David Claeys

The problem

In a previous post I went through the process of setting up your own epg provider with iptiv-org/epg. That process is still valid but it has some important drawbacks. First of all the setup process is quite lengthy, which may scare potential users away. Secondly the installation process is performed directly on the host. Which might be a dealbreaker if you like hosting applications through Docker.

The solution

Introduction

This is where one of my personal projects comes into place epg-info-docker. The purpose of this repository is to take the code in iptiv-org/epg and to build a Docker image out of it.

If you want to take a look at it, the code is available through my git server or github. You obviously can take this code and build it yourself, but this is not the most convenient.

For your convenience images are made available at different registries : – git.claeyscloud.com/david/epg-info – ghcr.io/davidclaeysquinones/epg-info – docker.io/davidquinonescl/epg-info

Each of these images is the same, so you can pick the image from where you prefer.

Setup

You can use this image in the following way :

version: '3.3'
services:
  epg:
    image: git.claeyscloud.com/david/epg-info:latest
    #image: ghcr.io/davidclaeysquinones/epg-info:latest
    #image: davidquinonescl/epg-info:latest
    volumes:
      # add a mapping in order to add the channels file
      - /docker/epg:/config
    ports:
      - 6080:3000
    environment:
      # specify the time zone for the server
      - TZ=Etc/UTC
      # uncomment the underlying line if you want to enable custom fixes
      #- ENABLE_FIXES=true
    restart: unless-stopped

In order to setup the program you need a channels.xml file. This files describes which providers and channels you want the program to generate epg information. An example of the contents for this file looks like this :

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<channels>
 <channel site="movistarplus.es" lang="es" xmltv_id="24Horas.es" site_id="24H">24 Horas</channel>
</channels>

In the repo you can look for all available providers. Each provider has a list with it's available channels.

And that's it ! You've just setup your own epg provider.