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will 5.1 surround side ever be provided for TVE ?

None of the networks websites offer it

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Not sure if this issue is just limited to YouTube TV, but I thought I would post it here. One of my passes is recording duplicates. The show is Pardon The Interruption. From the logs:

2019/08/06 17:29:50 [DVR] Starting job 1565126990-34 Pardon the Interruption on ch=[6141]
2019/08/06 17:29:50 [DVR] Waiting 1h29m59.688786124s until next job 1565132390-35 MLB Baseball
2019/08/06 17:29:55 [TNR] Opened connection to TVE-YouTubeTV for ch6141 ESPN2
2019/08/06 17:29:55 [DVR] Recording for job 1565126990-34 from TVE-YouTubeTV ch6141 into "TV/Pardon the Interruption/Pardon the Interruption 2001-10-15 2019-08-06-1729.mpg" for 31m9.688705116s
2019/08/06 17:29:56 [IDX] Generating video index for job 1565126990-34
2019/08/06 18:01:05 [TNR] Closed connection to TVE-YouTubeTV for ch6141 ESPN2
2019/08/06 18:01:05 [MTS] Statistics for "TV/Pardon the Interruption/Pardon the Interruption 2001-10-15 2019-08-06-1729.mpg": skipped=0 unhandled_packets=0 discontinuity_detected=5 transport_errors=0 invalid_pts=0 invalid_dts=0 saw_pcr=false saw_pmt=true highest_pts=1881.829033
2019/08/06 18:01:05 [DVR] Finished job 1565126990-34 Pardon the Interruption
2019/08/06 18:01:06 [DVR] Waiting 58m43.808092381s until next job 1565132390-35 MLB Baseball
2019/08/06 18:01:06 [DVR] Processing file-731: TV/Pardon the Interruption/Pardon the Interruption 2001-10-15 2019-08-06-1729.mpg
2019/08/06 18:01:07 [DVR] Running commercial detection on file 731 (TV/Pardon the Interruption/Pardon the Interruption 2001-10-15 2019-08-06-1729.mpg)
2019/08/06 18:16:20 [DVR] Commercial detection finished with 4 markers.
<snip>
2019/08/06 22:29:52 [TNR] Opened connection to TVE-YouTubeTV for ch6143 ESPNEWS
2019/08/06 22:29:52 [DVR] Recording for job 1565144990-34 from TVE-YouTubeTV ch6143 into "TV/Pardon the Interruption/Pardon the Interruption 2001-10-15 2019-08-06-2229.mpg" for 31m9.701657951s
2019/08/06 22:29:53 [IDX] Generating video index for job 1565144990-34
<snip>
2019/08/06 23:01:02 [TNR] Closed connection to TVE-YouTubeTV for ch6143 ESPNEWS
2019/08/06 23:01:02 [MTS] Statistics for "TV/Pardon the Interruption/Pardon the Interruption 2001-10-15 2019-08-06-2229.mpg": skipped=0 unhandled_packets=0 discontinuity_detected=28 transport_errors=0 invalid_pts=0 invalid_dts=0 saw_pcr=false saw_pmt=true highest_pts=1882.226967
2019/08/06 23:01:02 [DVR] Finished job 1565144990-34 Pardon the Interruption
2019/08/06 23:01:02 [DVR] Waiting 32m47.176143596s until next job 1565148830-7 The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2019/08/06 23:01:02 [DVR] Processing file-733: TV/Pardon the Interruption/Pardon the Interruption 2001-10-15 2019-08-06-2229.mpg
2019/08/06 23:01:03 [DVR] Running commercial detection on file 733 (TV/Pardon the Interruption/Pardon the Interruption 2001-10-15 2019-08-06-2229.mpg)
2019/08/06 23:10:29 [DVR] Commercial detection finished with 4 markers.

Based on what I've read here on the forums, Channels generally really doesn't like to record the same episode more than once, so this seems odd to me. I see they recorded from different channels. Perhaps this is a guide issue (episode IDs are different)? Actually, I just watched the recording from 5:30PM, and it not Pardon the Interruption. It's actually "Highly Questionable". Did Channels somehow magically know this, and record PTI for real on a later channel? I'm glad it actually got the show, but I don't understand exactly what is happening here so I wanted to share.

See "Pardon the Interruption" recording duplicates

Thanks for the quick response, as usual. I searched for "duplicates" before posting this and didn't see that thread. Sorry.

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Just want to say this is running great and is a game changer for me. As an unexpected bonus, it lets me have my youtube tv on my firesticks now since it is not supported by amazon yet natively. And all of the "premium" channels I get on YTTV can be comskipped. My WMC box and Spectrum->hdhomerun prime could never do that! Bummer about not working on the shield, but I have it on a mini-PC and so far so good. THANKS!!!!

