Ability to disable/hide Channel ID in Plex "Guide" View

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Hi guys - This post is really directed directly to the Plex Developer team / a product manager…

A quick background:

I’ve got two Silicondust HDHomerun’s (We have a large household, 2x families) that I’m feeding into TVHeadend (which is then going into Plex via a third party Plugin) - Everything is working perfectly and I’m pulling all the channels from multiple regions (I live in an area on the border of two states in Australia, and we receive multiple TV channels from different studios on the same television network) - I’m using my own XML file for the EPG Data (which is coming direct from my HDHomeruns) and everything is working perfectly within Plex with the exception of one small issue which is really bugging me…

TVHeadend names the channels in a UUID format - so an example of a channel looks like this:

<channel id="6065ff0904e27236be9fac5221f0cd9b">
  <display-name>SBS VICELAND HD</display-name>
</channel>

This in-turn is showing up in the Plex “Guide View” with the long UUID showing up in the UI…

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Is there any way you can add a option in the server configuration to either hide/disable this altogether (probably the easiest option to add) or use the “display-name” rather than the “id” from the EPG XML File?

Thanks in Advance!

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@Update: I’ve just tested on my iPhone app and it’s not an issue, so it seems to only be an issue with the Plex web app…

Could I please ask you push the following CSS Hack fix into your next release?

span[class^='ChannelsGridRowTitle-number'] {
    text-overflow: ellipsis;
    overflow: hidden;
    max-width: 35px;
}
3

Hey I have the same problem right now. Did you fix it?

4

I also have this problem.

Is there a solution?