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XMLTV - Cannot map TV channels - rofocalus - 2025-01-18
Hello! I just got a HDHomeRun & antennae today, and I got mostly everything working (watching old westerns right now
), however I'm using a zap2xml docker container to generate an XMLTV file for Jellyfin to use to populate the TV guide. zap2xml seems to generate the file just fine, comes in at ~8 MB, I can select the XMLTV file in Jellyfin, however it feels like it's not reading/using the file, and I cannot "Map Channels": it shows a popup with (presumably), the channels gathered from HDHomeRun, but whenever I click the pencil next to the channel, the webpage goes dark like a popup menu is supposed to show, but it never shows. I've tried a restart after loading in the xml file.Jellyfin is running on Arch Linux 6.12.8, installed via Pacman (Jellyfin 10.10.3-1).
Log file & systemctl status jellyfin shows:
Code:
[2025-01-18 16:56:01.317 -06:00] [INF] Discovered tuner device "HD Homerun" at "http://xx.xx.xx.xx"
[2025-01-18 16:56:01.333 -06:00] [INF] xmltv path: "/drive2/liveTV/xmltv/xmltv.xml"
[2025-01-18 16:56:01.467 -06:00] [INF] Refreshing guide with 7 days of guide data
[2025-01-18 16:56:01.719 -06:00] [INF] "Refresh Guide" Completed after 0 minute(s) and 3 seconds/drive2/liveTV/xmltv/xmltv.xml has 755 permissions, Jellyfin SHOULD be able to read it
I am using the default skin, cleared cache, and tried on a different browser to make sure it's not some weird caching issue.
I'm not exactly sure what else to try at this point, any feedback and guidance would be appreciated.
Thanks for your time
RE: XMLTV - Cannot map TV channels - rofocalus - 2025-01-19
Solved! I used zap2xml from https://web.archive.org/web/20200426004001/zap2xml.awardspace.info/ (from the beginning)
The issue was (stupid on my part, I know), in the provided configuration file on the webpage - the line:
outformat=xmltv (or 'xtvd')
I didn't delete the "(or 'xtvd')" part, I guess I assumed it would be treated like a comment at the time (it didn't), and it defaulted to xtvd instead of xmltv. I deleted everything in parenthesis and Jellyfin loaded everything like a charm! It might just be beneficial for Jellyfin to detect if the file doesn't match the xmltv schema and maybe throw a fault.