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Added by A K over 6 years ago

Hi,

I am a new TvHeadend user. I just installed HTS Tvheadend 4.2.5 on my Synology ds-218+ NAS. I am going to be using Kodi Tvheadend add-on as a front end to view the IPTV channels.

I have two M3U lists which I use for IPTV, one is a subscribed service, and the other is very common free list which is available online:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/fluxustv/IPTV/master/list.m3u

I followed many online tutorials to add any of my IPTV M3U list but with failure. Here are the steps I took:

1)In configuration, DVB inputs, I added a new IPTV automatic network with the above mentioned URL

2)In muxes, I can see the list of 1875 channels in this list

3)Out of these 1875 channels, only 20 are available in the services tab. I selected and mapped them, but only 12 made it to the channel /epg tab.

4)In the Channel/EPG tab, I can see that only 1 channel name is showing, and the other 11 name field is empty. And because of that, only 1 channel makes it to Kodi.

so from 1875 channels, I can only view 1??

why is that, any help is appreciated


Replies (17)

RE: IPTV problem - Added by A K over 6 years ago

Anyone??

RE: IPTV problem - Added by saen acro over 6 years ago

What is state of Use A/V library

RE: IPTV problem - Added by Reggie Burnett over 6 years ago

I think I'm seeing a similar problem with 4.2 and 4.3. I have 166 channels in a m3u file and routinely about 20 are not properly mapped to services. With 4.3 I have disabled use of a/v library.

RE: IPTV problem - Added by A K over 6 years ago

Thanks for your reply,

Where can I find this setting? under which tab? I cant seem to find it anywhere under "configuration"

Thanks

RE: IPTV problem - Added by saen acro over 6 years ago

IPTV automatic network

RE: IPTV problem - Added by A K over 6 years ago

Configuration > DVB Inputs > Networks > Add IPTV Automatic Network

I cant find any "use A/V library" option anywhere on the setting page which pops up:(

I am having the view level set to Expert

RE: IPTV problem - Added by A K over 6 years ago

here is the settings tab I have for IPTV automatic networks

RE: IPTV problem - Added by Mark Clarkstone over 6 years ago

Take a look at Automatic_IPTV_Network - disable service probing.

RE: IPTV problem - Added by Reggie Burnett over 6 years ago

Mark Clarkstone wrote:

Take a look at Automatic_IPTV_Network - disable service probing.

I did that. I have two m3u files each one containing 166 channels. I have a m3u file for each hdhr prime I have. I disabled service probing and was able to create all the services and channels so was really excited that your suggestion had solved my issue. But tunig in Kodi is extremly slow or very often simply doesn't work. Before tuning was fast and for every channel that showed up in kodi worked without a hitch.

not sure what was left out that is now causing just slow channel tuning.

edit my docker logs are full of these messages:

2018-02-18 17:29:16.317 [ NOTICE] subscription: 0016: No input source available for subscription "192.168.1.119 [ reggie | Kodi Media Center ]" to channel "1008-WNPT"

Reggie

RE: IPTV problem - Added by Reggie Burnett over 6 years ago

So the services that are created for my channels when I let it do the scanning all have different values. I'm assuming those values are important. How do I create my channels with the appropriate service ids. can i put those values in the m3u file?

RE: IPTV problem - Added by A K over 6 years ago

Reggie Burnett wrote:

Mark Clarkstone wrote:

Take a look at Automatic_IPTV_Network - disable service probing.

I did that. I have two m3u files each one containing 166 channels. I have a m3u file for each hdhr prime I have. I disabled service probing and was able to create all the services and channels so was really excited that your suggestion had solved my issue. But tunig in Kodi is extremly slow or very often simply doesn't work. Before tuning was fast and for every channel that showed up in kodi worked without a hitch.

not sure what was left out that is now causing just slow channel tuning.

edit my docker logs are full of these messages:

2018-02-18 17:29:16.317 [ NOTICE] subscription: 0016: No input source available for subscription "192.168.1.119 [ reggie | Kodi Media Center ]" to channel "1008-WNPT"

Reggie

Can you illustrate how you disabled the service probing? I changed the Service Id value from zero (default) to 1.,,is that it? it didn't change much to me. I am sorry I am a bit lost here

RE: IPTV problem - Added by Mark Clarkstone over 6 years ago

Also un-check "Scan after creation".

RE: IPTV problem - Added by Reggie Burnett over 6 years ago

A K wrote:

Reggie Burnett wrote:

Mark Clarkstone wrote:

Take a look at Automatic_IPTV_Network - disable service probing.

I did that. I have two m3u files each one containing 166 channels. I have a m3u file for each hdhr prime I have. I disabled service probing and was able to create all the services and channels so was really excited that your suggestion had solved my issue. But tunig in Kodi is extremly slow or very often simply doesn't work. Before tuning was fast and for every channel that showed up in kodi worked without a hitch.

not sure what was left out that is now causing just slow channel tuning.

edit my docker logs are full of these messages:

2018-02-18 17:29:16.317 [ NOTICE] subscription: 0016: No input source available for subscription "192.168.1.119 [ reggie | Kodi Media Center ]" to channel "1008-WNPT"

Reggie

Can you illustrate how you disabled the service probing? I changed the Service Id value from zero (default) to 1.,,is that it? it didn't change much to me. I am sorry I am a bit lost here

I have two primes. I turned off scan after creation and set the service id for prime #1 to 1 and prime #2 I used service id 2. This resulted in my muxes/services/channels all being created but tuning in kodi really didn't work.

I wound up with a ton of errors in my dockers logs like:
2018-02-18 17:31:06.326 [ NOTICE] subscription: 0016: No input source available for subscription "192.168.1.119 [ reggie | Kodi Media Center ]" to channel "1008-WNPT"

So I'm assuming the service ids are important so not sure how that is supposed to work.

RE: IPTV problem - Added by A K over 6 years ago

I am only trying with one list ...I put the service id to 1 and turned off scan after creation.....but I end up with the same result..my muxes are created, but no network or channels show up..

is there someone around this forum that can help us getting this to work??

RE: IPTV problem - Added by Mark Clarkstone over 6 years ago

Turn off "use AV lib" (in the network) if using 4.3. You also need to make sure the IPTV points to mpegts streams.

RE: IPTV problem - Added by A K over 6 years ago

I am on V 4.2.5. Its the only version I could find for Synology. And I dont have an option to turn off the use of AV lib anywhere . My screen shot is in the above post showing I dont have such feature. The list is mostly mpeg streams, can you check if it works at your end?
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/fluxustv/IPTV/master/list.m3u
Also is there a way I can get version 4.3 on Synology?
One of the most things I was looking forward when I purchased a NAS was to run Tvheadend on it, and not being able to make it work is very disappointing.
The moderators on NextPVR forums takes extra steps to make sure that every single issue is solved and that everyone is able to run the server..something I haven't seen here..which is also as disappointing.

RE: IPTV problem - Added by Mark Clarkstone over 6 years ago

Most of those are HLS streams, so may be mp4 format - they need to be converted to mpegts to work.

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