Vaders has had its ups and downs over the years but it has always rebounded and I personally have been happy with their services until now. The most recent issue that has plagued this service provider has been their URLâs for both the m3u and EPG data and has been driving me bonkers. In the past one could use for the m3u http://api.vaders.tv/vget?username=xxxx&...s/m3u/m3u8 or just leave off the â&format=â and for the EPG you would use http://vaders.tv/p2.xml. Now due to some maintenance going on over at the Vaders shop these URLâs are no longer valid. Using a browser to validate the âcurrently workingâ URL for the m3u pull as noted above, I get the following response
[ATTACHMENT NOT FOUND]
However, using the following URL in a browser with either &format=m3u, m3u8, ts, or blank yields me a valid m3u file; http://vaders.tv/vget?username=xxx&passw...ormat=m3u8. The difference is that the âapiâ at the beginning must be omitted. I donât know why but this is what works for me in NPVR now. As of this morning it looks like either http://vaders.tv/p2.xml.gz or http://vaders.tv/p2.xml are working now in the browser when only yesterday the http://vaders.tv/p2.xml.gz was the working model. In NPVR http://vaders.tv/p2.xml is also working but it doesnât auto map the channels. This is most likely due to âtvg-nameâ from m3u file not finding a match with âchannel idâ in xml file. However, I did notice that the format of the xml file has gone through a massive restructure. Here is an example of what channels 17398 and 14863 looked like on 2018/12/17
So, I have decided to cut the EPG chord from Vaders and construct my own so I donât have to go through this experience again. As of now Vaders currently does not have a working EPG that plays nice with NPVR. I will be using NPVR (of course), mc2xml, Notepad++, Excel, Schedules Direct (SD) and MS notepad.
The first step was to pull the m3u and xml files and load them into NPVR so that I would know what channels I had access to. Next, without doing anything else I exported the channels from NPVR to its default xml file. Next, I opened the exported file with Excel (yes thatâs right Excel). Excel has a very kool way of parsing the file into its logical components as shown below.
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Column B indicates the tvg-name from the m3u file while column H indicates the channel id from the xml file. You can readily see in this depiction the mismatch between the two columns therefore, necessitating a manual/auto channel mapping. This is also the way I can see what channels I donât want or need in order to eliminate them in the next step.
If you are able to pull in your EPG using NPVR and you can auto map all of your channels you can skip this step which uses mc2xml. For me I performed all the steps indicated thus far but could not auto map because of the mismatch. I used mc2xml to pull specific channels and edited the xml channel id to match the tvg-name in the m3u file. For those of you interested in a statistic, I pulled 850 channels and renamed the channel id in 13 seconds. Crazy huh!
If you have an SD account (free trial also) you can enter your creds and continue. I used their JSON service with the following selections for my UK channels. Their âschedules directâ service does not give you the opportunity to enter a postal or country code selection. USA channels and other country channels were queried in the same manner. When it completes its query, you will get your xml file.
For the best control (IMO), I chose to use a batch file to call mc2xml.exe with parameters that told the query what channels I wanted specifically and how to rename them so that they would match my m3u file in NPVR. Using MS notepad or Notepad++ I entered this within my UpdateEPG.bat⦠âmc2xml -J user:password -c gb -g cf31 -D uk.dat -C uk.chl -R uk.ren -a -U -u -d 10 -o uk.xmlâ. I wonât take the space here to explain the switches because you can read all about this proggy at http://mc2xml.awardspace.info/. However, here is a sample of my channel request which is my uk.chl fileâ¦
[ATTACHMENT NOT FOUND]
The rename file uk.ren looks like thisâ¦
# rename the following
I0.17153.schedulesdirect.org:bbc one hd
I0.17154 schedulesdirect.org:bbc two hd
I0.83282 schedulesdirect.org:bbc four hd
I0.17468.schedulesdirect.org:itv 1
I0.20630.schedulesdirect.org:itv 2 hd
I0.44643.schedulesdirect.org:itv 3 hd
I0.48020.schedulesdirect.org:itv 4 hd
I0.17155.schedulesdirect.org:channel 4
I chose to use the channel id in lieu of display-name or some other field to match on because not every xml file has those fields for every channel. However, every channel has a specific channel id that is unique to it. So, âHow do I know what the channel id is for every channel I want to pull you askâ? Remember that Excel file pic I showed you earlier? Well if you look at the âguide idâ column they are listed there, not all but most. We have 85 channels in the UK which is why I chose to work on those first. I have started the USA pull but only 1/3 of the way done.
For those channels that do not have a number listed and instead have some alpha characters indicating the station call name, you will use this name to search within your xml file you pulled from Schedules Direct. The search will yield you a channel id that you can use. You may encounter more than one possible choice.
