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#62

I'm seeing duplicates of certain stations since the recent updates. First I noticed is there are 2 Star Trek stations at 150, before there was a secondary one that repeated the same several episodes over and over again without commercials. Now that's the only one available, and 2 channel 150s appear in the list.

When loading Manage lineup it appears like this:

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If I click on one of them they both become Star Trek2:

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This was happening with both the Docker container and php versions Wednesday night/Thursday morning. It happens on several stations that I bothered to select, CSI being another one I recall.

Docker container version is 1.2.8, php version is updated by @HankLloydRight so I can't give any version info there.

#63

I saw the same thing last night. I don't know where the source of the bug is (see next posts). Here's an example for Star Trek -- they both have channel number 150:

#EXTINF:0 channel-id="star-trek-1" channel-number="150" tvg-logo="http://images.pluto.tv/channels/5efbd39f8c4ce900075d7698/colorLogoPNG.png" tvc-guide-art="http://images.pluto.tv/channels/5efbd39f8c4ce900075d7698/featuredImage.jpg?fill=blur&fit=fill&fm=jpg&h=562&q=75&w=1000" tvc-guide-title="Star Trek" tvc-guide-description="Boldly go to the channel that brings you Star Trek: The Next Generation, along with the USS Enterprise’s big-screen adventures, all day long." group-title="Entertainment", Star Trek

#EXTINF:0 channel-id="star-trek-2" channel-number="150" tvg-logo="http://images.pluto.tv/channels/5f77879983bec60007e2a196/colorLogoPNG.png" tvc-guide-art="http://images.pluto.tv/channels/5f77879983bec60007e2a196/featuredImage.jpg?fill=blur&fit=fill&fm=jpg&h=562&q=75&w=1000" tvc-guide-title="Star Trek 2" tvc-guide-description="Boldly go to the channel that brings you Star Trek: The Next Generation, along with the USS Enterprise’s big-screen adventures, all day long." group-title="Pluto TV", Star Trek 2

Any of the channels where there's a -1 and -2 channels with the same name has this problem, including Nosey, Love and hip-hop, CSI, and others.

Additionally, in the tvOS app, hangs for about a minute when browsing the guide on the double channels and then the on-screen guide also changes both to the "2" version.

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#64

Looks like it's in the source data direct from Pluto:

{"_id":"5efbd39f8c4ce900075d7698","slug":"star-trek-1","name":"Star Trek","hash":"#StarTrek","number":150,"summary":"Boldly go to the channel that brings you Star Trek: The Next Generation, along with the USS Enterprise’s big-screen adventures, all day long."

{"_id":"5f77879983bec60007e2a196","slug":"star-trek-2","name":"Star Trek 2","hash":"#StarTrek2","number":150,"summary":"Boldly go to the channel that brings you Star Trek: The Next Generation, along with the USS Enterprise’s big-screen adventures, all day long."
#65

If you switch back to "Ignore channel numbers from M3U" it works again.

Also, wasn't there a ST:TOS channel? I can't find it now. Just two TNG channels.

#66

No, just the one Star Trek channel that does all series.

The Pluto Docker has been like this forever, it's not new. It's coming from Pluto for some odd reason and part of the reason I originally switched to ignoring channel numbers (aside from the overlap with real channels from other services).

#67

But there are two distinct ST streams with different programming on them.

#68

Huh, I thought the 2nd one was just the same programming, but apparently not. I've had it unfavorited for so long that I hadn't seen it's weird guide data. It looks like the channel is caught in some type of temporal loop:

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The metadata is messed up, too:

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I took a look at the m3u and every channel that has a "2" or a "3" version has a group-title="Pluto TV" in its code line as opposed to one of the intended categories:

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#69

On the https://nocords.xyz/ home page, I added a line to indicated the pluto-for-channels version running on the backend:

Running pluto-for-channels version: 1.2.8

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#70

StarTrek2 channel has always been there, but it shows no commercials and plays the same 7-8 episodes in a loop, or this was how it was when I investigated when the Pluto container was first released.

#71

I am working on improving the guide data, so specifics about which channels and programs are not acting well would be appreciated.

Hello Aman, my Series Passes are not recording from PlutoTV channels. For example, Midsomer Murders episodes are recording from OTA PBS stations, but not the eponymous PlutoTV channel. Thanks.

#72

You would need a separate pass for the Pluto guide data

#73

Thank you Aman. I see that Series passes for PlutoTV have a unique Series Pass ID. Is there a way to combine the 2 so it doesn't record programs already in the DVR?

#74

No

#75

excellent work! Only problem is it only shows 1 day of guide. How can we see the full guide?

#76

You only get 12hrs of guide for Pluto