[Dumyat]

Hi @matthuisman 
Been using your excellent addon for about 6-7 months with zero issues up to now.

However, earlier today I was having problems getting any channels to open with the IPTV client and kept being referred to the Kodi log. 
When I looked at the log, there seemed to be quite a lot of errors listed for slyguy and IPTV merge.
I've have noticed there has been quite a few updates recently, so thought maybe one of them hadn't installed correctly which might be causing the issue, so decided to do a complete un-install and re-install of IPTV Merge, including all the dependencies.
The good news, my merged list now works with the fresh install and does open the channels, but I'm not able to use the time shift feature and the progress bar for the programme is not showing either. Rather oddly, when I load each of my 3 m3u lists individually into the IPTV client's settings, playback is normal and as expected, ie time shift is available and progress bar visible. I'm using Matrix 19.4, with Window 11.
If you need me to provide any logs or further info etc, just let me know.
Cheers

[matthuisman]

Go into IPTV Merge settings > playback
and make sure Use Proxy is enabled and also Use Inputstream Adaptive HLS is enabled

if that doesnt solve - please send me a log link

UPDATE:
If your using python2 (kodi 18) then it was my latest updates that broke it.
just pushed script.module.slyguy > v0.53.9 that should sort it

[Dumyat]

YaY!....I'm back in business again after installing the latest update!
Many thanks for sorting the issue so quickly.
Very much appreciated...

[Penbrock]

I use IPTV Merge with Stremium and love it. It works great!

What I want to try is to add my local radio stations as well. I see the "Manage Radio" and thought it would be easy to add them once I found their M3U file but it does not seem to work.

What am I doing wrong? I I added the following files to the play list, it shows one channel but I am not seeing it under RADIO or even in the TV guide . I am assuming from what I have been reading the M3u file is wrong. Can anyone help me figure out the right settings? It does work fine in VLC

Code:

#EXTM3U
#EXT-X-STREAM-INF:BANDWIDTH=22050,CODECS="mp4a.40.2"
https://ample.revma.ihrhls.com/zc1269/15...ylist.m3u8

[DarrenHill]

@Penbrock - your post above has been merged into the correct addon support thread (this current one).

Just a FYI in case you wondered where your thread had gone.

[Penbrock]

I use IPTV Merge with Stremium and love it. It works great!

What I want to try is to add my local radio stations as well. I see the "Manage Radio" and thought it would be easy to add them once I found their M3U file but it does not seem to work.

What am I doing wrong? I I added the following files to the play list, it shows one channel but I am not seeing it under RADIO or even in the TV guide . I am assuming from what I have been reading the M3u file is wrong. Can anyone help me figure out the right settings? It does work fine in VLC

Code:

#EXTM3U
#EXT-X-STREAM-INF:BANDWIDTH=22050,CODECS="mp4a.40.2"
https://ample.revma.ihrhls.com/zc1269/15...ylist.m3u8

If anyone else is trying this I was able to get it to work by re-writing it is a .m3u with this text. Just the logo is not working

#EXTM3U
#EXTINF:-1 radio="true" tvg-id="Alice 955.Radio" tvg-logo="https://www.facebook.com/Alice955/photos/a.471807094415/10159261541984416?width=200&height=200" group-title="Local_Radio" tvg-name="Alice 95_5",Alice 95_5
https://ample.revma.ihrhls.com/zc1269/15...ylist.m3u8

[thekow]

Hi @matthuisman 

I have been using iptvmerge and slyguy for a little while. I updated to ubuntu 22.04.1 recently and the plugins were working fine for a couple days now they have stopped working.
If i open IPTV merge i get a spinning circle. I have uninstalled all slyguy addons and repositories and add-ons and reinstalled.

The tail log of kodi specifies this

2022-08-15 09:55:38.838 T:121185 INFO : Loading skin file: DialogAddonSettings.xml, load type: KEEP_IN_MEMORY
2022-08-15 09:55:53.505 T:121185 WARNING : CGUIWindowManager - HandleAction - ignoring action 107, because topmost modal dialog closing animation is running
2022-08-15 09:55:55.807 T:121185 INFO : Skipped 22 duplicate messages.. 2022-08-15 09:55:55.807 T:121185 INFO :
Loading skin file: MyPrograms.xml, load type: KEEP_IN_MEMORY 2022-08-15 09:55:55.931 T:121291 INFO : initializing python engine.
2022-08-15 09:56:23.804 T:121290 ERROR : GetDirectory - Error getting plugin://plugin.program.iptv.merge/
2022-08-15 09:56:23.804 T:121185 ERROR :CGUIMediaWindow::GetDirectory(plugin://plugin.program.iptv.merge/) failed
2022-08-15 09:56:27.421 T:121316
INFO : initializing python engine.

