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.
December 30th 2025
Around 2025-12-30 17:00 or so we lost the main SD database!
*FINAL UPDATE*
Despite the most recent snapshot being unavailable, the previous one was, so data within two hours was restored. Any new accounts or password changes (few if any) will need to be redone. No payments appear to have been missed, but an automated check should be pick them up later today.
If you got an unexpected email about a payment being applied twice, it can be ignored.
Thankfully, normality is restored!
November 18th 2025
2025-11-21 18:19:00 CST: all lineups appear to be recovered. Report issues with Lineup Support link.
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
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