E2epg

Enigma2 with epg

Using Suls script and .ipk plugin for epg with m3u link



Installing the Plugin:

Download the .ipk file from the github repo (at time of writing this was v0.8.2) https://github.com/su1s/e2m3u2bouquet/releases/
Open a FTP session from your laptop/device to your Enigma2 box
FTP the .ipk to the /tmp folder
Either install it from the box GUI or VIA SSH using one of the below options depending on image used
- OpenATV this will be Press Blue Button -> Plugins -> Choose IPK Installer ->  (3) Memory /tmp -> (1) Install Extensions -> select the IPK (OK) and press green
- OpenVix this will be ‘Menu -> Setup -> ViX -> Install local extension
- SSH/Telnet to the box and run    opkg install /tmp/enigma2 [TAB – to autocomplete path]
- note if you have openwebif Terminal plugin installed you can use that to run opkg install command also.

Reboot you box to complete installation.



Configuring the Plugin:

Open your plugins menu, (Green button as shortcut) there should now be a plugin named ‘IPTV Bouquet Maker (IPTV for Enigma2 – E2m3u2bouquet plugin)’
Open this plugin.
Set the configuration options as desired, Below is an example of my configuration and an explanation of each field


 - Automatic bouquet update (schedule): This will set a cron job that will rerun the script at a set interval
- Update interval (hours): This will set the frequency with which the script will be rerun
- Provider:
- Username: From your email;
- Password: From your email
- All IPTV type: This sets the stream type to IPTV, Default is DVB stream types for live channels and IPTV for VOD, all IPTV type streams may be required if you are unable to record channels.
- Multi VOD: If you want your VOD to be broken up into seperate boquets based on the grouping from your provider set this to enabled, WARNING -  large VOD section can create a massive amount of bouquets and cause your box to appear slow when navigating the epg
- Download picons: if the channel has a tvg-logo url set in the m3u file then this option will download it for the stream, this depends on your provider having it set on their panel
- Picon save path: This is the path to which the downloaded picons should be saved
- Create all channels bouquet:When set to Yes this will create an additional single bouquet which will contain all the m3u contents
Press the green button to save the configuration
Open the plugin again if it closed and press the yellow button to run the install of the provider file.
The spinner on the LHS upper part of the screen will appear
If you have an override.xml file then when the bouquet update is happening you may see the spinner graphic and the box ui may be unresponsive for around a minute
Downloading Picons (especially on first run) takes a long time. Your box will show the spinner graphic and the ui will be unresponsive  while this happening.


Assigning the epg

Open epgimport from plugins menu
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Press the Blue button to open the epgimport sources menu
There should now be a new option in there that matches your provider name
This option can often be found at the bottom of the list of sources.


Select this source and press the Green button to save the changes.
Now back at the EPG import configuration screen press the yellow button to run a manual import
You will be prompted to confirm and then the import will begin.
The import should show a large number of events being imported for each selected option and will take a couple of minutes, you can now leave this screen.
This import should be scheduled for daily update if source files are updated daily.
Common Questions

The IPK and script developers have a help thread check there for common errors - https://www.suls.co.uk/e2m3u2bouquet-help-thread/
Can I hide bouquets or channels that I do not use? - Yes check out the custom mapping and override xml features in v0.5
My epg is not showing or is only showing some epg entries - Check you have run epgimport as above.
I moved my streams/channels/bouquets around afterwards with echanneliser but they are back the same shortly afterwards - This happens if you have suls ipk set to run on a scheduled basis as it recreates them in the same order based override and provider files.
I don't see an entry in the cron tab for my schedule - this is because the IPK doesn't use cron it wakes itself to rerun the scripts.
my m3u file is empty - Double check that your username and password are entered correctly taking care of caps and number requirements. Also check that the sub is working by downloading the m3u from a web browser as a test.