nayr 36 Posted August 25, 2019 Share Posted August 25, 2019 (edited) Request: Some IPTV providers may have special Event channels in which no EPG data is provided, the details are typically in the channel name but its too long to read from the guide. Instead of currently displaying no guide info, I request that it simply displays the <Channel Name>, which is the only information it has. Edited August 25, 2019 by nayr 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lethalwisdom 2 Posted August 26, 2019 Share Posted August 26, 2019 (edited) I also think this is an excellent idea for the reasons mentioned above but also for "24/7 Channels". As of right now I have to make an xml that just has all my 24/7 channels and make a fake start and stop time so the line isn't blank. It works but then it also always shows those at the begining of the "on now" list and that's all it shows. So having an option to show the channel name when there is no epg data, would be lovely. Thanks. Edited August 26, 2019 by lethalwisdom 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
porkbone 38 Posted October 5, 2019 Share Posted October 5, 2019 +1 on this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebps01 6 Posted October 7, 2019 Share Posted October 7, 2019 +1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spaceboy 2484 Posted October 7, 2019 Share Posted October 7, 2019 If you are doing this for IPTV you really should be using xteve. This is one of my favourite features of it Sent from my SM-T510 using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 36881 Posted October 7, 2019 Share Posted October 7, 2019 Does anyone remember what WMC did? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spaceboy 2484 Posted October 7, 2019 Share Posted October 7, 2019 It just said no data, but you were able to set manual recordings so it wasn’t an issue. In xteve I can generate 30,60 and 120 minute dummy programs using the channel name as the show name. It works brilliantly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 36881 Posted October 7, 2019 Share Posted October 7, 2019 It does seem like the no data text is more appropriate though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebr 14861 Posted October 7, 2019 Share Posted October 7, 2019 For clarification, this request has nothing to do with recording. It was a request for display only so that someone could see what was on a channel. Recordings where there is no data is a separate issue. It does seem like the no data text is more appropriate though. It depends. In the case of a VoD channel, showing the channel name would be very helpful. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spaceboy 2484 Posted October 7, 2019 Share Posted October 7, 2019 Right but my recommendation is to use xteve which covers both playback and recording Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danlo315 6 Posted December 5, 2019 Share Posted December 5, 2019 (edited) Right but my recommendation is to use xteve which covers both playback and recordingReviving this topic as I frequently run into this issue on on demand sports/ppv channels. @@Spaceboy thanks for the tip of using xteve to bring channel name as EPG. However, xteve has the habit of dropping the EPG mapping when the channel "changes" according to the m3u. I would have to 1) continuously remap dummy to those channels to turn them back to active, and 2) re-map them to channels in TVHeadend. I followed a request to "default" to a dummy channel but it didn't seem like the dev was too receptive. Edited December 5, 2019 by danlo315 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
junkyj753 0 Posted May 26, 2023 Share Posted May 26, 2023 This great suggestion went over like a fart in church. Xteve offers this feature and works flawlessly. Please reconsider this functionality Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 36881 Posted May 26, 2023 Share Posted May 26, 2023 Just now, junkyj753 said: This great suggestion went over like a fart in church. Xteve offers this feature and works flawlessly. Please reconsider this functionality Hi, yes it makes sense. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandman32 1 Posted July 30, 2023 Share Posted July 30, 2023 +1 to the ability to use a channel name as the guide data for channels that do not have guide data. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colinpeddle 0 Posted February 3 Share Posted February 3 +1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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