Bouquet Maker Xtream - IPTV Bouquet Maker (new 2023)

There are only a handful of differences between the autotimer on bmx and jedi.

in plugin.py

BMX current code

    def update(self, atLeast=0):
        self.timer.stop()
        wake = self.getWakeTime()
        now_t = time.time()
        now = int(now_t)

        if wake > 0:
            if wake < now + atLeast:
                wake += 24 * 3600  # add 24 hours to next wake time
            next = wake - now
            self.timer.startLongTimer(next)
        else:
            wake = -1

        wdt = datetime.fromtimestamp(wake)
        ndt = datetime.fromtimestamp(now)

        print("[BouquetMakerXtream] WakeUpTime now set to", wdt, "(now=%s)" % ndt)
        return wake

Making the code the same as jedi

    def update(self, atLeast=0):
        self.timer.stop()
        wake = self.getWakeTime()
        now_t = time.time()
        now = int(now_t)

        if wake > 0:
            if wake < now + atLeast:
                wake += 24 * 3600  # add 24 hours to next wake time
            next = wake - now
            if next > 3600:
                next = 3600
            if next <= 0:
                next = 60
            self.timer.startLongTimer(next)
        else:
            wake = -1

        wdt = datetime.fromtimestamp(wake)
        ndt = datetime.fromtimestamp(now)

        print("[BouquetMakerXtream] WakeUpTime now set to", wdt, "(now=%s)" % ndt)
        return wake

and BMX current code

def autostart(reason, session=None, **kwargs):
    ...
    ...
    if reason == 0 and _session is None:
        if session is not None:
            _session = session
            if autoStartTimer is None:
                autoStartTimer = AutoStartTimer(session)

and making it the same as JEDI

def autostart(reason, session=None, **kwargs):
    ...
    ...
    if reason == 0:
        if session is not None:
            if autoStartTimer is None:
                autoStartTimer = AutoStartTimer(session)
    return

mexicos
Have a play and see if any of the above makes your auto update work like jedi.
Note: Tabs in my code are 4 spaces. Do not use tabs as the code will break.

2 hours
Unfortunately I can't polish a turd. If your provider wants to put 1 million series episodes in the playlists. Thats his problem.
But I do 100% recommend you use xstreamity or another iptv player for series.

Bouquet makers are never going to work properly for series.

And I was quite pleased with myself of how fast series worked on my quad core boxes after latest release.

northantsnady.
Well your in the right place as I wrote it. :)

If you are doing everything correctly. Which by the sounds of it you are.
Then there are a couple of reasons an epg might not load.

1) your epg could be too large. I tested one yesterday. it was 120 megabytes. Which meant the epg was 1.5 million lines long. eek!. I doubt that is ever going to load
2) Your provider has a server offset. It might be a few hours out. You can always check epg guide and go foward a few hours/days and see if you have data.
3) You might have epg, but it might not be for the channels your are viewing
4) You are not saving your EPG to external device like usb or hdd. These iptv providers epgs will kill all your memory if you have epg set to internal.
5) Your are not using the official epg importer plugin - and using some modded version.
6) There may be a bug in my code - someone did mention a few weeks ago it was cropping off the first number. (I never investigated that)
7) or you have changed the max epg days to download in BMX settings - this doesn't work with all providers - so you would have to keep that setting at default.

If you want a quick answer. Private message me your line details. I will download your epg. And tell you what channels you should be getting epg for. And also see if there is a server offset.

northantsnady

.. and I just tested that huge epg from another user.
It actually loaded fine on my quad core box. 5 days was 300000 events. My epg.dat file is only 26.5 mb with that data. (but they all add up if you got multiple providers)
Tested on 4097 and 1. All seemed fine.

saerdnast
The data gets saved and written to file the moment you click create. So I actually don't know why this is happening to you.

Unless you are using multiboot and you are turning off your receiver and it might be caching the folder before the change.

The only other scenario I can think off is.
You are directly adding the playlist via the playlists.txt file but not adding a short provider name at the end of your line #youriptv

When you are creating bouquets, you are adding a new name in settings.

Maybe there is a discrepancy going on the first time you name your provider.

I will try that myself and see if it causes an issue.
Nope that doesn't seem to be a problem either. All working correctly even changing the name.

saerdnast
You can actually fully test it yourself.

Start a fresh.
Delete all your existing bouquets via the plugin.

Your json file lives here.

/etc/enigma2/bouquetmakerxtream/bmx_playlists.json

Delete the json file.

Setup your playlists.txt file how you would normal. Deleting anything you didn't put in there originally. i.e Name

Reboot your GUI

No we are starting from scratch

You can view the content of your json file in an online json viewer. i.e https://jsonviewer.stack.hu/

Open BMX. Rename your playlist. If that is what you did last time. Or keep it as default.

Check json file - see if name has been updated
["playlist_info"]["name"]

Check playlists.txt file has appended the name with #blahblah

Create your bouquets.

Recheck those files to see if name matches.

Check the json file to see if the hidden category numbers have been added. They will just be a list of numbers.
["data"]["live_categories_hidden"] etc

Go back into BMX and see if its remembered those settings.

I cant replicate your issue at all.
I have tried several approaches. They all show my hidden categories when I go back into BMX

My plugin specifically looks for the original epg importer.

/usr/lib/enigma2/python/Plugins/Extensions/EPGImport

if it doesn't find that plugin it doesn't build epgimporter files.

At the moment I don't have the answers to why this plugin has suddenly stopped working for various different people.

Because if it works for pontiak who still insists on using the worst image VTI, and if it works for him, it usually works for everyone.

And for dreambox users. You cant use other peoples plugins and gutemine feed virus. So if you are using gutemine, then no other plugins work with that.
But thats your choice.