Provider - YouTube TV

tmm1 · July 25, 2019, 5:13pm

Please use this thread to discuss experiences and channel availability for YouTube TV.

Current Status: Moderate support for TVE, including many major channels.

Select your provider here Channels Support - TV Everywhere Availability to see what channels might be available with Channels DVR TVE

NOTE: that if you have 2FA enabled on your Google account, you will not be able to use it with Channels DVR. You can create a secondary family account login and use that instead: Create & manage a shared YouTube TV membership, or family group - YouTube TV Help

NOTE: If you have Channels DVR running on the NVidia SHIELD, then YouTube TV login is not supported.

TIP: For best results, before adding your YouTube TV account to Channels DVR, first visit https://nbc.com/live and login there to authorize TVE access.

TallTxn provided a link to the YouTube TV Help site showing what TVE channels are available in this post.

herbertmiller · July 25, 2019, 8:32pm

Amad finally got everything set up and working great! I think this is a Game Changer, have wanted something like this for some time! Thanks!!!!

DebbieFL · July 25, 2019, 10:42pm

Can you post a screenshot of your channel listing?

TIA

Macnbaish · July 26, 2019, 3:15am

Set it up tonight, found 99 channels, although I noticed during the scan it said there could be up to nearly 150. It's very cool, years ago I thought this is what Apple needed to do. A single interface that could integrate antenna and OTT, as well as DVR. I did have a couple of channels that looked like duplicates or something odd, and could not be tuned. Found this in the log, hopefully it will help you figure it out:

2019/07/25 22:11:54 [ERR] Could not start stream for TVE-YouTubeTV ch6206 FS-RSN-FSOH5A: TVE: unimplemented channel
2019/07/25 22:12:13 [ERR] Could not start stream for TVE-YouTubeTV ch6207 FS-RSN-FSOPKY2: TVE: unimplemented channel

The only other thought is a general comment. I noticed when first tuning a channel, there were some instances where the channel appeared and played for a few seconds, and then froze for a bit, before resuming. After that, it seemed ok. This didn't happen every time. Perhaps it just needs to buffer a bit more before starting initial playback?

jrcorwin · July 26, 2019, 4:04am

So...with this feature...what is the actual feed source? Are we going to get full 60fps on channels like ESPN?

tmm1 · July 26, 2019, 4:06am

The TVE feeds come from the network websites, i.e. espn.com. Yes the ESPN feed is 60fps.

sjsaleem · July 26, 2019, 2:58pm

I’m getting chrome auth_timed_out error on YoutubeTV. I removed 2FA from my account and I still cannot authenticate.

Please help me

sjsaleem · July 26, 2019, 7:58pm

I got it working now.

tmm1 · July 26, 2019, 9:14pm

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cchapman1701 · July 29, 2019, 7:04pm

Is the Nvidia Shield issue a bug with YTTV login or will it never be allowed if my Channels DVR is on my Shield?

tmm1 · July 29, 2019, 7:57pm

YTTV is blocking logins from the SHIELD so we don't expect to be able to make that work.

LTY4 · July 31, 2019, 4:59am

What did you do to fix this? I'm running into the same error, so curious if there's something I can try. Thanks!

tmm1 · July 31, 2019, 5:01am

If you're having problems please email [email protected] with a screenshot of the error and the logs from the Log tab.

sjsaleem · July 31, 2019, 3:42pm

Worked after a couple of tries. Please try deleting cookies and new window.

epakrat · July 31, 2019, 4:37pm

Just noticed here today that Shield Experience v8 was released - https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/shield/software-update/

Does Philo work on the Shield for TVE where YouTube TV does not?

Does this change anything as far as YouTube TV logins being blocked?

Has anyone upgraded to this yet to determine compatibility / incompatibility with Channels in general concerning TVE experiences?

Wizard · July 31, 2019, 6:20pm

Does this record 5.1 surround or only stereo audio?

Richard_smith · July 31, 2019, 6:31pm

Stereo

LTY4 · July 31, 2019, 7:25pm

Thanks! This is in a Docker container so I'm working with headless Chrome. I've got an e-mail into Support as of last night, so I'm hopeful they can give me some advice.

air360 · July 31, 2019, 7:41pm

Whoa this is a game changer. I’ve been hoping YouTube tv would be supported as it was the service that was closest to what we have with traditional cable. I may seriously look at going internet only now.

Cpharada · August 1, 2019, 3:03pm

I followed your advise above, set up NBC account online and then added the youtube tv source. Works like a charm! It found 96 channels. My subscription is for 82 channels.
Also, I heard PBS would be avail soon!