So watching a channel which was being streamed from Now tv in the UK. The stream cut out - it went back to the Roku menu (on their side, I use an andoid box) then it went through the selections of channels on their side and restarted the channel to start the stream again. How do they do this? It seems like someone was sitting there watching the channel with me and when the provider stream stopped they went through and selected the right channel again lol
the app is called " tasker " its a " if this / do that " type program and its all automatic once setup
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.dinglisch.android.taskerm&hl=en_US
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I’ve seen that happen too. I’m guessing someone did it manually.
It's automated system, every source has backup channels when a stream go down, a backup source takes its place. Sometimes it take some minutes to happen it gets delayed this is what ur seeing all is automated. Sometimes though it's done manually like you said.
On decent media encoders there are parameters that sense pixel changes to a certain degree of a picture so when a picture is frozen, broken or goes all black, it can switch to alternative source.
You can see this happening on Sports channels that are say at 1920 FHD, picture cuts a few seconds due to source down then a few seconds later its 1280 or 720 same channel, so backup sources has gone alive.
The system does it for them, they are not yet fully automated because if they are they don't need to check it every now and then. They have a few servers and system that runs that connects from their source and let subscribers stream it form their servers.
With minium wage 30 cents an hour in India, don't be surprised if they have a team of people there at the encoding end making sure 99.9% uptime! Either that was a planned outage, or they responded that quick. I have seen it myself. I am sure they have some type of Marco recording playback software if it wasn't human interaction.
With it being a Roku menu that you saw, it's likely automated. Macros can detect that the screen has changed to something, and the Roku is fully controllable over the local network with the right commands.