V0.3

nb: e2m3u2bouquet homepage is here for full instructions.

OK quick post to put this out there,

Thanks to all who tested the initial version and for all the suggestions and feedback really useful.

New version is a complete rewrite of the code base that won’t interest anyone unless they have an interest in python….

Feature wise it does the following

  • tvg-id now included in the channels from the m3u file
  • better parsing of m3u data (credit: Doug MacKay)
  • downloads m3u file from url
  • sets custom source to providers xml tv feed (as per Dougs v0.2)
  • fixed IPTV streams not playing / having incorrect stream type (Now set as IPTV stream type)
  • option to make all streams IPTV type (required for some enigma boxes)
  • option to split VOD bouquets by initial category
  • all parameters arg based so in theory works for other providers without a need to change the code and can be set up as an automatic cron job
  • auto reloads bouquets (credit: Doug MacKay)
  • debug \ testrun modes

In english, the bugs are ironed out, and epg is now working for everything that it can. It is no longer a requirement to manually download the m3u file the script will pick this up itself.

This does however mean the script is run differently.

Download version 0.3 here e2m3u2bouquet_v0.3

New instructions

  1. download the above file
  2. unzip the e2m3u2bouquet.py file
  3. ftp the e2m3u2bouquet.py to your engima2 box (i would suggest to /home/root)
  4. ssh to your enigma2 box (using putty or something similar)
  5. cd to the correct directory if you are not already there cd /home/root
  6. make script executable chmod 777 e2m3u2bouquet.py
  7. run the script passing the url for your m3u file and the url for your providers XML TV data feed (for FAB the below works)
    note: you need to replace the username and password values X 2
    python e2m3u2bouquet.py "http://stream.fabiptv.com:25461/get.php?username=YOURUSERNAME&password=YOURPASSWORD&type=m3u_plus&output=ts" "http://stream.fabiptv.com:25461/xmltv.php?username=YOURUSERNAME&password=YOURPASSWORD"
  8. No need to reboot

Additionally If you want epg data

  1. open EPG-Importer plugin (download it if you haven’t already got it)
  2. select sources (Blue button on openvix)
  3. enable all the IPTV UK sources created by the script
  4. Kick off a manual EPG import

If you are with a different provider the script should work but you will obviously need the m3u url (1st parameter) and XML TV url (2nd parameter) for your own provider. Please note the m3u file needs to be the “extended” version if you have the option.

For all stream types to be set to IPTV add -i to the end (default is DVB stream types for live channels and IPTV for VOD)

python e2m3u2bouquet.py "http://stream.fabiptv.com:25461/get.php?username=YOURUSERNAME&password=YOURPASSWORD&type=m3u_plus&output=ts" "http://stream.fabiptv.com:25461/xmltv.php?username=YOURUSERNAME&password=YOURPASSWORD" -i

To split VOD channels via category add -m

python e2m3u2bouquet.py "http://stream.fabiptv.com:25461/get.php?username=YOURUSERNAME&password=YOURPASSWORD&type=m3u_plus&output=ts" "http://stream.fabiptv.com:25461/xmltv.php?username=YOURUSERNAME&password=YOURPASSWORD" -m

To uninstall, dummy the positional parameters and add -U (yukky I know, will resolve)

python e2m3u2bouquet.py a a -U

There’s still quite a bit of work to do with the script but I wanted to get some thing that had working epg and could be automated out there.

 

7 thoughts on “Enigma2 IPTV m3u to bouquet v0.3

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  2. great script just 1 problem VOD is a big thing for most IPTV providers now and we have over 300 TV shows when its split it tries to create all the categories and crashes the box and sends it into a loop. Be great if the categories could be the category numbers like we have TV-Shows category then lists of TV-Shows inside that.

  3. Not sure that enigma supports bouquets within bouquets so to speak, what box is this running on, are you able to supply a sample m3u with user details taken out?

  4. Hi Suls, new user of your script, and it has made my life a lot easier, but jut wondering how I’d go about getting Sly channel order, just missus is used to that order, and trying to keep her appeased.

    Any help greatly appreciated.

    Cheers

    Andy

    1. Hi Andy, next version of the script keeps the bouquets and channels in the order they are provided in the m3u file, which may help you as the current script sorts them alphabetically. We are looking into a more wife friendly sort going forward but it’s not as easy as it sounds to make workable for multiple providers given they all use different names for channels and categories.. Is on the radar tho

  5. I notice you have been doing some python clean up.
    Use this tool. You can ignore the line too long comments. But there are a few other things that can be tweaked to improve the validity of your code.
    http://pep8online.com/

    1. Cheers, doesnt like the length of most of the lines thats for sure

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