[primaeval]

Woops! That's my fault. I kinda hack an xmltv file from multiple timezones on Sched Dir using mc2xml, then to match the channels in my m3u8 file, I use a sed like utility to rename the Channel ID's in the xmltv file to match the ones in the M3u8 file. It works for Kodi. I haven't looked at Webgrab+. Can that more easily do what I'm doing in my script? Anyway, it works now!!! Thanks again!!!

Good that it works.

Webgrab is very powerful and has scrapers for most providers in the world.

As long as you are paying for Schedules Direct you might as well keep on using that.
It is a very comprehensive service and as far as they say they pay for their data from the original source.
So you can get a warm fuzzy feeling that you are helping someone put food on their table.

[primaeval]

Is it possibe to use the channel order in the m3u file as the channel order in TVGuide Fullscreen? I order it the way I want to view it in Kodi and I select the option to "Use Channel Order From Backend(s)" and it orders it exactly the way it's in the m3u8 file.

Not directly. You might be able to use the "Appearance\Sort Order for Channels in Categories".
If you set it to "categories.ini" and add a category for all your channels you could order them how you like.
Check it works before you do the lot.

I did assume that if you were going to want that amount of customization you would be making your own xmltv file with Webgrab.

[eric859]

Is it possibe to use the channel order in the m3u file as the channel order in TVGuide Fullscreen? I order it the way I want to view it in Kodi and I select the option to "Use Channel Order From Backend(s)" and it orders it exactly the way it's in the m3u8 file.

Not directly. You might be able to use the "Appearance\Sort Order for Channels in Categories".
If you set it to "categories.ini" and add a category for all your channels you could order them how you like.
Check it works before you do the lot.

I did assume that if you were going to want that amount of customization you would be making your own xmltv file with Webgrab.

I guess I don't really understand what you mean when you say "making your own xmltv file". I thought I was by dl'ing from sched dir and combining them with mc2xml. I need to look into webgrab. Thanks!

[primaeval]

Is it possibe to use the channel order in the m3u file as the channel order in TVGuide Fullscreen? I order it the way I want to view it in Kodi and I select the option to "Use Channel Order From Backend(s)" and it orders it exactly the way it's in the m3u8 file.

Not directly. You might be able to use the "Appearance\Sort Order for Channels in Categories".
If you set it to "categories.ini" and add a category for all your channels you could order them how you like.
Check it works before you do the lot.

I did assume that if you were going to want that amount of customization you would be making your own xmltv file with Webgrab.

I guess I don't really understand what you mean when you say "making your own xmltv file". I thought I was by dl'ing from sched dir and combining them with mc2xml. I need to look into webgrab. Thanks!

If you are good with sed you could probably easily make a script to rearrange the channels at the top of the xmltv file you have already made.
You could do it easily with python.

[eric859]

Not directly. You might be able to use the "Appearance\Sort Order for Channels in Categories".
If you set it to "categories.ini" and add a category for all your channels you could order them how you like.
Check it works before you do the lot.

I did assume that if you were going to want that amount of customization you would be making your own xmltv file with Webgrab.

I guess I don't really understand what you mean when you say "making your own xmltv file". I thought I was by dl'ing from sched dir and combining them with mc2xml. I need to look into webgrab. Thanks!

If you are good with sed you could probably easily make a script to rearrange the channels at the top of the xmltv file you have already made.
You could do it easily with python.

Oh I didn't say I was good with sed. I've used it on a limited basis, mostly in college classes. In fact, the Windows utility I was referring to is called FART.exe LOL. Find and replace text

[primaeval]

Oh I didn't say I was good with sed. I've used it on a limited basis, mostly in college classes. In fact, the Windows utility I was referring to is called FART.exe LOL. Find and replace text

Are you doing a computer related course?

If you are you can get yourself up to speed with different programming languages here.
https://learnxinyminutes.com/
I always start there.
It includes sed but no farts.

[myname]

Here's the skin i've been working on. It's highly moddable. It has however been locking up on me recently and i'm not sure if it has to do with changes i made or if its the focus delay you added. Sometimes it locks up as soon as it first loads and you try to navigate, othertimes when I'm quick with the mouse. The log always says i tried a mouse action like 101 or 103. I've been chasing my tail trying to figure it out for 2 weeks and am at the point i have to strip away stuff to find the bug and that's really time consuming. I figured i'd release it as is incase it's just a simple fix or something on my end unique to my setup. Browsing kodi skins i found a few useful commands like turning invisible buttons into toggle buttons with the help label and png built in.

I call it Cake because no one can badmouth cake.
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/thismu...n.cake.zip



Top left pic : main screen - Toggle help in top right, my custom actionbar bottom left or down channel, if playing video player controls bottom left, catbar toggles on focus if you hover over "Today" on the timebar.

