thxs Acid Jesus. I had just found and started to use this about a week ago and had just finished getting the epg and icons working for my playlists when it had gone down. So nice to be able to just change the url a bit to have everything back working again.
I believe just adding the last link (code) you posted, ......................../guide.xml would be the same as adding all the other links? (It's all encompassing?) Or would there be any benefit in adding all the codes? My playlists include US, CA and UK content...

Thanks acid!

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thxs Acid Jesus. I had just found and started to use this about a week ago and had just finished getting the epg and icons working for my playlists when it had gone down. So nice to be able to just change the url a bit to have everything back working again.
I believe just adding the last link (code) you posted, ......................../guide.xml would be the same as adding all the other links? (It's all encompassing?) Or would there be any benefit in adding all the codes? My playlists include US, CA and UK content...

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Hey Big,

/guide.xml is combined guide for most of the channels (US, Canada, Latin America and UK) but there's only 24hrs worth of data. (EPG renews every six hrs)

Other guides in the repository are individual guides for each country, they're compressed and have 72-168hrs worth of data.

So if you don't watch any of the Spanish speaking channels or UK channels. You can use the US guide or vice versa if you don't need English speaking channels then use the Latin America one.

US and Canadian channels are under one guide.

aCiD

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Originally Posted by big mac

No need to be sorry.
I'm sure those who use M3U appreciate all you do.

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I'm just glad I got it working with out any major changes and in timely matter. :)

aCiD

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Originally Posted by 1sikguy

THANX guy!!

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You're welcome Sik.

aCiD

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Originally Posted by Tha Joker

Thanks acid!

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You got it buddy.

aCiD

Tip of hat for you bud acid:)
Outstanding work and thank for your time and support you providing to this community. :)
Stay safe and blessed:)

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Hey Big,

/guide.xml is combined guide for most of the channels (US, Canada, Latin America and UK) but there's only 24hrs worth of data. (EPG renews every six hrs)

Other guides in the repository are individual guides for each country, they're compressed and have 72-168hrs worth of data.

So if you don't watch any of the Spanish speaking channels or UK channels. You can use the US guide or vice versa if you don't need English speaking channels then use the Latin America one.

US and Canadian channels are under one guide.

aCiD

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thxs AcidJesus,
that clears it up a bit. I wouldn't mind having a bit more than 2 days worth of programming, so may change from the guide.xml to the US, UK and CA xml's.
I'm using tivimate with about half a dozen providers. (maybe a bit of overkill...) Would you suggest getting rid of the guide.xml and adding the 3 other .xml's for US, UK and CA? Would you use one as default in tivimate, then have the others as well? Or maybe keep the default guide.xml as default and just add the other US, UK, and CA epg.xml's?
With tivimate it seems you can have one default and still have other epg's as well... I may have to experiment a bit. I have a couple other epg's listed as well. But yours seems to have the nicest icons and best data info it seems. So I have it set as default. Is it possible there may be a few different channels in the US, UK and CA epg's that may not be in the guide.xml?
thxs for answering my questions!

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thxs AcidJesus,
that clears it up a bit. I wouldn't mind having a bit more than 2 days worth of programming, so may change from the guide.xml to the US, UK and CA xml's.
I'm using tivimate with about half a dozen providers. (maybe a bit of overkill...) Would you suggest getting rid of the guide.xml and adding the 3 other .xml's for US, UK and CA? Would you use one as default in tivimate, then have the others as well? Or maybe keep the default guide.xml as default and just add the other US, UK, and CA epg.xml's?
With tivimate it seems you can have one default and still have other epg's as well... I may have to experiment a bit. I have a couple other epg's listed as well. But yours seems to have the nicest icons and best data info it seems. So I have it set as default. Is it possible there may be a few different channels in the US, UK and CA epg's that may not be in the guide.xml?
thxs for answering my questions!

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Hey Big,

I personally use the default /guide.xml because it has all the channels that I watch, and don't really need guide data for the future. I don't really record anything besides sports games once in a while.

US and CA channels are combined into one US guide.

It's up to you which one you want to use, number of channels is the same just with more data (more days), the default guide is all guides combined into one with all the channels but with only 24hrs worth of data. The other guides are the same but with only that countries channels and more data (more days).

You can combine them all and see the end result, but if you only watch English speaking channels and don't really need Spanish speaking channels then I would just go for the US guide as default one and You can use the UK one for the UK channels and you get a lot more data that way.

