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[Feature not available] Bouquet merge same channel name 4.2.6 - Resolved

Added by Jon _ over 6 years ago

first of all, great software.

I have been a long time user of TvHeadend, and my current setup is on a synology NAS (Build: 4.2.6 (2018-04-27T05:04:57+0000))

Setup
DVB-T through HDHomerun and IPTV Auto Network.

Current problem
I have added the IPTV network with option to create bouquet 'checked' and scanned for all of the services (which work as intended). within the bouquet I have selected the option to 'merge same name' for the life of me same name services don't merge and multiple channels with the same name are created. however, if i disable the bouquet and manually map the services with 'merge same name' selected, then no duplicate channels are created. manually mapping however is not an option as my providers channels do change from time to time and due to the large number of channels, manually is not viable.

what I have tried to fix the issue
  • searched and searched, nothing found!!
  • set all of the stream muxes with ffmpeg to set the service and provider name (service01, set by the stream with provider ffmpeg) using the following (pipe:///bin/ffmpeg -i http://STREAMURL.ts -map 0 -codec copy -metadata service_provider=IPTVProvider -metadata service_name="UK: Sky Cinema Premiere HD" -f mpegts pipe:1)
  • Deleted and mappings/network/bouquet and started again
  • made sure that the m3u is formatted correctly (#EXTINF:-1 tvh-epg="0" tvg-id="UK.842.Sky_Cinema_Premiere_HD" tvh-chnum="842" tvg-name="Sky Cinema Premiere HD" tvg-logo="http://URLLogo/skycinemapremierehd.png" group-title="UK|Movies",UK: Sky Cinema Premiere HD)

is this a bug or does anyone know how to get the channels to automap merging same channel names with IPTV?


Replies (5)

RE: IPTV channels 'Merge same name' not working - Added by G man over 6 years ago

Hey Jon!

Sorry I don't have a straight answer to fix your issues, but I'm willing to chat about it on IRC if you like. I also run tvheadend on a Synology NAS so it would be good to compare notes. I'll send you a direct message.

RE: IPTV channels 'Merge same name' not working - Added by G man over 6 years ago

OK looks like you can't send direct messages. If you're on IRC (Freenode), my nick is "tavres".

RE: IPTV channels 'Merge same name' not working - Added by Jon _ over 6 years ago

Gman, unfortunately I don't have/use IRC. So will be limited to this forum.

[Feature Not Available] bouquet merge same channel name (4.2.6) - Added by Jon _ over 6 years ago

For anyone else that finds this issue. After some source code viewing of 4.2.6 it was not possible to merge same name of a channel when using a bouquet to map channels.

However in a later release this should be working as it was written into commit
05b5e92785fdd6a724e882626770432b15e859ce
(https://github.com/tvheadend/tvheadend/commit/05b5e92785fdd6a724e882626770432b15e859ce#diff-1648160008900e0b7ea6f6c7852ca419)

on github the commit was "marked channel: Allow merging on bouquet. (#4714)"

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