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Yes, I would recommend caution when proceeding with EPG gathering as well. In North America at least it's all basically controlled by one company who maintains copyrights and will go after any who redistribute. One needs to stay under the radar. While Schedules Direct managed to secure distribution rights on a subscription model they never managed to develop a workable system to build a lineup for available FTA satellite channels.

You are correct. Plan is to do a number of things to try and keep lawyers away. Obviously, we have learned from trump that you can sue somebody even though it is a lie and many times the person will bend. That would imply doing nothing, which is not an option. So, the plan is to be compliant with the TOS. iptv-org recently got banded from GitHub for redistributing information from epg websites. The TOS clearly states "You are only permitted to access and view the Content for personal, non-commercial purposes in accordance with this Agreement". Redistribution is prohibited unless they specifically authorize it. So, the plan is to
1. Have no data that is redistributed in the plugin
2. Clearly state the plugin falls under the TOS
3. Clearly state the information provided by the plugin is for personal, non-commercial use
4. Separate the plugin from Cabernet so any attacks would only be to the plugin and not to the project as a whole
5. Hope and pray the lawyers have more to do than attack little me just because
6. Keep the project as non-commercial for now. Means things like: no advertising, no subscriptions, etc...

0.9.9.0 new EPG plugin
I do not recommend this unless you want to try it out. Please read release notes before upgrading. Expect more changes due to the size of the changes made. The EPG plugin is in a separate repository of the plugin name and can be downloaded for release 0.1.0. More testing and updates will be needed although the current version does seem stable.

After running the upgrade tests and finding a few bugs, those are all fixed. It looks like 0.9.9.2 with the EPG plugin is stable. Running more tests.

Found during a patch upgrade, the EPG plugin library is deleted (during the upgrade). It can be restored by copying the files back into the EPG plugin folder. Will be working on a fix.

For the external EPG plugin, I have added another plugin folder called plugins_ext at the same level as the current plugins folder to house external plugins. Had to cleanup the plugin in the plugins folder, but it works under 0.9.9.3.

The initial EPG days to pull is set to 2 days, which should stay until you are sure you are ready. The schedule only takes a second, but pulling the program details takes a very long time.

Not seeing how to add plugin.

Seems like it is running now.

If you see any other issues, let me know. I am working to reduce the number of connection refuse exceptions for daddylive right now. will probably be in the 9.9.4 release.

The connection refused looks like a DDOS issue with everyone trying to get the same video segment at the same time. Trying to see if Cabernet slows down for a short, if that reduces the number of lost segments.

Trying to run without epg plugin but as soon as I restart it after adding:

[xumo_default]
label = xumo instance
enabled = False

2023-02-24 09:41:06,178-WARNING:main MIT License, Copyright (C) 2021 ROCKY4546
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/john/cabernet-0.9.9.3/tvh_main.py", line 23, in <module>
main.main(script_dir)
File "/home/john/cabernet-0.9.9.3/lib/main.py", line 127, in main
plugins = init_plugins(config_obj)
File "/home/john/cabernet-0.9.9.3/lib/main.py", line 181, in init_plugins
plugins.initialize_plugins()
File "/home/john/cabernet-0.9.9.3/lib/plugins/plugin_handler.py", line 94, in initialize_plugins
plugin.plugin_obj = plugin.init_func(plugin, self.plugins)
File "/home/john/cabernet-0.9.9.3/plugins/provider_video_xumo/__init__.py", line 26, in start
return XUMO
File "/home/john/cabernet-0.9.9.3/plugins/provider_video_xumo/lib/xumo.py", line 35, in init
self.geo = Geo(_plugin.config_obj, self.namespace.lower())
File "/home/john/cabernet-0.9.9.3/plugins/provider_video_xumo/lib/geo.py", line 40, in init
self.get_geo()
File "/home/john/cabernet-0.9.9.3/lib/common/decorators.py", line 115, in wrapper_func
return f(self, *args, **kwargs)
File "/home/john/cabernet-0.9.9.3/lib/common/decorators.py", line 49, in wrapper_func
x = f(self, *args, **kwargs)
File "/home/john/cabernet-0.9.9.3/plugins/provider_video_xumo/lib/geo.py", line 50, in get_geo
if self.config_obj.data[self.section]['channellistid'] is not None:
KeyError: 'channellistid'

i'll look into it. Just saw daddy reboot server causing connection refused and not found errors. I think slowing down for theses issue is definitely the solution.

For now, take you backup config.ini and replace the geoid and channellistid in the config.ini under [xumo]. The backups are in the ./data/backups folder...

0.9.9.5 fix for xumo done.

To make it work with my docker configuration I had to modify "Dockerfile_tvh_crypt.slim-buster" and "Dockerfile_tvh_crypt.alpine" to copy the plugins_ext directory.

Here the relevant section of the dockerfiles with the added COPY statement:

COPY plugins /app/plugins
COPY plugins_ext /app/plugins_ext
RUN touch /app/is_container

This is what they looked like previously:

COPY plugins /app/plugins
RUN touch /app/is_container

makes sense. will update

0.9.9.6 has the Docker updates and some more adjustments for the Connection Refused issue. May be getting close to the solution.

