ESPN+ & FOX Sports with Custom Channels via EPlusTV

I made some really good progress on NFL+ tonight. I think it's about ready - will support in-market games and Redzone (if you have premium). I'm working on some other updates around how linear channels are handled, and once that's done I'll add support for NFL Network as a dedicated channel.

Hopefully I'll cut a release some time this week.

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Awesome, super excited. Thanks so much

I am almost done on themw.com for chrome capture - I am almost done with doing EPG for it and also working on Peacock! Sadly, channels doesn't play nice with it, I am currently having to use NextPVR as it is less of a resource hog.

Nice. Don’t forget to tag the airings with the right metadata so they can show up in Channel Collections, like Sports.

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Are there any other specific tags I should be including?

These are helpful:

<video>
  <quality>HDTV</quality>
</video>
<new/>
<live/>
<category lang="en">Football</category>
<category lang="en">Sports event</category>
<category lang="en">Sports</category>

Including these tags allow the airings generated to participate more in Channels' features.

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I have some decent guide data , would love some help in converting to usable xmltv file. Any help would be great!

Does 4k still work as of 9/9? I am doing good with chrome capture but ESPN+ docker I have issues lol

Discord if you want to collab

CBS Sunday ticket.

I have no idea what is going on here. Doesn't look like you're using E+ at all?

Okay, big release tonight.

One big thing is that I've re-written the MLB auth completely. No more passing in the username/password into environment variables. So it'll force you to login again when you start the container.

Back by popular demand is linear channels - but it's been completely re-imagined. There is separate endpoints for linear channels now, so you'll have to read the docs on how to enable it. Please note that it won't move over existing entries to the linear channels, but it will schedule new ones going forward. So it might take a day or 2 before they all move over. If you want a clean slate, wipe out the entries.db and schedule.db files from the config folder

With that is 2 new linear channels from Paramount+ (CBS Sports HQ and Golazo)

Oh, and I finished up the NFL+ integration :slight_smile:

I did try to test all the different use-cases, but I could have overlooked something. Just let me know.

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Different topic, I figure since we are sports people CBS Sunday ticket would be a nice add. I can explain it on pm if you like.

Not trying to take your thunder awesome work btw..I'll have to reset it up

So with the new linear channels setting, we'd set the source to the new /linear-chanenls.m3u and associated m3u/xml file instead of the /channels.m3u file?

This is great work!
Question on the NFL+ addition.
In the NFL app one can authenticate different providers such as a TV Provider, Sunday Ticket credentials, Amazon, etc. for live games.
Does this new hook do this as well or does it only use NFL+ credentials for NFL+ content?

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This is great news thanks! Should solve the issue of triple overtime games getting cut off to switch to another game on a different network. :slight_smile:

Would FOX 4k have a dedicated linear channel? I realize the majority of the time it would have no programming which I'd be fine with.

You'll probably want both

That's a good question. I didn't realize it could do other things. Right now it just supports NFL+, but I'll see if I can figure that out

No dedicated channel, it should just grab the 4K feed if it's available for each event

May just be their apps, and not web based so might not be possible but still if possible would be cool

Oh, I got it..one does the general non-linear channels and the other the linear separately.....so 2 sources. duh. Thanks.

this will get fox 4k?

docker run --restart unless-stopped --name EPlusTV -p 8000:8000 -v config_dir:/app/config -e PUID=$(id -u $USER) -e PGID=$(id -g $USER) -e ESPN=TRUE -e ESPN2=TRUE -e ESPNU=TRUE -e SEC=TRUE -e ACCN=TRUE -e ESPNEWS=TRUE -e ESPN3=TRUE -e SECPLUS=TRUE -e ACCX=TRUE -e FOXSPORTS=TRUE -e ESPNPLUS=FALSE m0ngr31/eplustv:latest

BTW:
Since CBS uses a form of tve, we could use eplustv if code written right to use cbs sunday ticket code I have been working on.