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Sorry, no documentation, but it can still happen. The EPG plugins are very new. It currently only interfaces with DaddyLive and does not exist by itself. The first EPG plugin was a proof of concept to see how well it would work for plugin integration. The next release of Cabernet will incorporate Plugin Management and start having conversation about adding plugins from anywhere. So, if you are interested and its current interfaces work for you, I would recommend writing a issue and we can go over currently how to write one there.

Sounds great, will do. Thx!

Is it just me or did DaddyHD stopped working? All of a sudden I can't access the DaddyHD channels through VLC or Plex. I have no problem with PlutoTV, just with DaddyHD. Last time I used it a few days ago it was workng fine, not sure what changed. I am using cabernet Version: 0.9.10.06 and I can see all the channels on the channel editor with no problem.

It is working for me. DaddyLive is having growing issues with others being shutdown. They are getting a load of new users. A couple of days ago, they had to rebuild their US server. Many times, if Cabernet is having issues, it looks like DaddyLive is having a DDOS attack from Cabernet's perspective. It is more than likely just more traffic than they can handle. In general, they have a good service dept and the chat tool on their main page is pretty responsive to complaints, but that being said, it does look like they do have issues quite often right now. I do suspect things will get better. Also, note that the local channels like ABC, CBS, NBC and FOX seem to change locations based on what is available, so the tvguide may not be correct. Hopefully, it is close. I am also aware that they have a ton of channels not listed on their pages. People are just randomly trying different UID or asking the chat for a certain channel number. My understanding is the channels not listed are not maintained and may not exist at all times.

Is there a way for me to add more channels to the daddylive channellist and to sort the output m3u to my likes?

There is currently no way to add channels to Daddylive. Of course, you can create an M3U file and a M3U plugin instance for the additional channels, if you like. As stated above, "I am also aware that they have a ton of channels not listed on their pages." Future enhancements may include adding channels.

Not sure your m3u question. If this is associated with the M3U plugin, then the way to sort the m3u is to define the channel numbers in the m3u. Most media servers will sort by channel number. The channel number can be added to either the tvg-num or tvg-chno tags in the m3u file. If this is in regard to the m3u file Cabernet generates, it too sets the channel number for both tags, so the media server should sort by channel number. If the media server is having issues, turning on channel number in the client channel settings will tend to fix that.

I was thinking about adding a m3u file with the additional Daddylive channels, but I only know the IDs and not the streamlinks. As far as I can tell, your daddylive plugin converts the IDs in „real“ streams which I can’t do with a m3u I add or can I somehow?

By sorting the output m3u I meant in.a different way than alphabetically. Unfortunately tivimate ignores the tvg-num or tvg-chno tags so the playlist always starts with #Vamos.
But that is not really a big deal, it’s just cosmetics.

Cabernet has the ability to do more manipulation than standard m3u apps. I forgot that daddylive has 2 things that make m3u not possible. One is the stream auth value changes causing the stream url to not be stable. Second, the server expects specific header data that a generic m3u app will not provide AND the header changes for each channel. So, you are right, the m3u interface will not work with daddylive...

I would still recommend try turning on the channel number in the client epg settings for your channel ordering. Channel numbers can be changed to whatever you need for the order.

G Kazaroth wrote:

It is working for me. DaddyLive is having growing issues with others being shutdown. They are getting a load of new users. A couple of days ago, they had to rebuild their US server. Many times, if Cabernet is having issues, it looks like DaddyLive is having a DDOS attack from Cabernet's perspective. It is more than likely just more traffic than they can handle. In general, they have a good service dept and the chat tool on their main page is pretty responsive to complaints, but that being said, it does look like they do have issues quite often right now. I do suspect things will get better. Also, note that the local channels like ABC, CBS, NBC and FOX seem to change locations based on what is available, so the tvguide may not be correct. Hopefully, it is close. I am also aware that they have a ton of channels not listed on their pages. People are just randomly trying different UID or asking the chat for a certain channel number. My understanding is the channels not listed are not maintained and may not exist at all times.

