SmartTube - 24.71 Stable

Got it. Thx

Yuriy

2024-12-01 04:18:59 +0000 UTC

24.89 Stable seems to be working OK. The only news is that the "Video unavailable" account block came back Thursday evening -- like the last time, the block went away for "a couple of days" or so. Not a really big problem -- I have worked my way around that for several months now. SmartTube continues to work OK -- thanks for all of your work with that and everything else!

Tom Hoots

2024-12-01 04:04:15 +0000 UTC

It's safe to use the stable right now. Write me anytime if you find any bugs.

Yuriy

2024-11-29 18:30:21 +0000 UTC

Got it. Thanks.

Yuriy

2024-11-29 18:16:03 +0000 UTC

Yes, its ok the latest update doesn't have Popular Video anymore. Thanks

Andrien Kusnan

2024-11-29 12:07:31 +0000 UTC

Quick question: Of course, would you rather that I move to the new Stable (24.89), or continue with the beta versions at this point? Thanks!

Tom Hoots

2024-11-29 04:53:14 +0000 UTC

I am not sure what you mean. You're talking about a pinned channel on the sidebar?

Yuriy

2024-11-28 22:33:25 +0000 UTC

How to disable Popular Videos on Channel which are from the sidebar?

Andrien Kusnan

2024-11-28 13:49:03 +0000 UTC

It started working for me today as well. No update installed and I didn't reboot or re-login. Just seemingly spontaneous.

Switchback Falconer

2024-11-27 23:21:27 +0000 UTC

Yes, I'm expecting to stay on the beta until I hear from you to go ahead and install the latest stable version. Thanks again for your help!

Tom Hoots

2024-11-27 00:29:28 +0000 UTC

got it. stay on the beta, please. I haven't finished fixing the bug.

Yuriy

2024-11-26 23:41:38 +0000 UTC

Quick update: Yes, things are going OK with the latest beta version. However, yesterday I only spent a couple of hours or so using SmartTube. And now today, "my account is not blocked" on my computer and other devices. Thanks again for all of your work and help with SmartTube.

Tom Hoots

2024-11-26 23:34:41 +0000 UTC

Got it. I'm sure it was a bug. I'll prepare the fix.

Yuriy

2024-11-26 22:53:52 +0000 UTC

I'm not sure if you did something, or if one of the settings I changed affected something. But I rebooted it for a 2nd time, and your app works again! PS - Not sure if it was a coincidence, but BOTH your app, and the Youtube app on my FireTV 4K demanded I log in again (with the special code), about the same time I wrote my initial comment. Not sure if logging in took some time to 'take effect', but it's another possibility. Thanks for the great app!

