Live TV/DVR in Greece?

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I am trying to setup liveTV on my Plex server in Greece and I don’t see it in the countries list. Hence, I can’t complete the setup.
I assume that has to do with the lack of a publicly accessible EPG in Greece, however one can get EPG info directly from the DVB-T tuner (as other PVR programs like DVBlink do out of the box).

Any workaround to make this work? I am mostly interested in Live TV

Thanks,

M

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It can be a couple things:

For Gracenote EPG issues report them here You can try a different nearby EPG and see maybe its missing in gracenote?

I believe you can just make you own custom mappings if you want as well.
To setup your own custom XMLTV file use using something like MC2XML try this

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Since Plex doesn’t seem to want to support the DVB-T EPG, the workaround that I found is the following for live TV in Greece:

  • Install and configure TV-Mosaic
    It will grab the EPG data from the DVB-T stream. (ERT channels have complete information, from the private ones Star, Open and Alpha seem to always work, SKAI and ANT1 not always (at least in Crete)

  • Grab the XMLTV EPG file from TV-Mosaic as described here: https://forum.tv-mosaic.com/viewtopic.php?t=246 using wget

I run Plex on a Synology NAS box and I have added a scheduled task to refresh the XML file every 3 days.

Unfortunately, I haven’t found any reliable EPG source for Greek TV. Tried iptv-epg.com twice without success and the channels do not adhere to their published schedules anyway, which makes recording very problematic. But Live TV works fine via Plex now.

M

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