Seperate live tv channel/guide for specific user?

[dovedescent7 3]

I know this might be asking a lot but i am a premiere member and i am wondering if i can make a whole separate set of live tv channels/guide for a specific user?

Or have two different sets of live tv channels/guide and assign one set to a certain user?

The problem is, my parents like all the sports networks and there's a ton of them.

For me, i dont watch any sports channels. So i don't want all their sports channels on my guide. Make sense? is this possible?

 

 

 

 

[Carlo 4560]

You can do this but it's a bit of work.  In a nutshell you edit each channel that you don't want to show and add a tag such as HideChannel or similar name.

Then you edit the users who don't want all those "extra" channels and set a filter to not show anything with the tag HideChannel.

So now your parents will get the whole lineup but you can only see the channels without the tag.

Check out this knowledge base article which explains the tag part for the channels.

https://support.emby.media/support/solutions/articles/44001921236-how-to-hide-specific-tv-channels-edit-parental-rating-or-set-tags

There is a link in that article to the parental section as well which will show how to apply the tag.

Let me know if anything is unclear and I'll add to the knowledge base article.

 

Try it with a couple of channel to see if this works the way you want it to.

Carlo

[dovedescent7 3]

Wow, nice post Carlo!

Talk about a precise, perfect answer!

 

Thanks!

[dovedescent7 3]

9 minutes ago, cayars said:

You can do this but it's a bit of work.  In a nutshell you edit each channel that you don't want to show and add a tag such as HideChannel or similar name.

Then you edit the users who don't want all those "extra" channels and set a filter to not show anything with the tag HideChannel.

So now your parents will get the whole lineup but you can only see the channels without the tag.

Check out this knowledge base article which explains the tag part for the channels.

https://support.emby.media/support/solutions/articles/44001921236-how-to-hide-specific-tv-channels-edit-parental-rating-or-set-tags

There is a link in that article to the parental section as well which will show how to apply the tag.

Let me know if anything is unclear and I'll add to the knowledge base article.

 

Try it with a couple of channel to see if this works the way you want it to.

Carlo

So essentially, in my case since my parents need "extra" channels i would in other words be "restricting" my channels to only see the ones i want.

This makes sense to me.

What doesnt so much is the knowledge article guide.

It would be more helpful if that knowledge article guide provided at least one example on how to do this. Like a full walk through of doing it one time.

[Carlo 4560]

Yes you ONLY restrict yourself to the "good stuff".  BTW, you can use this technique for everyone with a different tag as well like "RemoveChannel" and apply that to channel you just don't want listed for anyone.  On my system that's channels like QVC, Home Shopping Network, Spanish Channels (no one in my family speaks Spanish), Audio only channels, etc.

You probably have enough info to get by doing this but if you can wait a bit, I'll get you a much better walk through of doing this and update the knowledge base to show the tagging of the channels and then how to use the parental filters tag feature.

Sound good?

Carlo

[Carlo 4560]

This just became much easier to implement thanks to a new feature added to LiveTV.

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.