BuzzTV Essentials e2 - Server Setups

[crazed 9.6]

Buzz 4 is the app used for iptv connections.


I will be working with the 'BuzzTV Modern' Home screen during this experience.

You can follow this thru while viewing other Home screens, except some of the direction may be slightly different.

To change Home screens...
Settings > BuzzTV Utilities > Home Screen

While viewing the 'Modern' Home screen we can see some shortcuts.
LiveTV and VOD are there side by side as well as TV Series.
If we enter one of these for the first time, we will be taken to the Server Settings menu.
So instead of doing that, scroll down on the Home screen and enter into the Server Settings menu found there on Home screen.
Easy enough :)

There will be 3 connection options shown here.
1. MAC Server
2. XC api Login
3. M3U

You can add 10 server slots with each of the 3 connection options.


1.
For the MAC Server, and with papiao services, we would attach the Buzz5 MAC address to your papiao code at their papiao website.
While the Server Settings option is open on the Buzz box, the MAC address is seen at the top right hand corner, shown as Server ID #
In the setup menu, there is also a box to check or leave un-checked, and this is for Credentials to be added to the server setup.
Your Credentials are your Username and Password (which would be the same 12 or 13 digit number with papiao services).
With papiao, you do not need to add the credentials, so leave the box unchecked.

Use the Home button on your RCU to return to the Home screen at any time.


2.
With a XC API login connection, you will need to remove the MAC from your donation. This is also true for the m3u playlist method.
Then in the XC API slot, enter a name for the slot (any name will do), then next enter the Server URL and then your username/password.
Then Connect.

Use the Home button on your RCU to return to the Home screen at any time.


3.
Next is the M3U option.
Here we can enter the Server's Playlist URL
This is not the Server Portal URL, as used in the MAC Server setup.
This is an m3u Playlist URL which would be copied or pasted into the m3u URL line
Follow the link below to see how to get the Playlist URL or Playlist hardcopy, which is a .m3u file.
It describes how to for Rocket but nfps and iptv66 will be the same.
http://iptvtalk.net/showthread.php?27179-How-to-get-a-Rocket-Playlist

There is a line to add an EPG URL as well.
You could create multiple Playlist slots with each having a different EPG URL
As an example here we have access to Shooty's and Acid's EPG data and also one from the service. So there could be 3 slots created and if one seems to be lagging in the EPG data, simply switch to another.. easy peasy :)

Total commander is a useful tool when it comes to copy and paste functions.
http://iptvtalk.net/showthread.php?44856-Total-Commander-copy-and-paste-functions

There is also a 'Choose File' option shown here too. That is to choose a hardcopy of the Playlist from a Storage Device.
The hardcopy would be an .m3u file.
This function does work as designed but need some improvemnet, which the Team is checking into.

If a MAC is attached to your code, it must first be removed in order for the m3u option to work.

Use the Home button on your RCU to return to the Home screen at any time.

[Ryu]

as always very detailed and great instructions :)
Thank you :)

[crazed 9.6]

as always very detailed and great instructions :)
Thank you :)

I pretty much copied these instructions from the 4900 Stickies (one of my old set of instructions).
But I first did go thru it all with the Essentials 2 model to ensure it was the same as the 4900.
Everything is the same except the Buzz 4 app on the E2, compared to the Buzz5 app on the 4900.

One other thing is different thou and that is in the M3u Playlist setup.
Using a Hardcopy of an m3u Playlist works with the 4900 model but is not setup to work with the E2 model.
That is what the option to 'Choose File' is for.... to find the hardcopy of the m3u file on an inserted USB drive.
I do not know if they will add this option onto other models, but they did add it onto the last 4900 software.

Connecting to an m3u Playlist URL works fine on the E2 model, as does connecting thru both the MAC and XC API methods.

cool beans
thnx Ryu

More to come for the E2 model asap :)

[NBS]

It will eventually have the same software as the 4900