Top right pic : popupmenu - If you go to settings you have the ability to toggle a few things.
- toggle 1080i on\off
- flip the video window left right horizontal with descriptions
- flip the descriptions\videowindow vertical with the epg colums
- can use my popupmenu or the original style popupmenu
- can use my vod menu or the original vod menu

Bottom left and right pic - flip command examples. The mainscreen, popupmenu and vod are auto adjusted.



bottom left pic - osd with or without mousebar. Auto adjusts depending on visibility
bottom right pic - quick epg

top right pic - vod menu built into popup menu. It has tv library, movie library, music library, pvr, and a link to sports fixtures. I have sports fixtures disabled in the popup menu for speed, but enabled in the separate xml. The vod xml is a template for you to use as you wish adding widgets and whatever. I have a bunch of disabled examples ready for modability.

Top left - vod xml menu using sports fixtures.

There is also an ffmpeg frontend gui for the record button and the play\search from addon.ini is included. Because of this it must be run as a video addon. Skin.py is nessessary for toggles, but main.py is only for the addon.ini players really and could be stripped.

[primaeval]

^^^

Thanks for that. You should never need to leave TVGF again.
You missed the quadcopter button to fetch you a beer from the fridge.

I got a big lock-up at first. It looks like it might be the VOD menus.
Kodi does a lot of processing to read the database and find the icons for all the shows and movies.
Everything was smooth after I killed Kodi and started again.
I'm not sure what can be done apart from have patience.
If you get something repeatable I'll have a deeper look.

[EDIT] The Fixtures section in Sports Fixtures is broken right now. They changed their website a lot recently and I haven't caught up.

[TheGame1986]

I got a big lock-up at first. It looks like it might be the VOD menus.
Kodi does a lot of processing to read the database and find the icons for all the shows and movies.

The problem is that while the sections are hidden unless highlighted, to Kodi, they aren't hidden. This means that Kodi is attempting to load every single item in the background, everything from the tv section, movie section, and so on. If a section like the fixtures section is broken because of it's content attribute then it's also throwing out errors while trying to build the menu.

To reduce the slow down I would recommend making each section it's own xml file. You can use the exact same layout in each file and just change the content attributes, but now instead of trying to load 150 TV shows, 700 movies, a fixture list, whatever music you have, and your PVR, it's now just loading one of those things at a time.

[Griever92]

No matter what I try, I can't seem to get the Guide to load in my Information from the XMLTV url provided by AceTV
I've triple checked all URLs, and while the plugin initially appears to begin loading, showing a progress bar and all, it hangs around 69% completed and says nothing beyond "program information cannot be loaded"

I can't seem to locate any sort of debugging logs to troubleshoot or indicate what the actual problem is.
I've successfully tested loading the XMLTV link in browser. Is it possible the format of the URL is the issue?

http://ace-tv.co.uk:port/xmltv.php?username=___&password=___

[primaeval]

^^^

I did add something in recently to deal with that kind of url. Before, the url would have to end in a sensible xmltv.xml file name. It got confused by the ? suffix.

pm me the url and I'll see if I can see what is wrong. It is usually something like illegal xml or unicode characters.

[Griever92]

^^^

I did add something in recently to deal with that kind of url. Before, the url would have to end in a sensible xmltv.xml file name. It got confused by the ? suffix.

pm me the url and I'll see if I can see what is wrong. It is usually something like illegal xml or unicode characters.

Apparently I need 10 posts to send a PM, so, i'll fire that off in a sec, since this makes #10 lol
Thanks!

[edit] nevermind, I can't send private messages apparently.
[edit2] finally let me send one, thanks again!

[primaeval]

^^^

I did add something in recently to deal with that kind of url. Before, the url would have to end in a sensible xmltv.xml file name. It got confused by the ? suffix.

pm me the url and I'll see if I can see what is wrong. It is usually something like illegal xml or unicode characters.

Apparently I need 10 posts to send a PM, so, i'll fire that off in a sec, since this makes #10 lol
Thanks!

[edit] nevermind, I can't send private messages apparently.
[edit2] finally let me send one, thanks again!

For anyone else having a similar problem:

I think I've found it. They have added programs for channels that they haven't declared.

At the start of the xmltv epg url file there is a list of channels with their ids.
After the channels come the programs. Each program has a channel id which needs to link to the channels.

The first program has a channel id of I17593.labs.zap2it.com but there is no channel with an id of I17593.labs.zap2it.com.

Tell them to sort their xmltv out.

[Rascals]

Hi, thanks for the great addon! I'm running into a problem playing streams. In various video player addons the stream is working fine, however within TV Guide Fullscreen I get the a Stream Failed error and the following shows up in kodi.log (I might now have enough debug logging enabled?)

