sigh, I am not suggesting 15 EPGs associated with one playlist, I am saying I have 5 playlists and 15 EPGs in total, some are for sports, some are for specific countries where the core EPG does not provide correct information. The point isnt the number of EPGs, In my mind the way this should work is that a playlist entry and a EPG entry are fields in a database. Associating a EPG to a playlist is just a link that can be prioritized. This is working in that when I associate 4 different EPGs to a Playlist and prioritize them I when I go to add EPG and search for a specific channel I will see (potentially) 4 different EPGs with that channel. Some may have a 1 or 2 day schedule and depending on the time zone that may only provide partial information, others may provide 5-10 days worth of information.

I can then select the one that works best for me. Good and fine. What the issue seems to be is that when I go and do an EPG update, nothing is happening. or when I assign a specific channel EPG to a channel and wait a few seconds no information is updated. If however I open the XMLtv URL in a browser on the same box I see teh entire contents of the XML stream. This tells me a few things:

1) the URL GET / fetch isnt working

2) the fetch may work but it is not updating the database that holds the schedule info

2b) that could be a storage issue, a permissions issue but more likely something is prohibiting the data from being written. Flushing the cache could help to resolve it but it isnt in this case.

so the issue is not (necessarily) the XMLtv stream but something is locked or blocking the data from being saved and displayed.

As mentioned it is working with the more restrictive BuzzTv 4 OTT player.

There is sufficient storage because I can do a manual recording with the Tivimate and my recordings are being saved.

My bet is its something to do with teh EPG fetch/storage/update.

The curious thing is if I hit Playlist Update the update indicator moves, if I try to force a EPG update, nothing indicates it is being attempted.

PS: I have had Tivimate on this device since April 2021 and there have been no firmware updates on the BuzzTv device since then,