service.iptv.manager integration.

[Xaque8787]

Looks like it would be very possible to integrate IPTV Manager into JellyCon. Here are the Integration instructions per the addons wiki. This would further expand the customization capabilities of Jellycon with skins, and it would be great to see live tv in the kodi/iptvsimple pvr UI rather than as an addon list.

[mcarlton00]

This appears it's going to be harder to implement than I thought, or maybe somebody else will have to do it. Getting the iptv manager addon installed in Linux is harder than on other platforms (which is all I have available to me). I did manage to get it installed and it appeared to be fine a few days ago, but now as soon as I enable it, Kodi is crashing before I'm even able to give it any more inputs.

[Xaque8787]

This appears it's going to be harder to implement than I thought, or maybe somebody else will have to do it. Getting the iptv manager addon installed in Linux is harder than on other platforms (which is all I have available to me). I did manage to get it installed and it appeared to be fine a few days ago, but now as soon as I enable it, Kodi is crashing before I'm even able to give it any more inputs.

Any chance you could share what progress you've made? Looking at the integration wiki for iptv manager, they use the Red Bull addon as an example of how to implement integration. If you've got any of the suggested edits to the addons.py that are more relevant to jellyfin/jellycon, that would be a better launching pad for me or someone else to start.

[mcarlton00]

I don't actually have anything yet. I tried to work on it earlier this week but had issues getting the manager addon installed and by the time I got it done I didn't have time to actually work anymore. And now obviously the crashing so I wasn't able to work on it this weekend.

The integration guide upstream seems relatively simple so I could probably do it blind, but it'll probably still be several rounds of trial and error and I haven't gotten that far yet.

[mcarlton00]

At this point, the only conclusion I can make it that this system isn't meant to be used on linux. Everything about it is clunky and counter intuitive and I can't even get all the necessary pieces installed to verify if my assumptions are right. I'm amazed this is even allowed in Kodi's repos if it's uninstallable.

Just a summary of where I'm at so far:

• service.iptv.manager depends on pvr.iptvsimple. This is not packaged for linux and requires manually compiling from source.
  • Good news: steps to do this are documented
  • Bad news: it takes ages
  • Mediocre news: It's available in the AUR. It still takes ages.
• service.iptv.manager also depends on inputstream.ffmpeg. Contrary to Kodi's addon documentation, which state to install it through the Kodi menus, that's not an option for me so this also appears to not be packaged for linux and has to be compiled manually. This one takes even longer than iptvsimple.
• service.iptv.manager then fails to install because it's missing dependency inputstream.adaptive. Not packaged for linux, needs to be compiled.
• service.iptv.manager then fails to install because it's missing dependency inputstream.rtmp. You get the idea at this point.

At this point I've spent several hours compiling random addons and haven't actually gotten anywhere. If I'm feeling particularly motivated in the future i might be able to get a VM set up or maybe just try to dev blind, but at this point this is going to have to wait for somebody else who has a setup more conducive to working with it.

[liam8888999]

might be easier to add itv merge integration instead. https://github.com/matthuisman/slyguy.iptv.merge.example/tree/master I don't know much about python but its very easy to install on linux and the code already seems to be calling the channel urls which only need to be added to a file so should be a fairly simple job