Samsung TV Plus for Channels [retired]

[tmm1]

Guys we don't need a play by play here. When matt takes a look and implements a fix he will let you know. Until then we know it's not working reliably.

[chDVRuser]

And issues with Pluto belong in one of these topics
Issues with Stirr in the first one.

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[HankLloydRight]

Is it working now? Anyone else have problems with nocords?

[jkr4m3r]

I've never had issues with Pluto nocords. Running it since day one.

[dwbutts]

Pluto is fine, but this Samsung guide is not working: i.mjh.nz/SamsungTVPlus/us.xml

[fashioncents]

Come on, guys. Use the subscribe feature at the bottom of the thread and wait for Matt to fix it. When he responds you’ll get a notification. No need to keep spamming everyone saying it’s also not working for you.

[matthuisman]

i think the issue is a change at Github. They seem to be caching the master url for a lot longer.

I have started adding a "generated" tag to the xml <tv so can easily see when the file was updated.

eg.
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/matthuisman/i.mjh.nz/c2d46336a115fe9ad9e8865470386f1d5bc9eb47/SamsungTVPlus/us.xml
was commited 2 hours ago

notice it has generated-ts in it.

However, master: CBS News still doesn't. Tells me it's cache is older than 2 hours
(ps: no idea why this forum is showing the above linke as "CBS News" haha)

What I can do is grab the commit hash from github after commiting it, and then update my redirect urls to point directly to that

This explains why the listing in the kodi addon were working ok. They use a json file directly from my server (via cloudflare). However, CF didn't like me caching xmls so they went onto github

[chDVRuser]

@matthuisman

(ps: no idea why this forum is showing the above linke as "CBS News" haha)

It's parsing the xml
Try putting back quote (grave accent) marks ` around it
`https://raw.githubusercontent.com/matthuisman/i.mjh.nz/master/SamsungTVPlus/us.xml`
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/matthuisman/i.mjh.nz/master/SamsungTVPlus/us.xml

Or use square brackets and parenthesis like this

[https://raw.githubusercontent.com/matthuisman/i.mjh.nz/master/SamsungTVPlus/us.xml](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/matthuisman/i.mjh.nz/master/SamsungTVPlus/us.xml)

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/matthuisman/i.mjh.nz/master/SamsungTVPlus/us.xml

[chDVRuser]

I can see the timestamp generated-ts="1676255203"
in the file at https://i.mjh.nz/SamsungTVPlus/us.xml
which matches the date/time displayed for the file at Index of /SamsungTVPlus/
us.xml 13-Feb-2023 15:26 1186374
knowing that's UTC+13

[matthuisman]

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/matthuisman/i.mjh.nz/master/SamsungTVPlus/us.xml for me in NZ does not have th timestamp. So maybe it's a geo cache issue

[chDVRuser]

Seeing this in it right now

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><!DOCTYPE tv SYSTEM "xmltv.dtd"><tv generator-info-name="www.matthuisman.nz" generated-ts="1676258805">

And Index of /SamsungTVPlus/ displays
us.xml 13-Feb-2023 16:26 1179545
which matches generated-ts="1676258805" being 13-Feb-2023 16:26 (UTC +13)

[chDVRuser]

It's working for me in Channels DVR.
Have XMLTV guide updating hourly and displaying about 6-7 hours of guide data for 242 channels.

For anyone else using it, you may want to set

XMLTV Guide Data
https://i.mjh.nz/SamsungTVPlus/us.xml.gz (gzipped xml file is about 1/10 the size of the unzipped one)
Refresh Every 1 Hour

[matthuisman]

just updated the i.mjh.nz redirects to use the commit hash.
lets see if that helps...

[jgpeacock]

Guides are coming in correctly for me. Thanks for your products and good work.

[warrentc3]

Anyone else have issues with MotorTrend FAST TV? Seems to just play 15 seconds then freeze.

[florlynch]

I am trying to add this source and getting guide info using the links above but not a picture when I try to watch. Using this link:

https://i.mjh.nz/SamsungTVPlus/us.m3u8

Any ideas? I've deleted the source & recreated with a new name but same issues.

[Morris_Altman]

These are my settings:
Nickname: Samsung TV Plus
Stream Format: HLS
Source: URL
https://i.mjh.nz/SamsungTVPlus/us.m3u8
Options:
Refresh URL daily
Prefer channel-number from M3U
No stream Limit
XMLTV Guide Data
https://i.mjh.nz/SamsungTVPlus/us.xml
Refresh Every 1 Hour

[florlynch]

Although this setup is almost identical to what I had (Name, channel number option) I deleted the source & recreated. It's working now - thank you!

[florlynch]

Follow-up question. The channel is working now & guide data is populated. However, recording some shows off ION + channel (Murdoch Mysteries) & not all of the episode data is not there. Just a record date & description of the episode. Is there anyway to link this to season/episode so it can be watched in order - even manually?