Feature Ask: Can user create their custom category for EPG ( IPTV) in BuZZ TV App

[spamham]

Most times, there are basic categories of the TV/VOD programs categories ( Language, Genre etc.) available in the app. Is is possible to enable user that can help create custom categories? 

 

[Nelutz]

9 hours ago, spamham said:

Most times, there are basic categories of the TV/VOD programs categories ( Language, Genre etc.) available in the app. Is is possible to enable user that can help create custom categories? 

 

Nope I don't see that option yet ,but you have the favorite section that u can add your fav channels and the organize channels which u can hide it or not.

[spamham]

This request is not for favorites.  we want an ability to organize the VOD/channels such as  category.name1, category.names2 etc.   

4 hours ago, Nelutz said:

Nope I don't see that option yet ,but you have the favorite section that u can add your fav channels and the organize channels which u can hide it or not.

 

[nbs.]

its not an option, allabout buzz can tell you if its even a possibility in future updates

The various categories in the app now come from the server you use

Edited April 11, 2020 by nbs.

[whacked]

Them category headings are embedded into each and every channel.

Your channel source (server techs) would have to do any new category changes or additions at their end.

 

However, there is one way that the user could do this. But you would need to use the source's m3u Playlist.

Open that Playlist on your desktop with Notepad Editor.

You will see a whole mess of data. It will look confusing at first until you see that there are individual channel lines. Each channel line will begin with this --> #EXTINF:

That is called a 'directive' and each new channel will have it.

Shown below is one complete channel line .

#EXTINF:-1 tvg-id="58452" tvg-name="Network East" tvg-logo="http://*******/******_portal/misc/logos/240/20.png" group-title="Entertainments"Network East
http://*******/****/****/5

The asterisks are my edits to remove certain private info which is not needed for this explanation.

 

Where it shows --> group-title="Entertainments"

Entertainments is the category that will be seen.

To change that, you would simply enter in something else in it's place. You then would have to do this with each and every channel line that you want changed.

It can be a huge task. 

And then in the end, you would need to view this edited Playlist thru an m3u player or thru the m3u slot in your Buzztv server setup menu.

A downfall with this is that if the services does any channel changes (additions or deletions) , you will not see these changes because you are using a static playlist.

And you would also need to add your own EPG data, which is another  discussion.

 

These channel lines and the info in each line is what you see when viewing TV thru the MAC attached method too.

But you can not do any editing when using this method, only the server techs can before they add the channel onto their LiveTV selections.

So you see, as mentioned, to have new categories show with your LiveTV channels, the service techs would need to do that at their end, or you do it but with an edited 'static' m3u playlist

 

Sorting or arranging or  adding category headings to a VOD playlist can be beneficial thou.

You could do lots of things with that. Like sorting the movies by actor or director.

If it's Clint Eastwood,  then it would look like this -->  ' group-title=Clint Eastwood'

And do that to all Clint's movies that are included in your Playlist...  and you would then have one category named Clint Eastwood with all his movies included.

But again, you'd need to view this playlist thru the m3u Playlist slot on your BuzzTV box and it will be a static list (it will not receive any new additions from the service). You would have to  add and arrange any new additions manually to your edited playlist(s) yourself.

 

 

This is why the box maker (buzzTV team) can not add or edit category headings.

The server Techs themselves need to do that by editing that group name area on each channel line.

[allaboutbuzz]

On 4/11/2020 at 12:36 AM, spamham said:

Most times, there are basic categories of the TV/VOD programs categories ( Language, Genre etc.) available in the app. Is is possible to enable user that can help create custom categories? 

 

You can do this by using M3U + Xtream Editor.

This will allow you to arrange all of the channels + categories yourself.

 

If it is a MAC Based Server or Streaming Line this isn't possible right now.