Edited by dtankdempse

Added groups to the channels.

Plex for Channels

Current version: 1.09

About

This takes Plex Live TV Channels and generates an M3U playlist and EPG XMLTV file.

Changes

• 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

Running

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/dtankdempse/plex-for-channels

or

docker run -d --restart unless-stopped -p [your_port_number_here]:7777 --name  plex-for-channels ghcr.io/dtankdempse/plex-for-channels

You can retrieve the playlist and EPG via the status page.

http://127.0.0.1:[your_port_number_here]

Environement Variables

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: us_east - United States East Coast, us_west - United States West Coast, local - Local IP address Geolocation, ca - Canada, uk - United Kingdom, nz - New Zealand, au - Australia, mx - Mexico, es - Spain	local

Additional URL Parameters

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.

Optional Custom Gracenote ID Matching

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/dtankdempse/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

Obtaining Plex ID for a Given Channel

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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