Dave C

2024-11-26 21:19:50 +0000 UTC

Yes. I went through the sign-in process, and everything continued working properly. This happened right before I was going to shut my computer down and go to bed, and I had indeed run SmartTube continuously for right around 17 hours. Let me give you some detail: I've been retired for around a decade, and I "cut the cord" about 3 years ago - Comcast -- though I continue with their cable Internet service. After trying out some streaming services, within a few months, I wound up spending more time with SmartTube, to the point where that's mostly "what I watched on my TV sets" most of the time. I had been using SmartTube on my NVIDIA Shield (2015) for several years prior to that, but I wound up using it mostly "all the time I was in the house." NVIDIA Shield was bought originally as mostly a "media playback" device -- I went through a long line of such devices, like WDTV, Patriot Box Office, several UEBO devices, and so on. So, I have always had a library of video files to play locally. But I wound up watching SmartTube even "overnight" as I slept, as I had done with cable TV channels before I cut the cord. So, being retired, I "stay home" 3 or 4 days per week, and I truly HAVE spent 24 hours per day watching SmartTube, but I usually reboot the NVIDIA Shield at night and in the morning. YouTube has many "sleep" videos -- which I could save and play locally -- but I wound up just streaming them with SmartTube, only worrying about my "unlimited data," but no worries about that. Until the "you're offline" issue, recently. So, now it makes sense not to run SmartTube all night, and probably "give it a rest" some time during the day -- indeed, I can watch some local stuff to break the YouTube usage up. So, yesterday was just one of those days when I didn't "pop out of SmartTube" during the day, and I got the "Sign in to confirm you're not a bot" message on the screen. So, I went through the sign-in process, noting that an update to 24.79 was available, but I signed in, confirmed that video playback was working again, and then I installed the update. So, it seems that "if I don't push it" and run for so many hours continuously, things may be OK with SmartTube -- and I can certainly do that with ease, which I'm planning on doing from this point forward. Finally, I thought I would mention "notifications," which of course are not working. With the "You're offline" error, it was like the "Video unavailable" error -- which I still have on everything but SmartTube if I'm logged into my account -- if I go into YouTube on my Windows computer (Firefox), I get the home page populated with thumbnails, and I use the setting to show "video previews" when hovering the cursor over a thumbnail -- and those still work. It's only when I go into a video, I get the "Video unavailable" issue, or for a time there, I got the "You're offline" issue -- now resolved. But with the "You're offline" issue, one thing that did NOT work was the "Notifications" panel -- I would get the rotating circle. So, I would check the notifications in order to "check to see if I had access again" -- if Notifications worked, then I had access to YouTube again. So, that's one thing I noticed that I suppose might be worth mentioning. And that's the status for now -- I plan on "breaking up my SmartTube usage" for an hour or so a few times per day, if I am indeed home and "watching TV" all day and night long. Thanks again for your work on SmartTube, and I hope a bit more detail might help just a bit more.

Tom Hoots

2024-11-25 16:32:34 +0000 UTC

Got it. At this moment the app is working fine again, right?

Yuriy

2024-11-25 08:35:00 +0000 UTC

I have been updating to the latest betas -- with 24.78, I just got a message on a video I was trying to play -- "Sign in to show you're not a bot," or however that was worded. So, I did, and YouTube continued to work. I just updated to 24.79, after I signed in. That was after around 15 hours of using SmartTube continuously. That's the first time I've ever seen a message like that -- which was showing across the bottom of the video I was trying to play. So, that's the first issue I've seen since trying these beta versions. Also, that's the longest I've used SmartTube continuously since trying these beta versions. Hope this information helps!

Tom Hoots

2024-11-25 05:47:42 +0000 UTC

Got it. I'll update the stable within a day.

Yuriy

2024-11-24 23:57:18 +0000 UTC

Is anyone else unable to play any videos on Amazon's FireTV 4K media player (OK on FireTV 4K Max) for the last 24+ hours? It just opens the vid window with all the info, but the vid doesn't play. [PS - I've restarted the FireTV] Maybe related... a little before that, videos that I watch on Youtube (web browser on Windows 10) don't start at the same place I left off on within SmartTube. Nov 26 EDIT: Fixed! [read my next comment]

Dave C

2024-11-24 20:33:10 +0000 UTC

Will do. So far so good. I should be running the program pretty much all day long today, so we'll see how well that works. Thanks!

Tom Hoots

2024-11-22 18:20:43 +0000 UTC

Great. Let me know if something goes wrong.

Yuriy

2024-11-22 16:24:50 +0000 UTC

Yes, I managed to install the beta earlier today -- the first time I've ever installed one. Had to get around a few hurdles to get there, but I've been using it for around 8 hours straight, ever since. So far, so good. Thanks!

Tom Hoots

2024-11-22 04:00:24 +0000 UTC

I updated the beta a minute ago with the possible fix.

Yuriy

2024-11-21 16:15:33 +0000 UTC

Yes, I would be willing to try that. You might let me know what I should do to install it -- I haven't installed any beta versions, since I haven't found any actual "instructions" to do that. "Just sideload it over the existing installation, and no worries?" OK, I can do that, but I've never found any kind of instruction like that before. Thanks!

Tom Hoots

2024-11-21 12:41:53 +0000 UTC

I want to provide a personal build to test 429 bug. Is it ok?

