[Lunatixz]

Question about PTVL - Why does PTVL always reload and refresh when I restart Kodi. I noticed SimpleIPTV addon always trying to reload the channels. It says Updating channels

When PTVL updates and tries to restart or repopulate channels DOES IT cause my Hard drive to over work itself. Is the hard drive  constently being scanned?

Why does it keep populating upon bootup when all my channels don't need rescanning? The files are not being updated and the playlists it makes I never adjust..

I remember original PsuedtoTVl would just load your channels. Simple and to the point. Why does PTVL always try to reload?

Can I turn off any settings in IPTV manager or SimpleIPTV or System>TV settings> or PTVVL settings to tell the program to STOP scanning upon bootup.

i don't mind if it does a quick scan and update on the channels, but it seems every time it wants to a full repopulate or rescan. I auto populate is extenstive and I did trim it down but it is still doing this long scan upon bootup.

Any ideas to disable the constant auto checking?

Thanks again for your awesome hard work!

All of Kodi's PVR addons update during startup... I don't recall a way to disable it. IPTV simple for example will always load from the m3u/xmltv.

At startup PTVL will check for any changes and only build/update a channel if required. If you find a channel always updating, it is usually due to your configuration. For example; if you are setup for 3-days of guidedata and your channel only has 1-day worth of media. PTVL will always update your channel in-order to fill the required 3-days.

PTVL is optimized for users with large media collections that run Kodi regularly. If you have 3-days of PTVL guidedata and only run Kodi every four days you'll also see PTVL updating at every startup.

The original PseudoTV would load/build/update with each launch way slower and more time consuming; whereas the PseudoTV Live only loads once at startup and self updates in the background when needed. PTVL does not force updates, nor always reload at startup. It simply builds/updates channels as configured. The goal is to never leave the user with an empty EPG.

Thanks for the support; I'm currently working on a major update in order to move away from channel configurations via Kodi and move over to network accessible webforms.