version-20231113.2159

Version 2023.11.13.2159

  • NEW: Built in Tailscale VPN support adds your Channels DVR Server to your tailnet
  • NEW: Imported movies now include movie trailers.
  • NEW: Improved onboarding for setting up Channels DVR Server for the first time
  • NEW: Home page now shows a snapshot of your library
  • NEW: Settings have been broken up into sections and moved to their own real Settings section
  • NEW: Source management for both live TV sources and personal media have been grouped together
  • NEW: Set which page in the web admin that you would like to load by default
  • NEW: Activity indicator in navigation drops down to show activity
  • NEW: Support for Xfinity NOW
  • NEW: Recordings and imported videos and episodes now inherit certain metadata from their parent when initially recorded or imported . Genres & Categories.
  • NEW: Sports event and Sports non-event category tags are now casted to the Category field in an airing when parsing EPG XML
  • NEW: Optional troubleshooting checks for Disk IO and Internet Speed Test
  • IMPROVED: After a recording completes, its tags will be updated to match the audio/video details
  • IMPROVED: Improved the performance of the Content Picker modal used when managing a Library Collection or Virtual Channel
  • IMPROVED: Trash is now found under Library in the main navigation
  • IMPROVED: Improved layout for management UIs in mobile for Library browsing, Library Collections, Channel Collections, Virtual Channels, DVR> Manage, API Explorer
  • IMPROVED: added Keep Settings to the batch actions
  • IMPROVED: Added pickleball to list of sports for use in On Later and Channel Collections
  • IMPROVED: Series ID and Team ID now support Includes and Exclude options in Advanced Passes
  • IMPROVED: Improved exporting of m3u/XMLTV – Categories are properly applied and not duplicated
  • IMPROVED: Custom Channels handles Event Title for Sports events properly
  • IMPROVED: Custom Channels support up to 750 stations imported via M3U
  • IMPROVED: Exported XMLTV now retains the proper source it was imported with. You’ll want to reload the xmltv of each of your Custom Channels sources to receive these changes and benefits.
  • IMPROVED: Provide better error messages when network ad blockers prevent HLS streams from being accessed
  • IMPROVED: Troubleshooting check to warn if a guide has not been assigned to a device
  • IMPROVED: Troubleshooting will alert if the router external IP is in the CGNAT IP space that would prevent port forwarding
  • IMPROVED: Unverified filter in DVR Manage will only return items that have commercials indexed that are not verified
  • IMPROVED: File Path is no longer showing for imported content in lists. You can find this information under View Details
  • IMPROVED: Faster ATSC3 tuning when transcoding
  • IMPROVED: Remote clients will get logged out less often
  • IMPROVED: Recordings on NESN and NESNPlus will now be retried when the stream is not live
  • IMPROVED: Transcoder updates for Raspberry Pi handling of scaling
  • IMPROVED: Check if a file contains binary or not before importing it as Personal Media
  • IMPROVED: Personal Media supports movies with year in square brackets
  • IMPROVED: File paths in episode listings are now hidden on mobile to prevent UI collisions
  • IMPROVED: Troubleshooting list now reports the current Chrome version
  • IMPROVED: Chromium build for Raspberry Pi, x86_64-based NAS
  • IMPROVED: Troubleshooting now warns when a DNS ad blocker is being used that could impact TV Everywhere streaming
  • FIXED: Hulu 2fa support
  • FIXED: Filtering by source in combination with another filter like Verified in DVR Manage, would not actually filter by the source
  • FIXED: Placeholder guide data could be added to the guide during network outages that displaced actual guide data. This will prevent future occurrences of the issue, but to resolve issues where it is currently being displayed, selecting Re-Download Entire Guide is required.
  • FIXED: Mapping guide data from XMLTV was not working reliably in a number of different cases
  • FIXED: Some PlayOn Cloud movies would not download
  • FIXED: Title link in Manage would not link to the actual show appropriately
  • FIXED: Virtual channels could have empty art
  • FIXED: In extreme rare cases, episodes were leaking into the /api/v1/movies API response
  • FIXED: Some path names were overflowing the UI
  • FIXED: EDL export option was causing commercials to be overwritten when refreshing metadata
  • FIXED: Some movies would not scan into Personal Media correctly
  • FIXED: Cookie issues when accessing multiple DVRs at home
  • FIXED: XMLTV data mapped to multiple custom channels would only populate on the first channel, unless LCN tags were present
  • FIXED: Some TVE errors were not properly captured and would cause confusing error messages
  • FIXED: Some panic messages in the logs
  • FIXED: TDS login would sometimes fail when it shouldn’t
  • FIXED: DVR would send invalid events to clients during shutdown that could cause client issues
  • FIXED: Panic that could happen with some malformed MPEG-TS packets in HLS streams