If I hit Setup Simple Client nothing also happens. Simple iptv client is running though.

But i can locate and see data in the directories. Not sure what is happening here but it only started after i updated kodi to the new distro and reinstalled the plug ins. Any tips please?

EDIT: I did a clean install of kodi and removed my .kodi directory and it still does the same thing. So i am now stumped. Is it a 19.4 issue?

KODI vERSION - (6:19.4+git20220330.0719-b738e65ae5-0~jammy)

[matthuisman]

@thekow - see the below
https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=368069

[thekow]

I thought it was a python issue ... thanks mate I will try a new version.

[cyberpal74]

Hi
Using kodi on google chromecast, setup iptv au and iptv merge.
After about a week this started happenning.

We could not watch tv through the kodi tv menu, something like the above would happen for every channel.
To get it working again we reset iptv merge to default settings in the addon settings, and then setup iptv merge again inside iptv au addon settings.
Anyone know the cause?
Regards
Shaun

[thekow]

SO i did a few things to try to get the plugin running

Downgraded python to 3.9.13 and it didn't work. It also killed terminal in ubuntu.
I tried v3.6 and it terminal worked but the plugin still didn't work.
updated manually to 3.10.5 and terminal worked etc.  plugin still didn't work.

python -V shows Python 3.10.4
python3 -V shows Python 3.10.5

No way to set alternative "python" to 3.10.5 you can only select 3.10 .. although python usually refers to python 2 so not sure what's going on.
Looks like i am stuck for now. I did reboot after doing the changes in python just incase. It was weird it was running for a couple of days before it broke though.
I am asking in another thread about python so we will see how it goes.

I also tried your IPTV AU one and it does the same.

022-08-15 15:50:00.627 T:6298     INFO <general>: Loading skin file: MyVideoNav.xml, load type: KEEP_IN_MEMORY
2022-08-15 15:50:00.874 T:6424     INFO <general>: initializing python engine.
2022-08-15 15:50:36.144 T:6423    ERROR <general>: GetDirectory - Error getting plugin://plugin.video.au.freeview/
2022-08-15 15:50:36.145 T:6298    ERROR <general>: CGUIMediaWindow::GetDirectory(plugin://plugin.video.au.freeview/) failed
2022-08-15 15:50:40.175 T:6298     INFO <general>: GL: Maximum texture width: 32768
2022-08-15 15:50:40.297 T:6298     INFO <general>: GL: Enabling VSYNC
2022-08-15 15:50:40.305 T:6298     INFO <general>: GL: Maximum texture width: 32768

[Dumyat]

Hi @matthuisman 
I added a new playlist to IPTV Merge today to test out on the Firestick and noticed whilst I had a local channel logo path included on my m3u, these were not getting displayed anywhere on the Live TV Section of Kodi. The odd thing is, when I selected the Manage TV option from the IPTV Merge settings, the channel logo's were showing up fine on the sideblade.

I got around the problem by selecting the local path for the logo's in the IPTV Simple settings, but just thought I'd let you know in case it was something you were not aware of.
Of course the problem might have been caused by something on the IPTV Simple side, or for that matter with my own local set-up.
Anyway, just letting know of the observation.
Cheers

[matthuisman]

try setting the playlist url directly in iptv simple and see if the local path logos work - if not, then we have our answer

[Dumyat]

try setting the playlist url directly in iptv simple and see if the local path logos work - if not, then we have our answer

It's a local folder and I thought I'd solved the issue, but I had to run another merge shortly after I posted and the problem came back.....Grrr!
I tried again pointing to my local folder directory via smb, then included the folder in the skin extra's folder on the Firestick, but still nothing.
I did also try as you suggested, by loading the playlist directly onto IPTV Simple, but unfortunately no luck either. 
It's Kinda weird, as exactly the same set-up worked fine using the Shield the last time I was using it. Firestick doesn't seem to want to know though.
Don't think there is any size limitation on channel logos, but will maybe raise the question over on the IPTV Simple thread.
Cheers

[matthuisman]

yes, please do.
I remember some changes to local images a while ago that may have broke something. Cant recall 100%.
But merge should just pass through the paths as is.