Bulk channel group mapping?

[gdogg371]

Hi - is there a way to load channel groups via a script or config file of some sort? I have literally thousands of channels and there is no way I can map them all by hand...

[fwpvr789]

No one has addressed this question yet? I have the same request, actually I am looking for the same or equivalent function that is provided by V4 desktop app, which is to multi-select a list of channels and drag them to a group at once. In V5 web app, we have to tick channel one by one, and I have several hundreds of channels and I can probably manage to do this process once, but what if I have to delete and re-create those channels (my EXTRA source keeps changing their line-ups these days which causes me often to re-create channels from scratch)? I wouldn't want to manually tick several hundreds of channels again and again ...

[mvallevand]

You can tick them all with the top box and untick if you'd prefer. Also if you are creating an m3u manually you why not create the group tag group-title="" too?

Martin

[fwpvr789]

You can tick them all with the top box and untick if you'd prefer.  Also if you are creating an m3u manually you why not create the group tag group-title=""  too?

Martin

I don't have m3u lists, I use EXTRA device to create channels and I have multiple EXTRA devices each of which has several hundred channels, your method doesn't solve the issue since if I tick them all on the top, then I have to untick even more channels one by one

BTW, does extras-*.xml support group tag? and how about the xmltv file that is used to map channels for EXTRA device, does it support group tag?

[sub]

BTW, does extras-*.xml support group tag? and how about the xmltv file that is used to map channels for EXTRA device, does it support group tag?

No, it doesn't currently support a group in the extras xml, but yes it's probably a good idea for me to add this.

[fwpvr789]

BTW, does extras-*.xml support group tag? and how about the xmltv file that is used to map channels for EXTRA device, does it support group tag?

No, it doesn't currently support a group in the extras xml, but yes it's probably a good idea for me to add this.

Thanks, look forward to the feature

[sub]

The optional 'group' attribute is supported for the next build:

Code:

<extras>

    <channel name="Lake 88.1" number="88.1" service_type="2" group="RadioMega">
        <command>cmd</command>
        <icon>http://cdn-radiotime-logos.tunein.com/s89155q.png</icon>
        <args>/c C:\Users\Public\NPVR-data\scripts\RadioTimes.bat s89155</args>
    </channel>
    <channel name="LiVE 88.5 FM" number="88.5" service_type="2" group="RadioMega">
        <command>cmd</command>
        <icon>http://cdn-radiotime-logos.tunein.com/s89427q.png</icon>
        <args>/c C:\Users\Public\NPVR-data\scripts\RadioTimes.bat s89427</args>
    </channel>
    <channel name="CHUO-FM" number="89.1" service_type="2" group="RadioOther">
        <command>cmd</command>
        <icon>http://cdn-profiles.tunein.com/s20289/icons/logoq.png?t=155023</icon>
        <args>/c C:\Users\Public\NPVR-data\scripts\RadioTimes.bat s20289</args>
    </channel>
</extras>

[fwpvr789]

The optional 'group' attribute is supported for the next build:

Code:

<extras>

    <channel name="Lake 88.1" number="88.1" service_type="2" group="RadioMega">
        <command>cmd</command>
        <icon>http://cdn-radiotime-logos.tunein.com/s89155q.png</icon>
        <args>/c C:\Users\Public\NPVR-data\scripts\RadioTimes.bat s89155</args>
    </channel>
    <channel name="LiVE 88.5 FM" number="88.5" service_type="2" group="RadioMega">
        <command>cmd</command>
        <icon>http://cdn-radiotime-logos.tunein.com/s89427q.png</icon>
        <args>/c C:\Users\Public\NPVR-data\scripts\RadioTimes.bat s89427</args>
    </channel>
    <channel name="CHUO-FM" number="89.1" service_type="2" group="RadioOther">
        <command>cmd</command>
        <icon>http://cdn-profiles.tunein.com/s20289/icons/logoq.png?t=155023</icon>
        <args>/c C:\Users\Public\NPVR-data\scripts\RadioTimes.bat s20289</args>
    </channel>
</extras>

I didn't realize that extras-*.xml also supports "number" attribute and <icon> tag, the wiki only provides a simple syntax, https://github.com/sub3/NextPVR/wiki/Extras

what is "service_type", is its value fixed to "2" for EXTRA devices or does it matter? 

Thanks for adding the "group" attribute, is it possible to support assigning channel to multiple groups, like group="RadioMega,Sports,Favorites"? in my case, I group channels by their source devices and also pick channels from different devices into "Sports" and "Favorites" groups. the multi-grouping helps a lot to quickly navigate to my desired channels in browser or Kodi.

Personally I still would like to see the multi-selection method to assign groups, which gives more flexibility

[sub]

what is "service_type", is its value fixed to "2" for EXTRA devices or does it matter? [url=https://github.com/sub3/NextPVR/wiki/Extras]

It's primarily around the type of content in the stream. Basically 0x1019 for H.264+AAC, is the default. Type 2 was MPEG-1 audio, as used by some radio style services. Type 1 is MPEG2 video.

Thanks for adding the "group" attribute, is it possible to support assigning channel to multiple groups, like group="RadioMega,Sports,Favorites"? in my case, I group channels by their source devices and also pick channels from different devices into "Sports" and "Favorites" groups. the multi-grouping helps a lot to quickly navigate to my desired channels in browser or Kodi.

I guess I could add support for multiple groups. This code is currently copied from the IPTV code, which only ever specifies a single main group.

Personally I still would like to see the multi-selection method to assign groups, which gives more flexibility

Yes, it's supposed to support holding ctrl or shift for multi-select, but I must have broken it at some stage. I'm a bit short on time to look into it right now.