TVS 5.7.1-beta (1-10-2026)

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Update Notes - 5.7.1 (2026-01-10)

🔧 Bug Fixes

• Added a 10-second cooldown when backgroundAudio fails to load before retrying to prevent potentially thousands of requests in a short period of time if the audio source isn't available.

❗ Deprecation Notice

• Television Simulator 6.0.0 will replace the external listing feature of the program guide with a new system designed to work with the currently-in-development Television Simulator Studio companion server. The guide.externalListings option will be removed in 6.0.0 and in its place will be a new API to sync guide data from an external source. More details will be provided closer to release. The title and description options for channels will also be deprecated in favor of a new info option that will include more advanced functionality; more information will be provided later.

⚙️ Example Config File Changes

• Added TVS Update Channel (feed reader of the latest changelog updates) on channel 4.
• Changed the "no content" channel to channel 8.

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This discussion was created from the release TVS 5.7.1-beta (1-10-2026).