Yuriy

2024-11-21 06:24:28 +0000 UTC

Access to YouTube returned a bit more than 24 hours ago. I've decided that I probably ought to avoid running SmartTube until we have some resolution of the Error 429 issue -- after the first time with that, I went back to my typical SmartTube usage, and Error 429 came right back. So, I will "give SmartTube a rest" until we expect it won't trigger that anymore. Thanks again for all of your help with this!

Tom Hoots

2024-11-21 03:03:10 +0000 UTC

The notification feature is broken for all users. I'm looking for the fix

Yuriy

2024-11-21 00:40:33 +0000 UTC

Been enjoying the ad-free experience on my tv for a while, thanks to your great work. For a while now I have had issues with the notifications tab. It gives me the error: ErrorResponse: Request contains an invalid argument. It had a sign in button under it, but after signing in via the button the problem is still there.

Kristian Tomta

2024-11-20 21:04:06 +0000 UTC

Thanks! Much appreciated.

Tom Hoots

2024-11-19 18:53:58 +0000 UTC

Agreed. It is a bot check. I'll send you a solution.

Yuriy

2024-11-19 16:47:53 +0000 UTC

I have a few thoughts I'll send your way: So, on my desktop computer, I get "Connect to the Internet, You're offline." On my phone, I get "Error 429 -- too many requests." So, I spent much of yesterday searching for YouTube / Error 429. And I found quite a bit of discussion from people using apps that would seem to legitimately trigger an Error 429. Like things that sent "bots" to scan YouTube, looking for one thing or another. Or apps that would look through YouTube, looking for new videos from channels, then download them. So, thinking about SmartTube, and the new "folders" function -- if I go into a folder, it is populated with thumbnails from the latest videos for the channels I have assigned to those folders. Well, I got straight to work on those folders, and I marched through all of my subscribed channels -- and I either assigned each channel to a folder, or I unsubscribed from it. I wound up with about 25 folders, but some had a lot more channels assigned to them than others, so I made a few more -- I think I've got around 30 folders. And I tried to have around 20 channels assigned to each folder, no more than that. But that's 600 channels -- which is about the number of subscribed channels I think I wound up with. So, if SmartTube is scanning YouTube on some regular basis, looking for the latest videos from 600 channels, that seems to me that it might indeed trigger Error 429. I've generally thought that this situation was all another attack against third-party apps accessing YouTube, but perhaps I am legitimately making "too many requests." Especially since I run SmartTube a good 18 hours per day, and even overnight, most nights. So, "could that be the problem?" And thus, could we control how often SmartTube scans for new videos? Or, perhaps per-folder settings to "only scan when accessing folder?" Or even an overall "only scan when accessing folders," rather than automatically scanning for hours, each day? I would have no problem with waiting a bit when entering a folder, for it to populate with new thumbnails. Anyway, that's what comes to mind with my situation. I hope this helps, and thanks as always for all of your work on SmartTube!

Tom Hoots

2024-11-19 16:31:18 +0000 UTC

Got it. I'll prepare the fix.

Yuriy

2024-11-19 01:18:37 +0000 UTC

Back to "emitGroups2: groups are null or empty." Happened within the past half-hour. Nothing loads whatsoever. Actually, thumbnails load in SmartTube folders, but notably, there are no "running times" for any of the videos -- if you go into any video, it's jsut a black screen with the subject title and so on, but no "running times" in the lower right corner. On my desktop computer, "logged in to my account" on Firefox shows the Notifications populated, and "video unavailable" when going into any video. "Not logged into my account" gives the nasty "Connect to the internet. You're offline. Check your connection. " message. Back to no YouTube on my system, whatsoever. And yes, I have rebooted my cable modem (Comcast), my router (Linksys), my NVIDIA Shield (2015), a few times. Cold booted all of them. Nothing helps. Update: On my Android phone, it's back to "There was a problem with the server [429]." I cleared the data on the YouTube app, and it doesn't show any account at all, nor any way to sign into one, with the same error 429 message.

