- Implemented `normalize_server_url()` to standardize account server URLs, ensuring that on-demand live URLs are built correctly without including API endpoints or query parameters.
- Updated `get_transformed_credentials()` and stream URL generation in `M3UMovieRelation` and `M3UEpisodeRelation` to utilize the new normalization function, improving URL handling for Xtream Codes accounts.
- Enhanced the live proxy to release geventpool DB connections more effectively across various paths.
- Implemented `close_old_connections()` in `stream_ts()`, `generate_stream_url()`, `get_stream_info_for_switch()`, `get_alternate_streams()`, `get_connections_left()`, and the cleanup process in `StreamGenerator`, ensuring that clients do not hold onto pool slots unnecessarily during streaming operations.
- Introduced `lookup_by_name_year` function to limit database scans for movies and series without TMDB/IMDB IDs, enhancing performance by scoping lookups to current batch names.
- Updated `process_movie_batch` and `process_series_batch` to utilize the new lookup function, reducing memory usage and improving efficiency.
- Registered `refresh_vod_content` and `batch_refresh_series_episodes` for post-task memory cleanup in Celery, ensuring better resource management during VOD content refreshes.
- Improved memory cleanup by invoking `gc.collect()` after batch processing in `process_m3u_batch_direct` and `collect_xc_streams`, ensuring timely release of resources.
- Added tests to verify that garbage collection is triggered appropriately after batch operations.
- Replaced the plugin listing mechanism with a more efficient handler iteration for event actions.
- Enhanced logging to provide clearer insights into the dispatching process and plugin action execution.
- Added error handling to ensure that failures in one plugin action do not block subsequent actions.
- Updated tests to cover new behavior and ensure proper handling of enabled and disabled plugins.
- Introduced a temporary staging table for efficient batch processing of EPG program inserts, reducing memory and I/O contention during updates.
- Enhanced the `parse_programs_for_source` function to stream parsed rows into the staging table before swapping them atomically into the main program data.
- Added unit tests to validate the new staging and swapping logic, ensuring existing programs are preserved during failures and that batch processing works as intended.
- Improved the handling of channel shutdown delays to ensure they reset correctly upon client reconnections, preventing premature shutdowns.
- Implemented logic to cancel pending shutdowns when clients reconnect, ensuring proper resource management and preventing client disconnect issues across uWSGI workers.
- Enhanced logging for shutdown processes and client management to provide clearer insights during channel operations.
- Added calls to `close_old_connections()` in `stream_vod()` and `build_vod_stats_data()` to prevent connection leaks during long-lived streaming responses and background stats refreshes.
- Improved connection handling in various components to ensure proper resource cleanup and prevent blocking issues.
- Improved database connection management by ensuring `close_old_connections()` is called in various methods to prevent connection leaks.
- Updated event dispatching to run asynchronously in gevent, preventing blocking during live-proxy and streaming paths.
- Added calls to `close_old_connections()` in `run_action()` and `stop_plugin()` methods to prevent connection leaks after plugin execution.
- Updated documentation to clarify connection handling for plugins, emphasizing the importance of cleanup in long-running tasks and event hooks.
- Improved channel teardown process to prevent lingering upstream connections and ensure proper resource cleanup.
- Enhanced client management by implementing checks for ghost clients and ensuring accurate client disconnection handling.
- Updated logging to provide clearer insights during channel initialization and teardown, including handling of unavailable channels.
- Refined stream manager behavior to manage ownership transitions more effectively and prevent blocking during shutdown.
- Improved handling of channel teardown to prevent client reconnect issues across uWSGI workers, ensuring proper resource cleanup and ownership management.
- Added functionality to clear all client entries from Redis for a channel, enhancing client management during shutdown.
- Updated logging and response mechanisms to inform clients of channel availability during teardown,.
- Enhanced stream manager behavior to ensure upstream connections are properly managed during ownership transitions.
- Enhanced the `stop_channel` method to prevent blocking during teardown by logging stop events asynchronously.
- Updated stream buffer behavior to ignore late writes during shutdown, improving resource management.
- Introduced a new helper function to generate user-facing error messages for RANGE_EXHAUSTED failures, ensuring the fallback range is correctly displayed.
- Updated tests to verify that the error message reflects the fallback range instead of the hidden auto_sync_channel_start, enhancing clarity for users.
