Channels DVR + Xteve / Telly

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#12

If you're able to add xteve to the DVR, you can probably assign a guide location to that source and then use the pencil icon to fix guide mappings accordingly.

#13

Did you do anything special in your xteve configuration to get the streams working with Channels? I made a playlist with HLS streams from YouTube livestreams (I confirmed the m3u8 addresses work when directly accessed), added to xteve, added the tuner to Channels, and couldn’t get them to stream. “pipe:: could not find codec parameters” is shown in the Channels log.

Edit: adding that I’m running everything on a Synology DS718+. Channels is directly installed via DSM while xteve is in docker.

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#14

The DVR expects mpegts streams like the HDHR provides. It won't work with m3u8 HLS streams.

If you use Telly instead of xteve, they have a mode where they'll convert the HLS stream into mpegts.

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#15

Nothing special, just confirmed that my IPTV provider was providing mpegts streams, as tmm1 said. That's the default with the few IPTV providers I've tried.

#16

Could you please add a link to Telly

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#17

Telly: https://github.com/tellytv/telly

You'll want to use the v1.1 branch, and setup a config similar to this:

[Discovery]
  Device-Auth = ""
  Device-ID = "TELLY"
  Device-UUID = ""
  Device-Firmware-Name = ""
  Device-Firmware-Version = ""
  Device-Friendly-Name = "Telly TV"
  Device-Manufacturer = ""
  Device-Model-Number = "HDHR-TELLY"
  SSDP = false

[IPTV]
  FFMpeg = true
  Streams = 4
  Starting-Channel = 9000
  XMLTV-Channels = true

[Log]
  Level = "info"
  Requests = true

[Web]
  Base-Address = "x.x.x.x:6077"
  Listen-Address = "0.0.0.0:6077"
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#18

Got Telly working with this template config and it works great with HLS streams! Just one question, is it possible for some of my Telly channels to be organized in the "HD channels" category within Channels? Is there anything I can add to the config file to make that happen?

#19

It looks like Telly requires channels have "HD" in the name.

#20

Yeah, this is an issue with Telly. Campaign to get them to let Telly users define if channels are HD or not outside of just checking the name of the channel.

You can open an issue here: https://github.com/tellytv/telly/issues

#21

Thanks! That did the trick, although I agree their implementation should be better.

#22

I have set up 2 telly tuners and mapped EPG to channels with no issues. Live and recordings working good so far. One issue I am having is that when I hide channels from the telly tuners, after a few minutes they revert back to visible, any idea why this is happening?

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#23

Is favoriting broken as well?

I think currently the DVR is trying to tell the HDHR to mark as favorite/hidden, but Telly doesn't support that. I can work on a fix on our side.

#24

A fix on your end would be great! I have not tested favorites yet, I will test and let you know.

#25

Can confirm favorites is broken also.

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#26

Fixed in latest DVR build. LMK if it works now.

#27

Thanks its working now.

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#28

Spoke too soon, woke up today and hidden channels reverted back to visible. Can you confirm as to as of what version it was fixed. Just updated to 2019.07.25.1911

#29

Do you have this line in your telly config?

Device-Firmware-Version = ""

#30

Yes I do.

#31

If you use Scan Network in the DVR web UI and then refresh the page, are the favorites gone or still there?