I still cannot get cabernet to show the DaddyLive channels on the m3u file. Everything is enabled for DaddyLive, channels show up in the Channel Editor but whenever I open the m3u file this is all the file has:

#EXTM3U
#EXTINF:-1 channelID='612fea0e970e6f00083be56b' tvg-num='0' tvg-chno='0' tvg-name='TV Land Drama' tvg-id='612fea0e970e6f00083be56b' tvg-logo='https://images.pluto.tv/channels/612fea0e970e6f00083be56b/colorLogoPNG.png' group-title='PlutoTV|Entertainment',TV Land Drama
http://172.18.0.2:5004/PlutoTV/watch/612fea0e970e6f00083be56b

On Stream Providers I have enabled DaddyLive, DaddyLive Instance, M3u, Pluto TV and Pluto TV Instance.

On Channel Editor > DaddyLive I have:
Total Unique Channels = 306
Total Enabled Unique Channels = 306

On Channel Editor > PLuto TV I have (Only TV Land enabled):
Total Unique Channels = 373
Total Enabled Unique Channels = 1

I changed DaddyLive Starting Channel Number to 300 to see if what you wrote on the previous post would help but still cant get DaddyLive to show up on the m3u.

What changed in the last week or 2 that made DaddyLive not show up like it did just 2 weeks ago?

write an issue to get help

New tvguide plugin 0.1.7 required update if you are using it on cabernet 0.9.10.06.

still not working, working on plugin...

Issue is, I have too many changes going on right now. If you could just replace the file at
cabernet/plugins_ext/provider_epg_tvguide/lib/translations.py
with the one in GitHub, it will work. Version 0.1.5 is compatible with 0.9.10.06, but 0.1.6 is not. Using 0.1.5 and replacing the translation.py file will make it work again.

Cant get EPG to work. have latest version of epg. running in ubuntu

2023-03-17 11:19:12,742-WARNING:main #########################################
2023-03-17 11:19:12,743-WARNING:main MIT License, Copyright (C) 2021 ROCKY4546
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/vortex91/Downloads/cabernet-0.9.10.06/lib/plugins/plugin_handler.py", line 64, in collect_plugins
importlib.resources.read_text(_plugins_pkg, folder)
File "/usr/lib/python3.10/importlib/resources.py", line 103, in read_text
with open_text(package, resource, encoding, errors) as fp:
File "/usr/lib/python3.10/importlib/resources.py", line 82, in open_text
open_binary(package, resource), encoding=encoding, errors=errors
File "/usr/lib/python3.10/importlib/resources.py", line 46, in open_binary
return reader.open_resource(resource)
File "/usr/lib/python3.10/importlib/abc.py", line 433, in open_resource
return self.files().joinpath(resource).open('rb')
File "/usr/lib/python3.10/pathlib.py", line 1119, in open
return self._accessor.open(self, mode, buffering, encoding, errors,
IsADirectoryError: [Errno 21] Is a directory: '/home/vortex91/Downloads/cabernet-0.9.10.06/plugins_ext/provider_epg_tvguide'

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/vortex91/Downloads/cabernet-0.9.10.06/tvh_main.py", line 23, in <module>
main.main(script_dir)
File "/home/vortex91/Downloads/cabernet-0.9.10.06/lib/main.py", line 135, in main
plugins = init_plugins(config_obj)
File "/home/vortex91/Downloads/cabernet-0.9.10.06/lib/main.py", line 189, in init_plugins
plugins = plugin_handler.PluginHandler(_config_obj)
File "/home/vortex91/Downloads/cabernet-0.9.10.06/lib/plugins/plugin_handler.py", line 44, in init
self.collect_plugins(self.config_obj.data['paths']['external_plugins_pkg'])
File "/home/vortex91/Downloads/cabernet-0.9.10.06/lib/plugins/plugin_handler.py", line 67, in collect_plugins
plugin = Plugin(self.config_obj, self.plugin_defn, '.'.join([_plugins_pkg, folder]))
File "/home/vortex91/Downloads/cabernet-0.9.10.06/lib/plugins/plugin.py", line 63, in init
self.load_plugin_manifest(_plugin_defn)
File "/home/vortex91/Downloads/cabernet-0.9.10.06/lib/plugins/plugin.py", line 149, in load_plugin_manifest
self.import_manifest()
File "/home/vortex91/Downloads/cabernet-0.9.10.06/lib/plugins/plugin.py", line 159, in import_manifest
self.namespace = settings['name']
KeyError: 'name'

I believe you are using 0.1.7 which the release clearly states "NOT COMPATIBLE WITH Cabernet 0.9.10.06 and earlier." and since you are using 0.9.10.06, that would be why you are having issues. As stated above, you need to use 0.1.5 and then copy the latest version of translations.py.

sorry i re-read and setup as stated and all working now.

