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Create live TV channels from your own media. Access the streams using the simulated HDHomerun tuner or the generated M3U URl.
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All Channels Except Dizque Channels Disappear From Plex #396

Open dbowles1975 opened 2 years ago

dbowles1975 commented 2 years ago

I'm unsure if this is an issue with Plex, Dizque, or xTeVe but I will post here as well in case someone has come across a working solution. I am not the author of this reddit post but my issue is IDENTICAL.

https://www.reddit.com/r/PleX/comments/j0wsm0/live_tvdvr_channels_disappear_after_a_period_of/gr6c0tn/?newUser=true

From what others are saying in that thread, it appears Dizque may be causing this issue. The workaround to add dummy channels is going to take me a while since I have 228 channels in my xTeVe m3u, so I wanted to make sure I wasn't missing something before I proceed. Thanks.

vexorian commented 2 years ago

Did you try disabling that thing about sending guide updates?

dbowles1975 commented 2 years ago

Did you try disabling that thing about sending guide updates?

I'm not seeing a setting like that in Dizque or xTeVe. There's something about refreshing the guide in the Plex DVR settings.

vexorian commented 2 years ago

In dizqueTV's plex server settings.

dbowles1975 commented 2 years ago

In dizqueTV's plex server settings.

I tried disabling guide updates but it still failed. Once I disabled channel updates it stopped failing but I had no guide for the Dizque channels. I re-enabled guide updates and now I have EPG and a working DVR.

I'm curious... what exactly do these two settings do? Why would Plex need guide updates from Dizque if you have the same xmltv info mapped to those channels in xTeVe, and that xml mapped in Plex?

vexorian commented 2 years ago

I don't really know, those checkboxes come from pseudotv's code.

chamby90 commented 2 years ago

@dbowles1975 per your first comment about creating dummy channels with flex content only, that is exactly what I have done and that does solve the problem. not ideal, because every time i want to assign a new channel number in Xteve I need to make sure that channel exists in DizqueTV. But... it works and I haven't found another way to solve the issue. But if you do find another solution, please post here as i would be interested to try.

dbowles1975 commented 2 years ago

@dbowles1975 per your first comment about creating dummy channels with flex content only, that is exactly what I have done and that does solve the problem. not ideal, because every time i want to assign a new channel number in Xteve I need to make sure that channel exists in DizqueTV. But... it works and I haven't found another way to solve the issue. But if you do find another solution, please post here as i would be interested to try.

If you uncheck the "send channel updates" option for your Plex server the issue goes away.

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chamby90 commented 2 years ago

@dbowles1975 thanks, ill give that a try!