Yeah, but even then I imagine I would have to setup multiple instances as I don't believe XTEVE or threadfin can advertise as multiple tuners, can they?
Correct ... you would have run them on different ports.
Yeah would be nice to have multiple instances. Is it a port issue?
Also would be nice to mimic the tuner count of the playlist you’re copying. Plex tuner sharing is really nice when tuners are full.
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I have a feeling that the issue is that Plex mainly sees it as IP address and port. And if sees another one it just thinks it’s the same.
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Anyone playing around with this hack may be interested in this new feature in the latest Pre-Release of the DVR:
In my setup, it makes more sense to be able to share M3U's from a customized Channel Collection to Plex, than it does from an entire Source or Sources.
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It’s also important to remember that you can create channel collections that aren’t even used in your client. So you can make them for external projects without clutter.
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Absolutely awesome update
This is a great addition.
@maddox ... It appears that I can only get 1 M3U out o the collections cannot export a 2nd one.
Can you explain in more detail?
I created an OTA collection with only OTA Channels I want ... I extracted the M3U for it.... I then created a Cable collection with my preferred Cable Channels ... but I cannot export the M3u for it.
What does “cannot export” mean? Are they unique m3u URLs?
Do the URLs return the same set of channels?
So is there any way to keep the order in plex of the collection? Renumbering possible?
Wait, you’re not on the latest version of the pre-release. If so you’d have a manage drop down there, not buttons.
Sorry My Test Machine is updated was on wrong machine.... My main is recording will update in a few minutes.
Hmm, I have about 40 Channel Collections and after updating to the latest pre-release I see this menu available on all of them.
I've tested copying the M3U url to 3rd party multiview clients apps and after changing "https" to "http" and changing the CDVR address to the internal LAN IP of the server, it works nicely.
However, I noticed that the EPG URL is the same, for every export. Should they be different per each Collection, or is this intended behavior?
https://xxxxxxxxxxx.u.channelsdvr.net:8089/devices/ANY/guide/xmltv?duration=1209600
Yeah I switched tabs on my browser to my server that is still not updated all ok now.
Does this give you the Whole EPG including those not in Collection ?
Yes, and it's quite large too because 1209600 seconds is 2 weeks of guide data. I just downloaded the XML file to my Mac and see it's 407.4 MB. Since I'm only using this URL for an assortment of multiview clients, watching live and not using DVR, I edited the XML's URL to fetch 3 hours of guide data instead:
https://xxxxxxxxxxx.u.channelsdvr.net:8089/devices/ANY/guide/xmltv?duration=10800
…and the resulting file is 9.3 MB. It includes all channels, not just those in the Collection.
Okay checked it out -
Still has the multiple shows at once issue on x.x channels - some sort of renumbering would be awesome
And its passing through virtual channels on plex unlike the full list version - they just fail to play
That is not good I thought it would only pull EPG of Channels in the Collection.