🗓️ Guide data: duplicate/repeating episodes fixed on a lot of channels
If your DVR (Channels DVR, etc.) was showing the same episode number over and over on channels like Pluto's Big Brother cameras, news blocks, game-show rotations, or other 24/7-style channels — and only recording/keeping one airing instead of each one — that's fixed. Turns out a bunch of these live/rotating channels were sending duplicate or placeholder episode info upstream, which made your DVR think every airing was a rerun of the same thing.
Fixed across: Pluto, LG Channels, LocalNow, Plex, Roku, Xumo, Vizio, Tubi, TCL, Sling, Cox, Fubo, Warner (TBS/TNT/truTV), AMC Networks, and Philo. (Frndly TV got the same protection preemptively — will confirm once we can re-test it.)
📡 TV Everywhere (TVE) fixes
- NBC: local NBC affiliate was showing an Ohio station for everyone, regardless of where you actually live. Now it looks up your real local market automatically.
- FOX One: local FOX affiliate (channel guide + playback) could come back empty even with a ZIP code entered — fixed, and your home ZIP now lives in one shared spot (Settings → TV Everywhere) instead of being FOX-One-specific.
- AMC Networks: the "Sign in" button could silently do nothing if you already had a valid session — looked successful but didn't actually re-check your login. Now it always does a real check.
- Fixed the "FOX Sports TVE" vs "FOX TVE" name mismatch in the sign-in screen — same source, was showing two different names.
- Gracenote guide-ID matching is smarter about call signs now, so TVE channels get matched to the right guide listing more often.
▶️ Playback reliability
- Kaloopy (ViewTV): fixed segment errors caused by the channel's own CDN evicting video faster than it advertised.
- PrismCast: hardened against a rare case where a slow response could accidentally trigger a second capture on top of the first.
- DirecTV: after a background re-login, your channels now refresh right away instead of waiting up to 12 hours for the next scheduled scrape.
🛠️ Smaller fixes
- Pluto: you can now choose anonymous sign-in or a full account login — it was wrongly forcing everyone through login.
- PBS: local station subchannels now show their real branding (e.g. "Create", "The West Virginia Channel") instead of a generic "Local Subchannel 1/2".
- Hallmark: fixed a scraper break caused by Hallmark renaming their internal channel IDs; guarded against it happening again.
- Scrape/guide-refresh performance improved noticeably on larger setups.
- Admin scrape progress bars no longer get stuck at 0 for a few sources (Whale and several TVE sources) while EPG is actually loading fine in the background.
⬆️ Upgrading
- No manual steps — the database updates itself on first boot like always.
- If you'd previously set a home ZIP code just for FOX One, it carries forward automatically to the new shared location.