Not sure what I'm doing wrong, but I could use some ideas. The streamlinks created through this great plugin are working fine on my Shield and PC, but I get a "Connection Lost" error message and "Recording Corrupted" when I try to play through an Android phone. Any thoughts?
Maybe more than just at CDVR users. 
I was at lunch today with a couple friends, and we were talking about what is on our “to watch list”. I pulled up a Personal Section in Channels that had several shows I want to watch from different streaming services. They were blown away when I explained how it worked, as one of them had just been lamenting that he can’t see in one place all the shows he wants to watch.
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Exactly! I brought it up at a dinner party this weekend too, lol.
There’s always been sites like ReelGood and JustWatch to keep track of our queues. Or “Up Next” on tvOS, for almost everything, except Netflix of course. Now finally with CDVR + SLM we have a single platform that can aggregate our shows and movie collection in a very personalized way. And it’s not just for tracking the shows but it’s also a launchpad to organize and view them, that actually works. My friends were impressed. Suffice it to say that conversation will likely be bringing in new CDVR users soon.
SLM got me really appreciating the stream link format! I’m pretty sure Kodi supports them too. Not Plex though.
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I don't think it's you. I'm also having a weird one on Android Mobile where the Stream Links are opening in a browser instead of opening the apps. @anizocani, @maddox, @tmm1, @eric, submitted diagnostics: f6900b08-7d96-45b6-8f74-8cff00a43dad
I know Kodi supports Stream Files, but I haven't been able to confirm if they could actually support Stream Links. Maybe someone who has it could let me know and what would be necessary to support their setup. I don't even want to bother dusting off my Lifetime Plexpass to try integrating anything into that dumpster fire.
I believe I'll make a small demo video, like less than 8 minutes, demonstrating the functionality as a general concept. You know, just adding a Movie, adding a show, doing some of the overrides, showing what happens in Channels... just kind of bare usage stuff. Then, I was also thinking about doing a write-up on Medium and Vocal, more narrative focused about the journey of trying to find and create a unified media solution that just works.
In the meantime, @maddox, how about the next "Channels Update" email highlights some of the community projects like this one, Project One-Click, EPlusTV, Pluto/Plex/Tubi, etc.... I know there is the Community Contributed Projects area on the main webpage, but I don't know how many users (existing or new) ever visit that page or saw the Mastodon post. Looks like the page could use a bit of an update, too, with a lot of great recent additions!
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I'm curious if anyone else is seeing this. I add "Last Week Tonight" on MAX and generate stream links. It pulls in links for season 10 for the entire season. However it only pulls in links for season 11 to episode 16. Season 11 episode 23 is the latest episode. I don't understand why it is not populating episodes 17-23.
If you follow these steps, you'll see:
It looks like JustWatch only has the "Max on Amazon" and "Spectrum" links while missing regular "Max" links from episode 17 onward. You'll have to take it up with them as highlighted in the process above.
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Unfortunately the AppleTV workaround I mentioned above doesn't work with that season either since JustWatch doesn't list that service offering it. When I tried, it just assigned the same MAX links you got. The AppleTV service only offers S8.
Hopefully with our reports to JustWatch, they will fix these underlying issues.
I'm really enjoying the new features — this feels so polished.
One thought I had while using it today was whether it would make sense (or if it is even possible) to have the search results show what services the show/movie appears on. I had somebody recommend a couple shows to me today, and say, "They're on Netflix." I just added them using SLM, but the show names were fairly generic names, and I had several options to pick from in the search results. I had to do some searching elsewhere (such as checking the release date and look up the poster art) to make sure I was picking the right ones.
Just a heads up for the stream link lovers out there. We added new Smart Rules to help filter your content, including rules for if TV Shows have stream links.
If you’re managing Personal Sections, these might come in handy:
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Earlier, I said (buried in a much larger response):
I did look more into doing this, and it is still very possible, but would be a pretty big POA. I laid some groundwork into the code in case I did decide to pull the trigger. However, I'm also concerned about processing time. Right now, results are fairly instant. To make this happen, basically, for every title, I'd have to loop through and find all its offers and then send that to html, and the webpage has to render that in its own loop. Meanwhile, it is already in a loop of the search results themselves, so it would be a loop in a loop.
I might spend some time kicking it around, but no promises on this request!
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