Custom Channel + hlstube + Twitch = TWiT.tv Live Stream

Playground Custom Channels
#1

I learned about this here and it's awesome. Hlstube works with Twitch streams too and TWiT (This Week in Tech) broadcasts continuously there.

My question is about XML and guide data, I've not created or edited this before. Here is the weekly info which doesn't change, how would I format this into a recurring XML file that would be usable by Channels DVR?

Programming Schedule

ALL TIMES ARE PACIFIC AND APPROXIMATE

Sunday:

  • 11:00am: Ask The Tech Guys
  • 2:15pm: This Week in Tech

Tuesday:

  • 9:00am: iOS Today
  • 11:00am: MacBreak Weekly
  • 1:30pm: Security Now
  • 5:00pm: All About Android

Wednesday:

  • 9:30am: FLOSS Weekly
  • 11:00am: Windows Weekly
  • 2:00pm: This Week in Google
  • 4pm/after TWiG: The Giz Fiz

Thursday:

  • 11:00am: Tech News Weekly
  • 1:00pm: Hands-On Mac (Club TWiT Exclusive)
  • 2:00pm: Hands-On Windows (Club TWiTExclusive)
  • 3:00pm: Hands-On Photography

Friday:

  • Varies: This Week in Space (published, but usually not live streamed)
  • 1:30pm: This Week in Enterprise Tech

Saturday:

  • 3:30pm: Untitled Linux Show (Club TWiTExclusive - Discord Stream only)

All other times feature reruns of earlier content.

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#2

I'll share my epg.xml file along with logos and images I use so you can play with it yourself.

I'm on the US East Coast so I set my UTC offset to -0500 for my local time schedule which from your posted schedule looks like you may be on the West Coast 3 hours behind me. This is the current 2 week schedule I'm using. Every week or so I'll do a 'Find & Replace' to update the dates for the next coming weeks.

I use TWiT for the channel id in my m3u source file so if you use something different then you'll want to obviously match yours.

Extract the zip file and host them where you want. I have a QNAP NAS unit that has a built in web server so I just put them in my web folder there.

Open the epg.xml file in a text editor and do a Find & Replace for <your_own_url_location> and put the url location to where you've extracted the images. Save the file and you should be good.

You can download my files from Dropbox - TWiT.zip - Simplify your life

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#3

Wow, thanks for all of that. Much appreciated!

#4

I have been trying to get this to work but must me missing something. Channels accepts my config and finds 10 channels. None work. Any thoughts would be appreciated.

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#5

You've put the URL in the "Source" value in the Channels DVR interface, instead of creating a custom m3u value with the "Text" option.

Check this discussion for more info: Pluto TV Sky News missing - #18 by Fofer

#6

Ah. I thought it might be something like that but didn't know enough to ask the right question. Thanks for the tip!

#7

Has anyone found a EPG for TWiT.tv that is kept up to date?

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#8

I'm streaming TWiT via YouTube now and the Kister Method. I also just found TWiT sharing a new (?) ical schedule. And so I asked in a different thread about an easier way to sync over guide data, and this was shared... seems like a great solution that would be a lot easier to maintain over time:

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#9

is hlstube still working for people? all my hlstube channels stopped working for me a few weeks ago. i made sure my url is up to date and tried using the older version with docker run --rm -i -p 8080:8080 ghcr.io/jnewland/hlstube:v0.0.6

i think this should be the current url for TWiT: http://localhost:8080/_/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2NreNEmMy4

channels says internal server error, if i paste it into a browser i get unsupported protocol scheme ""

#10

you need the updated version:

#11

oops, thanks. i thought by re-running docker run --rm -i -p 8080:8080 ghcr.io/jnewland/hlstube:latest i was getting latest. i deleted all my hlstube images and containers and downloaded v0.0.7 and ran docker build and docker run and now it's working. still learning this docker thing.. and how to search these forums apparently. much appreciated

#12

It's easier using the youtube live url, that way you don't have to keep up with the watch?v= changes

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