Using two liveTV Plugins at the same time - Choose between them

[cybe 1]

Hello. Wish you merry Christmas ;-)

 

First question, i have two seperate TV Servers running. DVBLink TVSource and on another device with an integrated DVB reciever a TVHeadend server. Is it possible to use both of them, when configuring and installing both plugins in emby server at the same time?

 

And the second question is, in the emby client apps, is it possible to choose in the liveTV section of the clients app (Program/EPG VIew) which channels to display, from which of the both plugins? It would be nice to choose which channels should be displayed.

 

DVBLink and tvheadend both have the same channels available in my setup. i'm using DVBLink for recording and setting timers and tvheadend for watching TV. So it would be great to have a choice in the Program / EPG Views to display only the channels from tvheadend while watching tv and displaying only the channels from the DVBLink plugin to browse the EPG and set timers. In all screens according to liveTV it would be very good and informative to see which liveTV plugin is used.

 

I'm using my tablets and smartphones emby apps to only browse the liveTV EPG for setting timers to record and the other clients (fireTV, XBOX One, AndroidTV) to watch liveTV from the channels that TVHeadend provides.

 

This would all be possible within kodi, but there is no kodi app available for the xbox one i'm using in my living room.

Edited December 25, 2016 by cybe

[Luke 42077]

Hi, inside Emby there is currently no way to do this other than hiding the channels via parental controls. You can learn more about that in our wiki:

 

https://github.com/MediaBrowser/Wiki/wiki/Parental%20controls

 

A simpler mechanism to just check off the channels you want is planned for the future. Until then you can either use the parental control technique or disable the channel within the back-end tv software.

[Carlo 4560]

In case anyone finds this older thread via search and is looking for a solution.

We have pushed out a change to M3U functionality that can be very helpful and used by admins in a few different ways.

When setting up or editing an M3U tuner, you will see a new option to use.  "Auto-add tags to channels" shown above.
This will do exactly what it sounds like. Every channel loaded from the M3U source will be tagged with the entry you set in the config.
Each M3U source can have a different tag associated with the channels from that source.

USEFUL USES

Many IPTV providers limit the number of simultaneous streams in their service. If you need additional streams, you could purchase another plan adding a 2nd m3u tuner to your system, you end up with an unmanaged set of channels, having duplicate channel entries of every channel. Not only does it make using LiveTV harder to maneuver with double the data, it looks far less clean and becomes confusing to users.

With the new auto-tagging functionality, you can set a tag like IPTV1 and IPTV2 to each tuner.  Every channel will now be tagged according to what tuner it's associated with. With the help of Emby's Parental Controls you can add a tag assigned to a tuner's channels in parental control in the section that blocks items with these tags.

Setting Up Tags for TV Users

• Split Users: Set up half your TV users with one tag and the other half with another tag. Each group shares one tuner and only sees one set of channels.

• Multiple Subscriptions: Use 3, 4, or more IPTV subscriptions to spread the number of tuners/streams across your users.

Tagging for Different Uses

• Split Subscriptions: Have one IPTV subscription split among your users while keeping a second subscription for your use. This way, you can provide LiveTV and recording abilities to users, while reserving a subscription for your own private use.

• Curate Channels: If your m3u file doesn’t use grouping, move multiple channels at once to category-based m3u files (e.g., sports.m3u, news.m3u, kids.m3u, premium.m3u, network.m3u, local.m3u). Set these up in Emby LiveTV with each file having a tag to match the content.

• Multiple m3u Files: If you have multiple IPTV m3u files from different sources, tagging helps you know what source a channel is from by looking at the channel's tag.

These are just a few of the creative ways this new functionality could be used.

If you don't see the new tag option when adding or editing an M3U tuner, it may not have updated on your system yet. You can manually upgrade this easily by upgrading the M3UTUNER plugin to 1.0.32 or later in the Plugin Catalog.