What does "Show Stealth" do?

[garfnodie]

I have a check box at the top of my channel guide that says "Show Stealth," but nothing happens when I check or uncheck it. I can't find any mention of the word "stealth" in the documentation.

[DevanteWeary]

Just copy/pasting from Gemini:

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"Stealth" mode is a feature designed to prevent media servers (like Plex, Jellyfin, or Emby) from throwing playback errors when a channel temporarily has nothing scheduled to play.

1. What is a "Stealth" Channel?
   When a Tunarr channel runs out of scheduled programs, it enters "Flex" time. Usually, Tunarr handles this by playing designated filler content or broadcasting an offline fallback stream (like an offline image/video).

However, if a channel has no filler and no fallback configured, it becomes completely empty during those gaps.

The Problem: Without stealth, Tunarr still reports the channel to your media server, but trying to tune into it during empty time results in an immediate playback or tuning error.

The Stealth Fix: When enabled, Tunarr temporarily hides the channel from the electronic program guide (EPG) XML file entirely while it is empty. To Plex/Jellyfin, the channel disappears so users can't try to open a dead stream. As soon as a scheduled program is ready to air, the channel automatically "unhides" itself.

2. What does the "Show Stealth" checkbox do?
   The "Show Stealth" checkbox at the top of the Tunarr web UI channel guide is simply an admin filter for the dashboard view:

Unchecked (Default): The Tunarr dashboard hides any channels that are currently in stealth mode (offline/empty) so you only see what is actively "broadcasting" right now.

Checked: It forces the Tunarr web interface to show all channels, including the ones currently hidden in "stealth" status, so you can still click on them, edit their schedules, or see when they will next go live.

(Note: If toggling the checkbox seems to do nothing, it usually just means none of your channels are currently empty/offline, or you might need to toggle it on/off to force a UI refresh.)

[chrisbenincasa]

Gemini is not totally check here. Stealth with hide a channel completely from the EPG, regardless of what is playing on the channel

[DevanteWeary]

Gemini is not totally check here. Stealth with hide a channel completely from the EPG, regardless of what is playing on the channel

Interesting. Why would you want to create a channel just to hide it?

[chrisbenincasa]

If you are building it out and aren't ready to "premiere it". Also some folks use redirects extensively, so they'll create many channels which are redirect targets that they may not want individually viewable.

[DevanteWeary]

Oh OK that makes sense!