(12-28-2019, 02:07 AM)Epg Admin Wrote:(11-18-2019, 10:20 PM)jorgitoxp Wrote: I use other editors that have this functionality they allow you the option to mark specific groups for "live channel names". This allows for having the epg channel name update on a daily basis.
This is actually impossible, I think, but at least very unreliable, because you can rename your groups how ever you want and you have absolutely no other ID for the groups beside their names.
The only possible solution would be to store the original name of the group in the background, but that becomes useless as soon as the provider renames the group or even changes one character (for example adding a retarded emoji or some decoration like **++** or whatever abominations they always invent) of the group name.
So even if you use another editor which does this, they were just lucky until now that it worked... if it even worked at all...
I think he means you can tell the editor that "GroupA" should wipe itself out every update and rebuild as new. Or just overwrite everything in that group nightly with sync. Since these channels probably dont have EPG, there is no worry of re-identifying them. this feature would only work on original groups that came from the provider, not iptv-epg manually created groups.
My iptv provider now does this... they "delete" all PPV channels ever night in their M3u then add in totally new unique channels.. This now works better with iptv-epg but i have to manually "approve" the deletes and adds in iptv-epg. So maybe an option or feature request for iptv-epg should be to "auto accept changes" settable for specific original groups. Obviously like you said this can not be done for new groups we create... But if we keep the original providers group you could allow nightly changes without conformation on those specific groups we enable it on?