If Univision fixes their live website, let the developers know and they might add the channels back.
Channels TVE works by logging in the Univision website and streaming it to Channels DVR.
If you can't stream it using a browser, Channels DVR can't either.
Has nothing to do with Xfinity. Xfinity just tells Univision you subscribe to the Univision channels.
I can still log into the Univision website just fine using my provider credentials. I was still getting correct Channels guide information that matches what is on the Univision website that I see after logging in, so there is still a convenience for me to see the guide data in the same place I see all my other guide information so I don't have to jump around to multiple guides. I suspect there is simply a broken link/manifest that will be fixed when the right technicians at Univision become aware of it. I just don't know how they become alerted to such an issue.
They're not going to add the channels back until Univision has them working.
If the guide data is in Channels, users would complain they can't watch it or record it.
If you want, just add an Custom m3u using the gracenote station id's for the channels you want to see guide data for. But when a pass picks one of those fake channels to record, it's on you, not the developers.
You would still have to "jump around" outside of Channels DVR to watch or record it.
Okay - this is where I'm confused. I'm watching tv.univision.com right now having logged into it with my Comcast/Xfinity credentials and I'm screen recording a program (using Bandicam) that aired on Monday (by just scrolling the Live TV guide back a couple days and clicking on the show). I guess that means it is playing it in On Demand mode and it is only LiveTV that is generating the error.
So here's my question - what is the best way to tell when it starts to work again so that Channels can use it? Can I assume that as soon as I'm able to play LiveTV from their website it'll be ready to add it back into Channels? I hope it doesn't take long because screen recording is not long term sustainable, but it looks like I'd have to do it as long as I don't want to miss any episodes.
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If that happens, just post here which channel is working (UNIVISION, UNIMAS, GALAVISION or TUDN) and the website URL you're streaming it from.
A user says he's streaming from a TUDN website. Not sure what website.
I'm having the same problem more or less. Monday morning around 10am the Univision channels quit working on my Spectrum-TVE and it's like the channels no longer exist for channels DVR when you try to rescan them.
I believe the problem is definitely with Univision. If you check you'll see they have a newly designed webpage for wqtching live tv and their on demand programs.
If you go to Univision.com and click the "live" tab (using chrome for me) it takes you to https://tv.univision.com/ -- but it's a blank black screen. If you then refresh the browser the proper page loads and I am able to successfully watch both live and on demand programs on their website with my Spectrum credentials. But channels DVR doesn't find Univision and it's related channels when I scan for them for the Spectrum-TVE source. (I also have HDHomerunPrime as a source and Univision through Spectrum cable still works that way.)
I think the problem we're having is when channels DVR navigates to that broken page https://tv.univision.com/ it can't find anything because the page won't load unless you manually refresh it with a browser. In other words until Univision has a link that works properly when accessed channels DVR won't find it.
I haven't had the refresh problem that bbolly71 describes, but I was getting an error after selecting a program to watch live. After Screen Recording the last three days of a show I had missed, I went to "live" and all 7 channels on tv.univision.com/livetv played just fine without the error. I think Channels should try adding the Univision channels that were removed and see if anyone is able to play them because I'm not getting the errors anymore in the browser (unless perhaps it is a time of day thing).
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Trying a couple other ways, I discovered that my Firefox browser at work is the only one I use that produces the error I mentioned above. My computers at home and at work play Univision's LiveTV just fine from the Chrome browser where all I have to do is log into the site with the same Xfinity credentials I use with Channels DVR.
How can we get these channels added back in to Channels DVR? Screen recording is very inconvenient even if it does yield better quality (Xfinity distributes it in 720p whereas Univision plays it at 1080p).
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I get the error using Brave and Firefox, but it streams fine using the MS EDGE browser.
@tmm1 Can you add the Univision channels back?
Unless they went DRM, but it looks like regular MPEG DASH.
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I'm still not seeing any of the Univision channels listed for Xfinity TVE. I'm able to see them live just fine using my credentials on Univision: Stream Univision and UniMás Live with Chrome.
Perhaps because they haven't been added back in Channels DVR.
Can you stream TUDN at the website?
I can, and it's still available in Channels DVR, but it doesn't work there.
Perhaps Channels DVR doesn't support MPEG-DASH?
TUDN is gone now too
I think it's time to write-off Univision channels as Channels DVR TVE channels.
Some more TVE channels bite the dust
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That's bad news. If you record Univision programs it's so much easier to edit them from TVE than say HDHomerunPrime (which is still available through ChannelsDVR.)
I can live stream ALL of the Univision.tv Channels with my cable credentials, but I saw a second step to authentication on one of my browsers on one of my computers (I can't recall which one). Is that why ChannelsDVR is having trouble with it?
UNIMAS is the only (AFAIK) channel that is not HD on Comcast's cable lineup but IS HD on their TVE and Streaming lineups. Enamorandonos (Falling in Love) is the one show on UNIMAS that I record daily because they rotate guests into the program where it often takes up to several months to see their full story arc. I'm not sure how else I can record it other than to screen record the 2-hour program within the 4-day window Univision provides.
I have no idea. I'm not a Channels developer, just another user, like you.
I asked and there was no response, so I have to assume Channels DVR can't do MPEG-DASH.
Not that it matters, because whatever the issue is, the Univision live streams are no longer compatible with Channels DVR TVE.
It is what it is, I guess. The fubo bridge still works with those channels and obviously HDHR will give you Univisión and UniMas. A HDMI encoder/adbtuner or ah4c also an option
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How does HDHR give us Univision and UniMas? Doesn't it only pass the cable channels?
The stuff. the user is talking about is a little advanced.
Unfortunately the channels talked about in this post were removed from TVE.
The only way to get them back is to use the methods described above.
The options are fun to setup but they aren't designed for the basic user at least at setup.
If an option was setup for you, the channels can be enjoyed with little effort on your end.