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Which is the best grabber for my IPTV provider

Added by Kristian Kirilov about 4 years ago

Hello,
I'm using tvheadend server and client on my Raspberry Pi 4 box. So far so good, but I don't have a guide for most of my programs.
My provider is using external XML if I understood correctly, let me translate you the text from my provider's page:

For M3U Play List URL you have to enter:

http://cdn.tivi.bg/m/AA:BB:CC:DD:EE:FF

For XMLTV URL in EPG setings you have to enter:

http://cdn.tivi.bg/x/AA:BB:CC:DD:EE:FF

AA:BB:CC and so on is the mac address of my device, or simply a unique link which they use to count the number of connections.
The questions is, which TV grabber is most appropriate in this case?
Thanks a lot.


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RE: Which is the best grabber for my IPTV provider - Added by Hiro Protagonist about 4 years ago

There are several possibilities, you could use External:XMLTV - when you enable this, copy the path shown in Path:

Then write a script something like this:

#!/bin/bash

URL='http://url.from.your.epg.provider'
TVHSOCK=/path/to/tvh/socket

wget -O - $URL | socat - UNIX-CONNECT:$TVHSOCK

TVHSOCK is the path copied from Path: above.
You may need to install wget and/or socat if your system doesn't already have them.

Note that the very first time, you may need to run it twice to actually get the EPG data. If you run it with the log viewer open [that's at the bottom of the screen - click the button that looks like two '^'], you should see TVH handling the EPG grab.
After running it the 1st time, look in Configuration - Channel/EPG - Channels and check to see that all your channels have an EPG source set.
For any that don't, look in EPG Grabber Channels, find matches for the missing ones, and set the channel.

Once you have EPG sources set for your channels, run the script again and the EPG should populate.
Once you have it working, you can add it to a crontab so it runs regularly.

RE: Which is the best grabber for my IPTV provider - Added by Kristian Kirilov about 4 years ago

Thanks a lot!
I will have a look, and let you know.

Have a nice rest of the day!

RE: Which is the best grabber for my IPTV provider - Added by saen acro about 4 years ago

Install xmltv package and this addon
https://github.com/Rigolo/tv-grab-file
shedule task to download and merge periodically.

Защо не прочетеш на страницата им как е написано да се приложи за Kodi.
Няма кой знае каква разлика.

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