I'm a NESN 360 subscriber and love me some Bruins. Soon some Red Sox. I use ADBTuner for YoutubeTV stations. I'm familiar with Docker and containers. However, I'm struggling pulling in NESN since it's dedicated app and I have no idea how to pull deeplinks or use other methods to make this work.
Has anyone successfully pulled in the NESN 360 NESN and NESN Plus streams into Channels? I'm curious how you accomplished it.
Happy to take a look. Quick search of forum looks like it used to TVE compatible but that was years ago.
PS- how did Bruins give up a 5-1 lead??
I'd really appreciate it! I'm following all your work. Great stuff!
Not sure how to help you. I'm sure you could integrate the NESN 360 app into your Fruitlinks project. I was hoping to figure out deep links for the NESN 360 app and use it with ADBTuner
Any thing you can do to make it work would be greatly appreciated!
Yeah...DRM and just the NESN site's insanity killed the TVE integration. I think it was on Eplus too but it was taken off because DRM. I'm beyond out of market and I don't have NESN (only way to get it is through DTV/Stream Choice + Sports Package) so I can't take a look
A preliminary analysis seems to indicate that you'll be able to create a generic launch deep link, but it is questionable if you can get to specific events or the live stream area directly because it's deep linking protocols are not necessarily open to that:
I don't have NESN to test for sure and confirm, though.
Good research. I'll take a crack at their website to see if we can even scrape the schedule first, then usually I strike gold and can build a deeplink with the schema.
This would be awesome. Appreciate your efforts!
their schedule data was shocking easy to scrape... they provide actual public XML schedules. would need some cleaning up, but by far the easiest one i've ever ran into
https://epg.nesn.video/schedule-nesn.xml
https://nesn-cached.api.viewlift.com/v4/content/epg/ad866e7b-e58e-4f94-8eea-d6bcd4b5bfae/tv.xml)
https://epg.nesn.video/schedule-nesnplus.xml
https://nesn-cached.api.viewlift.com/v4/content/epg/9c0955da-4dd7-45ce-bce3-e34997cb38e0/tv.xml)
Looking at these, with @babsonnexus 's research, my guest guess is the deeplink would look like this:
https://nesn.com/watch/play/{programId})
the XML gives us the ChannelID and ProgramID. So, really this will be extremely easy to add to FruitDeepLinks IF we can figure out the schema. I dont' have access to NESN, so if you're up to the task- I could give you some educated guess M3u to test
Sure thing! Anything I can do to make this work I'd be up for it.
Next time a stream live, one easy thing some apps have is a “share” button. See if it does and if so, share the link and send the URL. If not, try watching on their website directly and grab the URL that way
I’ll write up some samples too for Channels. Do you have Apple TV or Firestick?
Android TV. I use Chromecasts with Google TV
fyi I got this added to FruitDeepLinks as a new service. Scraper/XML working-- i'm going to test the deeplinks tonight and if all goes well, should be an easy upgrade.
Youre the man!
Let me know how it works. I'd love to get this added.
How did NESN work out?
Is there a consistent deeplink that can tune to either NESN or the NESN Plus channels? If there was, I assumed I could use ADBTuner to pull those channels in, no?
didn't get a chance last night-- still would be helpful if you can catch a live event on their website and see if you can grab the URL it shows in address bar
Let me try that tonight. I'll get back to you.
Site note.
I'm trying to install DeepFruitLinks via your Portainer instructions.
I followed your steps you outlined, but when I try to deploy the stack, I get this error:
I'm trying to use this Repository URL.
tell me exactly what you entered for Repository URL and Repository reference, I can point to the exact fix.
When watching NESN 360 live on the website, the link is https://watch.nesn.com/live.
Then you can use that with CC4C or prismcast or adbtuner and that should work to give you a 24/7 feed of NESN
