Vaders EPG intergration with IPTV Simple Client

by christhebaker

EDIT 2 Looks like everything is back to normal. Thanks friends.

So I know recently Vaders has been less than stellar with their stability, but everything seems to be up and running now and I still can't get my PVR to go back to normal. I run latest Kodi with Vaders and IPTV Simple Client.

Before the recent issues, my EPG would only have the categories I wanted [CA,US,UK,Sports]. It didn't load 1400 channels then filter them, it loaded 400 channels total. I could select the categories in Vaders settings, and the m3u link in IPTV Simple Client would update with a new "&filterCategory=" parameter to filter out all the ones I didn't want.

Now that parameter is gone from the m3u link, whenever I update my categories, it only changes my channel groups in the PVR client. Did something change or is it just me?

EDIT

I have a workaround right now to get the PVR to only load the channel groups you want.

  1. Login to http://watch.vaders.tv and edit your settings to select the shows you want.
  1. In the Vaders add-on in Kodi, disable the PVR integration.
  1. In IPTV Simple Client, change your M3U URL to: http://vaders.tv:80/get.php?username=USERNAME&password=PASSWORD&type=m3u&output=m3u8
  1. EPG URL to: http://vaders.tv/xmltv.php?username=USERNAME&password=PASSWORD
  1. Reboot.
netflix-uk-1971

I have no clue what this is about. This is the url that I use, the filterCategory parameter still works to filter out crap for me and whatever options that I select over at http://watch.vaders.tv/settings have zero effect on the response from a HTTP GET request to this url:

http://api.vaders.tv/vget?username=[my_username]&password=[my_password]&filterCategory=Afghani,Arabic,Bangla,Canada,Filipino,France,Germany,Gujrati,India,Ireland,Italy,Latino,Live%20Events,Malayalam,Marathi,Pakistan,Portugal,Punjabi,Spain,Tamil,United%20States,United%20States%20Regionals&format=ts

Perhaps VaderStreams are changing and breaking things by the minute?

Whatever is going on I fully expect there to be another round of this nonsense when they eventually work wtf they're doing with this borked thing that they keep spewing over telegraph: "In some client applications the ordering of channels is not correct, this is a known issue and a fix is STILL being worked on."

Flounder1234

TVIrl was working when I tried last night, but not the vader app or live tv for some reason. The issue you are talking about, I'm pretty sure that is on Vaders, and we are all having the same issues with the groupings. I haven't used it too much recently.

dave9600

I know their m3u link changed. I use Xtream to manage groups / channels and after the last server change I had to change my m3u URL to get it to pull in channels.

Not sure if this helps you or not.

Greencon10

I just logged in to my Kodi setup to try these changes and it looks like Vader pushed an update that cut the channels being loaded back down. Which was previously a somewhat brutal (in comparison to before) minute on those 1400 + EPG stuff even on my Nvidia Shield.