I hope this information helps you out. For me I now no longer am tied to Vaders EPG or any other EPG for that matter. My gratitude goes out to all of you that helped me on this especially sub, Graham and Martin. Cheers and Merry Christmas to all.
OK, I built a new Server and have input the channel list from my IPTV provider. I have gone in and deleted the channels that I do not want. Now how do I go about deleting the groups that I do not want. I go into the channels group page the groups that I want to delete are not there but when I go into the program guide they show up there.
Good day...Is there a way to eliminate the channel logo display from the guide and also a way to control the font size of the channel name displayed? I seem to recall I might have edit a config file when I was creating my own channel logos but can't remember the exact file. Go figure, now I don't want any channel logos at all to create more space for the channel name. I will poke around in the meantime to see if I can find my notes. Thanks in advance...cheers!
I have a consistent issue watching live tv from iptv source (.ts). After about 1 minute, the video freezes, and the audio restarts to the beginning of the feed (back 1 minute). It is not the feed because if I immediately switch to a different standalone app, this doesn't happen.
Recordings also do not record this way, and playback of recordings is also fine.
Ethernet connected.
Direct Play enabled.
Device is h96 Pro Plus (8-core, 3GB).
Not sure if itâs something the app can drive, but while watching the Elton John special it would be cool if the Apple TV could airplay to some other speakers I have available via airplay.
I'm running Kodi 17.6 on a Raspberry Pi with the NextPVR server running on a Windows 10 desktop computer.
I've been having problems with live TV programs sporadically freezing on the RPi.
The Kodi Log indicates the following:
Code:
18:20:20.130 T:1323352992 NOTICE: CVideoPlayerAudio::Process - stream stalled
18:20:20.911 T:1331741600 INFO: CVideoPlayerVideo - Stillframe detected, switching to forced 29.970030 fps
18:20:20.912 T:1331741600 DEBUG: CPullupCorrection: pattern lost on diff 166833.333344, number of losses 4
18:20:22.755 T:1331741600 INFO: CVideoPlayerVideo - Stillframe left, switching to normal playback
18:20:22.757 T:1722024864 DEBUG: Stream stalled, start buffering. Audio: 0 - Video: 0
Please note that both the audio and video streams are frozen (paused).
I immediately saved the NextPVR logs using the zip file logs function and the Kodi log for your inspection.
I hope someone can be figure out what's causing this problem and come up with a solution.
I want to start by saying I suspect my problem might be related to switching hardware tuners, but I'm not sure how to fix it.
On the old tuner I had a recording set up for a specific program and channel.
Now on the new tuner I still see the program listed in Recurring Recordings. And if I click on the program in that screen, and click Find All, it shows two time slots.
However, when I look at Pending Recordings, the program is not listed! I've tried all kinds of resets and rescans and restarts, but nothing helps. The program never gets added.
I'm guessing for some reason the channel on the new tuner is different somehow, but I can't figure out how to update the channel, or even to cancel the recurring program!
If you look at the log files, the program is 'Vera' and I added the show for tonight using Quick Record so I wouldn't miss it.
Good day...On a new build with the latest NPVR installed and SD as my EPG provider I am getting the ole "No Show Detail" across all IPTV (Vaders) channels. The OTA channels are populated correctly and work just fine so I pulled out all the OTA channels to see if that would help the IPTV issue. No joy. I went to the Vaders website and logged in and found that their TV guide is no longer working as well. Not sure if this is part of the issue but their is not working.
During setup of the IPTV device both the channel list and XMLTV URL's had to be modified in order to work. Using the original http://vaders.tv/p2.xml gets a zero content file while using http://vaders.tv/p2.xml.gz gets a compressed file that when extracted gets me a valid xml file. Unfortunately, the xml file resides in the local environment so I don't think it will get updated automatically. I have also used the nshared.dll fix from 12/04/2018. My logs are attached so hopefully you can assist. However, to me this looks like a Vaders side issue but not sure. Thanks and cheers.
I have been using NextPVR for some time, and it has worked beautifully. For various reasons, though, I did a total system rebuild -- new computer, new TV. I did put the old disk containing my recordings into the new computer and loaded both a new version of Windows 10 and the current version of NPVR. I'd recorded a lot of programs on the old system that I would like to access, but NextPVR doesn't see them. It does see programs that are recorded under the new system, so I believe that it's working.
My question is -- how do I import the programs recorded under the old system into the database built for the new system? They are in subdirectories in the D:\TVFiles directory, with the subdirectory names those of the programs being recorded.
Good day...When I install NPVR version 4.2.3.181112, upon its completed install and initial launch I get a popup that says there is a newer version available. Is this an error or just something that comes up no matter what? Also, I have been reading around this forum and apparently there is also a beta 5 version out for testing. Is this available. Cheers!
