Tvheadend - export bouquet [ Partially SOLVED ]

JohnBoyz · April 15, 2018 at 1:21 PM

I have a channel list built up manually consisting of various inputs such as DVB-T, & DVB-S etc., in the order I want them to appear in Kodi.

I would like to export this list in E2 bouquet format, so that it can be saved for future use (new set up; rebuild etc)

I cannot seem to find a method to do this seemingly simple job.

Is there a means to do this?

Maybe I am missing something simple?

**CvH** · April 15, 2018 at 1:26 PM Official Post

not sure that there is a tool that does it

JohnBoyz · April 15, 2018 at 1:28 PM

Thanks CV ...... have been searching and found nothing

I wonder if the info could be scraped from the tvheadend web interface somehow?

JohnBoyz · April 15, 2018 at 2:39 PM

I think I have eventually found a method ..... although it is not yet giving me all the channels for some reason.

To begin with I can get the info in this form

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BBC Parliament:number:272:1_0_1_2843_7FE_2_11A0000_0_0_0

by using this output from tvheadend

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<IP_Addy>:9981/api/channel/grid

With a bit of tidying up and re-arranging it should be possible to generate a bouquet.tv from the information.

Isn't always the case that after searching for days I finally found useful info immediately after I asked the question

I got the basic info from here

**CvH** · April 15, 2018 at 2:39 PM Official Post

you can properly take it from the config files

JohnBoyz · April 18, 2018 at 5:59 PM

The least complicated method I have found so far is the following

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curl http://192.168.1.115:9981/api/channel/grid? | sed 's|,|\n|g' | grep '"name"\|"number"\|"icon"' | sed 's|.png"|\n|g'

which produces output in the following form

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"name":"ITV4"
"number":28
"icon":"picon://1_0_1_2758_7FC_2_11A0000_0_0_0

but only for 50 channels.

Any idea what I could replace

/api/channel/grid?

with to get the full list of channels?

A small bit of tidying up of that output would produce a suitable file ....... if all the channels were present.

JohnBoyz · April 18, 2018 at 8:30 PM

Solved!

Apparently by default the number returned is 50, but it can be changed simply ...

Judicious use of SED after that and I have a working copy of my manually set up channels.

Thanks CvH.

JohnBoyz · November 30, 2018 at 11:40 AM

I forgot about this thread and should have updated it with this info:

Although my Satellite channels all work well using this scheme, I have failed to create a bouquet for, or including, working DVB-T channels.

The entries are there but are not recognised by tvheadend as valid entries, so they are not mapped.

It was not a bother for me as I have few DVB-T channels and they don't vary, so a manual set up of the DVB-T channels is fine for me.

It would be good to know if this scheme could be adapted to get valid DVB-T entries for the generate Bouquet.