OliveTin for Channels: An Interface for Misc Channels DVR Scripts & Tricks

[bnhf]

@bnhf

Easy fix.

@Fofer Fix pushed as :latest (:2025.03.19) (builds are UTC).

[bnhf]

New bnhf/olivetin:latest (aka bnf/olivetin:2025.03.22) pushed late yesterday with support for @CoderLuii's new ChannelWatch script. ChannelWatch supports Pushover notifications for channel tuning on your CDVR server. Additional notifications types planned, along with support for more notifications services. More details here:

ChannelWatch: Real-Time Alerts for Your Channels DVR

First, many thanks to @CoderLuii for creating this tool! I know a lot of you remember back to when there were dozens of user-created CDVR-related scripts, all with different installation methods, often different by operating system. OliveTin-for-Channels was created to consolidate these tools in one place, with a common menu system. This allows for leveraging a relatively complete set of the values needed for scripts and tricks like this to work. Continuing that tradition, I've added ChannelWa…

[bnhf]

In case you missed it, OliveTin-for-Channels now has an EZ-Start option. Using EZ-Start allows one to spin-up OliveTin with just two env vars, and then use OliveTin itself to finish the configuration via an Action.

Future plans for OliveTin EZ-Start, include being able to launch it from the command line, and then spin-up Portainer using a Project One-Click Action. Using this approach, new users could install OliveTin first, then Portainer, then the Docker version of Channels DVR, and finally whatever extensions -- all from OliveTin!

More details here:

OliveTin EZ-Start: A New Way to Deploy OliveTin-for-Channels Using Just Two Environment Variables to Get Started!

Given the kind of download numbers OliveTin-for-Channels has enjoyed (pushing towards 25K), it's clear that most users have been able to spin-it-up without assistance. Having said that, there's also clearly another group of users that would like to have it in their toolkit, but have found the environment variables required challenging. Well, this project is for you! We're going to use the power of OliveTin to create the set of env vars you'll need to be able to take full advantage of that power…

Many thanks to @mjitkop and @chDVRuser for the original ideas that led to OliveTin EZ-Start!

[jsfullam]

@mjitkop and @bnhf , I love the "Create Movies List in CSV Format" action. I import the data to Excel so that I can quickly identify duplicate movies for removal.
I'm wondering if you could create/add a similar action which would make the same type of CSV list for TV Shows.

[bnhf]

New bnhf/olivetin:latest (aka bnhf/olivetin:2025.03.24) pushed today supporting the latest v0.3.0 version of ChannelWatch, plus improvements to the new OliveTin EZ-Start process.

More details here:

ChannelWatch: Real-Time Alerts for Your Channels DVR

Indeed I have. Once again, thanks @CoderLuii for expanding the capabilities of this tool. I've added v0.3.0 to OliveTin-for-Channels, with support for multiple DVRs, as before: [screenshot-htpc6-2025_03_24-14_00_44] Set log_level to 0 to kill the active instance of ChannelWatch for the selected DVR. The icon will remain green as long as there's at least one instance running. Be sure to select at least one notification method. Also, thanks to some fine stress testing by @TerryD, @Edwin_Perez …

And here:

OliveTin EZ-Start: A New Way to Deploy OliveTin-for-Channels Using Just Two Environment Variables to Get Started!

Given the kind of download numbers OliveTin-for-Channels has enjoyed (pushing towards 25K), it's clear that most users have been able to spin-it-up without assistance. Having said that, there's also clearly another group of users that would like to have it in their toolkit, but have found the environment variables required challenging. Well, this project is for you! We're going to use the power of OliveTin to create the set of env vars you'll need to be able to take full advantage of that power…

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@Jean0987654321

I tried using this and I get this error from channelwatch

[2025-03-25 01:13:55] Log file: /config/channelwatch.log (keeping 7 days)

[2025-03-25 01:13:55] Log level: 2 (Verbose)

[2025-03-25 01:13:55] Starting ChannelWatch v0.3

[2025-03-25 01:13:55] ERROR: CHANNELS_DVR_HOST environment variable not set

What does your Standard Output and Standard Error look like? You should redact whatever keys/tokens are in there...

