Bug in Plex Live TV ? - Xteve picons via http

[costinr]

Hi,

I’ve seen that Plex is trying to get picons (channels images) from xteve via https (secure) but xteve server (on windows) is (obviously) only http accessible.

More interesting, the picons does appear when setting up the tuner (because the request is via http) but does not appear anymore in the live section (because the request is made only via https). Please check the attached screencaps.

I think it is a bug in Plex.

My xteve is something like http://192.168.xx.45:34400/web and everything (almost) works fine, but Plex insists to get picons via https, something like https://192.168.xx.45/images/780623a0457718825051387c943885c2.jpg. Any ideea how to solve this? (to “convince” xteve to “answer” to https requests, OR to “convince” Plex to for ask for picons only via http)…

Thank you,

[sixxnet]

Plex does not fetch the channel icons directly from xTeVe. You set the channel icon location in xTeVe for each channel and then that specific URL is passed to Plex for it to load. This is verified by downloading the m3u xTeVe provides. The icon location can be http or https it doesn’t matter… mine are all https. There’s something wrong with your configuration but we cant know without more information.

If you have Image Caching turned on in the xTeVe settings then turn it off as it is not needed and only wastes space and resources.

You can also try clearing the PhotoTranscoder directory inside the Plex data directory. This is 100% safe to delete the contents of this folder.

[costinr]

Thank you sixxnet, I know about image caching in xteve, but unfortunately xteve gets picons from a non-SSL server also (it’s a VU+ box (enigma 2).

If I’m using a SSL source for picons (just for testing pusposes), Plex shows the picons correctly (image caching in xteve must be disabled, of course, in this case) - this is why I suspect it’s a bug in Plex - it does not accept non-SSL sources for picons.

I’ve checked in a chrome browser with “Developer Tools” and this is how I’ve discovered that Plex insists to get picons exclusively via https.

So, a solution could be to place a reverse proxy in front of xteve machine, to force only SSL connections to the xteve machine, but I didn’t find a quick and easy solution for this.

[OttoKerner]

The inablity to load pictures per http if the main “webpage” has been loaded per https, is due to a policy that lives in your web browser. Plex has no say in it.
Either you load the web app also only per http (which means loading the local web app from your own server), or you change the image links to https.

[pnobrega]

My Plex also didn’t get picons from my Vu+ 4k. I’ve tried in xteve with the m3u grabbed from the Vu+ and also with HR proxy.

I gave up and uploaded the picons to each channel in xteve.

Also the EPG is a bummer. Plex epg is missing a lot of channels and never gets the channels right.

We’re you able to get the Vu+ epg into the Plex?

[costinr]

@OttoKerner

Thank you Otto, you’re perfectly right, I didn’t think at this obvious detail!

I’m able now to see picons if I’m getting Plex via http. I’m thinking to put a reverse proxy in front of xteve for SSL.

[costinr]

@pnobrega

Yes, I’m getting EPG with EPGExport plugin on VU+, set up on a custom port.

[pnobrega]

Thanks for the reply. I’m gonna hijack the thread since I haven’t seen many here that use Vu+. If you don’t mind.

I’m using hrtuneproxy in my Vu+. Does your streams also take like 15/20 seconds to open in Plex?

I’ve also tried hrtuneproxy -Xteve - Plex, but it also gets slow opening the streams

Kodi is so much faster, like 1/2 seconds

[costinr]

Yes, it takes 15/20 sec to open the stream in PLex, and I also use hrtunerproxy

[pnobrega]

Ok. Thanks for the reply.
I’m unable to use the epgexport. I’ve downloaded a ipk version 1.0_r6 from sat-universe but it makes my box go into loop…

Oh well, thanks anyway