PiratesIRC/Dispatcharr-Channel-Maparr-Plugin 1.26.1701952

v1.26.1701952

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v1.26.1701952 (2026-06-20)

Restores OTA (over-the-air) broadcast matching, which had been silently inert, and makes the rendered network label correct. The per-country *_channels.json databases carry only premium National/Regional entries — no broadcast type, no callsign field — so broadcast_channels was always empty, ota_attempted stayed 0, and every local-affiliate stream fell through to premium fuzzy matching. Reported by two users (both ota_attempted: 0): a 267-channel "US: ABC" group renamed only 25, with 217 affiliates (ABC 5 (WEWS) CLEVELAND HD, ABC 7 (KGO) SAN FRANCISCO HD, …) reporting "No match found". Validated live across the four major US network groups — ABC 167, CBS 213, FOX 200, NBC 513 renames — with the rendered network verified correct on every one.

Fixed

• OTA callsign matching restored — ships networks.json (1,915-station US FCC table: callsign → network_affiliation / community_served_city / community_served_state) and loads it into broadcast_channels + channel_lookup whenever the US database is selected. The existing OTA pipeline (match_broadcast_channel → Plugin._format_ota_name) now renders the configured OTA Name Format (default {NETWORK} - {STATE} {CITY} ({CALLSIGN})): ABC 5 (WEWS) CLEVELAND HD → ABC - OH Cleveland (WEWS), FOX (KTVU) → FOX - CA Oakland (KTVU). Previously-generic premium matches (US: ABC (WXYZ) → ABC) now resolve to the specific station (ABC - MI Detroit (WXYZ)).
• Honor the stream's stated network — Plugin._extract_stream_network reads the network a stream names (US: CBS 7 (WBBJ-DT3) …) and _format_ota_name prefers it over the FCC station's primary affiliation, which disagrees for subchannels and network-owned independents. CBS 7 (WBBJ-DT3) JACKSON HD → CBS - TN Jackson (WBBJ) (instead of ABC, WBBJ's main affiliation). On US: CBS this cut wrong/malformed network labels from 23 → 0.
• Hardened _parse_network_affiliation — the fallback when a stream states no network now handles the messy real FCC strings: case-insensitive subchannel markers (CBS Ch 3.1), multi-network joins (CBS & FOX, CBS. FOX, CW, ABC,CBS,CW), callsign-prefixed (KALB/NBC → NBC), and parenthetical annotations (ABC (main) CBS (multicast) → ABC).
• Parenthesized-callsign override — a callsign in parentheses is an explicit signal, so _compute_callsign_with_confidence Priority 1 now accepts a denylisted English word there if it is a real loaded station: KING (Seattle NBC), WOOD (Grand Rapids NBC), WAVE (Louisville NBC). The callsign denylist exists to stop Priority 4 mis-reading prose (King of the Hill → KING); the gate is callsign in self.channel_lookup, so non-station words stay rejected (HBO (WEST), Disney (KIDS)) and unparenthesized matches keep the strict denylist. Recovered +10 OTA renames on US: NBC.

Data

• networks.json — US FCC station table (callsign → network/city/state, 1,915 stations), ported from Stream-Mapparr. US-only; absent for non-US deployments (loader degrades gracefully, OTA simply disabled).

Tests

• tests/test_broadcast_ota.py (station-table loading + callsign→station resolution) and tests/test_ota_network.py (affiliation parsing, stream-network extraction, parenthesized-override + regression guards). Full suite: 184 passing.