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Hello doglover

Thanks for your updated epg sources files, it works great for me, I hope to consider the Arabic epg in future, at lest for famous providers such as OSN, bein sport, MBC,....

There are a lot of sites provide the data for free like alcinema, bein, OSN, JUST needs your magic touch to be in place,

I know it is additional work for you but hope you can make it.

Thanks

Hi @doglover3920,

I am a maintainer of the Kodinerds IPTV list for free and legal IPTV streams, mainly for German TV and radio channels and also some foreign ones.

When starting that project back in 2017, I initially used the Rytec TVG-IDs to provide compatibility for what I saw as the "standard" naming for those IDs, as I was using those IDs myself.

However, the recent changes of "ARD.de" -> "DasErste.de" and "N24.de" -> "WELT.de" have lead to some trouble for some users using different EPG sources.
As I have merged your recent changes to the Kodinerds IPTV lists, this has lead to other users of easyEPG Grabber having problems with their EPG sources, as they have kept "ARD.de" and "N24.de" for now.
I assume that there are potentially other IPTV lists, EPG providers etc. also using "Rytec TVG-IDs" as their TVG-IDs.

As I personally support these particular changes (and the maintainers of easyEPG Grabber mentioned the possibility of adapting your recent changes), another issue turned up just today regarding the new German TV Channel "Bild/BILD/Bild TV":

• easyEPG Grabber had an existing TVG-ID for that one since 2019 already: "BILD.de"
• Your changes from 2 days ago introduced a new TVG-ID "BildTV.de"

This is probably only one example of future conflicts in TVG-ID namings if there won't be a real "standard".

We, as the maintainers of Kodinerds IPTV and easyEPG Grabber, are currently discussing a way of finding "standardized TVG-IDs" to provide the best user experience possible to all users regardless of their (IP)TV channels and/or EPG source:
Kodinerds - tvg-id Diskussion

As I have initially tried to have compatible TVG-IDs based on the Rytec TVG-IDs in the past, I would like to ask, if it is possible to work together in providing some standardized TVG-IDs that can be used by all users of all (IP)TV sources and/or EPG sources?

I scratched my head for a little bit why this script not worked for me, then I realised that somewhere my Unix style line endings were replaced with Windows style line endings (even when I checked Unix style in my editor - maybe at upload were converted by FTP program - I need to check this).

root@vuuno4k:/etc/epgimport# cat -ve FILTERpattern.txt 
"BBCEarth.hr">1:0:19:1C06:29:46:E080000:0:0:0:^M$
"BBCEarth.nordic">1:0:19:1C06:29:46:E080000:0:0:0:^M$
"BBCEarth.ro">1:0:19:1C06:29:46:E080000:0:0:0:^M$
"BBCEarth.svn">1:0:19:1C06:29:46:E080000:0:0:0:^M$
root@vuuno4k:/etc/epgimport# dos2unix FILTERpattern.txt 
root@vuuno4k:/etc/epgimport# cat -ve FILTERpattern.txt 
"BBCEarth.hr">1:0:19:1C06:29:46:E080000:0:0:0:$
"BBCEarth.nordic">1:0:19:1C06:29:46:E080000:0:0:0:$
"BBCEarth.ro">1:0:19:1C06:29:46:E080000:0:0:0:$
"BBCEarth.svn">1:0:19:1C06:29:46:E080000:0:0:0:$

It is sneaky because it is difficult to find this error by first view and you just get empty output from grep command.

Grep in the code relies on Unix style line endings. I would recommend to add the following line to be sure we are working with Unix style line endings. To line 17:

/usr/bin/dos2unix /etc/epgimport/FILTERpattern.txt

dos2unix is part of every installation.

Don't know if I can put it here, otherwise delete this threat. Sbs9 was changed to viaplay TV. On my enigma2 for sat the epg is correct,but with my iptv the tvg_id viaplaytv.nl gives me the epg from e entertainment channel.