[snoopyjoe]

I was able to work around the above issue by disabling the VOD service in settings.xml.

I'm also noticing every time I reboot, IPTV simple loses the EPG/channel information. It still is present in the sqlite database though...
I would have expected that it would fallback to cache if the slinger service fails. For whatever reason when IPTV-simple requests the m3u or xml file, it's blank.

Glad I'm not the only one. Mind sharing what you modified in the settings.xml to disable?

Thanks

It turns out this didn't work right. Oddly a users fork seems to be working just fine... https://github.com/snoopyjoe/plugin.video.sling

The issue with the shows update hanging is usually because the shows has invalid timestamps or characters in them. @d21spike has resolved this issue before but every time a new show with invalid data is added to Sling, the issue reappears. I just set the VOD and Show update service intervals to 30 days, then manually update any show just before I click to watch it.

Also, I'm not sure how my fork resolves this as the only changes in it is when and where the PVR manager is restarted after the slinger service updates the guide. I abandoned the idea and turned the function into a service addon. That way if you're running two or more PVR clients, the PVR switch can restart the guide after the slinger service has started. This usually isn't a problem if you're only running IPTV PVR client. The service addon can be found here... PVR Switch