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@kineticman kineticman released this 19 Jun 02:59

Decent-sized one this time — a new source, a way to vet new channels before they hit your lineup, and a bunch of guide niceties. If you've been wanting more control over what lands in your feeds, this is the release for you.

🆕 New source: FreeCast

  • Another pile of free, ad-supported live channels.
  • Streams resolve fresh at play time so they don't go stale, and their ad-stitched (DAI) channels work properly.
  • Auto-detects language from descriptions, so non-English channels get tagged right.
  • Comes with EPG (ranked "partial," so better guide data from other sources wins when channels overlap).

✨ What's new

Review new channels before they go live

  • New channels from a scrape can now sit in a holding pen instead of dumping straight into your feeds.
  • Flip it on globally, or set it per-source (auto-add / hold for review / inherit).
  • New "Needs review" filter + a NEW badge so you can spot them.
  • Clear them however you like: enable, disable, or the new "Keep Disabled" (reviewed, but not in feeds). One at a time or in bulk.

Guide stuff

  • A–Z scrubber rail to jump around fast.
  • Search now matches channel names, not just show titles.
  • It remembers your recent searches too.

Channels page

  • Rotating/featured slots are now flagged, with a "Content Swapped" card on the Changes report when a slot swaps out what it's airing.
  • Resolution badges (HD/FHD/4K/HEVC) finally show up for opaque sources like STIRR.
  • New English / Non-English language grouping.
  • A little nudge pill on the cleanup button when there are dead channels to clear.

More channels

  • Added Kaloopy and a batch of free 24/7 news & live channels to the catalog.
  • STIRR now grabs better EPG from their export feed.

Behind the scenes

  • Everything's on one shared player now, so playback's more consistent across the guide, watch page, and previews.

🐛 Fixes

A bunch this round — the ones worth knowing about:

  • Fixed stale Gracenote IDs sticking to rotating slots (was throwing wrong guide/DVR data on featured channels).
  • Samsung + YouTube playback/preview fixes (plus a Samsung logo cert error).
  • STIRR playback/audit fixes on older CDNs, and recovered descriptions that were getting cut off.
  • Bally Sports no longer drops channels on certain CDN subdomains.
  • Smoothed out database locking on big scrapes (batched EPG pruning, edit retries).
  • Amazon login stopped throwing false "not signed in" errors.

Plus the usual smaller cleanup — custom-channel previews, text sanitizing, EPG timestamps.

⬆️ Updating

Pull the new image and bounce the container:

docker compose -f docker-compose.ghcr.yml pull && docker compose -f docker-compose.ghcr.yml up -d

Your data and settings carry over.