Pluto Guide is by hour, not program, so I cannot Record entire program

[jb7764]

I wanted to record an old movie that started at 1:15 pm on a Pluto channel.

Well, the Pluto Guide is organized on the hour, on Channels DVR. ( I am using a m3u file for Pluto). For example, there was a 1:00 program than ended at 2 pm. So when I setup the DVR to record, it only recorded 1-2 pm, not until the end of the movie, which was about 90 minutes.

How do I fix this?

[Rice]

Use this as your Pluto source instead of the m3u you are using.

Non-Docker source for PlutoTV and Stirr m3u playlists and EPG

Hello everyone, I've created a little PHP project (repo) that can replace the need to have a local Docker instance for PlutoTV and Stirr. It's very simple. For PlutoTV, the project runs a slightly modified version of the pluto-for-channels script by @maddox in nodejs on my web server (thanks @maddox and the dev team!) . Then my PHP script just replaces the deviceID and sid URL parameters with uniquely generated UUIDs upon each page load. So every use/access of the playlist.m3u file from the…

[jb7764]

Will your source provide better guide, like actual Show title and proper start/ending time slots? How long does it take for new guide to update? What is this "Docker" thing? Thanks for the idea!

[Fofer]

@jb7764

Will your source provide better guide, like actual Show title and proper start/ending time slots?

Yes.

@jb7764

How long does it take for new guide to update?

A minute or two.

@jb7764

What is this "Docker" thing?

That thread provides a method to get the m3u and guide data without requiring Docker.

[jb7764]

Works much better.Thanks! Any other sources I can look at besides Pluto?