[OpenELEC] Adding new channels from M3U playlist

Andrej S.

Hello,

I have 100+ channels in some M3U playlist and I would like to easily add them to IPTV list... Is there an easy way to do this?
Well the easy way for me is also making the script to create a new file/s (whatever is needed) from my old m3u...
I've been trying to alter ~/.xbmc/userdata/addon_data/service.multimedia.tvheadend/iptvservices (iptv_*) files filled with lines from my m3u, but HTS Tvheadend 3.3.328~g60371b0 web interface doesn't recognize anything...

What can I do? I just don't want to be kicking all the channels (100+) in via web interface...

Thank you and best regards...
-Andrej

Pavel Zlatovratsky

You may try my solution. This is a tiny program that open playlist and create iptv
Use -h key to show help

All parameters except --follow_links are needed (link to playlist, url of tvheadend like http://192.168.1.1:9981, name and password for tvh.

https://github.com/Scondo/tvh_m3u_reader

Some One

You can try out GUI Playlist Editor from http://codenovel.eu/projects-explained/import-m3u-and-csv-playlists-to-tvheadend for Windows operating system.

Dan Poz

To Pavel Zlatovratsky

your program does not work, this error:

Error while creating IPTV service
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "tvh_m3u_reader.py", line 100, in <module>
cid = find_service(pre_chans, cname)
File "tvh_m3u_reader.py", line 46, in find_service
for item in items:

TypeError: 'bool' object is not iterable

run with code: python tvh_m3u_reader.py --playlist-url /home/xbmc/Public/iptv_new.m3u --tvheadend http://192.168.1.4:9981 --user admin --password**

Pavel Zlatovratsky

I can try to improve error information, but it seems that something wrong with retrieving list of current iptv services from tvheadend.

>Error while creating IPTV service

As it's first connection to tvheadend try to check tvheadend url, user and password.
And please write version of tvheadend - program use WebUI API which is undocumented and so not guaranteed to be stable.

Dan Poz

Version of Tvheaden: HTS Tvheadend 3.9.431~g3f3fdc8
through a Web interface to Tvheadend is connected correctly.