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Hello everyone, I've been looking everywhere for this, and haven't been able to find something satisfying.

I would like to add live sports to my Jellyfin; I've been looking at threadfin, but I can't find m3mu relevant files.

Would you know where can I find a reliable provider? Looking at fmhy, I find links, but can't automate the scraping to my instance. Is there a way to do this?

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[–] jay@mbin.zerojay.com 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

One of the things you can do is get a proper iptv provider. However most of them have literally thousands of channels that are entirely irrelevant to what you want and also Jellyfin will choke on having that many channels added (ask me how I know).

One of the things you can do is use Dispatcharr to manage your iptv channels and act as a middleman. You can do things like only add channels from the sports group to it and that will give you a manageable number of channels to pass to Jellyfin. You can also experiment with other tools that you can find in the Dispatcharr Discord to do things like automatically create a list of all of today's sports events, create channels automatically for each event, create a group of all the games for today's NFL games, etc... Dispatcharr will provide an m3u file you can give to Jellyfin.

[–] achille225@jlai.lu 1 points 49 minutes ago

Do the IPTV providers give an M3U file? Is that how it works?

Sorry I have never tried one

[–] newton@feddit.online 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)
[–] achille225@jlai.lu 1 points 48 minutes ago (1 children)

Yes, I can look at streams online However, I can't get the links to be viewable on jellyfin, by using tools to proxy them

[–] newton@feddit.online 1 points 11 minutes ago

Revers proxy ? I read a article about jelly troubles ,but I forgot the link

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

I compiled my m3u playlist by searching through various lists, especially iptv-org linked on another comment.

As far as sports, I've found a variety of random sports channels but nothing targeted to my area/teams.

I think it could be difficult to find reliable and relevant sports channels that are more legal/stable. Like someone else said, you might want an antenna for local sports if you don't already have.

[–] achille225@jlai.lu 1 points 47 minutes ago

I tried this for public TV, but unfortunately it seems like they regularly change the stream so it makes it crash...

[–] 0_o7@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 4 hours ago

There's a list of publicly available IPTV channels here

https://github.com/iptv-org/iptv

It's a big list which you can filter and export if you find something you like.

https://iptv-org.github.io/

I haven't tried in a while so YMMV.

[–] RanchBranch@anarchist.nexus 4 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I've been looking at installing Dispatcherr recently. Not positive it will solve all of your problems, but might help with management? I haven't installed it yet, so I'm not 100%. https://github.com/Dispatcharr/Dispatcharr

[–] achille225@jlai.lu 1 points 44 minutes ago

Yes, I've looked at it, but I can't get my hands on an m3u file or something like that for sports matches I would like to "forward" the links from fmhy to Dispatcharr, or I guess find an IPTV provider?

[–] andyburke@fedia.io 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

You can get an antenna and an HDHomerun box if the teams you want are broadcast in your area.

[–] achille225@jlai.lu 1 points 43 minutes ago

Not on public TVs unfortunately But thank you for the suggestion !

[–] Canuck@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

I've found even harder to find than live sports are live TV premium channels for shows. All my previous places I used to go to are either not working anymore, paid, or only work in browser with a good adblocker. Lmk if you find a suitable solution