Live TV Channel set and Guide Improvements

[390x99xdsa 6]

Since the latest WMC guide issue  I bit the bullet and subscribed to Schedules Direct so I could get epg for WMC.  So I thought I would add that to my Emby setup as well.

 

I have an Silcon Dust HDHR 3 CC (cable card) so it presents 500+ channels.  The guide population is slow but does work.  FWIW, it takes about 4 times as long as epg123 takes to get and process and import the same guide data for WMC.

 

However,there doesn't seem to be a way to limit the imported channels and or limit the guide to a subset of the channels.   For example.  the HDHR from the cable company has standard def channels for every HD channel, but I don't want or need the standard def channels.  With epg123 (the replacement epg plugin for WMC) you can select which channels from the Silcon Dust HDHR you want to supply to WMC and retrieve guide data for.  So I can limit that to just the channels I watch (or may watch) -- no standard def channels at all.

 

Now since the guide navigation on the various clients is so limited scrolling slowly through the 240+ standard def channels to get to the HD channels is  painful.  Allowing the sub-setting (not just marking some as favorites) of the channel list is a necessary feature to make this usable.  It would also have the benefit of limiting the total number of channels for which guide information must be fetched (and processed) thus making it less slow to complete.

 

Secondly, with even 200+ HD channels and no direct way to navigate round the guide it is still pretty much to painful to use.

So you would need to add an interface for Roku and the Emby Theater to jump by not only a single page (which are small) of guide info, but by 5x or 10x pages, or an onscreen way to enter or jump to a channel range (like movies by letter ...)

1-50

51-100

101-150

...

 

Emby Theater, since it understands WMC Remote codes,, direct channel number entry on the guide could be supported that that if I enter 503 on remote it would jump to channel 503 as the top line on the guide.  (like how WMC works)

 

Obviously that couldn't work on Roku since that remote doesn't have any numbers, but then channel group index on the side like (movies by letter) would work.

 

Thanks

 

 

[Guest asrequested]

However,there doesn't seem to be a way to limit the imported channels and or limit the guide to a subset of the channels.   For example.  the HDHR from the cable company has standard def channels for every HD channel, but I don't want or need the standard def channels.  With epg123 (the replacement epg plugin for WMC) you can select which channels from the Silcon Dust HDHR you want to supply to WMC and retrieve guide data for.  So I can limit that to just the channels I watch (or may watch) -- no standard def channels at all.

 

You can use your HDHR setup software and disable whatever channels you don't want. After you run a guide update in Emby, only the channels you allowed, will be in the emby guide. I removed several hundred.

[jaquestati 45]

You can use your HDHR setup software and disable whatever channels you don't want. After you run a guide update in Emby, only the channels you allowed, will be in the emby guide. I removed several hundred.

 

is there a way to do that (remove channels) with an m3u/iptv setup in emby?

[Luke 42085]

Not at the moment but we plan to add more robust channel management in the future. in the meantime you would just need to remove them from the m3u.

[KarterJK 35]

As Doofus stated the easiest way to block channels is via HD HomeRun Setup software

 

run it and on the first tab select a tuner and click it

browser window will display

select channel lineup

if you haven't detected your channels (do so)

once all your channels show

you can click the little star in front of each channel

first click turns it yellow (indicating a favorite)

second click places a red X (indicating that channel will be blocked)

third click returns it back to normal

 

that is how you can block channels

Edited July 12, 2017 by KarterJK

[Luke 42085]

Thanks @@KarterJK !

[CBers 7471]

is there a way to do that (remove channels) with an m3u/iptv setup in emby?

Delete them from the M3U file.

[Jdiesel 1431]

is there a way to do that (remove channels) with an m3u/iptv setup in emby?

  A workaround

 

https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/45799-emby-server-live-tv-channel-selection/?p=433324