It all depends what works for you the best. Like I said before I don't need to see whats playing in a week or so, I just need to see what's on today/tonight and maybe tomorrow, hope that helps a bit.

If you got any more questions you know where to find me.

TC have a great day/afternoon/evening where ever you are in the world.

aCiD

First of all love the guide and really apreaciate the work you have done to create it, it improves my Tivimate expereince massively!

Just a question though, there are quite a lot of channels where I can find no EPG source and I'm wondering if its just that they have not been included or if I am doing something wrong? I'm in the UK and I have entered the US_guide, UK_guide and the master/guide as EPG sources with the UK_guide as default, but I have no EPG options for these channels: UKd: Discovery Channel, Discovery History, Discovery Science, Discovery Shed, Discovery Turbo, UK Eden, UK Nat Geo Wild, UK Quest, UK Quest Red, UK Sky Nature, UK Sky Sports Action, UK Sky Sports Arena, UK CNN, UK DAZN, UK beIN Sports.

To be clear, this is not a complaint I can live with it as it is as my providers EPG souce covers some of the missing channels but that EPG doesnt have the pretty channel thumbnail icons which I like.

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First of all love the guide and really apreaciate the work you have done to create it, it improves my Tivimate expereince massively!

Just a question though, there are quite a lot of channels where I can find no EPG source and I'm wondering if its just that they have not been included or if I am doing something wrong? I'm in the UK and I have entered the US_guide, UK_guide and the master/guide as EPG sources with the UK_guide as default, but I have no EPG options for these channels: UKd: Discovery Channel, Discovery History, Discovery Science, Discovery Shed, Discovery Turbo, UK Eden, UK Nat Geo Wild, UK Quest, UK Quest Red, UK Sky Nature, UK Sky Sports Action, UK Sky Sports Arena, UK CNN, UK DAZN, UK beIN Sports.

To be clear, this is not a complaint I can live with it as it is as my providers EPG souce covers some of the missing channels but that EPG doesnt have the pretty channel thumbnail icons which I like.

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Hey Oldzskool,

I'm sorry for getting back to you a day later but we got some fresh POW and I couldn't miss that.

You don't see those channels info (tv guide) because those channels are not included with the guide.

I only include channels from these private servers Rocket, NFPS and IPTV66.

So if the channels is not included and I don't see that channels then that channel would not be included in the guide.

For me to include a specific channel, I would have to know the exact name of that particular channel. It has to be the same how it appears in your playlist.

aCiD

Thanks for getting back, much appreciated!

The channels I am missing are as follows exactly as in my TV Guide listing:- UKm: Movies 24, UKm: Sky Cinema Animation, UKd: Discovery Channel, UKd: Discovery History, UKd: Discovery Science, UKd: Discovery Shed, UKd: Discovery Turbo, UKd: Eden, UKd: Nat Geo Wild, UKd: Quest, UKd: Quest Red, UKd: Sky Nature, UKs: Premier Sports 1 (UK), UKs: Premier Sports 2 (UK), UKs: Sky Sports Action, UKs: Sky Sports Arena, UKs: Sky Sports Box Office, UKs: TNT Sport Box Office, UKn: CNN, VIP: DAZN UK 1, VIP: DAZN UK 2, SPI: beIN Sports 1 (EN)

Is it cheeky to ask if you are able to add any of them without too much trouble? :)

I noticed the missing channels I asked about above have been added, thank you very much Acid!

However, is there an issue with the epg? When I assign to a channel I get a logo but "No Information".

Also, all my channels have defaulted back to my providor's epg which has decent information but no logos.

I add those channels the very next day, as for the epg I just checked and everything is fine on my end.

Maybe there were some changes to your iptv app or playlist? Nothing was changed on my side. And for me to get the logos from epg I have to check a box in TiviMate if not checked it defaults to playlist logos.

aCiD

Hey Acidjesus clear your messages so I can mail you directly boss.

Hey AcidJesus

I'm having an issue populating channels. I'm using a m3u server on a Buzz u5. I get all the channels but only a hand full of epg. The rest of the channels never populate. This is the guide I am using: raw.githubusercontent.com/acidjesuz/EPGTalk/master/US_guide.xml.gz
Thanks
hapy

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Originally Posted by hapy

I'm having an issue populating channels. I'm using a m3u server on a Buzz u5. I get all the channels but only a hand full of epg. The rest of the channels never populate. This is the guide I am using: raw.githubusercontent.com/acidjesuz/EPGTalk/master/US_guide.xml.gz
Thanks
hapy

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Use XC API and select Server for EPG.