0.9.9.7 Changes to 404 HTTP errors and Connection Refused look much better. This is a good version if you want to try out the new EPG and cleaned up DaddyLive.

I got a lot of channels setup right but a few like MTV and vh1 play a different channel even after setting them up with the correct channel (MTV is 331 I believe).

Determine if it's a Cabernet or a TVH issue. I suspect you have some mismatches in TVH. To check Cabernet, you can load the m3u file into VLC. The URL should be
http://ipadress/daddylive:6077/channels.m3u
You can also play the channel directly in VLC by entering the following URL for a Network Stream
http://ipaddress:5004/DaddyLive/watch/344
This URL is for my VH1.
If all is good in Cabernet, then you will need to dig into TVH. I normally find issues in the Channels/EPG > Channels area.
http://ipaddress:5004/DaddyLive/watch/371
This is for my MTV.
We should have the same UIDs for the channels since those are set by daddylive.

G Kazaroth wrote:

Determine if it's a Cabernet or a TVH issue. I suspect you have some mismatches in TVH. To check Cabernet, you can load the m3u file into VLC. The URL should be
http://ipadress/daddylive:6077/channels.m3u
You can also play the channel directly in VLC by entering the following URL for a Network Stream
http://ipaddress:5004/DaddyLive/watch/344
This URL is for my VH1.
If all is good in Cabernet, then you will need to dig into TVH. I normally find issues in the Channels/EPG > Channels area.
http://ipaddress:5004/DaddyLive/watch/371
This is for my MTV.
We should have the same UIDs for the channels since those are set by daddylive.

I am using it with Plex. In Plex it let's you do a channel match and choose the right channel. For MTV it says is channel 331. Channel 371 it tells me is for TBN Inspire. When I choose 371 for MTV and save the setting then it won't even show me MTV in the channel guide.

I installed the daddylive channels fine into plex, including vh1 and mtv. All played the correct channels. Weird part was that my plex guide is using the channel UID and not the channel number. Must be a configuration in Plex somewhere to change that. One possible issue is somehow having channels from different plugins having the same numbers and getting crossed. Did you move the channel numbers for each plugin so they do not duplicate? Also, I still recommend running the test with the channels.m3u into VLC and see what you get to make sure it is a plex cross link issue.

In plex, when selecting the guide data for a channel, the channel shows up with just the channel number and name. The guide shows up with just the UID, channel number and name, then the main guide after setup shows up with the UID and not the channel number... Strange... Example for MTV in the guide during setup appears as

371 1135 MTV USA (1135 MTV USA)

New release of provider_epg_tvguide 0.1.2
Since Cabernet does not have the external plugin upgrade automated, please move a new copy of the folder to the plugins_ext and restart Cabernet.
This fixes an issue where the programs around midnight GMT will not be present in the EPG. After upgrading it may take a few hours for the system to correct itself.

Note for Linux, I can soft link my tvguide repo folder to the plugins_ext folder and it works. It does not have to be a hard link.

Interesting how tvguide has TBAs for ESPN events while zap2it has actual teams...

G Kazaroth wrote:

I installed the daddylive channels fine into plex, including vh1 and mtv. All played the correct channels. Weird part was that my plex guide is using the channel UID and not the channel number. Must be a configuration in Plex somewhere to change that. One possible issue is somehow having channels from different plugins having the same numbers and getting crossed. Did you move the channel numbers for each plugin so they do not duplicate? Also, I still recommend running the test with the channels.m3u into VLC and see what you get to make sure it is a plex cross link issue.

In plex, when selecting the guide data for a channel, the channel shows up with just the channel number and name. The guide shows up with just the UID, channel number and name, then the main guide after setup shows up with the UID and not the channel number... Strange... Example for MTV in the guide during setup appears as
[...]
371 is the UID while 1135 is the channel number. MTV on the main guide appears as "371 [MTV icon]" even though the channel number is 1135

Got it. The issue was duplicate channel numbers between Daddylive and Pluto TV. Thanks for the help!

Looks like 123tv website is currently down...

I have confirmed that the DNS can no longer find the web site IP address from multiple sources. Looks like that site is gone...

Recommend disabling the plugin...

Possibly related to the major round of DMCA takedown notices issued over the last 10 days. Who knows.

0.9.10.0 Contains all the code cleanup for analytics and some fixes for the other stream types. There are around 100 files changed, so I would let it ride for a bit before upgrading.
This version does not contain the 123TV plugin, so you should go ahead and cleanup the folder and data_mgmt areas if you have not done so.

Also be aware that the tvguide plugin is also updated. It also contains a fix when the program data is not available. It was throwing exceptions, but latest version is fixed.

Thanks for all your work on this.

Thanks for all your work. I just got it running on Windows in a cmd prompt and connected to Jellyfin . Does anyone have a correct Docker-compose file for Cabernet? The one included is for locast. My few attempts at installing on Docker has not been able to start a video stream. even before with ustvgo and m3u plug in so I suspect I'm missing a dependency .

the docker I use is called Dockerfile_tvh_crypt.alpine

I think the streamlinkproxy is the best stream type for daddylive. I am using version 5.3.1 of streamlink. It took me a bit to find the way to install it with the latest version. On Ubuntu, I used

pip3 install --user -U streamlink