20:50:50.403 T:1303376880 ERROR: EXCEPTION: Non-Existent Control 60021
20:50:50.719 T:1303376880 ERROR: EXCEPTION: Non-Existent Control 6013
20:50:50.825 T:1303376880 ERROR: EXCEPTION: Non-Existent Control 6014
20:50:51.678 T:1513092080 ERROR: EXCEPTION: Non-Existent Control 60021
20:50:51.690 T:1513092080 ERROR: EXCEPTION: Non-Existent Control 6013
20:50:51.707 T:1513092080 ERROR: EXCEPTION: Non-Existent Control 6014
20:50:51.725 T:1513092080 ERROR: EXCEPTION: Non-Existent Control 60091
20:50:57.219 T:1318044656 ERROR: Previous line repeats 1 times.
20:50:57.220 T:1318044656 WARNING: Attempt to use invalid handle -1

If I try to preview one channel under Stream Setup the error message looks something like this.

20:58:01.549 T:1521480688 NOTICE: Creating InputStream
20:58:01.553 T:1521480688 WARNING: CreateLoader - unsupported protocol(@plugin) in @plugin://plugin.video.bbciplayer/?url=bbc_two_hd&mode=203&name=BBC+Two&iconimage=%2Fhome%2Fosmc%2F.kodi%2Faddons%2Fplugin.video.bbciplayer%2Fmedia%2Fbbc_two.png&description=&subtitles_url=&logged_in=False
20:58:01.553 T:1521480688 ERROR: CVideoPlayer::OpenInputStream - error opening [@plugin://plugin.video.bbciplayer/?url=bbc_two_hd&mode=203&name=BBC+Two&iconimage=%2Fhome%2Fosmc%2F.kodi%2Faddons%2Fplugin.video.bbciplayer%2Fmedia%2Fbbc_two.png&description=&subtitles_url=&logged_in=False]

I tried to Reset Everything and also Uninstall and Re-Install but it doesn't seem to help. Any suggestions on how to debug the problem further?

[primaeval]

Hi, thanks for the great addon! I'm running into a problem playing streams. In various video player addons the stream is working fine, however within TV Guide Fullscreen I get the a Stream Failed error and the following shows up in kodi.log (I might now have enough debug logging enabled?)

20:50:50.403 T:1303376880 ERROR: EXCEPTION: Non-Existent Control 60021
20:50:50.719 T:1303376880 ERROR: EXCEPTION: Non-Existent Control 6013
20:50:50.825 T:1303376880 ERROR: EXCEPTION: Non-Existent Control 6014
20:50:51.678 T:1513092080 ERROR: EXCEPTION: Non-Existent Control 60021
20:50:51.690 T:1513092080 ERROR: EXCEPTION: Non-Existent Control 6013
20:50:51.707 T:1513092080 ERROR: EXCEPTION: Non-Existent Control 6014
20:50:51.725 T:1513092080 ERROR: EXCEPTION: Non-Existent Control 60091
20:50:57.219 T:1318044656 ERROR: Previous line repeats 1 times.
20:50:57.220 T:1318044656 WARNING: Attempt to use invalid handle -1

If I try to preview one channel under Stream Setup the error message looks something like this.

20:58:01.549 T:1521480688 NOTICE: Creating InputStream
20:58:01.553 T:1521480688 WARNING: CreateLoader - unsupported protocol(@plugin) in @plugin://plugin.video.bbciplayer/?url=bbc_two_hd&mode=203&name=BBC+Two&iconimage=%2Fhome%2Fosmc%2F.kodi%2Faddons%2Fplugin.video.bbciplayer%2Fmedia%2Fbbc_two.png&description=&subtitles_url=&logged_in=False
20:58:01.553 T:1521480688 ERROR: CVideoPlayer::OpenInputStream - error opening [@plugin://plugin.video.bbciplayer/?url=bbc_two_hd&mode=203&name=BBC+Two&iconimage=%2Fhome%2Fosmc%2F.kodi%2Faddons%2Fplugin.video.bbciplayer%2Fmedia%2Fbbc_two.png&description=&subtitles_url=&logged_in=False]

I tried to Reset Everything and also Uninstall and Re-Install but it doesn't seem to help. Any suggestions on how to debug the problem further?

You have tried to use the Alternative Streaming method for that addon and it isn't working.
Do the streams show up as Green in the "Stream Setup \ Addons" section?

Add the Folder again with the Default method.

Your urls show @plugin instead of just plugin which means use the Alternative Streaming method.
There is something wrong there as it should be able to play it with the Alternative Streaming method but just try the Default for now.