Guide Mappings Disappear

[hootie418 5]

When my m3u list for TV gets refreshed all channels between 1-99 lose their guide mapping. The only thing I can thing off is the channel numbers in my m3u do not have leading zeroes and the guide data does have leading zeroes. Channel 005 in the guide Channel 5 in my m3u list. 

Is there a way to lock this or fix this issue??

[Luke 42079]

Hi, sounds like the m3u is changing significantly such that the channels can't be matched up before and after?

[hootie418 5]

I can match them before. I tried changing the channel numbers in emby and it shows that the numbers lock. When the m3u updates the numbers change back. The CUID in the m3u stay the same

[Luke 42079]

OK we'd have to look at a specific example. Thanks.

[hootie418 5]

Its weird. This just started happening. I have had the same system in place for a while. Are there any logs or examples I can give?

Edited August 29, 2024 by hootie418

[Luke 42079]

The best place to start is looking at the contents of the m3u both before and after the guide data refresh.

[hootie318 3]

I don't want to post my m3u lists here. I can tell you that to me the files look identical. I switched the channel numbers in iptvboss to numbers all above 100 and have refreshed multiple times without issue. Iptvboss does not allow leading zeros and the guide I use in emby have them. I've been using iptvboss for 6 months and haven't had the problem until about a week ago.

[Luke 42079]

hi, you could obfuscate the actual video urls, we don't need to see those. Can you do that?