Understanding Plex Channel Code

Tablo Apps Third Party Apps (Rippers etc.)
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So I’m in the process of teaching myself some Android development and wanted to try working with Tablo a bit. I was looking over the Plex-Channel Github code and trying to reconstruct the URL for a live channel.

In the playlive section I see the URL:
video_url = “http://” + Dict[‘CPES’][tablo_server_id][‘PRIVATE_IP’] + ‘/’ + result[‘result’][‘relativePlaylistURL’]

And in working backwards I think it goes something like this…
http:// local tablo IP:18080/player/watchLive/channelid:objectID ; with the last two found on the plex ch_epg?id

The url only returns an error code, and I’m sure I need to get to the m3u8 file. Any ideas/help as to my missing step? Hoping to use the code that exists to work on some AndroidTV development (and for fun).

Thanks.

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The Tablo needs to receive an HTTP request with a URL of
http://tabloIP:8886
and have a message body that contains what you want to do. For tuning to a Live channel (we’ll use channel 50) it would be like this:
{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":"1","method":"/player/watchLive","params":{"channelid": 50}}

It will return a result like:
{"jsonrpc":2.0,"id":1,"result":{ "relativePlaylistURL":"/stream/pl.m3u8?9KliUCNF5nn6_L4zt1yq2w"}}

Use the relativePlaylistURL like this:
http://tabloIP:18080/stream/pl.m3u8?9KliUCNF5nn6_L4zt1yq2w
to play the Live TV video stream.

Edit: this is just what I’ve picked up from looking at the Plex Channel code.

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Thanks. That helped me understand it a bit better. In reality have no idea how to do anything you typed, but understand that I want that relativePlaylistURL. :slightly_smiling:

I know there’s no documentation on the API (yet), but I can’t figure out what you did to get the output. I am very “green”, and can basically follow a published API (ex. Maps, YouTube). Alas, might have to wait until the official one is released.

Thanks!