POOL Multiple m3u Tuners - No Double or Duplicate Channels

[Luke 38500]

Hi, no update yet, but hopefully you are enjoying the new live tv management features in Emby Server 4.6 and more will be coming. Thanks.

[pir8radio 1301]

On 6/21/2021 at 10:59 AM, Luke said:

Hi, no update yet, but hopefully you are enjoying the new live tv management features in Emby Server 4.6 and more will be coming. Thanks.

   Careful...   I see what you are doing...   Saying you have been focusing on making live tv better, and more live tv updates are coming..   Thanks..    But your comment sounds like "Nope, I don't care about this thing that is important to you, but check out all of the other cool stuff I made time for that I do care about in 4.6"    I know that's not what you mean.. but sounds like it a little...   

 

Edited February 22, 2022 by pir8radio

[Luke 38500]

26 minutes ago, pir8radio said:

   Careful...   I see what you are doing...   Saying you have been focusing on making live tv better, and more live tv updates are coming..   Thanks..    But your comment sounds like "Nope, I don't care about this thing that is important to you, but check out all of the other cool stuff I made time for that I do care about in 4.6"    I know that's not what you mean.. but sounds like it a little...   

 

It was just saying that things are moving, even if we haven't gotten to this specific thing yet. But stay tuned.

[neoskateur 10]

On 2/23/2022 at 12:18 AM, Luke said:

It was just saying that things are moving, even if we haven't gotten to this specific thing yet. But stay tuned.

Do you have any roadmap for this features and maybe others as well ?

[EODCrafter 180]

7 hours ago, neoskateur said:

Do you have any roadmap for this features and maybe others as well ?

Best RoadMap I see in the foreseeable future is TV Headend.

[neoskateur 10]

@Luke For multiple IPTV stream I have an idea which may not be the best, but still an easy one to implement.
I have multiple link for IPTV each one for 1 stream at a time who looks like this:
http://s1.pixel4k.vision:80/xmltv.php?username="usernane"&password="password"&output=ts

but when you use a custom M3U app you can see multiple channel ex:
#EXTINF: -1 tvg-name=" C8 HD" tvg-logo="http://134.255.234.197/logos/c8.png" group-title="FRANCE HD",  C8 HD
http://s1.pixel4k.vision:80/*RANDOMNUMBERS*/*RANDOMNUMBER*/*CHANNELNUMBER*

And all addresses use the same numbers, just channel is changing (logical)
#EXTINF: -1 tvg-name=" W9 HD" tvg-logo="http://134.255.234.197/logos/w9.png" group-title="FRANCE HD",  W9 HD
http://s1.pixel4k.vision:80/*Same_RANDOMNUMBERS*/*Same_RANDOMNUMBER*/*New_CHANNELNUMBER*

First NUMBERS LIST is username and second is the password btw.

So an easy way would be to use one m3u for all the channels needed to store them. So when a user try to use the TV if a number is already in use, then the server just need to swtich with another one if provided.

BTW, any API to develop a plugin ? I could do that. 

Edited March 13, 2022 by neoskateur

[Luke 38500]

4 hours ago, neoskateur said:

 

BTW, any API to develop a plugin ? I could do that. 

HI, an api to do what?

[neoskateur 10]

I've found an API for emby.

The goal is to support multiple "usernames" and "password" for IPTV, store them and use them for the same channels.

[Luke 38500]

5 hours ago, neoskateur said:

I've found an API for emby.

The goal is to support multiple "usernames" and "password" for IPTV, store them and use them for the same channels.

Are you saying your provider requires a username and password?

[neoskateur 10]

2 hours ago, Luke said:

Are you saying your provider requires a username and password?

Hum what I'm trying to say, is that all providers now uses M3U_PLUS or M3U8 (not sure about the use), but they give you a custom link with username and password yes.
And all channels are the same link in the m3u but with different username and pass. 
So an easy way to handle multiple iptv at a time would be to setup multiple user/pass in the server, and when a user try to use the TV, the server check if one of the users in the list is already in use or not.
If not in use, then the server attribute one available username/pass to the active user and now knows it's not available for the next user who will try to use IPTV.

I'm sorry if I'm not clear but it's kinda very simple to do (in my head actually). 
 

[Luke 38500]

1 minute ago, neoskateur said:

Hum what I'm trying to say, is that all providers now uses M3U_PLUS or M3U8 (not sure about the use), but they give you a custom link with username and password yes.
And all channels are the same link in the m3u but with different username and pass. 
So an easy way to handle multiple iptv at a time would be to setup multiple user/pass in the server, and when a user try to use the TV, the server check if one of the users in the list is already in use or not.
If not in use, then the server attribute one available username/pass to the active user and now knows it's not available for the next user who will try to use IPTV.