- Replaced individual EPG program parse tasks with a centralized dispatch function to streamline guide refresh for newly assigned EPG IDs.
- Implemented batching for guide fetches when multiple EPGs are mapped, reducing redundant API calls and improving efficiency.
- Updated related utility functions to support the new fetching strategy and added tests to ensure correct behavior under various scenarios.
- Implemented a targeted guide fetch for Schedules Direct when mapping a channel, ensuring immediate data availability without redundant API calls.
- Updated EPG signals to queue guide fetches for newly mapped channels, streamlining the process and improving user experience.
- Refactored existing logic to skip unnecessary program refreshes for dummy sources and ensure proper handling of Schedules Direct data.
- Added unit tests to validate the new fetching behavior and ensure robustness of the integration.
- Added functions to compute schedule changes based on MD5 hashes and backfill missing dates for mapped stations.
- Enhanced handling of orphaned ProgramData records for unmapped EPG entries during schedule fetch.
- Introduced unit tests to validate MD5 comparison, backfill logic, and metadata fetching requirements.
- Introduced `dispatcharr_user_agent`, `dispatcharr_dvr_user_agent`, and `dispatcharr_http_headers` functions in `core.utils` to standardize User-Agent strings and HTTP headers for outbound requests.
- Updated various components, including `LogoViewSet`, `EPGSourceViewSet`, and VOD proxy views, to utilize the new header functions, ensuring consistent User-Agent usage across the application.
- Enhanced the handling of Schedules Direct API requests by including proper User-Agent headers, addressing previous API compliance issues.
- Introduced a new method `_fetch_sd_countries` in `EPGSourceViewSet` to fetch SD countries directly from the backend, eliminating the need for a separate proxy endpoint.
- Updated the `sd_lineups` action to include the fetched countries in the response.
- Removed the `getSDCountries` method from the API and adjusted the frontend to fetch countries alongside lineups, improving efficiency
- Updated related components to handle the new data structure for countries.
- Removed redundant logic for releasing server group slots in `move_credential_slot_on_profile_switch` and `release_profile_slot`.
- Simplified the `_release_server_group_slot_for_profile` function by eliminating it, as its functionality was integrated into other methods.
- Improved logging in the Stream model for better debugging of profile evaluations.
- Introduced a new method `_stream_assignment_is_reusable` in the Channel model to determine if existing stream assignments can be reused, enhancing efficiency.
- Updated the release logic in `release_profile_slot` to utilize stored credential keys, reducing unnecessary database lookups.
- Simplified error handling in the `get_stream_info_for_switch` function to ensure proper stream release on exceptions.
- Enhanced tests for connection pool management and error handling in the ServerGroupsTable component to improve reliability and user feedback.
- Eliminated redundant extraction of provider usernames from stream URLs in both ChannelStatus and VOD stats data functions, simplifying the codebase.
- Updated frontend components to reflect the removal of provider username display, streamlining the UI.
- Enhanced overall readability and maintainability of the code by reducing complexity in handling stream URLs.
- Renamed `_clear_stream_assignment_keys` to `_release_stale_stream_assignment` for clarity and updated its logic to release pool counters.
- Introduced new functions for managing credential slots during profile switches, enhancing the handling of shared connection limits across server groups.
- Removed the `max_streams` field from the `ServerGroup` model and updated related components to reflect this change, simplifying the server group management.
- Updated frontend components to integrate server group management, allowing for dynamic creation and editing of server groups.
- Enhanced error handling in stream URL generation to provide more informative feedback on connection issues.
- Added tests for stale assignment release and credential management during profile switches.
- A duplicate provider number keeps one channel and falls the collider back to a free number.
- A provider number matching an existing channel falls back instead of overwriting it.
- Moved matching logic to a dedicated module for better organization and testability.
- Made single-channel auto-matching asynchronous, allowing for larger EPG libraries without hitting HTTP timeouts.
- Enhanced memory management and throughput during EPG matching, including optimizations for fuzzy matching and bulk processing.
- Fixed various reliability issues in the auto-matching process, ensuring accurate channel assignments and improved UI feedback.
- Updated API views and frontend components to reflect changes in the matching process and provide real-time notifications.
- Added tests for EPG matching functionality and name normalization.
- Single-channel and selected-channel auto-match always run, even when the channel already has EPG assigned; match-all (no channel IDs) still only processes channels without EPG.
