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Not sure if this helps anyone now. Or if it's been discussed before.

I have Verizon Fios, now Frontier Fios in the Los Angeles Area. When I would scan my muxes for services with my HDHome run Prime, I would get around 2500 services, all local channels and most wouldn't work. I have an active cable card in it and everything.

Well, after days of hitting my head against the wall, I remembered the HDHome Run will stream the MPEG2 stream via http. I added one of the encrypted channels via IPTV and boom it worked!

You will not need any HDHome Run drivers on your system to make this work.

There are two ways to do this. If your build allows you to import an M3U file, make and format a M3U file like this:

#EXTM3U
#EXTINF:-1,CBS 2 LA
http://192.168.67.240:5004/auto/v502
#EXTINF:-1,NBC 4 LA
http://192.168.67.240:5004/auto/v504
#EXTINF:-1,KTLA 5 LA
http://192.168.67.240:5004/auto/v505
#EXTINF:-1,ABC 7 LA
http://192.168.67.240:5004/auto/v507

The number at the end is your providers channel number. Of course your IP will be different than mine, but your port might be too, so make sure you check the webpage from you HDHome Run to verify your port. The #EXTINF:-1,ABC 7 LA line, sets the channel name.

Host the M3U file on a web server and add the path to your Network. Make sure you set the Max Input Streams to 3, or it won't scan all your channels as it thinks it has more tuners than it does.

If you cannot add a M3U file, just create the IPTV network, set max streams to 3, and then manually add the MUXES and use the url direct to the stream i.e. http://192.168.67.240:5004/auto/v507
You can set the MUX name and SERVICE name as your channel name for organization here. Just make sure you uncheck the option to change the channel name with the EPG grab

Map the channels as usual, make sure you do include encrypted channels, as that does come over in the http stream. EPG Grab is the same as well.

Helps this helps someone!