Add IP TV Provided Guide Data

[tuaris 5]

Looks like the Emby provided guide data isn't able to auto-map to my IPTV's lineup.  My IPTV provider offers an EPG URL.  How can I add that?

Or, how to I manually map the Emby provided guide to my IPTV channel line up?  Especially if I have a very large amount of channels, and the infinite scroll on the 'channels' tab in setting is having trouble loading them.

[Luke 42077]

Hi, is it xmltv? Then you can add a guide data source.

[tuaris 5]

51 minutes ago, Luke said:

Hi, is it xmltv? Then you can add a guide data source.

It's an M3U URL/File that's about 70 MB for the channel listings (there are a lot of channels and on-demand content), and a separate URL for the EPG that corresponds to that M3U file.

For now I managed (through lots of painful guessing and waiting) to estimate where to scroll to find the specific channels I was most interested in linking guide data too using the Emby provided guides.  At least I can get by with this.  The channel UI for linking guide data could probably benefit from the same kind of filtering that's possible when watching.  

 

I must say, the Live TV watching experience with Emby is quite nice, especially with the guide data. 

Edited September 27, 2025 by tuaris

[Luke 42077]

Did you look the contents of the epg url? is it xml?

[tuaris 5]

44 minutes ago, Luke said:

Did you look the contents of the epg url? is it xml?

Yes, the contents are XML.

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On 9/26/2025 at 8:31 PM, tuaris said:

Looks like the Emby provided guide data isn't able to auto-map to my IPTV's lineup.  My IPTV provider offers an EPG URL.  How can I add that?

Or, how to I manually map the Emby provided guide to my IPTV channel line up?  Especially if I have a very large amount of channels, and the infinite scroll on the 'channels' tab in setting is having trouble loading them.

You said Emby is not able to map then you ask how to map ? which is it ? Where are you located and what channels list local area do you need ?