IPlayTV stuck at EPG Load

[gkns]

This is in continuation to the discussion: #25
This is about the IplayTV - An apple TV app, that tries to load the EPG everytime the playlist is accessed.
It then even seem to trigger an actual refresh of the IPTV content on the m3u-filter - which is undesired.
(I am unsure if the iplayTV app triggered it or the schedule configuration)

1. How can I get rid of the EPG time out ? (Can I put a dummy: /home/gkns/m3u-filter/data/test/epg.xml)
2. How can I prevent the app from triggering a refresh of the source, i.e if it someway triggered it?

[2023-12-07T15:39:15Z INFO  actix_web::middleware::logger] 192.168.1.158 "GET /player_api.php?username=gkns&password=test HTTP/1.1" 200 438 "-" "iPlayTV/3.3.10" 0.000761
[2023-12-07T15:39:15Z INFO  m3u_filter::api::xmltv_api] Cant find epg file for xtream target: /home/gkns/m3u-filter/data/test/epg.xml
[2023-12-07T15:39:15Z DEBUG m3u_filter::utils] Request headers {"accept-encoding": "gzip", "accept": "application/json", "user-agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Tizen 2.3) AppleWebKit/538.1 (KHTML, like Gecko)Version/2.3 TV Safari/538.1"}
[2023-12-07T15:39:15Z DEBUG reqwest::connect] starting new connection: http://<provider-host>/
[2023-12-07T15:39:15Z DEBUG hyper::client::connect::dns] resolving host="<provider-host>"
[2023-12-07T15:39:15Z DEBUG hyper::client::connect::http] connecting to <provider-ip>:80
[2023-12-07T15:39:15Z DEBUG hyper::client::connect::http] connected to <provider-ip>:80
[2023-12-07T15:39:15Z DEBUG hyper::proto::h1::io] flushed 248 bytes
[2023-12-07T15:39:17Z DEBUG hyper::proto::h1::io] parsed 14 headers
[2023-12-07T15:39:17Z DEBUG hyper::proto::h1::conn] incoming body is chunked encoding
[2023-12-07T15:39:17Z DEBUG hyper::proto::h1::decode] incoming chunked header: 0x3538 (13624 bytes)

[euzu]

@gkns there is no way that a xtream api request triggers an update.
The updates are only triggered when:

• you start m3u-filter without -s flag
• you push the update button on the web-ui
• the schedule time has come in server mode.

For the epg data i have added redirect to provider if proxy is type of redirect.

If you want no epg data, then you need to create a file under <m3u-filter-folder>/<data-folder>/<target-name>/epg.xml
with the following content:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?><!DOCTYPE tv SYSTEM "xmltv.dtd"><tv generator-info-name="Xtream Codes" generator-info-url=""></tv>

If you want epg processed and filtered, you need to add the epg_url to the input like. Ask your provider for your epg url.

sources:
- inputs:
    - url: 'http://provider:8080'
      epg_url: 'http://provider:8080/xmltv.php?username=bubble&password=gum'

m3u-filter_armv7_musleabihf.zip

I have added a new binary where the epg processing is fixed and a redirect to provider is added.

[euzu]

@gkns any updates on this topic ?

[gkns]

I found a way to disable the EPG URL query.
For now it works great.
Also, I have replaced my binary with the latest released binary.
Thank you!