Roadmap

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

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

Nice to haves

• 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)
• Unit testing
• Kodi v19 (Matrix) will support VOD playback from EPG (TV Guide) information

Known hurdles

• PVR IPTV Simple settings are currently being replaced (with user consent)

Kodi improvements

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