Nextpvr Settings Channels

[dedwards1960]

Hello everyone

Not sure if this has been asked or where to find the info if possible. 

I have added my iptv providers to nextpvr and selected the channels i would like. 
The channel names have beggings like CA: USA: etc.

I.E 
CA: A&E
CA DTOUR

Is there a way to remove these with in nextpvr and then sort the channels by name?

Thanks

Dave

[mvallevand]

Yes possible but no nothing can be done now. I've been poking away at improving this but it only really works with XC login and I've had trouble getting the support from users who might be interested in enhanced capabilities. I've put a couple of calls out but I heard crickets.

Martin

[dedwards1960]

That is what im using is the CX login , so if you want a test i am ready to help you out.

Just let me know what you need to to do. Thanks

Dave

[brcarls]

I think most people use a dedicated application to curate their IPTV playlists and fine tune their EPGs... e.g. Dispatcharr, IPTVEditor, IPTVBoss

[mvallevand]

The way I am designing would remove the need for some external managers. The first change is where you first select the groups to get rid of the 24/7 and Adult krruft. Then you can go into a group and select what you want. A group can also be channels or events. Event groups that you want will be purged and updated during the EPG process so you only get the sports you want. There is text filtering on channel name too in a group.

The lists will show date added too and date last seen o get rid of dead channel and help you move channel. It might be sort-able on date too if the scree doesn't get too complex

The clean option would be strip a channel identifier from a Channel name but the example above I wouldn't automatically remove CA from A&E it is the only A&E in the channel list which probably isn't true.

I would also try an tame the channel numbering

Martin

[brcarls]

The feature set you describe would be awesome for someone wanting an all in one solution.    The catch for me though is that some of my clients are dedicated XC IPTV apps.    So I wouldn't be able to abandon dispatcharr unless NextPVR could also serve as a proxy for generic XC clients. 

The one IPTV feature NextPVR is missing (I think) that would get me to ditch dedicated XC clients is catch-up. 

NextPVR is a PVR, right, so why do I care about catch-up?  I get failed recordings a couple of times a week because my internet or iptv provider glitched,  If you are watching live when it happens, it just buffers for a few seconds and then resumes, but the recording often either aborts, or the file is unwatchable, or both.  It will sometimes start playing OK, but if you seek, the timeline gets all screwed up, sometimes saying that the time stamp is -24 hours or something like that.    

I wish NextPVR was able to have a Rick Astley attitude and just power through, discarding corrupted data, and somehow fix the timestamps (easy for me to say).

[mvallevand]

Garbage in garbage out.

I do capture the catch up information with the channel but I have to come up with a way Live TV probably doesn't fit easy but record would get from the beginning. TBD and again this is why I need people with actual setup to test. You can only do so much in theory. Many shows are available for VOD but sports is better with catchup from what I can tell

Martin

[brcarls]

Garbage in garbage out.

I'm saying I wish it would detect and throw out the garbage, then mux the good stuff back together so that the recording can be viewed same as if you watched live (except better since instead of watching a "buffering" swirly, the PVR would just discard the garbage)

I am happy to help test whatever you're cooking up.    I'm running NextPVR on Unraid and use the Kodi plugin as my client on firesticks and ONN 4k+

The clean option would be strip a channel identifier from a Channel name but the example above I wouldn't automatically remove CA from A&E it is the only A&E in the channel list which probably isn't true.

Please consider the option to do this via regex because, as I'm sure you know, every provider is different. Just when you think you have a universal solution, a provider will prove you wrong 

[mvallevand]

I understand completely, the sh*t I have seen is amazing. Ideally i would like the XC credentials but here is the script I have been playing with on Windows to get what I need for testing since it mimics wjat NextPVR gets in a nightly scan and then you don't need to pass credentials and you are in control of your login coujt. If you can trust the source you really only need the 2 curl lines at the bottom and don't need jq The important thing is getting the information every day to see the deltas.

The parameter are URL up to port username password

Code:

@echo off
curl -vL "%1%/player_api.php?username=%2&password=%3" > account.json
jq -r -e . account.json
IF %ERRORLEVEL% NEQ 0 (
    echo "fail"
    goto end
)
for /f "delims=" %%i in ('jq-win64.exe .user_info.status account.json') do set value=%%i
if %value NEQ "Active" goto end
copy acouunt.json account.bak
del account.json
curl -s "%1%/player_api.php?username=%2&password=%3&action=get_live_categories" >category.json
curl -s "%1%/player_api.php?username=%2&password=%3&action=get_live_streams" > livestream.json
zip %2 *.json
:end

That doesn't capture the catchup stuff but that is later anyway

Martin

[brcarls]

I don't really understand what that script does, but I found a bug on the 5th line up from the end!

copy acouunt.json account.bak    

Pretty sure acouunt.json should be  account.json

Is that to capture data to test your cleanup of channel names?