[mrdally204]

Removing my message that clearly described how I did not follow directions. I manually set up the xml locations and my channels are now populating...because IPTV Simple knows where to find them.  Will follow up on how the testing goes via an edit to this message.

Edit:
I'm still not able to transition from the end of one episode to starting the next.  I did not receive an error prompt this time.  The static transition shows for a brief moment then playback stops.  

https://paste.kodi.tv/ohufemibob.kodi