Hi, I'm trying to use kodi on my RPi3. But i have a problem with iptv simple client handling epg. I have an m3u list with 50-60 live channels and huge vod archive. Everytime I launch simple client or reboot RPi3, "import guide from" process begins and it takes at least 1 hour. My epg file only contains epg for 40 live channels but kodi tries to find epg for every damn single vod. Is there a way to fix this? I just need epg for 40 live channels. Couldnt find a setting to achieve this.
I was having the same problem and i used m3u4u.com to make a modified remote version of my m3u.
In my modified m3u i added all EPG from m3u4u.com source in the edit page and removed all VOD groups except the "Recently added movies" group which has around 100-200 movies in it, so it loads in 3 seconds max on a good PC.
You can totally remove all VOD if you don't use it, oh and on the edit page, you can just "hide groups" instead of removing them, KODI won't scan hidden groups.
Theres been some cool work done on pvr lately. Aloooot on matrix like catchup etc but some on leia too.
Check the readme of pvr simple, theres something about marking events as event or vod via the m3u
Maybe download and split the .m3u file. Only feed the version with the live channels to kodi.