TVHeadend tags

[CharlieMurphy 73]

TVHeadend won't output tags in an m3u. The explanation I found was that since multiple tags can be assigned to a channel in TVHeadend, how would it determine which tag to use for a channel when outputting the m3u?

Kodi gets tags from the TVHeadend addon with HTSP, this seems to be where it's handled in the source: https://github.com/kodi-pvr/pvr.hts/blob/f336890562972b5a5d0a1cf6b363ff10262fcbd5/src/Tvheadend.cpp#L227C1-L227C8

In another thread, @Lukelinked to here for the TVHeadend plugin for Emby: https://github.com/MediaBrowser/Tvheadend/blob/master/TVHeadEnd/DataHelper/ChannelDataHelper.cs#L65

Ideally this is a request for someone to add this feature, but I'm willing to put time into it if someone could help me.

One issue I anticipate is that Emby probably expects one tag per channel, but Kodi probably doesn't mind having a single channel in multiple groups. I haven't tested multiple tags yet but I have tested Kodi with single tags per channel and that works well.

Just as having channel numbers in TVH was previously a requirement until an update, I wouldn't mind if this required me to have only one tag per channel to avoid dealing with multiple tags.

[Luke 37066]

Hi, yes sounds like a great task for a community contributor.