Some Samsung channels are using Widevine and not able to be played back in Channels.
STN is one of those:
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It's unfortunate but yeah STN will have to be piped in with a HDMI encoder.
unfortunately i cant even get that to work, I've tried for days. the only way i can get it to display is screensharing my phone to a Onn 4k tv, or a Roku but it looks rough compared to my s25/s8+ tab. when i do the built in app casting most channels don't even play and only show the Samsung TV+ logo. it tries to "load" the show for a few sec then logo forever. and a similar thing happens when i use a usbc to HDMI cable it just tries to load channel a few times then says something to the effect of not being able to connect to channel.
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my on only solution-ish that seems to work. the only samsung out of 4 of mine, and some family members that work (tab s8+, fold3, s25U, A23 freebie, brothers s9+) is my S25U, and the solution is to screen view cast to a roku, and that's the only combo that works. otherwise i get a endless loading channel on a tv, the phone says cannot load this channel, or i get a black feed in the video frame. the kicker with the roku is even with the phone and wifi AP a couple feet away, the thing will randomly dissconnect or freeze for up to 5 sec then speed up like 300x to catch back up.
Is it just a me thing, or has the linked generation stopped working; went to go watch a show this morning and the channels were just blank
Restart the docker container and try again.
If it fails, check the container log.
Disregard.....user error.
Sorry if this has been addressed previously, but I'm getting this error when I try and install in Portainer Stack:
Failed to deploy a stack: compose up operation failed: Error response from daemon: pull access denied for matthuisman/samsungtv, repository does not exist or may require 'docker login'
Check out Matt's repo and website and make sure you are using the correct image.
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Samsung TV Plus xml guide data is now 16 hours old
<tv generator-info-name="www.matthuisman.nz" generated-ts="1773032949">
Last generated Monday, March 9, 2026 at 5:09:09 AM GMT
thanks. looks like they have made a change. ill try investigate tonight
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EPG should be working again
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Thanks Matt. Working again this morning.
Is it just a Samsung Channels thing (source issue)? But many channels for each program, just give today's date for the episode season/number etc. It may give an episode description. Like for Top Gear UK, TV Land Sitcoms, AFV channels. Some channels just do not even have a episode series number data.
It seems the guide data has been vanishing for BBC World News for the last few days. Any suggestions? My time scheduled recordings do not record w/o the guide data and show scheduled recordings are missed (which makes sense unfortunately)
A cintainer update helped a couple months ago until recently.
Thank you. Just got FastChannels installed this week. Appreciated.
This worked great. One source pairs with Gracenotes and schedules far out. Thank you.
Good day. Samsung xml guides haven't been updated in 14 hours. Thank you
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EPG last generated Wednesday, May 27, 2026 at 4:21:38 AM UTC
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><!DOCTYPE tv SYSTEM "xmltv.dtd"><tv generator-info-name="www.matthuisman.nz" generated-ts="1779855698">
EPG issue being tracked here:
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