Manage IPTV streams, EPG data and DVR recordings.
Dispatcharr takes the IPTV subscriptions you already have and turns them into one tidy channel list. Point it at your providers and it pulls in their playlists, works out which of the thousands of streams you actually want, and puts them in the order you choose. Where the same channel comes from several providers it keeps all of them and moves on to the next when one stops working, so a dead stream is something it handles rather than something you notice.
The guide is the other half. It matches your channels against XMLTV sources or Schedules Direct, so what comes out has proper programme listings attached, and a DVR that can record from them on a schedule.
What it hands back is a channel list every media player already understands. It serves a playlist and a guide, and it pretends to be an HDHomeRun tuner, which is how Plex, Emby and Jellyfin find it without being told anything beyond an address.
📚 Read the full app documentation
Got questions?
You have several options to get them answered:
- The Home Assistant Community Apps Discord chat server for app support and feature requests.
- The Home Assistant Discord chat server for general Home Assistant discussions and questions.
- The Home Assistant Community Forum.
- Join the Reddit subreddit in /r/homeassistant
You could also open an issue here GitHub.
This is an active open-source project. We are always open to people who want to use the code or contribute to it.
We have set up a separate document containing our contribution guidelines.
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The original setup of this repository is by Franck Nijhof.
For a full list of all authors and contributors, check the contributor's page.
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