Channel Mapping Questions

[taylorbourne 19]

So I have my Emby server set up with an IPTV m3u playlist and I'm trying to get all my guide data set up. The provider I went with actually provided an EPG (xmltv), but it's a bit incomplete so I'm filling in the gaps with schedules direct. So I have the provided EPG, a schedules direct line up from New York (for my US channels), and another one with a line up from the UK. I've gone through them one by one and mapped the appropriate channels... Now my concern is when I go back into the mapping I noticed, for example, the UK line up which should only be used for a couple of channels has mapped itself (incorrectly) to other channels.

 

Is my other SD line up that I mapped (manually) going to override these incorrect (automatic) mappings? If not, it may be a good idea to add in a way to clear a mapped channel. Once a channel is mapped it can only be changed to another source, not cleared. LMK if any logs are needed.

[Luke 37061]

hi, what does the m3u look like? does it have unique channel numbers or do all the channels have the same number?

[taylorbourne 19]

Here's an example..

#EXTM3U
#EXTINF:-1 tvg-id="W Network" group-title="Entertainment",W NETWORK US
http://host.com/load/XXX/962.mpegts
#EXTINF:-1 tvg-id="CBC US" group-title="Entertainment",CBC US
http://host.com/load/XXX/964.mpegts
#EXTINF:-1 tvg-logo="http://www.thelogodb.com/images/media/logo/wvsprt1433941265.png/medium" tvg-id="Comedy Central US" group-title="Entertainment",Comedy Central US
http://host.com/load/XXX/645.mpegts
#EXTINF:-1  tvg-logo="http://host.com/logos/alibi.png" tvg-id="alibi" group-title="Entertainment",Alibi
http://host.com/load/XXX/103.mpegts
#EXTINF:-1  tvg-logo="http://host.com/logos/cbs_reality.png" group-title="Entertainment",CBS Reality
http://host.com/load/XXX/331.mpegts

Not sure how I would number channels?

[Luke 37061]

Ok, you need to add channel numbers using a channel-id attribute

 

http://xmtvplayer.com/build-m3u-file

[taylorbourne 19]

Ok gotcha – can these numbers be arbitrary or am I trying to match something in my guide data? In the process of trying this now. Also still a little confused.. if I map a channel on one guide provider, what's to stop another guide provider from overriding my selection?

[Luke 37061]

They can be arbitrary but if they match the guide data then it should map automatically.

[Luke 37061]

As far as provider override, it evaluates the providers enabled for that tuner in the order that they're listed in guide provider setup.

[taylorbourne 19]

Just remapped all my channels with channel-id's, currently waiting for the guide refresh to finish. However after completing that, it may be a good idea to be able to:

• Tell Emby not to try to automatically map channels for a given provider
• Change the sort order of the guide providers
• Clear out a mapping inside a guide provider

Will report back after my guide refresh finishes

 

UPDATE:

All channels successfully mapped. I went with an arbitrary numbering system (which actually is fine, it groups/orders the channels exactly how I waanted) since my IPTV provider EPG does not have channel numbers. I added my schedules direct line up and mapped it, then I added my IPTV provider EPG and mapped it. I opted out of adding a 2nd schedules direct guide provider to lower the level of complexity a little bit. Thanks for the help!

Edited September 1, 2016 by taylorbourne

[Luke 37061]

Thanks for reporting, and yes, great ideas.

[taylorbourne 19]

Bumping this thread, no need to create a whole new one..

 

Is the channel-id property the only thing Emby looks at to try to automatically map channels? Is there any way to use the id property from schedules direct? For example

 

280   11158 TLC The Learning Channel

 

For this lineup, TLC has a channel number of 280, and an XMLid of 11158. Is there any way to use this XMLid in my m3u list? I've noticed some m3u list have just an "id" property. Or would setting the channel-id to this number work? Thanks!

[Luke 37061]

I'm confused by your question because you don't use schedules direct together with xmltv, rather you pick one or the other.

[taylorbourne 19]

Sorry reading that again I could have been more clear –

 

I'm using schedules direct to add guide data to some of my IPTV channels listed in my m3u playlist. From what I understand when you add a SD lineup as a Guide Provider, it tries to map to channels in the m3u playlist by looking at the channel-id property. So if in my playlist I have TLC listed as channel #280, it will automatically map. All that makes sense, however using this method you cannot group/order channels in a custom manner.

 

I guess what I'm asking is, is that the only thing (the channel-id property) Emby looks at when mapping channels this way? It would be great if I could add the channels StationID (I was saying XMLid in my previous post) to my playlist to have Emby automatically map.

 

Just briefly looking through the SD API, it looks like the StationID is part of what comes back in the response.

[taylorbourne 19]

Ok I just went ahead and did some testing to see if I could get any channels to map using the StationID, no dice! Seems that Emby ONLY looks to the channel-id property.

[Luke 37061]

yea we can probably look at mapping by station id.