Emby Iptv M3u

[Laila Berri]

Hi I am new to emby but looking at purchasing a lifetime pass. The only problem is I havent a clue of how to add my IPTV to Emby, I'm not really computer friendly but undestand the basics. I was hoping someone maybe able to guide me through it

Just an FYI, if you haven't clicked it lately... The URL in this paragraph needs to be updated/altered: "See examples of m3u files at -m3u-file (skip down to the HTTP Live Streaming & ignore the top section)". It is now a "buy this domain"-like dead link. Actually, I just noticed in the fine print that that's what it is: "This webpage was generated by the domain owner using Sedo Domain Parking."

I use emby epg as it shows all the cover art with a personal text file with my channels works fine. If I was to choose TVheadend or STB-Proxy would be my choices on a dedi pc for channels only and remote into it for editing. Just a mini pc hard wired to your modem is all you need.

iptvboss can be installed on the same machine as emby and has some critical benefits over your method. the only thing it cant do, which i think tv headend can, is layering of m3u's from multiple sources. but the OP doesnt mention that. and i have full cover art

Sounds cool, I never used iptvboss I manually do everything myself, make and create my own servers right down to my own editing for m3u files adding 4 backup channels from other m3us if one is down it will play the next one in line automatic while showing only 1 channel in guide when there are 4. I'm very picky with my server and how it looks and works

I'm removing my original post and replacing it with this one. This thread has not aged well as Channels DVR has implemented a way to expose the Channels DVR m3u and xmltv guide data to other systems like Emby.

Also, you can get guide data from Schedules Direct (which also uses Gracenote's data) from the xmltv utilities, such as the tv_grab_zz_sdjson and tv_grab_zz_sdjson_sqlite, and then feed the resulting xmltv files to Emby.

Thanks @racameron. I was thinking about going in that direction. I wasn't sure if I would have the same issue. The only negative is I would have to transform the channel numbers to avoid mapping each channel in Emby. iptv-epg does this easily. But right now I have a lot of time on my hands.

Thanks @tmm1 I tried the roku app prior, but buffering was an issue. I created the program (instead of the built-in generator) so I could transform channel numbers for easier mapping. If I go with Schedules Direct, I'll need to transform the numbers for automatic mapping in Emby.

Has anyone used the the channels m3u for locast or sling TV, I tried adding a tuner to emby and it said the url was invalid :8089/devices/TVE-Sling TV/channels.m3u and also :8089/devices/TVE-Locast/channels.m3u only Philo worked

I started this thread and thought I would close out my part by posting what I found. This was my first attempt in creating m3u files and working with guide data, so this may be simple to you. I had a lot to learn. Seriously.

I read and tried a lot of tips from various internet sites related to Emby and proper m3u configurations. I found more out-of-date/inaccurate information than answers. I did figure out the key elements of the m3u setup that work with Emby per my implementation goals.

I used the built-in Emby guide for tv/show listings, but I had to use several guide sources to get East vs Pacific channels to work without resorting to time-shifting the m3u per channel. I did not have to map any channels in the Emby guide setup, everything just worked. I simply added the m3u source and added the guides.

Question for you, how exactly did you get the Pacific channels to lineup? I added my local Guide source (i.e. DISH Network) for all non-Pacific channels and then a second Guide Source using a California zip code and mapped ONLY the "P" channels and they aren't quite matching up right, they are essentially showing the exact same lineup, with no time offsets.

You will need to normalize the channel names. For example, Channels reports FreeForm as FREEFORM and FREEFORMP. The channel names are FREFMHD and FREFRMP. Once i changed all of the channel names to match the standard name, everything just worked.

@Edwin_Perez. I don't have the Disney Channels enabled, but when I request those channels using the software I created to make the m3u file here's what I get back. Looks like Charter Digital in zip 90001 has the listings.

For the later, check out The Streamable's matrix. (From a quick glance, it looks like AT&T Now, Hulu, Sling, and YouTubeTV authenticate. I know that DirecTV and Spectrum credentials will work; I imagine most all cable credentials will if the subscription includes Disney networks.)

Same here. Once you change the DISNHDP with DISNP and the others listed, it should "just work". I struggled with this but once I figured out how to normalize the channel name, Boom. This was my first attempt at m3u creation.

You can try tvheadend. And, if you want to transcode to h264 on the fly, I recommend combining it with Emby, and using a Odroid XU4 (or even better, HC1) for the task. It has given good results to me.

I don't see why it *couldn't* if all the pieces are in place. The question is whether or not the driver stack and applications have all been set up properly for that, which isn't as easy as a standard device with proper support. This is where Rockchip's uniqueness is unhelpful.

One of my LG TV have 10+ sec buffering after each switch channel when i use iptv playlist from my ISP. Other "free" iptv playlist's working fine and buffering only 1sec. I think this is because my ISP using mpeg and other sources using HLS. So i search a way to fix that. *other devices working good with isp playlist.

Well, I don't have much experience with OMV. I tried to use it in combination with Nextcloud on the same machine and it wasn't possible. But it seems like it can be combined with Tvheadend: -Tvheadend-Setup-and-Config/

But, as you see, my tutorial is for emby, not for using HW transcoding directly with Tvheadend. If I want to transcode to h264, Tvheadend only uses transcoding in order to remux the original stream as mpeg-ts, passes it to Emby (through a specific plugin), and Emby does the transcoding. But I never tested it on a machine running OMV.

Although I can get several UK language iptv stations to work, the only BBC stream I can get to work is BBC News. I have the url's for the other stations, and they work with VLC, but I can't get them to work in tvheadend.

I wondered if anyone could point me to a recent tutorial or document that shows the correct settings for the network & mux tabs to get them to work. Is it possible to get the BBC streams working in tvheadend?

Hi Simon Hawketts, It seems the last remaining public urls from the BBC are restricted in some way and indeed do not work with tvheadend as they used to., not sure if its a user agent restriction ot the stream format that is causing it or somethng else . As a temp workaround I am recieving the streams in OBS with the vlc plugin and streaming them to a Nginx rtmp server which tvheadend is happy to work with A very clunky workaround i know but had to do something as my tvheadend instance provides free to air tv broadcasts to a whole community of 3000+ people

My roku tv will not connect to emby.... emby is working on the roku box. keeps referring to a server but when i click on it, it trys connecting to my email name instead of the server .. on the other box it advances to the server

OK. I've experimented with Emby in the past, but it's not my regular go-to media server so I don't have extensive experience with it. But I thought Emby was like Plex, you had to log into an account to see the server(s) on your network. Of course, Emby also supports DLNA, so that's another option to access your media. Enable DLNA on your Emby server and then use Roku Media Player as your Roku player app. That said, RMP hasn't been updated in years and has some significant issues with some media playback. But depending on how Emby feeds the media you might be fine.

If the Emby app is working on other devices, but only having issues on one device, there's probably a network issue with that one device. The Emby app has to be able to "see" the Emby server on your network. It won't work if there's a firewall blocking access, different network segments using different IP address ranges (unlikely on a home network) or if there's a security setting on your network WiFi that blocks devices from seeing other devices on your network.

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