FastChannels 4.9.0

FastChannels 4.9.0 — What's New

New source: C-SPAN

• Dedicated scraper for the C-SPAN networks — C-SPAN 1, 2, and 3, plus the House & Senate floor feeds, Washington Journal, and live congressional/committee events.
• Handles the messy live/VOD reality: rolls with floor-session "Part" changes instead of freezing, serves an ended session as VOD rather than failing, and falls back gracefully when a network goes off-air.
• No login or config — just enable it and scrape.

New source: Philo (premium)

• Adds your Philo lineup via the PrismCast DRM bridge (same model as the other premium/DRM sources).
• Passwordless sign-in: enter your email, drop in the code Philo texts/emails you, done.
• Ships disabled by default — enable and sign in when you're ready.

Vidaa upgraded to 2.0

• Vidaa now runs on the new signed Hisense Channels backend. The old 1.0 backend (and its grid EPG) was effectively dead, so this is a straight upgrade — but it's a completely different lineup (lots of new US FAST channels, some old international/A&E/sports channels go away).
• Because it's a new backend, your existing Vidaa channels are from the old lineup and will slowly die off on their own. Rather than wait for that, the clean way to migrate:
  1. Turn Vidaa off — this bulk-deletes all its channels.
  2. Turn it back on and scrape — pulls the fresh 2.0 lineup cleanly.
  • This avoids the slow aging-out and any duplicate churn in the meantime.
• Heads up: a good chunk of the 2.0 lineup overlaps channels you likely already have from other FAST sources.

Fixes & hardening

• Security/robustness fixes to the streaming proxy, premium-source auditing, and EPG episode-number handling. Nothing you need to do.

Upgrading

git pull
docker compose build && docker compose up -d

Then, if you use Vidaa, do the off → on migration described above. Everything else (new C-SPAN channels, schema, categories) updates automatically on first boot — no manual migration needed.