XMLTV feed from TVHeadEnd Not Displaying in ChannelsDVR Guide

Channels DVR Server Troubleshooting
#1

Quick Background on Setup: I am running TvHeadEnd (4.2.8-dirty) and Channels (2024.02.11.0311) an Ubuntu server, and things are working great except that my XMLTV data feed from TvHeadEnd doesn't display in the Channels DVR Guide.

When I Edit Settings for that source, I put http://localhost:9981/xmltv/channels into the XMLTV guide data field. When I click "Save", nothing seems to happen, and there is no data within my Channels DVR guide.

Note that when I go to http://localhost:9981/xmltv/channels within my web browser, the XMLTV data feed comes up, although it does have an "XML Parsing Error: not well-formed" error associated with it.

Any suggestions for getting this XMLTV data into Channels DVR?

Thanks!

#2

What does the Log show

#3

Good question. The log actually shows the same message as Chrome does when I load up the XMLTV file, so it seems that the issue does relate to the format of the XML file coming from TvHeadEnd.

2024/02/26 08:20:06.194666 [DVR] Fetched guide data for XMLTV-TVHEBen in 5ms
2024/02/26 08:20:06.196431 [ERR] No stations available in lineup XMLTV-TVHEBen after guide data download: XML syntax error on line 857: invalid UTF-8
2024/02/26 08:20:06.198203 [ERR] Failed to get placeholder channels for lineup XMLTV-TVHEBen: XML syntax error on line 857: invalid UTF-8
2024/02/26 08:20:06.198304 [IDX] Pruned 0 expired groups from XMLTV-TVHEBen in 55.444µs.

#4

Here is the solution that I came up with.

  1. Created a bash script called xmlhandler to download the TvHeadEnd XMLTV file, save it to my public html directory, and remove non-printable characters.
 #!/bin/bash         
wget -N http://localhost:9981/xmltv/channels -O /var/www/html/channels
LANG=C sed -i 's/[\d128-\d255]//g' /var/www/html/channels
  1. CHMOD the bash script so that CRON can execute it.
chmod +x /home/bniebel/channels-dvr/xmlhandler
  1. Schedule the bash script to run hourly in Cron.
* * * * * /home/bniebel/channels-dvr/xmlhandler &>/home/bniebel/Desktop/cronlog
  1. Pointed ChannelsDVR to the cleaned up file in my public-html directory.
XMLTV Guide Date = http://localhost/channels
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#5

Can you raise this with the tvheadend devs?