I'm sorry if I'm not clear but it's kinda very simple to do (in my head actually). 
 

that sounds like custom provider-specific functionality which the generalized m3u plugin is not designed or intended for. If you can't simplify that down to just a workable video url for each channel then a new type of tuner source plugin will be needed that is specially designed for that.

[neoskateur 10]

3 hours ago, Luke said:

that sounds like custom provider-specific functionality which the generalized m3u plugin is not designed or intended for. If you can't simplify that down to just a workable video url for each channel then a new type of tuner source plugin will be needed that is specially designed for that.

I'll try to simplify it:
The providers give you a link who look like this for each user:
http://s1.pixel4k.vision:80/get.php?username=111111111&password=11110000&type=m3u_plus&output=ts
http://s1.pixel4k.vision:80/get.php?username=222222222&password=22220000&type=m3u_plus&output=ts

And when you enter one of the link into emby, it detects each channels available.

But when you use a custom M3U editor you can manage channels and see what you M3U looks like. For exemple a channel will look like this:
#EXTINF: -1 tvg-name=" C8 HD" tvg-logo="http://134.255.234.197/logos/c8.png" group-title="FRANCE HD",  C8 HD
http://s1.pixel4k.vision:80/111111111/11110000/76512

If you see it right, then you can see that: 
s1.pixel4k.vision:80 -> server address
15656165231 -> username
165654654 -> password
76512 -> channel number

AND the channel remain the same for ALL USERS AND PROVIDERS, they are universals. 

So what I'm saying is,
In emby server the admin adds a M3U file, or a link who grab all the channels directly. But if the admin can add a batch of server_address/username/password, then the server just have to replace that part when trying to reach the channel, ex:
The channel in the server is using this address: http://s1.pixel4k.vision:80/11111111/11110000/76512 but it's already in use or detect "No stream available", then he can try to reach the same channel with another username:  http://s1.pixel4k.vision:80/22222222/22220000/76512

Not sure if I'm clear, but it should work, I've tryed a simple script working on my windows, who's checking the list, but it could be great to have this "Feature" into the server.
 

[northyj0e 2]

There's an xteve fork called threadfin by fyb3roptik which supports this, unfortunately for now it's entirely manual, you have to chose the 'backup' channels individually, but the dev is extremely active and responsive, which cannot be said for the xteve team who seem to think that improvement is not necessary at all.

[johnsonflix 1]

Yes this! I found a iptv provider that is amazing but am limited to 2 streams and I need 8. If emby could combine those and use a second m3u when the first one is all used up I would continue to buy emby! Right now I just going to have to use the bad iptv apps 

[EODCrafter 180]

On 12/27/2022 at 4:33 AM, northyj0e said:

There's an xteve fork called threadfin by fyb3roptik which supports this, unfortunately for now it's entirely manual, you have to chose the 'backup' channels individually, but the dev is extremely active and responsive, which cannot be said for the xteve team who seem to think that improvement is not necessary at all.

That's not the case.....The Dev has retired and welcomes forks.

[northyj0e 2]

17 hours ago, EODCrafter said:

That's not the case.....The Dev has retired and welcomes forks.

It is the case, as per this issue

[johnsonflix 1]

There is a service called IPTVeditor which i use now. What it does is take the "master m3u" and it changes the username and password to whatever is set on a users account. I would think this implementation would solve the issue for some people in here. It would allow giving each family member their own IPTV subscription then and it would fill in the m3u with their set credentials. Now if the issue is number of streams for a single user this wouldn't solve that problem. I would absolutely love to see some additional IPTV development in Emby. I use iMplayer right now but it is limited to android. 

[Luke 38500]

HI, yes, more control over this is planned for future updates. Thanks.

[neik 858]

2 hours ago, Luke said:

HI, yes, more control over this is planned for future updates. Thanks.

Nothing TVNext couldn't handle, but who am I telling that...

For the others, see here and feel free to keep pressure high on the topic:

 

[dean6965 2]

Is this still not available ?? omg how many thousands of people need to ask before it gets done ? people started asking in 2019 !

[Nostradamus1973 23]

On 5/12/2024 at 11:32 PM, dean6965 said:

Is this still not available ?? omg how many thousands of people need to ask before it gets done ? people started asking in 2019 !

Good morning,

Since this feature  hasn't been implemented, you can use hls-proxy it has a "Stream Pool" feature for combining identical m3u's.

I hope this helps because I doubt this feature will ever be a thing in emby given the amount of time that's transpired.

Have a great day.