I've been thinking about doing something like this already, so added it officially:
I'll get to it... at some point...
Just to make sure it is clear to everyone, what you are specifically asking about already exists as a report, but you can only use it on the web and you want to export the results of this and use it in something like Excel:
Also, you could technically export any of the base files or link their data and write your own queries, but I know that would be a POA to having the backend handle it.
Did you enable the HDHR source in Channels? I had to disable that in order for it to use the source i desire. Also make sure the priority in the playlist settings are sorted. If you just want Charge to use the TVE feed, then you can specify that ok the parent channels settings
If you run the report Linear: Stations - Parents and Children you can see the assignment order as PLM would do it and if there are any issues with each source:
I did go look through all the documentation i could find and there was a question - i have mine numbered starting at 1000 - most of my channels are in alphabetic order - is there anyway to have it renumber to do that for all? i assume the fact they are in order is a side effect only of the m3u's feeding are that way
Also if a stream or m3u fails - it does take a rescan for plm to notice right?
Thanks man - only other thing i noticed - i had gone through all my pluto channels and was doing tubi and i would assign like 20-30 leave and come back and many of them would just be back in unassigned - not sure if i'm missing something simple - it happened a half dozen times
Eventually i just sent them all to parent channels and i'll sort them out later
Hmm...reminds me of the bug I had one time. I wonder if storing the settings through an sqlite file (or a postgres database) can help remedy that @babsonnexus
Funny enough, I prototype'd that in the early days, but decided to lean towards transparency and simplicity, and thus stripped out all the SQL stuff. Outside a major rebuild, I probably won't reverse course at this juncture.
I was made aware of this because of a problem with my CBSNEWS TVE feed being MPEG-TS, and Channels erroring on it.
I've tried to resolve that situation by following the guidance, and no matter where I set the MPEG-TS override in SLM, it still fails when trying to watch it through Channels DVR with the same reason. I'm not sure if this is an SLM issue, a Channels issue, or a setup issue.
I eventually worked around this by setting the CBSNEWS from my TVE provider as the parent, but then adding a stream source from Watch CBS News 24/7, our free live news stream as given in an example and overwriting the channel number to match the original TVE value.
I'd love to get this resolved the proper way, but I do have a workaround in place.
In the process I noted that MLB TV was an available on-demand source, but I can't figure out how to add any items from that source? I've searched for team names, tried to pull information from a date range, but nothing seems to show up for me. Any guidance on how to get a non-traditional source like that configured?
Not enough information provided to know, but it sounds like you might be trying to stick MPEG-TS peg into a HLS hole. For starters, check your Stream Format in your source in Channels to make sure you have is set for MPEG-TS for the m3u that is providing that station. Also, I have no idea what steps you actually took. Like, you said you set the station to MPEG-TS, but did you refresh your m3u's after doing so, and then update those in Channels after that? There are just too many questions to even begin to hazard what you may or may not have done.
Review Troubleshooting & FAQstarting here. You can also test on JustWatch yourself to see what they have in new releases, since they are the source of info:
Some more detail on the CBSNEWS PVE issue. I use Philo for a TVE provider in CDVR. There doesn't appear to be an option in the PVE source provider options in CDVR to set it to MPEG-TS or HLS.
I've had it configured as the TVE provider for quite some time now, and this channel previously worked without issue. However, when I went to tune to it yesterday, I received the error: "TVE Error: Detected MPEG-TS instead of HLS playlist" on my TV screen.
Spun up a docker container and tried to configure it to get around the issue.
I pulled in the Philo TVE provider m3u into SLM as a playlist with Stream Format "HLS". In the Assigned Stations setting, I set the "Stream Format Override" to "MPEG-TS". I saved that, updated the M3Us and added them to CDVR. I received the same error.
I then went ahead and pulled the m3u as a separate playlist with Stream Format "MPEG-TS". I then removed the Parent Station from the original m3u, and added the new playlists entry for this station as the Parent Station, and left "Stream Format Override" as "None". I again regenerated the m3u, removed the existing entries from CDVR manually, added them again through SLM, and then tuned to the new station number with the same error result.
I then went back into SLM and set the Stream Format Override for the Assigned Station to "MPEG-TS", updated the m3us in SLM and refreshed them in CDVR, and received the same error.
At that point in time, I noted the option to add this as a streaming station, and set up the Streaming Station for the cbsnews.com link.
I configured the streaming station as suggested in the guide.
I removed the SLM providers from CDVR manually.
I set the TVE entry to use the Streaming Station as its parent (to be able to pull in the EPG information).
I overrode the channel number (in SLM under Parent Stations) to match what the Philo TVE entry is being assigned in CDVR
Set the Preferred Playlist to be the PLM - Streaming Stations, then regenerated the m3us from SLM and only added the m3u Playlist - Gracenote (MPEG-TS) [01] (containing 1 station) to CDVR, and it now works.
Copy, I thought that might be the case, but just wanted to see if maybe I'd configured this wrong.
