Welcome to Schedules Direct

Schedules Direct is a non-profit organization whose mission is to educate the public about the benefits of Open Source Software and other free software, provide support functions for such software, and provide funding for research that facilitates the improvement or creation of Open Source Software and other free software for the benefit of the public at large.

The cost of membership is currently US$35/year, with a 7 day free trial. A 2 month membership is also available for US$9 for those who do not wish to commit to an entire year.

Your membership fees help us fund programs to help your favorite Open Source projects. In exchange, our members receive access to raw U.S./Canadian TV listing data for the Free and Open Source Applications they use. Those applications then use the data to provide things like PVR functionality, search tools, and private channel grids. For more information, please read about our membership benefits and what your money helps us do for the Open Source community on our ABOUT US page.

You should also check out our FAQ and FORUMS.

For news, check out Announcements in our forum.


All JellyFin and older SageTV apps have bugs talking to us. Your IP probably will be blocked. Click HERE for more information. and HERE for a minor update


November 18th 2025

Upstream provider outage impacting some lineups and schedules

2025-11-18 03:46:00 UTC: we’ve rebuilt all the lineups that we can.

Our systems detected an issue where our upstream provider began deleting channels; while this is a normal occurrence as part of lineup maintenance, the number of channels which were deleted exceeded a threshold. We immediately began taking action to mitigate the issue and alerted them via P1 tickets that their data feeds were incorrect, and that they were deleting active channels.

From the subscriber perspective, your application may have provided a notification that a channel has been deleted, or that a schedule is unavailable. You may see a lineup appearing to have a channel in a position, but there is no callsign.

Our immediate action will be to restore lineups and schedules. You may notice anomalies, such as missing channel icons. Once our upstream has stabilized their data feeds, we will rebuild the lineups; this will make channel icons and other secondary data available.

November 7th 2025

Amazon payment broken (maybe fixed?)

2025-11-08 Update! Amazon Payments started working again. I've turned it back on!

It appears that on Sept-26 Amazon changed the way they notifiy us of payment, breaking our processing!

Amazon payments are currently disabled, while we figure out how to proceed.

Here's a rant with details and status

RobertE

August 23rd 2025

NextPVR issues

Old versions of NextPVR (7.0.2 is current) are having issues with the JSON service. Initial troubleshooting shows they are not sending valid JSON for login requests or setting the JSON content type. If you can't upgrade, you can download data using XMLTV.ORG tools and then import it into NextPVR.

HERE is a NextPVR forum thread about it.

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