Tom Hoots

2024-11-18 22:11:39 +0000 UTC

I'm trying...

Yuriy

2024-11-17 17:25:13 +0000 UTC

Is it fixable? Live streams IMHO should be 1st in the channel's list of videos. Hope that's possible.

JJUK

2024-11-17 17:08:08 +0000 UTC

got it. thx

Yuriy

2024-11-17 15:37:22 +0000 UTC

Live streams no longer appear in a channels list of videos. Eg go to 'sky news' - the stream 'sky news live' isn't there, only prerecorded stuff.

JJUK

2024-11-16 19:37:55 +0000 UTC

got it. thanks for the update

Yuriy

2024-11-16 18:04:03 +0000 UTC

Update 8:00 AM PST (US) - First thing in the morning, I loaded up YouTube on my desktop computer, and Notifications were working, and trying to play videos got the old "Video unavailable" message. So, "back to normal-ish?" I rebooted my NVIDIA Shield, and tried SmartTube. I had to log into my account, since that was gone with what I had tried yesterday, and I was able to log in. And SmartTube is working quite well. Notifications still didn't seem to work -- I didn't wait for long while it didn't display anything, and moved on. But my YouTube withdrawal symptoms have been relieved. As always, thanks for all of the work you do. I have truly been using SmartTube to play YouTube videos with as my main "streaming service" after cutting the cord around three years ago, and it's astonishing how important this has been in my life. Thanks again!

Tom Hoots

2024-11-16 16:15:19 +0000 UTC

Interesting observation. On my desktop, I'm getting "You're offline" as I mentioned above, and I have been disabling all ad blockers and so on. So, "logged into my account," I see thumbnails in my "home" page, and -- get this -- if I hover my mouse over thumbnails, they play a bit of the video, as I have my YouTube settings set to do. But if I click on the video, I get the "You're offline" business. So, it's like the previous "video unavailable" blocking I've had since late August. "Notifications" don't load -- I just get the animated circle as if "it's working on it." Playing around with DNS settings (as mentioned in the Issues page for this issue) hasn't made any difference, from what I can tell. Oh, "not logged into my account," I get absolutely nothing but the "You're offline" if I try to even search for anything. Hope this helps.

Tom Hoots

2024-11-15 22:00:25 +0000 UTC

Interesting update: YouTube on my desktop computer says "Connect to the internet. You're offline. Check your connection. " But I'm absolutely connected -- email works, other web sites work in the same web browser (Firefox), and so on. Quite obviously, something is going on with YouTube.

Tom Hoots

2024-11-15 19:20:37 +0000 UTC

Yes, thanks for all of your help as always! I looked on the "Issues" page, and indeed people have been having the problem. I saw a mention that this might have been a temporary YouTube thing, so I thought I would go have a look. Nope -- still not working at all. I decided to try "signing out" to see if it was an account problem -- nope. And when I tried to log back in, once again, everything looked just fine from YouTube / Google, but when it was "done," SmartTube gave me the usual "Choose your account" screen, and it wouldn't even show my account. Just "none." So, I'm just going backwards, and will give up for now.

Tom Hoots

2024-11-15 18:00:32 +0000 UTC

Everything seems to be working fine for me. Thanks for the update1

Angus

2024-11-15 12:26:57 +0000 UTC

It is a known bug. I'm searching for a solution.

Yuriy

2024-11-15 12:06:50 +0000 UTC

"That didn't last long." I watched one video, and then it was back to "emitGroups2" and so on. I signed in, and once again, it didn't work afterwards. Trying again.... Nope. Each time, YouTube/Google says "Success! Device connected," but it's the same story in SmartTube. I'll have to give up for tonight. Thanks in advance for any help.

Tom Hoots

2024-11-15 05:18:48 +0000 UTC

SmartTube is now COMPLETELY BROKEN for me. "emitGroups2: groups are null or empty." No videos show in any of the "YouTube sections" like Home / Notifications / Watch Later / Channels. Videos in all folders show thumbnails, but do not play -- just a blank screen. OK, that error message has a "Sign In" button. I did that once -- it did not help. I just tried again, and this time it worked. "Notifications" still don't work at all -- there is nothing there. "Scary stuff." Thanks for your help as always!

