Roadmap

Since the concept of creating IPTV Manager lots of ideas have been coined and some of these are listed below.

NOTE: Our first priority is designing an add-on that is acceptable to be included in the official Kodi repositories. If we fail to deliver this, the project has failed.

Minimal viable product

• Detect supported add-ons using add-on settings`
• Get channel listing and EPG information from add-on safely (using sockets)
• Define and support JSON-STREAMS format for channel listings
• Define and support JSON-EPG format for EPG information
• Export to M3U8 and XMLTV to support IPTV Simple
• Static file support
• Update IPTV Simple settings with explicit user consent
• Use add-on name as group name when group is missing
• Use add-on icon as logo when logo is missing
• Support VOD playback from EPG (TV Guide) information

Nice to haves

In our opinion some of the below functionality should be part of PVR IPTV Simple, or an alternative PVR add-on. IPTV Manager should be one of the users of this PVR add-on, not the only one.

• Integrate HTTP REST API for IPTV Simple (and maybe also for add-ons)
• Support internet locations for external channel listings and EPG information
• Support M3U8 for channel listings
• Support XMLTV for EPG information
• Support merging extra user-supplied channels, JSON-M3U, M3U8, JSONTV and XMLTV files
• Support for compressed (.gz and .xz) JSONTV and XMLTV files
• Support channel preset profiles for country/regions and languages (e.g. Flanders)

Kodi improvements

• PVR IPTV Simple needs to be restarted to read new/changed content
• PVR IPTV Simple shows channels without EPG also in timeline