Current version: 1.13
This takes Plex Live TV Channels and generates an M3U playlist and EPG XMLTV file.
- Version 1.13
- Added to update for instances when Plex EPG data is blank
- Version 1.12
- Added to correction to channels that are in multiple groups apearing multiple times
- Version 1.11a
- Added to correction to groups to title instead of identifier
- Version 1.11
- Added genre group data in playlists
- Added optimizations
- Use Alpine Python image
- Use pip instead of pip3 (alias exists in image)
- Add --no-cache-dir flag to pip install
- Add --disable-pip-version-check flag to pip install
- Add --no-compile flag to pip install
- Remove redundant $PATH code
- Reorder commands for optimal layer caching
- Version 1.10b
- More Error Handling
- Version 1.10
- Added additional Error Handling
- Version 1.09
- Update to Plex Headers/Parameters
- Version 1.08b
- Minor Bug fix
- Version 1.08a
- Corrected Error Handling
- Version 1.08:
- Improved Scheduler Processing. Improved API call timing/logging
- Version 1.07:
- Updated Error Handling
- Version 1.06:
- Updates to how EPG data is pulled. XML files are initialized with the current day's EPG data. Then gradually added over the course of the next 30 min. to reduce number of API calls.
- Illegal character XML handling has been added.
- PLEX_CODE env variable has been added. Controls which country(ies) this session will utilize
The recommended way of running is to pull the image from GitHub.
docker run -d --restart unless-stopped --network=host -e PLEX_PORT=[your_port_number_here] -e PLEX_CODE=local[,us_west,etc.] --name plex-for-channels ghcr.io/jgomez177/plex-for-channels
or
docker run -d --restart unless-stopped -p [your_port_number_here]:7777 --name plex-for-channels ghcr.io/jgomez177/plex-for-channels
You can retrieve the playlist and EPG via the status page.
http://127.0.0.1:[your_port_number_here]
| Environment Variable | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|
| PLEX_PORT | Port the API will be served on. You can set this if it conflicts with another service in your environment. | 7777 |
| PLEX_CODE | What country streams will be hosted. Multiple can be hosted using comma separation ALLOWED_COUNTRY_CODES: |
local |
| Parameter | Description |
|---|---|
| gracenote | "include" will utilize gracenote EPG information and filter to those streams utilizing Gracenote. "exclude" will filter those streams that do not have a matching gracenote EPG data. |
Adding a docker volume to /app/plex_data will allow you to add a custom comma delimited csv file to add or change any of the default gracenote matching for any plex channel
docker run -d --restart unless-stopped --network=host -e PLEX_PORT=[your_port_number_here] -v [your_file_location_here]:/app/plex_data --name plex-for-channels ghcr.io/jgomez177/plex-for-channels
Create a file called plex_custom_tmsid.csv with the following headers (case-sensitive):
| id | name | tmsid | time_shift |
|---|---|---|---|
| (required) id of the Plex channel (more on obtaining this ID below) | (optional) Easy to read name | (required) New/Updated Gracenote TMSID number for the channel | (optional) Shifting EPG data for the channel in hours. Ex: To shift the EPG 5 hours earlier, value would be -5 |
Example
id,name,tmsid,time_shift
5e20b730f2f8d5003d739db7-63c1ec0e0aa23f984207af82,Ax Men by History,123425,-5
Plex occasionally duplicates a name of a channel, therefore the easiest way to ensure uniqueness for each station is to utilize the plex assigned ID. If you are unsure about the ID you can either refer to the generated playlist and refer to the value located in tvg-id or refer to the associated json data for the playlist at:
http://127.0.0.1:[your_port_number_here]/plex/[playlist_location]/channels.json
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