Channels & EPG
Get channels in from tuners and playlists, give them a guide and decide how they stream.
- ChannelsThe master channel list subscribers actually see — name, number, group, genre, logo, EPG ID, stream URL(s) and per-channel toggles. This is where content gets into BGPVR, either by importing a provider M3U or by mapping scanned DVB services one at a time.
- BGPVR Live+ ProYour own 24/7 channels, built from films, series episodes and server recordings that are already in the suite (2.9.480). Live+ plans what plays when, writes a 7-day guide and plays the channel like a TV station. Viewers see an ordinary channel on every device (BGPVR apps, web TV, MAG, Kodi, M3U and Xtream players, HDHomeRun) with no Live+ mark. The content and its rights stay yours: Live+ only schedules media you already hold, and BGPVR, the software vendor, supplies no content. Pro has 1 Live+ channel, Business has 2, Enterprise has no limit.
- Streams ProA self-contained relay / re-streaming layer for third-party sources (M3U playlists, Xtream Codes servers, one-off URLs). Relay streams live in their own table and never appear in Channels or Packages — they are published to subscribers as a separate category. Relay streams need the Pro licence or higher: creating, importing, starting, stopping and bulk actions are refused below it. Staff also need the manage_relay_streams or manage_channels permission.
- TV GuideThe day-to-day operational view of guide data: a now/next card per channel with a progress bar, a per-channel schedule, programme search, and one-click record / series pass. It also carries a cut-down EPG source dialog for quick jobs.
- EPG ManagerThe guide-data control panel, in six tabs: Overview (is the guide healthy and what needs you), Channels (every channel's real guide state), Sources (every source and its runs), Time-shift (+1 / +2 channels that follow their base channel), Grabbers & Store, and New channels. Times are shown in your time zone.
- Public Playlist ProAn aggregator for public IPTV lists (iptv-org and friends): fetch third-party M3Us, filter them by country, health-check the streams, and serve the merged result as one unauthenticated M3U at /api/public/playlist.m3u. Completely separate from Channels and from Streams — nothing here is ever offered to subscribers as part of a package.
- TunersDVB inventory and scanning: adapter registration and per-adapter configuration, DVB networks, their muxes, discovered services, and mapping those services into channels. Admin-only nav item.
- NodesRemote fleet: connect BGPVR agent nodes for transcode/AI work and remote DVB tuners, test them, and manage the SSH tunnel and in-app terminal used to reach them. Admin-only nav item.
- Softcam EnterpriseConditional Access: choose between hardware CI, a local OSCam, or your own OSCam on another server; set up physical smart card readers and static keys you are entitled to use; and watch live descrambling diagnostics (ECM timing, scrambled sessions, OSCam log). Use it only with smart cards and keys you may use for redistribution under a written agreement with the content provider: card sharing and descrambling without the content provider's permission are not allowed. The nav item is "Softcam"; the page heading is "Conditional Access".
- Stream ProfilesTranscoding/output presets (the equivalent of TVHeadend stream profiles) that can be attached to a package or forced onto an individual client. A profile decides container, codecs, resolution, bitrates and encoder preset — or leaves the stream untouched.