@soccerdad could you tell me which channels you consider "premium" channels?

From the youtube web site what I consider premium is AMC Premiere, EPIX, SHOWTIME and STARZ (and more). But my understanding is these premium channels are not supported via TVE.

And how many channels do you have. I have 133 from DTVN but only 113 from Hulu Live.

Lastly, as far as I know, only PS VUE supports CNN and other Turner Channels from these streaming services.

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Trying to add Youtube TV to my channels dvr to try it out while i cant access spectrum STILL. Getting the chrome auth_timed_out error have tried multiple timers different pc's, dfferent browsers. This is on Ubuntu very very latest beta build 2019.08.14.0406

can you help?
I installed channels on a windows pc and was able to add youtube tv but not ubuntu

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I consider premium channels anything that I could not record freely in WMC. So basically anything beyond the OTA networks. I don't pay for anything really premium on YTTV like SHOWTIME. My (unclear) point is that I can use comskip on far more channels with Channels DVR/TVE then I could with WMC. I get around 105 channels from TVE on YTTV. But this is still great for what I watch.

You mentioned both a windows and Ubuntu PC. Which of those two is currently running the Channels DVR software?

I'm seeing a similar issue running in Docker on Ubuntu

Logs:

2019/08/16 15:50:14 [TVE] action=auth mvpd=YouTubeTV requestor=nbcentertainment
2019/08/16 15:50:15 [TVE] action=navigate url=https://sp.auth.adobe.com/adobe-services/authenticate/saml?noflash=true&mso_id=YouTubeTV&requestor_id=nbcentertainment&no_iframe=true&domain_name=adobe.com&redirect_url=https%3A%2F%2Fsp.auth.adobe.com%2Fadobe-services%2FcompletePassiveAuthentication
2019/08/16 15:50:15 [TVE] action=request type=Document method=GET url=https://sp.auth.adobe.com/adobe-services/authenticate/saml
2019/08/16 15:50:15 [TVE] action=wait_for_page
2019/08/16 15:50:15 [TVE] action=request type=Document method=POST url=https://youtube.auth-gateway.net/saml/saml2/idp/SSOService.php
2019/08/16 15:50:15 [TVE] action=auth_domain domain=youtube.auth-gateway.net
2019/08/16 15:50:15 [TVE] action=request type=Document method=GET url=https://youtube.auth-gateway.net/saml/module.php/authbypass/firstbookend.php
2019/08/16 15:50:15 [TVE] action=request type=Document method=GET url=https://youtube.auth-gateway.net/saml/module.php/authbypass/firstbookend.php
2019/08/16 15:50:15 [TVE] action=request type=Document method=GET url=https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/auth
2019/08/16 15:50:16 [TVE] action=request type=Document method=GET url=https://accounts.google.com/signin/oauth
2019/08/16 15:50:22 [TVE] action=page_ready
2019/08/16 15:50:22 [TVE] action=wait_for_page done=true reason=page_ready
2019/08/16 15:50:24 [TVE] action=fill_form [email protected]
2019/08/16 15:50:24 [TVE] action=wait_for_auth
2019/08/16 15:50:36 [TVE] action=auth_timed_out
2019/08/16 15:50:36 [TVE] action=screenshot
2019/08/16 15:50:36 [TVE] Auth failed for YouTubeTV: chrome auth_timed_out```

Thanks tmm1 for these great instructions. I turned off 2FA and logged into the https://nbc.com/live as suggested and then added YouTubeTV to the DVR everywhere. I've only viewed a couple channels but so far so good. I'll set up a few recordings tonight but this is a real winner IMO. TIVO and the cable companies no longer have a stranglehold over people and for that, I'm grateful. It's people like you who understand we always could record things we wanted to keep with VCR's and DVD recorders until everything started going digital and then they wanted to take those capabilities away so they could charge more. Thanks again for all the hard work and dedication to this product.

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anyone know why TCM is not included with TVE with
YTTV? Great integration, BTW..Love it with my OTA channels

You tube tv didn't want to pay for Access

Try your login on http://www.tcm.com/watchtcm/livestream to see if it works.

Nope..YTTV not in provider list for WatchTCM..hope this changes

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Started to get auth_timed_out errors yesterday. Interestingly, exactly a month since I added the source. I was able to remove it and re-add it tonight, will see if breaks again next month.

I keep getting the same error. "encountered exception 'Uncaught' (70:59)

What does this mean? What is blocking the access? I am using chrome on windows 7.

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You need to email [email protected] with the Log messages and the screenshot shown under that error.