M3u playlists

#1

Has anyone found a way to get streaming urls to work away from home? I've created my own playlist & included missing channels that I cannot get from TVE in channels, but I cannot find a way to use my Channels DVR channels away from home. I have my Channels lineup in Emby as a tuner but it doesn't have a channel category option, so I use a iptv player. It works flawlessly at home but cannot get my TVE channels to work on the road when we're traveling in the RV. I've tried all of the below:

https://server ip:8089/devices/ANY/channels/6000/stream.mpg
https://server ip:8089/devices/ANY/channels/6000/hls
https://server ip:8089/devices/TVE-Spectrum/channels/6000/hls
https://server ip:8089/devices/TVE-Spectrum/channels/6000/stream.mpg

Any help would be appreciated

#2

How are you connecting back to your home network?

#3

So I want to use something like the above urls to insert into a custom playlist as a stream url. I want the url to connect back to the server. Currently I'm accomplishing this through Emby. I'd like to be able to get these channels to stream remotely calling back to my Channels DVR server so I can use a 3rd party iptv player like Tivimate, but I'm wondering if this is even possible. I imagined it was since I can watch these channels remotely through the channels app on my device. I just can't figure out the appropriate url to accomplish this. Everything I've tried seems to just be a local stream that can only be accessed at my house.

#4

Access to Channels' streams through its remote URI requires OAuth authentication, and cannot be directly addressed. If you want to do as you describe, you need to access your Channels DVR server through a local VPN server so you can locally address the server.

(Either that, or find a way to proxy the OAuth connection. In either case, both are outside of the normal/supported use cases. I can attest, though, that remotely accessing Channels through a locally addressed IPSec VPN works quite well.)

#5

Thanks for the info I'll look into accessing it through local VPN

#6

Do you experience much degradation of your internet speed at the remote location when using the local VPN?

#7

That's a loaded question. Other than the expected overhead from IPSec, everything is within the expected bandwidth. You may have a better experience with a WireGuard VPN versus an L2TP/IPSec or IKEv2/IPSec VPN, but if you account for the encapsulation overhead, you get exactly the performance one would expect.