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  • Introduction
  • Get Started
  • Console Tutorials
    • Recognize Music
    • Recognize Custom Content
    • Broadcast Monitoring for Music
    • Broadcast Monitoring for Custom Content
    • Detect Live & Timeshift TV Channels
    • Recognize Custom Content Offline
    • Recognize Live Channels and Custom Content
    • Find Potential Detections in Unknown Content Filter
  • SDK REFERENCE
    • Mobile SDK
      • iOS
      • Android
      • Unity
    • Backend SDK
      • Python
      • PHP
      • Go
      • Java
      • C/C++
      • C#
    • Error Codes
  • API Reference
    • Identification API
    • Console API
      • Access Token
      • Buckets
        • Audio Files
        • Live Channels
        • Dedup Files
      • Base Projects
      • OfflineDBs
      • BM Projects
        • Custom Streams Projects
          • Streams
          • Streams Results
          • Streams State
          • Recordings
          • Analytics
          • User Reports
        • Broadcast Database Projects
          • Channels
          • Channels Results
          • Channels State
          • Recordings
          • Analytics
          • User Reports
      • File Scanning
        • FsFiles
      • UCF Projects
        • BM Streams
        • UCF Results
    • Metadata API
  • Tools
    • Audio File Fingerprinting Tool
    • Local Monitoring Tool
    • Live Channel Fingerprinting Tool
    • File Scan Tool
  • Metadata
    • Music
    • Music (Broadcast Monitoring with Broadcast Database)
    • Custom Files
    • Live Channels
    • Humming
  • FAQ
    • Definition of Terms
  • Service Usage
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  • Create an account
  • Create a Live Channel bucket
  • Add a Live Channel to the bucket
  • Deploy Live Channel Fingerprinting Tool
  • Create a project
  • Find the credentials
  • Integrate with SDK/API
  • Manage via Console API
  • Metadata
  • Pricing and Discount
  1. Console Tutorials

Detect Live & Timeshift TV Channels

Detect which live channels or timeshifting content the audiences are watching on the app/device.

Last updated 4 years ago

Live TV Channel Detection Service enables apps/devices to recognize which live channels or timeshifting content is being watched by the audiences.

Create an account

Sign up an account on and click the link on the verification email to complete the registration.

Create a Live Channel bucket

Go to Live Channel Detection service and click "Live Channels" under "Buckets" to create a bucket.

Please note: You can select "Type" of the bucket, simply click "Live Ingest" if you want to add live channels from scratch.

Add a Live Channel to the bucket

Click the bucket you just created, click "Add" to fill up the details of the live channel.

You need to input the internal stream URL of the live channel on your local server, you will need to deploy the Local Monitoring Tool to ingest the local live feeds. You can also import the live channels you have added to the "Timehsift channels" buckets for detecting timeshifting content.

Deploy Live Channel Fingerprinting Tool

Create a project

Click "Live Channel Detection" under "Projects" to create a project and attach the bucket you just created.

Find the credentials

Save the “host”, “access_key”, “access_secret” of your project. You can find them in the places shown below.

Integrate with SDK/API

Manage via Console API

You can manage everything via Console API without doing it manually via the dashboard:

Metadata

Pricing and Discount

If you created your own bucket, you need to use the to generate fingerprints of live channels on your local server.

Start sending requests with , or . You can find all of the SDKs and Tools on .

Check out to get familiar with the JSON structure of the response data for future development.

You will have 14 days for the free trial after registration. You can find the pricing on (login required). Please feel feel to contact us if you have more channels or requests.

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