The auto-sync overhaul added a [start, end] range and a shared numbering picker, but each mode's UI exposes only a subset of the persisted fields (Provider's "Start #" writes channel_numbering_fallback; Next Available exposes no Start/End) while the backend read auto_sync_channel_start and auto_sync_channel_end in every mode. Switching modes never resets the others, so a stale or auto-computed value silently changed numbering.
- Provider mode honors the provider-supplied number (stream_chno) verbatim; the group's Start (channel_numbering_fallback) and End bound only the fallback for streams the provider did not number. auto_sync_channel_start is no longer applied in provider mode.
- Next Available ignores End, since its UI exposes no range.
- Range enforcement (the overflow-delete) runs in fixed mode only, the one mode with a user-set [start, end] range.
- Provider mode gains the Start>End guard fixed mode already had, so an inverted fallback range cannot fail every numberless stream.
Includes backend and frontend regression tests.
- Precompute base URL and logo path components once per request to reduce redundant calls to `build_absolute_uri_with_port()`, enhancing performance.
- Update logo URL construction for both cached and direct logos to utilize the precomputed values, ensuring consistency and efficiency in URL handling.
- Precompute base URLs for M3U stream and logo paths to reduce redundant calls to `build_absolute_uri_with_port()`, improving performance.
- Update the generation of EPG and stream URLs to utilize the precomputed base URL, ensuring consistency and efficiency in URL handling.
- Enhance the handling of logo URLs by consolidating logic for cached and direct logo retrieval, streamlining the process and reducing overhead.
- Refactored HDHR API views to utilize `build_absolute_uri_with_port()` for generating URLs, ensuring correct handling of non-standard ports in lineup and discovery responses.
- Addressed a bug where the EPG channel list did not refresh after a source finished parsing channels due to the `epg_refresh` WebSocket handler using a stale snapshot. The handler now correctly reads the current store state and ensures `fetchEPGData()` is called upon completion of channel parsing.
- Updated tests to verify that the frontend receives the correct parsing completion signals.
Add support for automatically applying channel logos from EPG data during refresh. Introduce a new toggle in the UI for enabling/disabling this feature, and update the backend to handle both channel IDs and EPG source IDs for logo application. Enhance the logo application task to process large libraries efficiently in chunks, improving performance and memory usage. Update changelog to reflect these changes.
Remove the _sd_send_ws_sync function and replace its usage with send_epg_update in the fetch_schedules_direct function. This change simplifies the code by ensuring all WebSocket updates are sent through a single function, improving maintainability and consistency in handling EPG updates.
Introduce a new poster style selection feature in the EPG settings, allowing users to choose their preferred artwork style. Update the logic for fetching and displaying program artwork from Schedules Direct, ensuring that the selected style is honored with appropriate fallbacks. Set default poster art to 'primary'. Add comprehensive tests to validate the poster selection functionality across various scenarios.
Add a new task to fetch program artwork from Schedules Direct and auto-apply logos to channels based on EPG data. Enhance the existing logic to handle poster backfill and update program records with fetched artwork. Readd the WebSocket handler to manage IP lookup events and adjust the EPGsTable component to display relevant credentials based on the source type.
Update the variable name in the EPG settings to better reflect its purpose. Adjust related logic in the UI to ensure consistent handling of the auto-apply feature for SD logos.
The compact repack read its channels with no ORDER BY, so the pack followed PostgreSQL's physical row order. That order drifts after the
UPDATEs each repack issues, so successive syncs
packed the same channels into different numbers within the configured range. Auto-synced channel numbers reshuffled on every sync even when the provider had not changed.
- Add .order_by("id") to the _repack_inner channel query so the pack is deterministic. id order is creation order, which tracks the provider stream order used by the default "provider" sort.
- Add c.id as a secondary key to the name / tvg_id / updated_at sorts so equal values (e.g. blank tvg_id) break ties deterministically instead of churning.
- Add a deterministic regression test that forces a physical heap reorder (CLUSTER) and asserts two consecutive repacks produce identical channel numbers.
Build absolute poster proxy URLs via build_absolute_uri_with_port so
program detail images resolve correctly in dev and behind reverse
proxies. Backfill sd_icon for programs when poster fetch is enabled
but a delta refresh skips program metadata. Add a dev-mode frontend
fallback for relative image paths and correct the poster caching
description in the SD settings UI.
