My TV Everywhere connection via YouTube TV was working fine until yesterday. Suddenly, no channels would load. I attempted to log out and back in, and it looks like Google now wants a captcha as part of the sign in process. I even created a brand new Google account to add to the family to attempt to login, and I still get the captcha. Does anyone have a workaround for this? Is there no way to push the prompt to the user to allow us to answer the captcha/2FA prompt?
Usually waiting a day fixes it. Also make sure no VPNs are enabled.
It's not feasible to do this for every channel and every recording
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Last week, I tried a pre-release version of Channels to try to get 4K streams on FS1 - since then, I have not been able to authorize FS1, FS2 and several other channels - this is all due to Captcha - I tried making 2 more Google accounts and tried deleting and re-installing YTTV as a TVE source - by the way I recommend that you do NOT do that because I could not add it back in due to (guess what) - CAPTCHA's - it was only after trying for 2 days then going back to my original YTTV login account that I was able to re-add YTTV, but still cannot authorize about 10-12 channels, including the Fox Sports Networks - I would be OK with having the CAPTCHA pushed to my phone in the hope that eventually it will stop when Google thinks that a person is logging in
I'm having this issue now as well. After updating to the latest pre-release I haven't been able to add yttv as a provider. Chrome is up to date, I've tried making 2 completely new gmail accounts w/o 2FA, no emails or associated numbers, added to family account and logged into NBC successfully before trying to add yttv as a provider. every time I'd get caught up on the NBC captcha.
Just in case it helps anyone else I wanted to follow up. I was able to get through after logging into the yttv app on my iphone. Logging in to yttv on the web didn't seem to authenticate it for some reason.
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Same issue here as well. Gets caught up in either the NBC or Google Captcha each time, even thought 2FA is turned off.
ETA: I found a workaround here, inspired by @kpar above: Log in via YTTV onto a phone. When I'd try to log into to TVE, it would both ask the app to confirm the login, and ask which of three numbers was displayed. I can't see the query (the channels DVR channel scan is still showing a circling arrow), but I guessed. Second time was the charm. 167 channels scanned.
Still no locals, however.
Bottom of the settings page under experimental features. Tick the box for locals.
Local Networks via TV Everywhere
Some major metropolitan area offer access to NBC, ABC, CBS and FOX stations via TV Everywhere
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OK now I'm having the same issue. I'm trying to add YTTV to my sources remotely (meaning from somewhere outside my home), and I'm getting stuck on the NBC captcha screen. I've logged into the NBC live website with the email address, logged into YTTV on my phone then tried to add the source, and I'm still getting stuck at the same point (the NBC captcha screen).
This is getting frustrating, so if someone can help, I'd appreciate it.
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How did you get YouTube TV added as a source? I can't even get that far to check...
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You need to state what you tried and what happened (or what was expected, but didn't happen)
Besides this topic, there are support Channels Support - TV Everywhere and knowledge articles Knowledge Base - Channels Community available
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Just canceled my Fubo TV account and signed up for YouTubeTV. I am also having the Captcha issue! 
This is very frustrating!!!
Probably should have tried the Youtube TV before canceling the Fubo TV. It has been known for a while that Youtube TV is not easy getting it to work with Channels due to Youtube TV login requirements/security.
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Not sure if you're seeing the latest topics on the forum.
They tend to get scattered about.
Was this removed? I do not see it on my setting page.
Do you have a TVE source?
Currently, no. I am guessing that is why it is missing from my page.
Thanks
A bunch of my YouTube TVE channels disappeared today. All the locals and CNN and MSNBC. Probably more than that.
Did rescans but they haven't showed back up. I can log on to CNN via the app with my YouTube TV account, however.
Edit: By deleting the YouTube TV source and re-adding it and then doing a scan, I got the channels back. Went from 90 to 158.
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I'm still having this same issue as well. Channel streams stopped working, when I rescanned the channels I went down to 90 from about 160, and then I removed the YTTV source and tried to re-add it and I cannot because I get the NBC Catcha every time. I've logged into NBC several times, I tried logging into YTTV on my phone, I've reset my YTTV password, 2FA is off - nothing works so far, I still get the NBC captcha and cannot login.
Real bummer since I haven't had any issues for the last 18 months. Will keep trying, seems somewhat random.
Hello,
I'm using Youtube TV with TVE and I'm getting 162 stations including the usual plus locals.
I had this same problem, and was finally able to resolve it. If you are running this on Windows, deleting the YouTubeTV folder from the C:\ProgramData\ChannelsDVR\data\chromedata\ helped with this issue. I had to do this to get YouTubeTV to add, then had to do it again for channels that failed authorization during the initial scan.