Custom Plex Channel Script Help for Novice/intermediate

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Hi Everyone…

Looking for help or inspiration for making a Custom Plex Channel Script for Novice/intermediate.

I have done basic java and wsrm script work before, and can read 70-90% of a script and understand what each line corresponds to or is being told to do…
But… im wanting to make a custom live tv channel plugin for plex.

If i go back to the beginning a little bit to explain better, this has come from installing the plex offerings and finding the 3rd party user plugins. There isnt anything that is ideal as a whole plugin though, and i find myself switching between different plugins all the time.

So the idea:
Simple plugin that has links or tabs for the usual UK channels (i.e. bbc1, bbc2, bbc3, itv1, itv2, itv3, itv+1, channel 4, e4, channel 5, basically the freeview channels) and then i can also addon extra ones like picking from selected sources from LihatTV app or TVLand or FilmOn etc.
IF… a live tv guide is possible as the main screen and the tabs to each channel are down the side (like on sky or virgin tivo) then this would be great but otherwise just a blank app plugin that allows me to input the “name”, “tab photo image” and html link for the stream.

Any help would be appreciated

thanks

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@eddcase24, as far as I know, Plex doesn’t support TV guides. The channels are just for organizing media content.

That said, for your own channel, you could start off from any of the existing channels you liked or found useful and there are also some tutorials to be found. If you have any specific question or issue, somebody will surely help you out.

Personally though, I would consider combining various TV channels into one Plex channel not an easy task, unless they all come from a single provider (ie website). It may be a considerable amount of work just to implement one channel, especially if you want to go into details such as making video archive and such things available, and then you’ll need to maintain it, making fixes once in a while, when the website updates in a way that the channel can no longer get the content from it. Maybe they’re better off left as separate channels or at least “reasonably” grouped than having all-in-one. If you find already implemented channel from your list on Github, you may always help to improve or fix it and have everyone that use the channel benefit from it rather than reinventing a wheel. Just a thought.