stvhwrd
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8 years ago Hi @dbowles1975,
Thanks for the question and sorry for the delay in responding. The m3u8 that's generated is valid for all channels 1-120, though from the server side, not all channels are "up" 24/7.
The most straightforward way to exclude specific channels is to comment-out the channels you'd like to skip in the channelDictionary (currently on line 240). In Python, comments are denoted by the hash symbol, #.
For example, if you wanted to skip channels 51-60, you'd change the lines in the script
...
'46': 'Comedy Central',
'47': 'AMC',
'48': 'HBO East',
'49': 'HBO Comedy',
'50': 'HBO Signature',
'51': 'HBO Zone',
'52': 'ShowTime East',
'53': 'ActionMax HD East',
'54': 'Cinemax Moremax',
'55': 'Starz Cinema',
'56': 'Starz East',
'57': '',
'58': '',
'59': 'Cinemax East',
'60': 'Cinemax 5 Star',
'61': '',
'62': '',
'63': '',
...to
...
'46': 'Comedy Central',
'47': 'AMC',
'48': 'HBO East',
'49': 'HBO Comedy',
'50': 'HBO Signature',
# '51': 'HBO Zone',
# '52': 'ShowTime East',
# '53': 'ActionMax HD East',
# '54': 'Cinemax Moremax',
# '55': 'Starz Cinema',
# '56': 'Starz East',
# '57': '',
# '58': '',
# '59': 'Cinemax East',
# '60': 'Cinemax 5 Star',
'61': '',
'62': '',
'63': '',
...The reason I chose to include all channels is that occasionally the unnamed channels do become active.
Without looking at your system/error logs I can only speculate that your Kodi PVR IPTV Simple Client (which I am not familiar with) is not properly handling the server's response to inactive channels, and consequently crashing. Cheers
Kodi PVR IPTV Simple Client - Clicking on an unused channel in the EPG causes Kodi to crash requiring a force stop. All other channels work just fine. How would I go about modifying the script so that playlist information is not added for unused channels? And is it possible to not add channel numbers so that I can use an xmltv file to automatically populate guide data?