Is there documenation on how to setup my own m3u via proxy or streamlink?

No problem. Thanks for understanding what I am trying to do. Working on major changes and then the EPG provider changes the API that basically breaks all the apps out there. Nice that Cabernet can easily handle the change. Try not to abuse the EPG provider... (Like doing a delete instance on the EPG plugin, or increasing the refresh rate of the guide.)

1. Add the M3U instance to the config.ini and restart app
2. Goto Settings and enter the M3U URL (compressed or not) and the xml URL for the EPG.
3. Enable the instance and restart the app

• I recommend setting the Group Name. It will cause TVH to group the channels under that tag.
  The rest can be defaults.

As for the Stream_type
m3u8redirect: sends the URL to the client and it is the clients job to connect to the provider directly.
Streamlink and ffmpeg proxy: are similar, but use different apps to connect to the provider.
Internal proxy: directly manages the stream from the provider that can lead to more capabilities.

Interesting. More clear now. I did not see anywhere that the latest epg plugin does not work with the latest cabernet. A little confusing but will try what you recommend as I am not getting any epg for daddylive.

I see it now but it says works and doesn't work:

provider_epg_tvguide 0.1.7 Latest

updated provider interface. works with Cabernet 0.9.10.06

NOT COMPATIBLE WITH Cabernet 0.9.10.06 and earlier.

It just counts which glasses you are wearing...

Looking at changing from urllib to requests. The use of urllib is causing a DDOS issue with daddylive and is closing connections every time. By moving to requests, the connection can be kept alive. For now, recommend using streamlink with daddylive.

Not sure if this is known issue or not but due to daddy being unstable i have come across a bug where the tuners show as being used even though there are not active streams. Then when daddy comes back up tuner status in GUI shows as 10 streams being used but none are used so i have to restart the service to get it to work.

G Kazaroth wrote:

Cabernet has the ability to do more manipulation than standard m3u apps. I forgot that daddylive has 2 things that make m3u not possible. One is the stream auth value changes causing the stream url to not be stable. Second, the server expects specific header data that a generic m3u app will not provide AND the header changes for each channel. So, you are right, the m3u interface will not work with daddylive...

I would still recommend try turning on the channel number in the client epg settings for your channel ordering. Channel numbers can be changed to whatever you need for the order.

Is there a way to add new channel in sqldb or else where for daddylive?

The cause of the 10 streams allocated is caused by the client when the provider is not responding. In this case, no streaming traffic is happening, so a stream timeout is required to release the tuner. For internalproxy, it is set to 120 seconds. For steamlink, it is set to 59 seconds. Some clients reset the channel or go to a different channel, if data is not received in a short time. This causes the tuners to stack up. Many clients can be configured to change their responses to no data, but that is the reason. So, if you had waited with no channels active, the tuners would have timed out. Also, you can tell that the tuner is stagnate because the home page will list the tuner status as Starting or NoReply, which means no data has been received for a while.

As for the database, I use DB Browser for SQLite to edit the databases. It probably would not work in the long run unless you turned off the daddylive channel updates in the scheduler. Everytime the scheduler runs, it verifies no old channels need to be removed. Once you have the channel scheduler for daddylive cleared, then you can edit the database files all you like. The only piece that will be difficult to know is the Referer. You can guess it and see if it works. I believe you get a 503 type error, if the referer is incorrect.

Clients im using are Jellyfin and Tivimate. Sometimes daddy channel goes down for extended time and this even caused cabernet to crash. I can provide log if you like.

SQL worked for me to add channels. I took sample channel and edited with updated channel id in all fields and it works as expected.

As far as disabling scheduler is that somewhere in GUI or config? or the sql db? and if sql db do you know which value needs to be changed?

First try to run the channel update and confirm the new channels disappear. If they do, then I would recommend deleting from the gui. Do not delete the top level task... just the triggers. If you delete the task, it will recreate the triggers on startup.