XC API with Server EPG is an option.
Another option is to try the full EPG URL. The one you have is selected US channels.

This is the full guide URL

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https://raw.githubusercontent.com/acidjesuz/EPGTalk/master/guide.xml

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Do not erase the m3u server info you have now. Just add a new slot with this other URL
You can also add another m3u server portal with all same info except use the Sever EPG URL

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http://your-portal:80/xmltv.php?username=xxxxxxxxxxxx&password=xxxxxxxxxxxx

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- replace 'your-portal' with your server portal.
- replace 'xxxxxxxxxxxx' with your username/password.

take the time to set all 3 of those m3u slots and including the XC API server setup slot and then you can switch between any one with ease for trouble shooting purposes.

1.) acidjesuz master US guide URL - m3u slot.
2.) acidjesuz master guide URL - m3u slot.
3.) Server EPG URL - m3u slot.
4.) XC API server slot, w/server EPG

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Originally Posted by crazed 9.6

XC API with Server EPG is an option.
Another option is to try the full EPG URL. The one you have is selected US channels.

This is the full guide URL --> raw.githubusercontent.com/acidjesuz/EPGTalk/master/guide.xml

Do not erase the m3u server info you have now. Just add a new slot with this other URL
You can also add another m3u server portal with all same info except use the Sever EPG URL
(http://) your-portal:80/xmltv.php?username=xxxxxxxxxxxx&password=xxxxxxxxx xxx

- replace 'your-portal' with your server portal.
- replace 'xxxxxxxxxxxx' with your username/password.

take the time to set all 3 of those m3u slots and including the XC API server setup slot and then you can switch between any one with ease for trouble shooting purposes.

1.) acidjesuz master US guide URL - m3u slot.
2.) acidjesuz master guide URL - m3u slot.
3.) Server EPG URL - m3u slot.
4.) XC API server slot, w/server EPG

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crazed,
I'm a bit confused. You want me to make 3 separate m3u portals; All 3 with the same playlist url and 1 with the guide I am using(u.s.) and the other with the full guide. In the third m3u, on the epg line, I should type: http://(my portal url):80/xmltv.php?username=xxxxxxxxxxxx&password=xxxxxxxxx xxx Is that correct?
I did create the XC API server and it is working.

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crazed,
I'm a bit confused. You want me to make 3 separate m3u portals; All 3 with the same playlist url and 1 with the guide I am using(u.s.) and the other with the full guide. In the third m3u, on the epg line, I should type: http://(my portal url):80/xmltv.php?username=xxxxxxxxxxxx&password=xxxxxxxxx xxx Is that correct?
I did create the XC API server and it is working.

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I see you have the XC working is good :)
You could create the other 3 m3u slots as outlined , yes.
Just for your own ease of switching between them when you want.

Hi. I'm using Tivimate and it does not recognize the XML link. It says I must enter xmltv??? I'm trying to add the master all-in-one EPG, and I'm using an m3u link for my playlist. Can you help me please? Is there a solution to this???

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Hi. I'm using Tivimate and it does not recognize the XML link. It says I must enter xmltv??? I'm trying to add the master all-in-one EPG, and I'm using an m3u link for my playlist. Can you help me please? Is there a solution to this???

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I just checked on my end and everything seems to be work fine. I know it's been few hours since you asked. Did you get it working by any chance?

Here's the link, check if you entered it correctly:

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https://raw.githubusercontent.com/acidjesuz/EPGTalk/master/guide.xml

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aCiD

Thanks! It worked. 761 channels???

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Thanks! It worked. 761 channels???

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NP. Yeah around that number, I lost count already.

If I see a new channel in the lineup, I try to add that channel to the guide as soon as possible.


aCiD

UPDATE Feb 11th 2025

Good morning IPTVTalk fam,

I'm aware that the TV guide is missing some channels due to Schedules Direct's ongoing server maintenance. The server should be back up later today.

Currently, I'm unable to pull data for UK, Mexico, and some US channels. Apologies for the inconvenience, everyone.

