(2024-05-17, 09:37)barney63 Wrote: (2023-08-28, 04:43)matthuisman Wrote: You should look at adding support for https://github.com/add-ons/service.iptv.manager (and therefore IPTV Merge)
I was wondering if this has been done or is being considered for the iPlayer addon. Just wanted to add my name to those who would like to see it.
I too would love to see this happen, in fact I did request this a couple of years ago and got told "No because iPlayer isn't an IPTV service".
I have however found a way to manually create the live channels as an IPTV playlist to use in IPTV Merge:
You need the player URL for the live channels you want to include. To get that, launch the channel and with the channel playing, navigate back to the menu then open the current playlist. You should see the channel name in the playlist, save the playlist and you can now open it in a text editor and get the player URL.
You will also need an xmltv source for the EPG data, I used "Takealug EPG grabber" from Kodinerds because I have no idea how to extract the programme data shown within the addon for each channel.
Unfortunately this method doesn't carry the "Watch from the start" option through to the TV guide, it will only launch the live channel. To watch from the start you still need to do this from within the addon.
It's a messy workaround, so it would be very cool if the addon could integrate with IPTV Manager / IPTV Merge, it seems like all the ingredients are already there, it just needs someone that knows how to put them all together.