Clearing all live tv metadata/EPG/cached data?

[gstuartj 40]

Hi all,

 

I had to rebuild my TVHeadend VM and am trying to get LiveTV working again. The problem I'm having is that Emby seems to use all the old channel data, and I can't get it to reliably refresh things like the channel name and icon after updating it in TVHeadend.

 

I have tried deleting all channels from TVHeadend and doing a refresh, and I have tried deleting metadata/livetv/*, but no dice so far. Every time I reinstall the TVH plugin and do a Guide Refresh I'm stuck with the old channel names and no icons.

 

Is there a query I can run against a DB or something, or am I looking in the wrong places? How can I make sure all live tv data is cleared so I can ensure I get a fresh lineup? Any ideas, @@Tolotos ?

 

Thanks,

[gstuartj 40]

I found a workaround to get all my channels updated using the TVHeadend plugin and am posting it for future reference. Clearing all channels from TVHeadend and doing a Guide Refresh does not clear the old channel data.

 

Instead, you must delete all channels except for one, then do a Guide Refresh, re-add the missing channels, and refresh again. If you need to update the one remaining channel, do the process again but with that one channel.

Edited July 8, 2016 by gstuartj

[Luke 40063]

Yea unfortunately that might be true because users can customize those things within emby server after the import, so we don't want to blow away those changes.

[Guest asrequested]

I had an issue with my guide data, too. Though I'm using HDHR. To completely rebuild the guide, I had to remove the data source (schedules direct), that started a guide refresh which wiped the data. I then added schedules direct, another scan occurred, and all data was regenerated.

[TastyPomme 7]

Same issue here - despite deleting the HD Homerun as a source, channels and EPG remained.

 

I added then a M3U list and Homerun channels remained.

Deleting M3U and I have now M3U & Homerun channels still showing up...

 

How can I sort this?

[Luke 40063]

Hi there, try running the refresh guide scheduled task in emby server.

[Velo 1]

Same things happened to me. I cant clear out the Live TV still show program, channels even i already deleted m3u url in the setting and run schedule task to refresh and multiple reboot with no luck? Any help hownto clear this out completely would be greatly appreciated.

[Happy2Play 9441]

Isn't this info cached and removed after the 30 day cache expiration?

[Velo 1]

6 minutes ago, Happy2Play said:

Isn't this info cached and removed after the 30 day cache expiration?

I am really not sure, I trybto clear this out so I can add different sources and the old info really causes all the channels line up display incorrectly. 

[Luke 40063]

4 hours ago, Velo said:

I am really not sure, I trybto clear this out so I can add different sources and the old info really causes all the channels line up display incorrectly. 

Hi there, please run the refresh guide scheduled task, then when it finishes please attach the emby server log. thanks.

[Velo 1]

On 1/15/2020 at 12:19 PM, Luke said:

Hi there, try running the refresh guide scheduled task in emby server.

Refesh guide scheduled task working for me now after few try and reboot, thanks so much.

[Carlo 4552]

Did you by any chance have a Live TV plugin loaded previously?  I ask because sometimes a plugin can cause issues with Live TV not removing channels.

[Velo 1]

This is my first time trying set up m3u and epg url by adding the tv sources as m3u tuner and epg url to XmlTV as TV  guide providers. When I try to remove the first provider so I can try another provider to compare their services and that's when I ran into the issue that I reported. I dont remember that I installed live tv plug in or not, but I did uninstall all of the plugins and ran the scheduled task and that seem fixed it.

Edited January 19, 2021 by Velo

[Pseudomax 3]

Hi,

I am also having a lot of problems removing old channels...

As you may have noted from a few other threads I am currently trying to organise my live TV channels and have been using an m3u provide but also editing with m3u4u and xteve. I now (permanently) have old channels showing up (with logos) and unable to remove them. I have tried deleting all playlists and guides, adding back different ones and trying using a just 1 channel hack to get the system working properly but without success. Please advise how best to do this (without completely reinstalling the server)?

Thanks

[Luke 40063]

57 minutes ago, Pseudomax said:

Hi,

I am also having a lot of problems removing old channels...

As you may have noted from a few other threads I am currently trying to organise my live TV channels and have been using an m3u provide but also editing with m3u4u and xteve. I now (permanently) have old channels showing up (with logos) and unable to remove them. I have tried deleting all playlists and guides, adding back different ones and trying using a just 1 channel hack to get the system working properly but without success. Please advise how best to do this (without completely reinstalling the server)?

Thanks

Hi, we'd have to look at a specific example, but simply edit your m3u sources and then refresh the guide data in Emby Server. Please try that and if you still have an issue, then let's look at it in more detail. Thanks.

[Pseudomax 3]

That's what I have done... and restarted the server ... but no change. The new channel from the m3u shows up but this is along with the other channels that should have been cleared from the cache when I deleted the playlist...

[Luke 40063]

6 minutes ago, Pseudomax said:

That's what I have done... and restarted the server ... but no change. The new channel from the m3u shows up but this is along with the other channels that should have been cleared from the cache when I deleted the playlist...

@cayars is happy to jump on and take a look with you. I can pretty much promise we will find it in the data somewhere

[Pseudomax 3]

sure ... let me know how that works? thank you btw

[Carlo 4552]

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