Closed AnythingOldSkewl closed 1 year ago
rmeden
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1 year ago Have you spoken with the Emby folks? Emby may just be using the XMLTV data format and not a grabber, so that's all Emby code. If they are packaging an XMLTV grabber, they can probably tell you how to update it.
AnythingOldSkewl
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1 year ago Have you spoken with the Emby folks? Emby may just be using the XMLTV data format and not a grabber, so that's all Emby code. If they are packaging an XMLTV grabber, they can probably tell you how to update it.
Of course I have. They pretty much told me that the old version is what I have to deal with. I'm pretty sorry I paid them $125 to support them. They're really slow when it comes to making changes. I really wish PLEX still supported plugins, they really are better than Emby in terms of performance.
AnythingOldSkewl
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1 year ago Have you spoken with the Emby folks?
I'm just understanding IPTV. I really don't know any thing about "grabbers," although, I think I understand what you mean. I believe it's a programmer who must contributed to the Emby community. if I can discover who this person is, maybe I can get help. But there is very little information.
honir
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1 year ago Turning this into an XY problem...
Why do you want to update the plugin version in Emby? What 'problem' do you hope to solve by doing that?
rmeden
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1 year ago What did you pay Emby for? Emby Premier? If so, what is a XMLTV file used for? Emby Premier provides guide data.
XMLTV is basically two things. A file format and a set of tools. One type of tool are grabbers that download schedule data from another site ( This show is on Tuesday 10pm). Other tools can search or manipulate the data in various ways. It's not clear how that can work with IPTV since most of that is Video on Demand.
As honir said, what's the problem you're trying to solve. Maybe Emby uses guide data in a modified XMLTV format (set up for streaming and VOD) and normal XMLTV tools wouldn't even work with Emby XMLTV.
AnythingOldSkewl
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1 year ago Turning this into an XY problem...
Why do you want to update the plugin version in Emby? What 'problem' do you hope to solve by doing that?
Because I discovered that XMLTV is only grabbing EPG data from a single IPTV category/playlist. It obviously needs an update. And please don't tell me I can do this manually, because I don't want to map tons of channels, when I know XMLTV can do it automatically. Now, either the programmer who setup the plugin doesn't support it anymore, or Emby is just too lazy to update it because there isn't enough demand for it.
rmeden
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1 year ago Because I discovered that XMLTV is only grabbing EPG data from a single IPTV category/playlist.
Who's your IPTV provider? What is the single IPTV category/playlist you're talking about. As I mentioned, XMLTV is both a file format and a series of tools (some of which download schedule data). It's possible your IPTV service is providing an XMLTV formatted feed and that's the problem.
You can't say "XMLTV is only grabbing", because there is no tool called XMLTV. For example, tv_grab_uk_tvguide is an XMLTV project distributed tool that gets data from the UK TVGuide website. What is the tool in use? If you don't know, maybe the Emby folks can tell you how Emby works.
honir
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1 year ago Emby have developed their own software (their "plugin") to interface to EPG suppliers who use the XMLTV file format. Their only connection with xmltv.org (i.e. this website) is that they use our file format. We did not write their software (which is not open source). Using our Git files will not help you (as Emby use their own software, not ours).
Your problem will most likely be an issue with wherever you are getting your EPG data. You might check with them whether they are, in fact, providing data in the correct XMLTV format, or whether it is some other format. This is outside our sphere of influence.
The Emby community forum seems quite active and helpful.
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XMLTV Version?
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I hope someone can help. I am kind of new to XMLTV. I use the plugin version on Emby. I also use Emby on my seedbox. My problem is Emby is using a very old plugin version of XMLTV. I can't just use the files from Git to update it on Emby. Is there anyone programming from XMLTV to help push a newer update to Emby? I'd appreciate it.