In the meantime, you can use the following source for US channels, as they are pulled from a different provider:

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https://raw.githubusercontent.com/acidjesuz/EPGTalk/master/US_guide.xml.gz

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Additionally, I?ve noticed a bunch of new US local news channels from various cities across the country. These have been added to the guide, but to access the full list of local channels, use this link:

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https://raw.githubusercontent.com/acidjesuz/EPGTalk/master/US_local_guide.xml.gz

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Thanks for your patience! And sorry for the any inconvenience.

aCiD

who's the man?
i say again. Who's the MAN ?

thnx aCiD :)

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who's the man?
i say again. Who's the MAN ?

thnx aCiD :)

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As always, no problem Mr. Crazed. Doing what I can for the community.

Still working on adding more local channels, should be finished by the end of the week.

aCiD

UPDATE Feb 11th 2025


We Should be all good to go. Just checked the pull and all seems to be fine, so we're back in business boys and girls. Still working on some local channels so I'll keep ya'll posted

Sorry for the inconvenience.

aCiD.

UPDATE Mar 1st 2025


Good morning, IPTV Talk fam! 😃 How's everyone doing on this fine (but kinda chilly) Saturday morning?

As I mentioned in my last post, I'm working on adding all the local channels this service offers. I think I got most of them, except for a few funky ones that are playing hard to get. 😅

To take full advantage of these local channels, you'll need to enter the local channel link. And if some of them don't match up with the EPG on your device, you might need to manually assign them in your app. A little extra effort, but hey, totally worth it for that sweet, sweet local content! 📺

Enjoy, and happy watching! 🍿🔥

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aCiD

UPDATE Mar 13th 2025


EPG Update - New UK Channels Added!

Good morning IPTV Talk fam,

I noticed that a batch of new channels was added yesterday, and I wanted to make sure the EPG was up to date for them. So, I spent some time last night filling in the TV guide, and now all the newly added UK channels are fully integrated with the proper listings.

No action is needed on your end-the new UK channels are already included in the combined EPG address, so everything should be updated automatically. Just sit back, browse, and enjoy the new additions!

If you notice anything missing or out of place, feel free to give me a heads-up, and I'll take a look. Hope this makes things easier for everyone!

aCiD

Cool Beans :)

Great. Thanks For The Heads Up 😃

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UPDATE Mar 13th 2025


EPG Update - New UK Channels Added!

Good morning IPTV Talk fam,

I noticed that a batch of new channels was added yesterday, and I wanted to make sure the EPG was up to date for them. So, I spent some time last night filling in the TV guide, and now all the newly added UK channels are fully integrated with the proper listings.

No action is needed on your end-the new UK channels are already included in the combined EPG address, so everything should be updated automatically. Just sit back, browse, and enjoy the new additions!

If you notice anything missing or out of place, feel free to give me a heads-up, and I'll take a look. Hope this makes things easier for everyone!

aCiD

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You think you can look into adding Sky Sports Arena and Via Play 1 & 2

thankssss

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You think you can look into adding Sky Sports Arena and Via Play 1 & 2

thankssss

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Hey trips,

Sky Sports Arena is already listed under 'Sky Sports Arena'?I just checked. As for Viaplay 1 & 2, if I'm not mistaken, those channels are from the Netherlands, so unfortunately, I can't add them since I don't have access to their EPG.

Also, the Viaplay Sports 1 and 2 channels, which were previously available on Sky and Virgin Media, have been re-branded as Premier Sports 1 and 2, with Premier Sports reacquiring the Viaplay Sports UK business.

aCiD

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Great. Thanks For The Heads Up 😃

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You got it :)

aCiD

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Originally Posted by aCiDjEsUs

Hey trips,

Sky Sports Arena is already listed under 'Sky Sports Arena'?I just checked. As for Viaplay 1 & 2, if I'm not mistaken, those channels are from the Netherlands, so unfortunately, I can't add them since I don't have access to their EPG.

Also, the Viaplay Sports 1 and 2 channels, which were previously available on Sky and Virgin Media, have been re-branded as Premier Sports 1 and 2, with Premier Sports reacquiring the Viaplay Sports UK business.

aCiD

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I learned about viaplay today lol I?ll take another look at the EPG for SP Arena, thanks 🙏

Could you add a listing for the Local NBC station ?Houston? please

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Could you add a listing for the Local NBC station ?Houston? please

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Done! It is listed under US - NBC News Houston. If your playlist has a different channel name, you can manually assign the EPG by searching for NBC News Houston or KPRCDT. The guide data should appear during the next update, which will occur at noon Central Time (CDT).

Thank you for adding that channel.👍 I appreciate your hard work.