Anybody getting 500 errors when searching for shows?
Not too sure whats causing that. Just happened today when searching for "Love Through A Prism"
Everything has floating tool tips so you can see them when they are cut off:
Exactly, editing is for special use cases, not everyday activity. This last major update was made so you wouldn't have to use the edit area 99% of time, and then just quickly one-time when you do. Stick to the big buttons in Automation to avoid the need to work in that screen if it's an issue for you:
These are the problems and the solutions. I can't keep adding buttons every time there is a new feature, and I can't keep giving some buttons prominence over others. It became impossible to maintain. This is the tradeoff. Now I can add, remove, and modify all actions at any time with very minor modifications. I did put them in what I found the most useful order, but if you have suggestions to change the order, it's simple enough to implement. Or I might be able to do something where you control the order so I don't have to worry about upsetting a different group of users. In the long run, I'd like to be more modular and user-controlled, and this is the first step.
SLM is not designed for either of these use cases and cannot be supported at this time. A full-sized screen with a mouse interface are expected. Maybe in the future there are changes or simplified vs. complete interfaces can be added, but not anytime soon.
Not having any Movie/TV Show search issues. There are some hiccups in the video search, I believe related to a change Google rolled out. Fixing that one is is going to be a bigger challenge:
I got another new issue too. I can't even use slm. It suddenly stopped working. I can't connect to the webui. I removed the image and redownloaded it and still the same thing. Also, looks like justwatch is producing 403 errors
It might mean JustWatch has soft banned your IP. It happened to me before during some testing when I tried to make things more efficient and hit them too hard. The only solution I had was releasing my IP address at the router and getting a new one. Once I had another one, everything could connect again.
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Oof...gonna have to go home later on and do that.
I greatly appreciate all you have done by creating SLM and It's made my family's TV viewing much nicer. It's so nice to have everything in one place. Please take all my comments/suggestions as a desire to help. I used to be a systems engineer and get the challenges you are facing.
Then why is it first?
You are correct, the overcomplicated feature set is complicating support. There is beauty in simplicity.
Modular code is great. User configurable, well watch out for where that goes.
This is unfortunate and I can see it being a major effort to rewrite the interface. Possibly a wrapper app that takes care of the most common tasks could be produced as a phone app.
The "New and Updated" box might be better named "What's new to watch on each service?"
It's not how we find things yet an interesting feature. For me the most important feature is "Search" as It's what I use when I want to add a show. When I get a hit on a show I want to add, there are so many choices? Why would I want anything other than add it? That drop down is busy and confusing.
I'm not a heavy user of as I add a show or movie at most a few times a month and then I may add nothing for a month or so. The lack of use exposes me to the complexity of the interface as the next time I come back to use SLM I don't remember the sequence I used the previous time. I'm reading the long list of options and scratching my head. Add to this that the interface keeps changing. I put the effort in to get my shows in as once I do the payback is huge. My wife who is an ex IT trainer will no use SLM. The inconvenience of going to a computer or even opening her laptop does not match the way somone interacts with at TV and the interface set her off even more.
You have the basics of a killer app that you could sell a huge number of copies of. The story is a lot like how Channels DVR started. Right now SLM is a hobby for you and possibly you want to keep it that way. I'd certainly pay for having all my viewing in one place. I love what you have created and appreciate all the effort and that you share this with us.
Morris
Please check out this Wiki article; it's all explained there:
My philosophy is there, too:
Aren't we all (among many other titles, my preference was always "Solutions Architect")! 
I understand work can be done and SLM can be a lot more, but I just don't have the bandwidth. I've got it working for me, who is my most important customer! I was planning to take a few months away from all of this stuff (Channels board included), but the YouTube playback issues pulled me back in temporarily. Once I release a patch for that and a couple of other small backend things, I'll be disapearing for a while again.
I do read your documentation and have watched the videos that apply. I get the level of effort and you have done great things for our community. Enjoy your time off!
Thank you,
Morris
Getting a new IP worked. Hope I don't have to do that again. I guess SLM went haywire and tripped up justwatch's anti-bot detection. Wild but ok
I just added Paramount Plus Premium as a streaming service in SLM. I then added shows and movies that I wish to stream. Stream links were generated. In the Channels DVR app on my Google TV, when I click the watch button I get the following:
You don't have an app that can do this
The Paramount Plus app is installed and works fine. I get this for any of the shows or movies.
Do any of you have a fix for this?
Thank you
Can you post the link it is generating? I don't do software development in these areas, but I think these work by generating URLs that the streaming box "intercepts" to then open up the correct application on the device.
From a quick Google search, the URL prefix/intent for that app is: paramountplus://
I use an Apple TV and am in the middle of re-working my Docker containers, so I don't have this up locally at the moment, but Paramount Plus was working correctly for me a couple of weeks ago.
Try going to Google, then to "AI Mode", and having a conversation with Gemini about this. It will likely understand and solve your issue. Trying to resolve it may require manually manipulating the files that SLM generates, which, if I remember correctly, are just those URLs.
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Yes the stream files contain a url and this is a sample from one:
https://www.paramountplus.com/shows/star-trek-picard/video/p_F16OmokbFpnKJC64lcdoP9_MdR1I7D/star-trek-picard-remembrance
Googling I found this format:
intent://paramountplus/…
And it doesn't launch the app. I also tried the format you suggested and the app did not launch.
Plex is unable to launch the Paramount Plus app as well.
Thank you for the suggestions,
Morris
See above:
TL;DR, Skydance wrote their Android app wrong and you'll have to try to adjust to get to a basic app launch at all with a Stream Link Map.
On the other hand, they wrote the Apple app correctly, which is why it works fine there and in the web. Again, the problem is the Android Manifest and the have to fix it. That is also why other things like Plex, JustWatch, Reelgood, etc... can't do it, either.
As of this version...
... this should hopefully not be an issue ever again. Additionally, non-SLM users are no longer required to be able to connect to JustWatch at all!
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Thank you for having a look. I went through all your documentation before posting and tried all the suggestions. All streamlinks works fine except ParamountPlus and no matter what I place in the streamlink file the app doesn't launch. HTTPS:// launches a web browser (if one is installed) yet then I run into web issues with ParramontPlus. Without a web browser installed I get no application found to launch the app. I like their content yet there website and app need a lot of work.
Right now instead of clicking watch, I press a button on my remote to launch Paramount Plus, and then deal with launching inside the app. Then return to Channels DVR to delete the movie or show. At least I can track my content.
Is the mapping of the stream link to the application done by Channels or Android? The example in the Channels Documentation makes me think they do it and what is in the Channels DVR documentation does not work.
Possibly I need to report this to them.
Per above:
Thank you,
I wonder what the odds of reaching somone that would understand this. I'll find out.
Morris
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A lot, if not all, my HBOMax streamlinks seem to link to the ASL version of the show. I did not select this in SLM. Anything that can be done to get it to point to the correct version of the show? Example, today it opened up The Pitt (with ASL) rather than just The Pitt.
I don't know if there is a setting in HBO Max for ASL that might have been activated or something because it seems off that they'd have specific versions of the show with that, but I suppose anything is possible (Disney+/Hulu keeps creating separate versions of English dubbed content instead of just having another audio / CC track).
Verify on HBO Max's website if the deep links are the same or different, then verify on JustWatch what they are using. If there is a gap, follow the directions in Troubleshooting / FAQ: