[primaeval]

Both the freesat and TVGuide.co.uk sites have me problems last week when I tried to set this up again (new TVheadend server setup).

Don't have logs as I need everything and ended up just using ota EPG via hdhomerun, but might be worth a look if you're still maintaining this or can feedback to the main webgrab authors.

 tvguide.co.uk seems to have had problems with their servers recently, especially on holidays and weekends.
There are a few duplicate channels that don't work too like BBC4.
It's working at the moment and it's the quick option I use in TV Guide Fullscreen with the "tvguide.co.uk now 2" data source to test things out.

@Blackbear199 from the Webgrab forums comes on the TVGF forum sometimes and is very helpful.
I don't maintain much of a link with Webgrab as I rarely have problems with it but I'll let them know if I spot something.

[bluebug]

That looks more like it.

You can load the local xmltv.xml file in Kodi in most TV Guides and in IPTV Simple Client from a local file although you could upload it somewhere.

The number of days is in the settings on the second page. The webgrab ini file starts numbering day 1 as 0 just to confuse you.

Your next job is to set up a Windows Task Scheduler job to run the webgrab exe once a day or whenever you like.
The argument to the Action needs to be the "Config Output Folder". Then webgrab can find the config and ini files.
Run it as the System account to stop it popping up the cmd window.

hi thanks for your reply would i have to do this if i want to transfer kodi to android device thanks

[primaeval]

You can't run the Webgrab exe on Android.
(Not without installing a lot of complicated programs.)
So you need to serve the created xmltv.xml file from somewhere your android device can access it like a Windows Share.
You might run into problems with the smb protocol versions.
Even older versions of Windows have problems accessing Windows 10 shares.
You could serve it from a github, gdrive or dropbox raw link but sometimes they need a bit or url trickery to work.

[bluebug]

You can't run the Webgrab exe on Android.
(Not without installing a lot of complicated programs.)
So you need to serve the created xmltv.xml file from somewhere your android device can access it like a Windows Share.
You might run into problems with the smb protocol versions.
Even older versions of Windows have problems accessing Windows 10 shares.
You could serve it from a github, gdrive or dropbox raw link but sometimes they need a bit or url trickery to work.

hi thanks for your reply  i have done the xmltv.xml file and uploaded to a website , took the link from website and put into simple iptv client all i get is plain channels no info or logos  , so i tried tv guide from your repo i get channels no logos some information but when i click on a channel it is asking where the channel is from i thought it would just play from the m3u like iptv simple client sorry not very good at this sort of thing thanks for your advice

[primaeval]

IPTV Simple Client is a bit easier that TV Guide Fullscreen in some ways as long as someone has set up the xmltv/m3u combination correctly.
What you need to do is match the tvg-id in the m3u file with the xmltv_id in the xmltv file.
Not all channels from Webgrab have a channel logo associated with them.
Look in the top of the xmltv.xml for the channels and see if there is a <icon field with an image url.
If not you'll have to create some logos yourself with a resource like https://www.thelogodb.com/

This is the format of an xmltv file.
http://wiki.xmltv.org/index.php/XMLTVFormat

The m3u format is something like:

Code:

#EXTINF:-1 tvg-name="BBC Four" tvg-id="bbc4" tvg-logo="http://somewhere/bbc4.png" group-title="United Kingdom",BBC Four
http://somewhere/bbc4.ts

I expect you are starting to see the value these services provide now.

TV Guide Fullscreen begun as a way to play addon streams in a TV Guide.
You add them in Menu\Stream Setup\Browse.

In your case you can either add them as a channel mapping in Settings\Optional\Channel Mappings\Import m3u.
or
Add the m3u file in Menu\Stream Setup\Import Playlist.
The channels then get added to a dummy addon called TV Guide Fullscreen.
When you try to play a channel it will try to match the xmltv channel name to the m3u channel name.
It ignores the ids.
You can manually choose a stream by going into Menu\Stream Setup\Addons, select a stream and press Save.

[bluebug]

hi thanks for your reply i am having all sorts of problems mine list looks nothing like what you have done i am thinking its down to the m3u i bought it looks like it is wrong format  thanks

#EXTINF:-1,SKY MOVIES PREMIUR
http://217.182.192.226:20000/live/xxxx/xxxx/99.ts

  <channel id="Sky Movies Premiere">
    <display-name lang="en">Sky Movies Premiere</display-name>
    <url>http://www.tvguide.co.uk</url>

[primaeval]

You need to match the channel id in the xmltv file exactly to either the name in the m3u file or the tvg-id value.
You only have a name after the ,
The name is case-sensitive and must be matched exactly to the letter.