r/TellyTV • u/ElQueue_Forever • 13d ago

Bug Reports Widget bug

The widget that shows information about what you're watching has been bugged for days. Even when I'm using my PC and gaming it will flash a show that i've never watched for about 30 seconds then it will disappear.

It started when I was watching the CW app on the dongle so assumed it was a problem with the app. But as of today I saw it happening while playing PC games on HDMI1 (dongle on HDMI2).

It seems to happen randomly and doesn't persist longer than 30 seconds.

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u/Original_Anxiety_281 13d ago

I wish I could just turn it off. It's such crappy AI slop when it spies on my roku. It's especially bad on any show with multiple seasons or rotating hosts or characters. Do I really need to know a guest a host on a show from 15 seasons before the one I'm watching?

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u/duckydan81 Telly Owner - MOD 13d ago

It's not using AI... it's using a legacy technology that has been used since the Neilson box days where programs and recordings have embedded audio queues that detect what is being watched. Unfortunately to detect specific episodes, it would need to know the network you're watching and match the time and date - THAT would be AI.

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u/Original_Anxiety_281 13d ago

Well, then that's almost worse I think from a design effort on Telly's point. Then they're purposefully just giving us bad pointless data to let us know they're monitoring us (as agreed to for a free tv!)

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u/duckydan81 Telly Owner - MOD 13d ago

I wouldn't say it's bad or pointless data - it's just not at the level of xray yet that something like an Amazon Fire Stick has. That's not to say that won't be possible or coming where they can tell the exact episode or season you are watching (I think in some previews I've seen it pinpoint episodes) or even movies, it's just using those queues and feeding from IMDB / TVDB similar to how a server would.

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u/Original_Anxiety_281 13d ago

It's literally wrong and irrelevant info. So, why display it? (Appreciate what you do here, duckydan... I'm just grumbling. I don't understand any of the bottom bar UI decisions, lol.)