m3u2bouquet Plugin

-Add nocheck attribute for EpgImporter sources (fix for new EpgImporter version)
-Add m3u8 VOD stream matching

We’ve had some reports of issues with epgimport .

Initial investigation suggest that a recent epgimport update will stop it from working with any panel’s epg feed.

We’ll investigate further but in the meantime we suggest not updating to the latest epgimport version.

Update

This issue is caused by the latest version of epgimport checking for a ‘LastUpdate.log’ file on the server that supplies the xmltv epg feed. If the file doesn’t exist or the date within is older than 2 days then the server is considered invalid and not used. Unfortunately this file is used by Rytec feed servers but not IPTV panels.

We’ve released v0.7.6 which sets a flag in the epgimport sources to ignore this check however this flag has only recently been added to epgimport and at the moment only works on the OpenPLI branch and not the OE-Alliance fork. Hopefully the OE-Alliance fork will merge this feature soon.

TL;DR

New versions of epgimport have broken the epg for IPTV panels. You should avoid updating epgimport for now, or revert to a previous version.

Updating to v0.7.6 of this script/plugin should fix the issue on OpenPli and hopefully future OE-Alliance images.

whats new:

-Fix issue where new providers couldn't be added
-When providers bouquet is downloaded (-b or -bd option) now uses full
 service references
instead of just the epg relevant part in case it's used for picon naming
-Better multi provider handler e.g. if there is an issue with one provider it
won't stop the script processing others
-If vod categories are out of order in the playlist group together
-Fix file naming issues with non alphanumeric characters
-Much faster when using an override file
-Don't retry failed picon downloads
-Option to add placeholder channel in override file (to control channel numbering)
-Allow channels to be moved between categories, use categoryOverride in the override file
-All custom categories, use customCategory="true" in the override file
-Add provider managed update support

-Unicode fixes
-Override file fixes

Make sure comments are xml safe

Extract username and password from m3u url if they are not passed in

Set services to stream type '1' in epg config so that the epg can be imported if

serviceapp is overriding stream type '4097' to exteplayer3

Minor fixes & tidy

Option for custom stream type for TV and VOD

Allow https & rtmp services

Unicode fixes

Url encoding fixes

[plugin] Multi custom provider support

[plugin] Config file based setup (values can be edited in an xml file instead)

of entered using the remote

[plugin] Provider managed update system

[plugin] Fixed time schedule type

[plugin] Option for custom stream type for TV and VOD