How to Exclude Channels

thermionic valve

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I would like to not show the shopping and Adult channels in the EPG

I made the following changes when logged on as the admin user created when installed from the .deb

Configuration | Channel/EPG | Channel Tags

added a new tag "Junk", Enabled, Internal and Private are ticked, Sort Index is 0

Configuration | Channel/EPG | Channels

edited each shopping and Adult channel, adding the Junk tag

Configuration | Users | Access Entries

edited the user (the only created user) ticked Exclude channel tags, and selected the Junk Channel tag

When logged on to the web interface as the created user, the channels tagged with Junk are still shown in the EPG, and can be streamed using Watch TV.

I presume that I'm missing something quite basic, but I'm completely lost as to what it might be

Obv B

I think it works the way you would expect it to when a channel has only one "tag" and you exclude that tag. Exactly how it works when the channel has multiple "tag"s, one excluded and other(s) not excluded I'm not sure, because ...

What I do to make it simple is completely disable unwanted channels in "Configuration" > "Channel/EPG" > "Channels" and uncheck "Enabled". Then the channel disappears from the EPG and all clients (Kodi etc etc)

thermionic valve

Yeah, disabling the channel works for the "simple" case.

looking at the source, I don't think that the exclude tag was meant to be the only tag on the channel to be excluded.

https://tvheadend.org/projects/tvheadend/repository/revisions/f2e0b82568c036f54c0fec963da4ed64c278bda4/diff/

from line 504 in src/access.c