Live TV - M3U Tuner - Channel Name = EPG-ID + Channel Number?

[meowmix 0]

Hello Emby Community,

I am using Emby with a Premier Licence and trying to setup some Live TV channels via M3U.

The editor I use to create the M3U is Xeev (https://www.xtream-editor.com/).

The functionality works great - Two questions I have are:

1) In the Emby Live TV Guide, the Channel Name is always the "EPG-ID" + channel Number from the channel entry in the playlist

Is there a way to simply make it use the "Title" of the channel instead?

 

2) From the Live TV Guide, when I click on a Channel it first takes me to a screen where I can choose Play and also see the program schedule for the channel

Is there a way to make it so when I select a Channel in the Guide, it simply plays that Channel? 

These are little things - I think Emby is amazing.

 

Thank you in advance.

MeowMix

 

 

 

 

[Apotropaic 51]

Hi.

1. That screenshot you showed with the BBC One channel details, is that from your M3U editor or Emby?

I’m not an expert but it sounds like your M3U editor might be causing the naming issue here. I’m not aware of anything in Emby that is going to concatenate the channel name with the EPG-ID. Might be worth sharing the M3U text for a channel so we can what’s in it (remember to redact any accounts/passwords).

2. I don’t think that’s possible to change.

If you’re on the web app you can right click and select play. You can do that on the channel name and on the individual programme. 

Alternatively if you go to the channel view it will play the channel with one-click.

[meowmix 0]

Hey, 

Thanks for looking at my question.

The second screenshot (with the channel details) is the channel editor.

Here is the content from the playlist:

#EXTM3U url-tvg="https://www.xtream-editor.com/load/epg/MEOWMEOWMEOW”

#EXTINF:-1 tvg-chno="525" tvg-id="BBCOneLondon.uk" tvg-name="BBCOneLondon.uk" tvg-logo="https://images.channel5.eu/eGqxKQFYBvdaZ1gtJTHXn4WBABiXLu9fuK51ucjDAL6nsJ4hn9k5qwT7ArjvjwuF.png" group-title="Entertainment",BBC One

https://meow.mix/MeowMeow/MeowMeow/300262

#EXTINF:-1 tvg-chno="528" tvg-id="BBCTwoEngland.uk" tvg-name="BBCTwoEngland.uk" tvg-logo="https://images.channel5.eu/eGqxKQFYBvdaZ1gtJTHXn4WBABiXLu9fuK51ucjDAL6lcjQ6mBQLsnYS5P1GMFtx.png" group-title="Entertainment",BBC Two

https://meow.mix/MeowMeow/MeowMeow/300263

#EXTINF:-1 tvg-chno="531" tvg-id="ITV1London.uk" tvg-name="ITV1London.uk" tvg-logo="https://images.channel5.eu/eGqxKQFYBvdaZ1gtJTHXnzd6tVqeR-I2I0JPdhHp6_DDjGKOwakZs9ZufYPOqBik.png" group-title="Entertainment",ITV 1

https://meow.mix/MeowMeow/MeowMeow/389823

#EXTINF:-1 tvg-chno="535" tvg-id="Channel4.uk" tvg-name="Channel4.uk" tvg-logo="https://images.channel5.eu/eGqxKQFYBvdaZ1gtJTHXnzHaJBS1TmNczWAEI3RaG8oDBPTv_HpdHlqldDxHdtkZ.png" group-title="Entertainment",Channel 4

https://meow.mix/MeowMeow/MeowMeow/300564

#EXTINF:-1 tvg-chno="539" tvg-id="Channel5.uk" tvg-name="Channel5.uk" tvg-logo="https://images.channel5.eu/eGqxKQFYBvdaZ1gtJTHXnzHaJBS1TmNczWAEI3RaG8qWAj6xeakBTQYRhbcWxFPB.png" group-title="Entertainment",Channel 5

https://meow.mix/MeowMeow/MeowMeow/300672

 

Maybe I should try another Playlist Editor?

[Apotropaic 51]

No worries, it's annoying when things don't work out how you plan! I thought that was your editor but wanted to check.

As for the M3U items, for some reason your editor is transposing the EPG-ID into the channel name, I imagine there must be some option or setting within your editor as I don't understand why anyone would want that by default.

Here is mine for comparison..

#EXTINF:-1 tvg-id="101" tvg-name="BBC 1 4K" tvg-logo="http://192.168.x.x:9191/api/channels/logos/431614/cache/" tvg-chno="101" group-title="General",BBC 1 4K

I've tried a number of different editors and I've given up on them, they all have some sort of limitation for what I want. If you have the skills and machine resources to run docker images, then I would recommend 'Dispatcharr'. It's free, will be hosted locally, and will let you customise and automate your M3U setup. Dispatcharr is meant to be used a proxy for emby but you don't have to run it that way but there some benefits. The Dispatcharr model is you have to manually create Channels out of the streams you have. So a one time activity is to create a BBC One channel and add a stream to it. The best bit is you can add multiple BBC One streams to the same channel and they will operate as a automatic backup (only if you use Dispatcharr as a proxy).

This way you can name the channels exactly how you want, set icons for them, and even link an EPG to the channels.

You then point emby to your dispatcharr instance for the M3U and EPG. But you can be flexible and use the Emby EPG if you wanted or mix and match.

[meowmix 0]

Thanks very much Apotropaic,

you are right and now that I re-read the M3U content I can see that the editor seems to be putting the channel name as the EPG-ID.

I’ll do both - I’ll check the settings within the editor

- but also interested in Dispatcharr so will do some reading 

 

thank you again, much appreciated