Tom Hoots

2024-11-15 04:51:59 +0000 UTC

This actually started with 24.61 overnight -- I have updated to 24.71, with no improvement: "Notifications" are gone. The Notifications section is completely empty. It seems to be working properly on my computer, but it's empty in SmartTube. It's not a massive problem, since I made a folder to relatively replace notifications when folders became available, but there are still some things I need notifications for -- mostly new "live" videos, as "live" videos don't seem to show up in the folders. Thanks in advance for looking into this.

Tom Hoots

2024-11-14 22:24:49 +0000 UTC

Thanks for the support, friend.

Yuriy

2024-11-14 17:47:29 +0000 UTC

Thanks that keeping app in working state.

Steklorez

2024-11-14 17:46:33 +0000 UTC

Cool. Thanks.

Jason Thain

2024-11-14 15:59:12 +0000 UTC

Yes, it's a known issue. I'm looking for the fix.

Yuriy

2024-11-14 15:52:58 +0000 UTC

24.71 Stable

Comments

Got it. Thx

It's safe to use the stable right now. Write me anytime if you find any bugs.

Got it. Thanks.

Yes, its ok the latest update doesn't have Popular Video anymore. Thanks

Quick question: Of course, would you rather that I move to the new Stable (24.89), or continue with the beta versions at this point? Thanks!

I am not sure what you mean. You're talking about a pinned channel on the sidebar?

How to disable Popular Videos on Channel which are from the sidebar?

It started working for me today as well. No update installed and I didn't reboot or re-login. Just seemingly spontaneous.

Yes, I'm expecting to stay on the beta until I hear from you to go ahead and install the latest stable version. Thanks again for your help!

got it. stay on the beta, please. I haven't finished fixing the bug.

Quick update: Yes, things are going OK with the latest beta version. However, yesterday I only spent a couple of hours or so using SmartTube. And now today, "my account is not blocked" on my computer and other devices. Thanks again for all of your work and help with SmartTube.

Got it. I'm sure it was a bug. I'll prepare the fix.

Got it. At this moment the app is working fine again, right?

Got it. I'll update the stable within a day.

Will do. So far so good. I should be running the program pretty much all day long today, so we'll see how well that works. Thanks!

Great. Let me know if something goes wrong.

Yes, I managed to install the beta earlier today -- the first time I've ever installed one. Had to get around a few hurdles to get there, but I've been using it for around 8 hours straight, ever since. So far, so good. Thanks!

I updated the beta a minute ago with the possible fix.

I want to provide a personal build to test 429 bug. Is it ok?

The notification feature is broken for all users. I'm looking for the fix

Thanks! Much appreciated.

Agreed. It is a bot check. I'll send you a solution.

Got it. I'll prepare the fix.

I'm trying...

Is it fixable? Live streams IMHO should be 1st in the channel's list of videos. Hope that's possible.

got it. thx

Live streams no longer appear in a channels list of videos. Eg go to 'sky news' - the stream 'sky news live' isn't there, only prerecorded stuff.

got it. thanks for the update

Interesting update: YouTube on my desktop computer says "Connect to the internet. You're offline. Check your connection. " But I'm absolutely connected -- email works, other web sites work in the same web browser (Firefox), and so on. Quite obviously, something is going on with YouTube.

Everything seems to be working fine for me. Thanks for the update1

It is a known bug. I'm searching for a solution.

Thanks for the support, friend.

Thanks that keeping app in working state.

Cool. Thanks.

Yes, it's a known issue. I'm looking for the fix.

Recently updated for the first time in a while. My SmartTube isn’t seeing my full YT history. When I view a Channel and view all videos it seems to have forgotten the old ones I watched. YouTube on PC still keeps track. Is this a known issue? Thanks.

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