Live TV and M3U Deletion

[flakie 11]

I have deleted my m3u and xmltv files and restarted emby.

Why do all the channels and epg data remain in emby?

[Luke 42079]

Make sure you actually removed them from Emby as well, and then refreshed the guide data in Emby Server.

[flakie 11]

Cheers, should have thought of that.

Refresh of the guide data fixed it.

Edited February 1, 2020 by flakie

[ajeansnz 8]

Hey Luke - what do you mean by this ?  I am having the exact same problem - having added and then removed several M3U tuners - I have now removed them and the attached xmltv epg data.  I have exactly no tuners and no XTMLTV EPG - but have trashed the Live TV as all the channels still show.  I have refreshed the non-existent TV Guide Data Providers.  Just can not see what else to do - how do I get rid of the now orphan channels ?

Unfortunately because I was messing with M3U and I checked out a worldwide list - along with the simplicity of setting Emby up I have managed to load up 5675 channels !!

So would love to clean this out - how do I do it ?

 

[Luke 42079]

What plugins have you installed?

[ajeansnz 8]

I have a pretty simple PlugIn set.  I have had DLNA and NextPVR installed in the past - but not for a while.  I also had connected to NextPVR via it's M3U functionality (running it via tuner so I could have Emby handling the XTMLTV EPG) - but removed this tuner (and EPG) as in the previous post.  Yet ... all the channels remain from either that or the other tuners I have since removed.  I have had this trouble with Emby previously now I think about it - and last time I did a complete uninstall and reinstall of it to get it sorted.  But - a pretty drastic move.  NextPVR responds immediately when you remove M3U's and removes channels - it seems Emby is caching and not clearing it's cache when a tuner is removed ?

 

[Luke 42079]

Did you run the refresh guide scheduled task?

[ajeansnz 8]

5 minutes ago, Luke said:

Did you run the refresh guide scheduled task?

Yes - several times both from the Live TV settings and from Scheduled Tasks.  Pretty quick though - I guess given that there’s no actual tuners or epgs set up.

[mark-in-dallas 87]

Not sure if this will help or not, but have you tried opening Emby in a different browser or client app, just to make sure that those channels haven't been cached outside of Emby.

[ajeansnz 8]

13 minutes ago, mark-in-dallas said:

Not sure if this will help or not, but have you tried opening Emby in a different browser or client app, just to make sure that those channels haven't been cached outside of Emby.

Thanks for suggestion - and yes I have.  Two different PCs, one with both Edge and IE, and an iOS/iPhone, and a Samsung Tizen TV.  Seems cached on the server - or not publishing a change out or the clients ?  I found a directory tonight on the server with named cache files in it for TV - and deleted them - but still no effect on the clients - or on the server viewing Emby as a client either for that matter.  

I am quite happy to reinstall Emby and leave it doing its thing and it’ll come right.  But - I’m sure I can’t be alone and there must be others with the issue??  I have reinstalled it before when I had the issue, so it can’t be a single broken install I think. NextPVR behaves as expected.  Plex also behaves with my local VBox - but of course Plex is useless when it comes to external M3U feeds - just not possible due to their revised focus on selling content.  I’m all good re reinstalling - but the issue needs looking at I believe.  I’ll mess with m3Us in NextPVR in future - and add to Emby once I’m happy I’ve got the right content!

Previous pics were from two different PCs - below from iOS.

 

 

[ajeansnz 8]

Hmmm - so I just had a thought after my last message.  I added the Vbox M3U tuner back in without an EPG provider.  It then did a ‘proper’ refresh - about 8 steps along the refresh progress bar (guessing) and sat for ages on the last step - I suspect cleaning up the over 5000 orphan channels.  It is now all clear - see pics below one on iOS app and the other within iOS Edge browser - just not near a PC.  This was a much longer refresh.  It seems to me something broke/breaks the refresh process from time to time - I’m not sure of the order of events but it has definitely happened before and I’m betting will happen again.  The refresh before was much to fast - seemingly like a single step.  Thoughts?  Much appreciate your prompt responses through this - unlike the reputation of a competitors board  !

 

 

[ajeansnz 8]

Just showing the one local tuner set up with no epg provider (if significant).

[Luke 42079]

Since it's something that happened in the past and can't be repeated easily, it's hard to say. Glad you're all sorted out now though. Thanks.

[mark-in-dallas 87]

7 hours ago, ajeansnz said:

Much appreciate your prompt responses through this - unlike the reputation of a competitors board  !

<sarcasm>

You mean you're not happy with the response time or assistance you get over at that other forum?  I'm shocked, shocked I tell you!

</sarcasm>

Edited June 24, 2020 by mark-in-dallas

[ajeansnz 8]

Ha @mark-in-dallas - yes - although they were great when they were young in the piece and building it - but their reputation crashed once they commercialised their services around the friggin thing.  Have to say too that their server is a slug transcoding UHD content - whereas Emby is way efficient - of course amongst many other way-better benefits!

Thanks @Luke - if/when it happens again I'll track steps - but it would be great to be able to purge a cache somehow as there seems no way to do this.  It was definitely not refreshing properly by comparison to once I resetup the tuner.

Again - much appreciate trhe responsiveness.

[Luke 42079]

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if/when it happens again I'll track steps 

Great, thanks.

[fengxin6612 0]

thank.