dbowles1975 25 Posted October 8, 2016 Share Posted October 8, 2016 I have an m3u playlist with an auth token that expires every four hours so every four hours I automatically run a Python script that generates a new m3u playlist and 1 minute later Emby refreshes the guide to update the playlist. This works just fine but because the channel numbering is unconventional SD does not pull images and I have to add them manually. Emby is deleting those images every time the guide refreshes. Is there any way to prevent this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37233 Posted October 8, 2016 Share Posted October 8, 2016 Is any info about the channel changing? the only way i can see that happening is if the server thinks it's a whole new channel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37233 Posted October 8, 2016 Share Posted October 8, 2016 Ah, I'm guessing the url must be changing? that causes the server to treat it as a new channel. This will have to be a known issue for now. We'll look into it for a future release. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbowles1975 25 Posted October 8, 2016 Author Share Posted October 8, 2016 Is any info about the channel changing? the only way i can see that happening is if the server thinks it's a whole new channel. Nope. I just ran the script and compared the playlists. The only thing that changes is the auth token. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37233 Posted October 8, 2016 Share Posted October 8, 2016 With a simple m3u that doesn't change I cannot reproduce this, sorry. So obviously some data is changing causing the server to treat it as an entirely new channel. We'll have to review it for a future release. thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbowles1975 25 Posted October 22, 2016 Author Share Posted October 22, 2016 With a simple m3u that doesn't change I cannot reproduce this, sorry. So obviously some data is changing causing the server to treat it as an entirely new channel. We'll have to review it for a future release. thanks. Luke, I did some more testing and it looks like the auth token is causing the issue. Not only do images disappear but the channel names also disappear. Here is a redacted sample from the playlist: #EXTINF:01 ESPNews http://dnae1.placeistreamfrom.tv:XXXX/viewstvn/ch01q1.stream/playlist.m3u8?wmsAuthSign=c2VydmVyX3RpbWU9MTAvMjIvMjAxNiA2OjQxOjM0IFBNJmhhc2hfdmFsdWU9d1UvYW5qUnBXUE5MYVNqNGp4UkI1UT09JnZhbGlkbWludXRlcz0yNDAmaWQ9NTQzNg== Everything before AuthSign= stays the same through a refresh while everything after is subject to change. Is there any way to keep the channel info intact through a refresh? Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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