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Bit of a newbie question... I use m3u4u service and I read in their guides to use this addon to avoid too many requests on their system.
I configured it, it works.
My question concerns the update process. I have set the addon to Merge every X hours, setting the update period to 24 hours.
The machine, a Windows HTPC, is not on 24/7. When I'm not using it, it is in standby. So the question is: does IPTV Merge take this into consideration and run the merge process if more than 24 hours have passed since last time or does it need the machine to be on for 24+ hours to do that. If the latter, I would need to remember doing it manually. When merging I suppose the playlist and epg from m3u4u gets called and downloaded, and then merged and IPTV Simple uses it, correct?
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Despite having local m3u and a local guide IPTV Merge STILL does an http callout to m3u4u. I have never added m3u4u as a url host. Why is it doing this? I don't want it to contact the site I want it to use the local files since they are Curl'd on a schedule.
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do they have an epg url in the m3u8 file? If yes - then it will be grabbing the EPG.
Remove that from the m3u8 file
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To answer frequently question. It doesn't matter if Kodi is on or off
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I've created a Kodi addon that makes managing M3U categories. With this addon, you can input your login details for up to four different services. It then gathers content from these services and sorts them into categories. These categories are displayed as a simple list in Kodi. You can pick which categories you want, and the addon generates a personalized M3U playlist with only those selections. The playlist is saved to a folder of your choice on your device so you can point Simple client at the MΒ£U. You can also refresh the playlist from the settings menu, and I'm working on adding this feature to the context menu for convenience. Would this be of use to people?"
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Is there anyway that this addon can convert/clean <category lang="en">News</category> found in an epg xml to Kodi friendly Genre ID on merge?Β
Language is dynamic so <category lang="en">Sports</category> would be <category lang="es">Deporte</category>