[xDetoursx]

Thanks. Media Codec Surface fixed it.

@primaeval - Agree. I have no idea why a lot of these modern units have such crappy remotes.

[Fret]

Hi. I've just starting using this add-on and I really like it so far. Hopefully a simple question but I can't seem to find a solution. I'm using an XMLTV URL for the guide, and an m3u file for channel streams. I've imported the m3u file in the channel mappings section, and most channels play fine but it seems if the m3u channel is not listed in the XMLTV guide, then it's not displaying in the guide. Is there a way to force it to show the full m3u channel list in the guide regardless of whether if there is a corresponding XMLTV guide channel?

Also the m3u file has categories, listed as "group-title" for each channel in the m3u file. Is there a way to extrapolate that data into the categories in the app?

Cheers.

[primaeval]

Hi. I've just starting using this add-on and I really like it so far. Hopefully a simple question but I can't seem to find a solution. I'm using an XMLTV URL for the guide, and an m3u file for channel streams. I've imported the m3u file in the channel mappings section, and most channels play fine but it seems if the m3u channel is not listed in the XMLTV guide, then it's not displaying in the guide. Is there a way to force it to show the full m3u channel list in the guide regardless of whether if there is a corresponding XMLTV guide channel?

Also the m3u file has categories, listed as "group-title" for each channel in the m3u file. Is there a way to extrapolate that data into the categories in the app?

Cheers.

Thanks.

Only channels pulled in from the xmltv file will show in the guide.
If you have some spares you can put them in a dummy xmltv file with just the "channels" section and load that in in Settings\Lab2.

I started on the "group-title" once but didn't finish it. Something got too complicated.
Here is a bit of python to do it for you.

python:
import re

import sys



if len(sys.argv) != 2:

    print "Usage: %s filename.m3u" % sys.argv[0]

    exit()



m3u = open(sys.argv[1],'rb').read()



match = re.findall('group-title="(.+?)".*,(.*)',m3u)



f = open('categories.ini','wb')

for category,name in match:

    s = "%s=%s\n" % (category.strip().replace('=',''),name.strip().replace('=',''))

    f.write(s)

Add it to a file like m3u2categories.py and run it in a cmd window as
python m3u2categories.py channels.m3u
or whatever your m3u is called.
Put the generated categories.ini file in
userdata\addon_data\script.tvguide.fullscreen\categories.ini

You can do it manually in the various Category bars if you need to modify it.
 I'll add it into TVGF someday.

[Fret]

Great, thanks for your help. Yes I did do what you were suggesting as a work around, putting the channels in a second XMLTV file. That should do for now anyway. 

Cheers.

[Jeffers24]

Primaeval, have you ever thought of making your addon an android app, as well as a Kodi addon?

Have no idea what would be involved, but I think it would be a winner, when compared to using what I use at the moment which is Perfect Player (PP).

I use PP with a paid sub as it plays some of the channels better than Kodi, without the Kodi hassles.

 I tried making TVGF as an Android Leanback app a couple of years ago and it was horrendous.
You can't even Stop a stream, only Pause it. It really is a bad platform to develop TV apps on.
They try to get you to do everything with a retarded 5 button remote control. 

Didn't mean "Android Leanback" I personally don't like it and it's restictions (limited paly store), I meant an App APK a la Perfect Player that I would run on full android OS.

[primaeval]

Primaeval, have you ever thought of making your addon an android app, as well as a Kodi addon?

Have no idea what would be involved, but I think it would be a winner, when compared to using what I use at the moment which is Perfect Player (PP).

I use PP with a paid sub as it plays some of the channels better than Kodi, without the Kodi hassles.

 I tried making TVGF as an Android Leanback app a couple of years ago and it was horrendous.
You can't even Stop a stream, only Pause it. It really is a bad platform to develop TV apps on.
They try to get you to do everything with a retarded 5 button remote control.  

Didn't mean "Android Leanback" I personally don't like it and it's restictions (limited paly store), I meant an App APK a la Perfect Player that I would run on full android OS. 

 Doesn't Perfect Player do everything you need? I haven't used it. It looks like it handles xmltv and m3u files.

[Jeffers24]

 I tried making TVGF as an Android Leanback app a couple of years ago and it was horrendous.
You can't even Stop a stream, only Pause it. It really is a bad platform to develop TV apps on.
They try to get you to do everything with a retarded 5 button remote control.  

Didn't mean "Android Leanback" I personally don't like it and it's restictions (limited paly store), I meant an App APK a la Perfect Player that I would run on full android OS.  

 Doesn't Perfect Player do everything you need? I haven't used it. It looks like it handles xmltv and m3u files. 

 It does allow me to play my channels with an EPG.

But it's fairly basic in the customisation options and nowhere near as good as the most powerful TV Guide in the world :-)

[nanmer]

I agree, this is a very powerful guide. I hope to see it as an apk. Perfect player is good also but it has its limitations.

[primaeval]

Here is a new addon for all you TV fans.
It is a version of IPTV Simple Client with Recording that I've built for Windows Krypton.
There is a build for Ubuntu too.

https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=329134

If anyone has the ability to build it for Leia I would be grateful. I can't get it to build on Win7 and I haven't got a Win10 machine to try and build it on.

[Doctor Eggs]

I created a new skin for TVGF called WMC. Here are some screen shots:












There is still one change that I'm working with @primaeval to update to have the ability to separate the title and the subtitle for TV shows.

Here is the link:
https://github.com/Doctor-Eggs/script.tv....skin.wmc/

[primaeval]

Very nice.

[nanmer]

Wow, looks great!

[nanmer]

I created a new skin for TVGF called WMC. Here are some screen shots:












There is still one change that I'm working with @primaeval to update to have the ability to separate the title and the subtitle for TV shows.

Here is the link:
https://github.com/Doctor-Eggs/script.tv....skin.wmc/

Appreciate the new skin. Just letting you know It's not removing the stream. I selected the wrong stream by accident and it's not allowing me to remove it. Just a fyi.

[Doctor Eggs]

Appreciate the new skin. Just letting you know It's not removing the stream. I selected the wrong stream by accident and it's not allowing me to remove it. Just a fyi. 

I was wondering if that was needed or not. If you hit the context menu on the channel, press to the right to go to the Configuration screen you can go into Stream Setup which will then allow you to select whichever stream you were looking to replace the wrong stream with.

[primaeval]

script.tvguide.fullscreen
version 0.0.380
- WMC skin (thanks Doctor-Eggs) https://github.com/Doctor-Eggs/script.tv....skin.wmc/
- Norwegian translations (thanks garvord)

The WMC is now in the main repo so you can install it through Kodi\Addons.

I've made a Jarvis version for anyone sticking with their old Android box.

Don't forget that clicking on the Skin Addon in Programs will install the skin and change some of the TVGF Appearance Settings.
You can see which ones in the addon.py file:
https://github.com/primaeval/script.tvgu...r/addon.py