Plex Live TV Channels M3U?

Playground Custom Channels
#407

Yes, it appears that there is non-standard character in the base XML data that the Container uses, causing a failure. I've alerted @joagomez as to the root cause and potential solution:

The good news is that even if he isn't able to do something in time, if the program falls out of the guide, then things should work again. However, for future proofing, a more robust removal/replacement of non-standard characters or more graceful error handling (i.e., skip the offending item and continue) would still be recommended to be implemented.

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PlexTV Guide help needed - Gracenote and NoGracenote
#409

Having issues of no Guide data with Plex container. I did a "Rebuild EPG" the other day, it worked, now it will not.
I gather it is already reported an issue as above post mentions.

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#410

FYI for anyone still having an issue with guide data:

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PlexTV Guide help needed - Gracenote and NoGracenote
#411

Good to know what the issue is, but it still needs to be fixed. So that the issue will not happen again.

#412

By complete rebuild, do you mean deleting and rebuilding the plex source? I didn't find that necessary. What I did was edit setting for the plex source, changed the option of "Prefer channel logos from M3U" to "Prefer channel logos from Guide Data" and saved the settings. That seemed to be what I needed to get the guide data to show up again.

#413

I did the Rebuild EPG again, no errors.
Refresh the guide from channels, nothing.
Channels was showing the generic blocks in the guide at one point, like it does for custom channels, but now, those are gone and I can not even see the channels in the client app.

#414

Ah! That did it.
Now they show up in Channels again.

I wonder if it may be the % symbol, for the show 100% Wolf that is considered invalid.
I do recall Channels would crash on me at one point, whenever I loaded a channel that was playing that show.

#415

about half the channels not populating guide data until tomorrow night. think it's about time to fork this puppy.

the bigger fail is on channels for allowing guide rows to get in a state where they have nothing to click. L M A O

#416

Not an ideal solution, but epgshare01 has a specific EPG file for the Plex channels:

https://epgshare01.online/epgshare01/epg_ripper_PLEX1.xml.gz

Works as an EPG source in Channels but the guide IDs don't seem to match those from the docker, so the channels will need to be mapped manually. Not a problem for me as I only really watch maybe a dozen channels from the Plex docker.

Also, I'm not a fan of the channel logos used with the epgshare01 list...looks like someone put some work into making them, but they're hard for me to read on the TV screen from across the room. So, in the settings for the source, I selected "Prefer channel logos from m3U".

All works fine for me, hope it helps someone!

#417

Can I get the name and source of the latest working Plex docker image (if there is one now)? I did a search for the one listed earlier in this thread but it did not show up.

#418

GitHub

#419

Thanks for the links! What m3U do I use - the local?

#420

You could. Here's what I use

#421

I managed to get jgomez177/plex-for-channels:5.1.2 running in Docker. I'm running into problems setting up the custom channel. I've gone through this thread and tried several iterations setting up m3u & guide data - going back to Index of /Plex/ (which kept returning a 404 error.)

Is there a simple/basic, current, and working m3u & epg setup guide for this out there?

#422

FastChannels includes support for Plex and a whole lot more, although you can disable all the rest and only use it for Plex if you want. It's flexible and awesome.

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#423

If you want a plex list theres always this

#424

Will definitely check this out. Thank you

#425

Thank you

#426

A big thank you to @joagomez for the excellent projects he contributed and updated over several years. With these same projects now gone from GitHub, it seems it's time to do a little housekeeping both on the forum and on Project One-Click.

I'm going to close this thread, and on the next OliveTin-for-Channels update, I'll move his projects to the Deprecated page. They'll still be available to install.

FastChannels is the replacement in this category:

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#427