Hello EPG experts,
I am new here, but very excited about the abilities of this tool. I have been watching IPTV from some questionable source for years, but without any EPG on 95% of the channels interesting to me. I live thousands of miles from my original home, so there is no option for me to get access to the channels I want in a proper way - the family is putting increasing pressure on me for a better solution...
My setup is that the TVs in my home all use the Smart IPTV app and for each TV I direct it to m3u and EPG URL links. But most of my m3u channels do not have the EPG discovered automatically (UK channels have some success, most of the rest rarely finds any EPG info). I hope to create a robust EPG system with this tool. But what is the best practice? I hope someone here can point me in the right direction.
First major question, why am I finding the xmltv_id from the channels used with WebGrab different than what I have in the m3u from my provider - I can change the names in the config files to make sure they match 1 by 1, but its a lot of seemingly nitty gritty work. It seems odd that there is not a simple way to match without doing it by hand per channel. Am I missing something that could automate this?
Second key question; I need to run webgrab on certain intervals and make sure my TVs get updated EPG information through SmartIPTV. So what is the best solution to do this? I am thinking to make a simple Python script to make my desktop (which is rarely off) to do an update every 24 hours and capture the next couple of days EPG info and then upload that guide to a URL SmartIPTV can access. I also have both NAS options and a cloud Linux server I could have tend to this - but as these always have some stability issues I would only go that route if really advantageous. What is best practice for having this automated?
Thanks for any thoughts and kudos to the development team for an awesome tool.
Atb,
Klaus
i use xteve
https://github.com/xteve-project/xTeVe
its very versatile.
you add links(or paths) to your m3u file,webgrab epg file.
you still have to map your channels but its all done via mouse.
you can add custom logo's,add a buffer if you wish,exclude channels, and many other things.
when your done it creates its own custom m3u and epg file with just the channels you selected,it even has a built in web server to host it.
this make epg loading times faster for your epg clients as your loading only the channel you use rather than everything.