[bnhf]

@Jean0987654321 What are the exact values you're using in the dvr field (ip:port)?

[Jean0987654321]

192.168.1.72:8089

[bnhf]

@Jean0987654321

192.168.1.72:8089

One feature I've added is to handle hostnames, in addition to IP addresses. I'll switch this up to pass through IPs, and only "process" hostnames to extract the IP. ChannelWatch appears to handle IP addresses only. And OliveTin allows hostnames (which are great for Tailscale MagicDNS, among other things) Give me a bit, and I'll push a fix.

[bnhf]

@Jean0987654321 A couple of tweaks required to handle hostnames AND IPs, so I'll push a fix tomorrow. Thanks for letting me know.

[bnhf]

@Jean0987654321 I believe I have it. Fix pushed as :latest (:2025.03.25). Give it a go if you would please.

[Jean0987654321]

Yep...that worked. Thanks

[bnhf]

@Jean0987654321

Yep...that worked. Thanks

Cool. Pushed one more small fix also as :latest (2025.03.25). Update when you have a moment.

[mjitkop]

A while back, I did create a script that generates a CSV file for a TV show. I'll have to dust it off at some point and make it usable for OliveTin.
No ETA for now.

[jsfullam]

Thank you! No hurry at all. I'm quite busy hammering away at my duplicate movies for now. Your script is amazingly helpful for that. I import to excel, then highlight duplicate cells.

[bnhf]

New bnhf/olivetin:latest (aka bnhf/olivetin:2025.03.27) pushed today, with a bunch of fixes and EZ-Start command line deployment support.

More details here:

OliveTin EZ-Start: The Next Generation. Deploy OliveTin-for-Channels from the Command Line without the Need for Portainer to be Installed in Advance

The next generation of OliveTin EZ-Start is here! With the latest bnhf/olivetin:latest (bnhf/olivetin:2025.03.27) push, you can now install OliveTin EZ-Start from the Linux command line (Windows users, via Windows Terminal and Debian or Ubuntu WSL2 distros). Prerequisites: Channels DVR Docker (Docker or Docker Desktop) Steps (more detail below): Execute OliveTin EZ-Start Docker run command Go to http://ip.address.you.specified:1338 (note this is NOT the standard OliveTin 1337) Run the Inst…

Also, the main Actions page was getting a bit crowded, so I spun off a page with just the Comskip related stuff on it:

[chDVRuser]

Congrats on the new EZ-Start!

Something I keep forgetting to mention is that your compose statement contains a link to your Docker Hub repository https://hub.docker.com/repository/docker/bnhf/olivetin that doesn't work for us (I assume only you, because it wants a login?), so I have to keep replacing it with https://hub.docker.com/r/bnhf/olivetin

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    # Docker container home for this project with setup instructions: https://hub.docker.com/repository/docker/bnhf/olivetin.

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@chDVRuser

Something I keep forgetting to mention is that your compose statement contains a link to your Docker Hub repository https://hub.docker.com/repository/docker/bnhf/olivetin that doesn't work for us (I assume only you, because it wants a login?), so I have to keep replacing it with https://hub.docker.com/r/bnhf/olivetin

Fixed. It'll be in with the next push. Also, I'll be rolling out the new EZ-Start version of the compose to all the different places it needs to be updated in the next day or so. I'm feeling confident the new compose is going to work across the board.

Also, for those of us lending a hand to other users, I'm showing the date of the compose in the healthcheck. So, both the container date and the date of the compose will show, since none of this new stuff will work otherwise.

[bnhf]

From the mind of @chDVRuser : A new OliveTin Action to send notifications, via Apprise, when the Samsung-TVPlus container's XML guide data has become stale. This has been pushed today as bnhf/olivetin:latest (aka bnhf/olivetin:2025.03.30).

This will likely be expanded in the future to support notifications for other container's XML EPG files. But for now, it's being road tested with Samsung-TVPlus.

[chDVRuser]

Just copy the XMLTV Guide Data URL from your Custom Channel settings

I'm having it check every hour and alert me if the Samsung EPG xml is more than 2.5hrs (150 minutes) old. It uses the generated_ts timestamp in the xml to determine when it was generated.