The m3u has now ballooned over 500 channels with a lot of duplicates. Is there a Docker option for Plex?
Ok, I've been using the Plex/all.m3u8. I didn't know there were others. Thanks for the info!
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Yea, noticed that the other day, too. @matthuisman, in the "all" m3u, almost every station is listed twice now; started about a week ago. Like @Fofer, I just changed to the "US" one and issue resolved. I know Plex is a POA for you, so don't want to discourage it's existence by complaining or anything!
all.m3u8 adds all unique ids from all playlists (currently CA and US)
CA just enabled most of their channels.
example
USA 123GO!
the ID / URL = 5e20b730f2f8d5003d739db7-63eecb32ac23d1ee072087cb.m3u8
CA 123GO!
the ID / URL = 647f8d22a2fc3fadb4721685-63eecb32ac23d1ee072087cb.m3u8
So it appears they are different streams (I suspect just adverts are different)
{country id} - {channel id}
I have just updated the code that generates the all.m3u8 to use ID by splitting on - and taking the 2nd section. Therefore, both the above would now be detected as the same channel for all.m3u8
Itll just take whichever shows first (USA)
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Looks like only the gzipped xml files updated. You can use that one (https://i.mjh.nz/Plex/us.xml.gz).
Index of /Plex/
Never mind, even though the gzipped files are newer, the guide data is stale.
Ive noticed this as well over the weekend
My Plex Guide data is non existent.
It just shows one large block for all channels, but the channels do play.
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Same here. No guide data.
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Yep, @matthuisman, looks like your favorite friends at Plex caused something to break again. 
EDIT: Seems all better now...
Not sure if you did anything or Plex got over itself, but thanks no matter what!
Does anyone have issues watching Plex channels in Channels? Whenever I watch certain channels, it stops and I get an error from Channels after a couple minutes. If I back out and go back in, it works again but only for a few minutes before stopping again. Trying to figure out if there is something I can change in settings that might make it a bit more stable? Running on a NAS. TIA.
See the last few posts of this thread:
Basically, everyone relying on the mjh hosted playlist are sharing the same tokens so it quickly exceeds the session limit. You have to generate your Plex m3u playlist locally with your own unique parameters.
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kyl416, is there a step by step guide for dummies like me? I have channels on Synology NAS. I do not understand "olive tin". I downloaded the Docker app for Synology but have no idea how to use it. I appreciate any help you can provide.
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I might be asking the dumbest question, but how can we generate the Plex m3u playlist locally? I have Docker setup with Pluto and Fubo and it's solid, but does something similar exist for Plex already?
I added a couple of Actions to OliveTin-for-Channels to support both the Plex token generation, and to host the Plex M3U and XML files, so you can add them the Channels Sources by URL. See here:
OliveTin does a couple of dozen other cool Channels DVR related tasks too -- so, anybody that's not frightened by Docker and Portainer should really add it to their toolkit. 
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I did create an updated docker for Plex you can try
docker run -d --network=host -e PLEX_PORT=<port_number> --name plex-for-channels jgomez177/plex-for-channels
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you are the best!! first the Fubo container and now this! thank you - your solution was easy to add to my existing docker setup.
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That looks good Thanks
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just installed the new version and it looks good.
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