Add a TV guide (EPG)

With an Xtream login: nothing to do

An Xtream account brings its own guide. Flux IPTV adds it by itself and updates it together with the source; such a guide is marked as linked to the source and is not edited by hand.

With an M3U link: add the guide address

An M3U list holds channels but no programmes. Ask your provider for the guide address; some show it in their customer panel. It usually ends with .xml, .xml.gz or /xmltv.php. Compressed .gz files are fine.

Flux IPTV does not pick up the url-tvg address from the header of an M3U list by itself, so you add the guide once:

iPhone and iPad

1. Open the EPG tab with the source selected. A source without a guide shows Add Guide; otherwise tap the Guide Sources button next to the title, then + (on iPad: Add Guide).
2. Enter a Name and the Guide address (XMLTV).
3. Leave Update automatically on and choose the Update frequency: every 6, 12 or 24 hours.
4. Tap Add.

Apple TV

1. Open the Guide tab. A source without a guide shows Add Guide.
2. Enter a Name and the Address, then select Add Guide. The guide updates every 24 hours; to change that, open Settings › Sources › Guide Sources.

How channels are matched

Every channel in an XMLTV file has an id. Flux IPTV shows the guide on your own channels and matches that id to each channel’s tvg-id, whatever the upper and lower case. Nothing is matched by name, so a channel whose tvg-id is missing, or is not in the guide, shows no programmes.

The guide that comes with an Xtream account is matched by the ids the provider gives its channels.

Programme times are read with the time offset written in the file and shown in your device’s time zone. There is no manual time shift.

What the guide shows

The grid covers today and the next six days, as far as the file goes. Open a programme to see what it is about and to watch the channel. On iPhone and iPad you can also add the channel to Favorites, find programmes with Search, and tap Remind Me on a programme that has not started.

If the guide stays empty

If only some channels show no programmes, their ids do not match the ids in the guide. Ask your provider for the guide that belongs to your list.

When the whole guide fails, the guide page says why:

The guide is out of date

Everything in it has already ended. Update it from Guide Sources, or check the address.

This address is a channel list, not a guide

An M3U link was entered as the guide address. Use the XMLTV address instead.

This address opens a web page, not a guide

The address leads to a page, not to a file. Check it with your provider.

The server did not allow the download

The server answered 401 or 403. Check the address and the login written in it.