on DIY/Science websites when linked to Philo.
Had a long chat with a Philo rep. They are escalating to their tier-2. Hopefully this is just a configuration bug related to the website rollout. Losing Food Network and Cooking Channel would significantly reduce the value of Philo for me.
Philo has has Discovery Family in their app since i started using it years ago.
But, that channel does not TVE stream I was told.
Very interesting point. Those descriptors are internal Discovery so unclear exactly how they match (though most seem obvious). There is another API that returns the channel available via the new sites:
161: TLC (tlc) (package=Tlc)
162: FOOD (food-network) (package=FoodNetwork)
163: DSC (discovery) (package=Discovery)
164: DLF (discovery-life) (package=DiscoveryLife)
165: IDS (investigation-discovery) (package=InvestigationDiscovery)
166: SCI (science) (package=Science)
167: APL (animal-planet) (package=AnimalPlanet)
168: OWN (own) (package=OprahWinfrey)
169: DAM (destination-america) (package=DestinationAmerica)
170: VEL (motortrend) (package=MotorTrend)
171: AHC (ahc) (package=AmericanHeroes)
172: HGTV (hgtv) (package=HomeAndGarden)
173: DIY (diy-network) (package=DiyNetwork)
174: COOK (cooking-channel) (package=Cooking)
175: TRAV (travel-channel) (package=Travel)
The channels are the possible live options, but ability to watch is via the package entitlements. To your point, DiscoveryFamilyGo is likely a non-TVE entitlement and maybe what controls access via the Philo app. Presumably Free means viewable without registration and Registration means viewable with website registration.
As of 8/24/2021 6pm Eastern, I cannot get DIY through channels, but Cooking, Travel, Food all are working in Channels. DIY is working in the Philo app itself.
Unlikely Philo would be dropping any channels.
The new streaming site uses a new auth backend, and Philo likely just needs to update the auth info they're sending over to discovery to allow TVE access.
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Appears that Discovery Family and Game Show Network are not available via a browser.
If you can believe their TVE list.
IIRC, DFC never had a live stream on their site, only Discovery Life; GSN only recently added a live stream, but it uses DRM and cannot be added to Channels.
I just lost TVE access to DIY today through Verizon Fios. I just sent you the logs ( bd54f867-7661-4be2-8afb-621bd6d2e9f5). Thanks in advance!
Looks like i have lost DIY through TVE with AT&T NOW as the provider. I had heard at one point that DIY was going to be sunset as part of a consolidation effort by Discovery and the new Discovery+ but i don’t think it was supposed to happen this soon.
Happy to submit logs if they are needed.
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Got a reply from Philo L2 asking me to try again. The issue is resolved. New Philo entitlements:
AmericanHeroes, AnimalPlanet, Cooking, DestinationAmerica, Discovery, DiscoveryLife, DiyNetwork, FoodNetwork, Free, HomeAndGarden, InvestigationDiscovery, MotorTrend, OprahWinfrey, Registered, Science, Tlc, Travel
Same as the ones from a week ago. L2 did not say (admit) somebody fixed something, but clearly a configuration issue was resolved on one side or the other. Can now tune DIY via the ScienceChannel website (and presumably via DIY as the new ones are all the same).
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New dvr prerelease build fixes DIY
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It's working now!
Thank you!
It didn't fix it for me. I'm on build 2021.08.24.2219 and when I try to rescan the DIY channel it says "403: Not permitted to watch. (access.denied.missingpackage)". Here are my logs: 22b45386-ad6e-4547-a7f2-59091412ad83. Thanks.
Not good for me sent logs ec5444b8-babb-4cc6-bdcf-8445ecd75481 latest pre release as of this morning. Build 2021.08.24.2219
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I had the same issue as well when I did a rescan in Channels DVR. So I went to the "diy Network" web site, clicked on watch live tab, linked my provider and the successfully linked poped up. I then did a rescan in Channels DVR and the scan took less than a second and it worked. I think their new format will require linking providers first for the other networks when they change them.
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Tried that and no go but I could login on the web, the app and directly through Philo but not in channels. Thanks
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Thanks for the suggestion, but it didn't work for me, either.
I also can't login DIY on Spectrum but that was always a hassle with the discovery network channels and that's why I got Philo to solve them.