EPG for IPTV

suwofis

Hey,

can anyone tell me how to include EPG for iptv in tvheadend.

In the muxes overview it says something about an EIT:EPG Grabber for most of the channels but I don't know how and where to configure it.

Would be very pleased to get some help.

DeltaMikeCharlie

I'm not totally sure if IPTV can include EPG, I have always seen IPTV EPG referred to as an external source, but I could be wrong.

Based on the other posts that you have made to the forum, are you trying to get the EPG from your remove TVH Raspberry Pi onto your local TVH?

If so, TVH can both consume and produce an XMLTV feed.

https://docs.tvheadend.org/documentation/development/json-api/other-functions

$ curl http://192.168.0.1:9981/xmltv/channelid/<channelid>
$ curl http://192.168.0.1:9981/xmltv/channelnumber/<channelnumber>
$ curl http://192.168.0.1:9981/xmltv/channelname/<channelname>
$ curl http://192.168.0.1:9981/xmltv/channel/<channelUUID>
$ curl http://192.168.0.1:9981/xmltv/tagid/<tagid>
$ curl http://192.168.0.1:9981/xmltv/tagname/<tagname>
$ curl http://192.168.0.1:9981/xmltv/tag/<tagUUID>

You would need to write a script on your local TVH server to extract the XMLTV data from your remote TVH server and feed that into your local TVH instance. You would need to enable the XMLTV EPG grabber module and possible associate each 'EPG Grabber Channel' with the IPTV channel that you have defined.

Because you mentioned geoblocking on a previous post, this information is provided with the understanding that you are trying to access services to which you are legally entitled to access.

DeltaMikeCharlie

@suwofis - What frontend do you use to view TVHeadEnd?

If you use Kodi, the TVH PVR Client addon can connect to multiple TVH instances concurrently. You could connect your local Kodi to your local TVH and your remote TVH and see a consolidated EPG for both TVH instances within Kodi.

Jonas Lang

If a broadcast is geo-blocked it’s geo-blocked for broadcast rights issue. That includes its EPG sources too.

We are not in the business of supplying users with methods of circumventing these protections.

If your IPTV provider supplies you with legal broadcasts by way subscription I’ve no doubt they will also provide the relevant EPG in a suitable format.

Once you have that information come back here and we can guide you through the process of integrating it into your channel list.

You can of course look through the EPG section on the TVH UI where you will see options for using XMLTV in TVH.

suwofis

Well it's a list I made by myself with station that are available legally for everybody. I don't use and paid iptv Providers and therefore I don't have any access to Such EPG data.
But I thought tvheadend offers epg itself with the eit epg grabber. Or did I get that wrong?

Well to the other point is that I run tvheadend on a vps server (which isn't in the country where I am living). So many public channels which I have normalerweise access to don't work on the vps. That's why I Was talking about geoblocking and why I want to include a local tvh Server in the tvh Server on the vps System.

Oh and sorry if I did confuse you. I don't want the epg from my raspberry pi on the vps. I want to include the tvh Server from my raspberry pi in the tvh Server on the vps (reason: see above). The epg is another problem. I would like to know how to include epg for a iptv stream in General as I didn't find any Instruction for this.