The Glashart EPG Grabber performs 3 jobs for you:
Generating an M3U file with all IPTV channels This job is executed by the program in the following parts:
Generating an XMLTV file for all IPTV channels, based on Glashart EPG This job is executed by the program in the following parts:
Generating configuration files for TVheadend (version >= 3.9)
Some additional features:
This program is a console application which can be executed like below:
GlashartEPGgrabber.exe [/dl-tvmenu] [/unzip-tvmenu] [/dl-tvscript] [/unzip-tvscript] [/channels] [/m3u] [/dl-epg] [/unzip-epg] [/xmltv] [/all-m3u] [/all-xmltv] [/all] [/convert-m3u]
/dl-tvmenu Download the TV menu web page (http://w.zt6.nl/tvmenu/index.xhtml.gz)
/unzip-tvmenu Unzip the downloaded index.xhtml.gz TV menu web page
/dl-tvscript Download the TV menu javascript file (ie: http://w.zt6.nl/tvmenu/code.js.gz?1416996339)
The URL to the TV menu script file is being determined from the TV menu web page
/unzip-tvscript Unzip the downloaded code.js.gz TV menu script file
/channels Generate the channels.xml file with all channels and URL's, based on the code.js file
/m3u Generate the M3U file based on the channels.xml file
/dl-epg Download the EPG files (ie: http://w.zt6.nl/epgdata/epgdata.20141128.1.json.gz)
/unzip-epg Unzip all downloaded EPG files
/xmltv Generate the XMLTV file
Also an EPG.xml file is generated with all parsed EPG data
/tvh Generate TVheadend configuration files
/all-m3u Execute all steps needed to generate the M3U file: /dl-tvmenu /unzip-tvmenu /dl-tvscript /unzip-tvscript /channels /m3u
/all-xmltv Execute all steps needed to generate the XMLTV file: /dl-epg /unzip-epg /xmltv
/all Execute all steps: /dl-tvmenu /unzip-tvmenu /dl-tvscript /unzip-tvscript /channels /m3u /dl-epg /unzip-epg /xmltv /tvh
/convert-m3u Converts a downloaded M3U file to a new M3U file
/m3u-to-tvh Converts a downloaded M3U file to TVheadend configuration files
/ini-settings Load the ini file instead of the GlashartEPGgrabber.exe.config (for linux mkbundle support)Configuration can be changed in GlashartEPGgrabber.exe.config
| Config | Explanation |
|---|---|
| TvMenuURL | URL to the TV menu website on the IPTV network (default: http://w.zt6.nl/tvmenu/) |
| EpgURL | URL to the EPG folder in the website on the IPTV network (default: http://w.zt6.nl/epgdata/) |
| TvMenuFolder | Local folder to download TV menu files to (default: D:\GlashartEPGgrabber\Data\TvMenu) |
| M3UfileName | M3U file name to generate (default: D:\GlashartEPGgrabber\Data\TvMenu\glashart.m3u) |
| IgmpToUdp | Convert IGMP to UDP, so igmp:// becomes udp://@ (default: True) |
| M3U_ChannelLocationImportance | All channel URLs have a name, like HD, SD, ZTV-HD, etc. This list defines the importance of these URLs. The 1st URL name in the list is found and saved in the M3U file. When this name is not found, the 2nd in the list will be used. When nothing is found the first available URL will be used (default: ztv-hd, ztv-sd, ztv) |
| ChannelsListFile | List of channels which is a filter for the M3U file. Only these channels will be saved in the M3U file. Remove this file to save all channels in the M3U file (default: D:\GlashartEPGgrabber\Data\ChannelList.txt) Format in this file: Channel number,Orininal Channel name,Optional new channel name |
| EpgNumberOfDays | Number of days to download EPG (default: 7) |
| EpgFolder | Folder to download EPG files to (default: D:\GlashartEPGgrabber\Data\EPG) |
| EpgArchiving | EPG files in the EpgFolder older than x days will be removed (default: 7) |
| XmlTvFileName | XMLTV file name to generate (default: D:\GlashartEPGgrabber\Data\guide.xml) |
| DownloadedM3UFileName | File name of downloaded M3U which will be converted to a new M3U file |
| TVheadendFolder | Folder to generate the TVheadend configuration files in |
| TVheadendNetworkInterface | Network interface ID used for IPTV in TVheadend (default: eth0) |
Logging can be set in log4net.config
GlashartEPGgrabber works on linux with Mono (tested on Ubuntu 14.10 and OpenElec 5.08)
To be able to run the code on OpenElec you will need to create a static compiled linux executable of the application.
Copy the following files to your OpenElec Machine: