Please note due to recent changes in the guide providers we have had to modify this service. The guide may not be updated as often as previously, or may not have the full 7 days of programs. It generally will be updated daily and contain 7 days but may occasionally fall short.
This was the collaborative effort of a number people to provide the XML Guide to Plex users in Australia. Big Shout out to Mark and Michelle who made this all possible. The github site with their work can be found here.
The following links are for Freeview Guide for Australian Cities. This was primarily designed for Plex users and the instructions can be found on the Plex Website for using an XML Guide.
We recommend changing the DVR settings in Plex to check the guide every 12 hours to assist in keeping your guide updated.
If you are using another device please be considerate of the providers we do not test the compatibility or use on any other system. We provide this service free of charge and we cannot test every tuner/pvr etc.
To help us track any questions and request please submit them on the github page. Before submitting any questions;
a) Please rescan the channels in the Plex Live TV & DVR setup for all tuners.
b) Ensure all the channels are mapped correctly, if you have multiple tuners check on all tuners.
c) Please include the region you are in to assist in any troubleshooting.
d) Please also check with Plex forums first as most issues are in the configuration in Plex.
To use the XML just cut and paste the below link for your locations into the “XMLTV Guide” location during DVR setup.
Adelaide – http://xmltv.net/xml_files/Adelaide.xml
Albany – http://xmltv.net/xml_files/Albany.xml
Albury / Wodonga – http://xmltv.net/xml_files/Albury_Wodonga.xml
Ballarat – http://xmltv.net/xml_files/Ballarat.xml
Bendigo – http://xmltv.net/xml_files/Bendigo.xml
Brisbane – http://xmltv.net/xml_files/Brisbane.xml
Broken Hill – http://xmltv.net/xml_files/Broken_Hill.xml
Bunbury – http://xmltv.net/xml_files/Bunbury.xml
Cairns – http://xmltv.net/xml_files/Cairns.xml
Canberra – http://xmltv.net/xml_files/Canberra.xml
Central Coast – http://xmltv.net/xml_files/Central_Coast.xml
Coffs Harbour – http://xmltv.net/xml_files/Coffs_Harbour.xml
Darwin – http://xmltv.net/xml_files/Darwin.xml
Geelong – http://xmltv.net/xml_files/Geelong.xml
Gippsland – http://xmltv.net/xml_files/Gippsland.xml
Gold Coast – http://xmltv.net/xml_files/Goldcoast.xml
Griffith – http://xmltv.net/xml_files/Griffith.xml
Hobart – http://xmltv.net/xml_files/Hobart.xml
Launceston – http://xmltv.net/xml_files/Launceston.xml
Lismore – http://xmltv.net/xml_files/Lismore.xml
Mackay – http://xmltv.net/xml_files/Mackay.xml
Mandurah – http://xmltv.net/xml_files/Mandurah.xml
Melbourne – http://xmltv.net/xml_files/Melbourne.xml
Mildura / Sunraysia – http://xmltv.net/xml_files/Mildura_Sunraysia.xml
Newcastle – http://xmltv.net/xml_files/Newcastle.xml
NT Regional – http://xmltv.net/xml_files/NT_Regional.xml
Orange – http://xmltv.net/xml_files/Orange_Dubbo.xml
Perth – http://xmltv.net/xml_files/Perth.xml
Port Augusta – http://xmltv.net/xml_files/Port_Augusta.xml
Remote Central – http://xmltv.net/xml_files/Remote_Central.xml
Riverland – http://xmltv.net/xml_files/Riverland.xml
Rockhampton – http://xmltv.net/xml_files/Rockhampton.xml
Shepperaton – http://xmltv.net/xml_files/Shepparton.xml
South Coast – http://xmltv.net/xml_files/South_Coast.xml
South East SA – http://xmltv.net/xml_files/South_East_SA.xml
Spencer Gulf – http://xmltv.net/xml_files/Spencer_Gulf.xml
Sunshine Coast – http://xmltv.net/xml_files/Sunshine_Coast.xml
Sydney – http://xmltv.net/xml_files/Sydney.xml
Tamworth – http://xmltv.net/xml_files/Tamworth.xml
Taree /Port Macquarie – http://xmltv.net/xml_files/Taree_Port_Macquarie.xml
Toowoomba – http://xmltv.net/xml_files/Toowoomba.xml
Townsville – http://xmltv.net/xml_files/Townsville.xml
WA Regional – http://xmltv.net/xml_files/WA_Regional.xml
Wagga Wagga – http://xmltv.net/xml_files/Wagga_Wagga.xml
Wide Bay – http://xmltv.net/xml_files/Wide_Bay.xml
Wollongong – http://xmltv.net/xml_files/Wollongong.xml
I noticed 9GEM HD (i.e. channel 95) no longer has EPG data. Have checked yourtv.com.au and looks like they are not publishing it there either. Any ideas why?
No idea. What city are you in?
Notice goldcoast xml is not populating guide past this weekend in emby (nothing for 18th Sep on). The data is there however in the xml file. Tried Brisbane guide and same issue also – so may be an emb issue – but I have not updated emby in a while. Not sure if this is a guide issue, or an emby issue ?
Hi All,
We are trying hard to keep the service up however the power that be are against us. If we cannot resolve this shortly we may not be able to continue to provide this service. WE have tried to contact yourtv with no luck.
Fingers crossed this can be resolved TonyB, you provide an awesome service here.
I’m having a problem with the guide data for Sydney, NSW, using http://xmltv.net/xml_files/Sydney.xml. Plex seems to be showing all the guide data correctly, but when I try and connect to Channels 7, 70, 71 and above, (9, 90, etc) Plex only responds with “Playback Error ….. Could not tune channel. Please check your tuner or antenna.”
My tuner is a VBox XTi. The Guide data appears to be correct and all Channels play correctly through VLC Media Player –> Universal Plug’n’Play –> VBox TV Gateway (vbox_4952). All Channels get listed and VLC Media Player has no problem playing every Channel correctly.
I’m at a complete loss as to why the XML data is correct; VLC Media Player can correctly play all the video Channels, yet Plex is failing to play any Channels other than 1, 2, 20, 21, 22,30, 32. Attempts to play the higher numbered Channels through Plex always fails.
Is the issue solely occurring with the VBox TV Gateway device? I didn’t have the problem with HDHomeRun in the past.
I’d really like some assistance in resolving this issue.
For Brisbane XML, there is duplicate channel 95 in the XML and it’s cause the guide to crash. Can one of them be removed please?
Hi Roger,
Have checked the XML and there is only one 95. Have also checked the guide with no issues. Can you please update the guide and, if that doesn’t work recheck the mapping in plex.
If that fails please let us know.
Hi guys,
Just started using your service and the EPG guide is missing a lot of artwork from many shows. Is that something that your XML normally does or is something else in plex responsible for getting the cover icon metadata for all the shows that are pulled in the EPG?
Huge thanks for your amazing efforts!!
Hi John,
This is done through Plex.
Hi Guys,
Could you take a look at the Albury / Wodonga guide as it has an error loading the page. “error on line 1 at column 1: Document is empty”
Thanks in Advance
Thanks, the Albury/Wodonga guide is now back loading ok again.
Hi guys,
Any chance you’d be able to fix the XML feed for Perth- specifically 9 Gem HD Perth, seems to be missing entries for the last few weeks.
Many thanks for maintaining these XMLs.
Hi can you please let us know what the channel is there
Hi Tony,
Channel 95. The XML for Perth seems to know about it in the header, but hasn’t actually pulled any program info for it.
Thanks!
I think the guide is broken. Doesn’t look like it’s updated since 27/01.
Hi David,
All the guides should be updated now, please let me know if there are any issues.
Disregard my previous post – Adelaide.xml has been updated. I normally download updates around 3AM, but the copy I pulled down this arvo is fine.
Thanks for the good work 🙂
Hi TonyB,
I have been using this for several years with Plex and this is my first problem. Thank you all for the great work. My guide has disappeared in Plex starting Feb 2, ie no new entries are their, I have tried deleting the DVR and redoing it. But nothing. I have tried ICETV and the guide works.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Kind Regards
Mark
Looks like you have formatting violations in your guide data (namely SBS Radio). Plex will not populate the guide since the 27th as it crashes due to the format violation. there are 2 extra zeros in the time format.
Issues are with Sydney,
36.yourtv.com.au
37.yourtv.com.au
38.yourtv.com.au
39.yourtv.com.au
301.yourtv.com.au
302.yourtv.com.au
303.yourtv.com.au
304.yourtv.com.au
305.yourtv.com.au
306.yourtv.com.au
307.yourtv.com.au
Example of correct entry:
TV Shop – Home Shopping
Fish Seeker
Home shopping program.
Shopping
S2016E218
2015.217.
2022-02-04 03:00:00
SDTV
G
and Example of bad invalid entry
BBC
Radio
This is wrong 2022020400000000 +1100 and should be 20220204000000 +1100
As you can see there are two extra zeros in the data making it invalid.
I am linking spec for time for xmltv data
xmltv/xmltv.dtd at master · XMLTV/xmltv (github.com)
Hope you can report/fix this soon 🙂
Mark.
Hi, An update, I removed these offending channels from by PVR channel list and it’s now fixed the guide. YaY 🙂
36
SBS Arabic24
37
SBS Radio 1
38
SBS Radio 2
39
SBS Chill
301
SBS Radio 1
302
SBS Radio 2
303
SBS Radio 3
304
SBS Arabic24
305
SBS PopDesi
306
SBS Chill
307
SBS PopAsia
Hi, An update, I removed these offending channels from by PVR channel list and it’s now fixed the guide. YaY 🙂 36 SBS Arabic24 37 SBS Radio 1 38 SBS Radio 2 39 SBS Chill 301 SBS Radio 1 302 SBS Radio 2 303 SBS Radio 3 304 SBS Arabic24 305 SBS PopDesi 306 SBS Chill 307 SBS PopAsia….. You will probably want to let the guide providers know there are extra 2 zeros “00” in time stamp of those channels causing the issue.
Hi,
There was a change in the way SBS were formatting the times which caused an error with those stations. This was fixed a while ago, so you can add those back in if you want to!
Hi Mark, just discovered your awesome site!
Just a small question, how often are the linked guides updated? I had presumed daily but it seems as of now they are many days old?
One other thing, there seems to be a small bug with the IMDB ID for some movies eg. Ben-Hur in your xml data has an ID of title/tttt0052618 when it should only have 2 letter “t’s” before the numbers. Just a heads up!
Hi John,
They are updated daily, the imdb data is fed from the broadcasters so sorry we cannot change it.
Hit refresh on your guide and they should be ok,
for melbourne, guide data for sunday onwards is missing
Hi Paul,
Did you check the xml, sometimes you need to manually refresh and other times may need to readd the service through plex.
Hi. Can this be made to work with the Android IPTV app Tivimate?
His Liski, I am not sure maybe you can ask on their forums. not sure about the format tivimate needs
Hi, thanks for a great service.
Just wondering if there is a quick way to remove old entries from the file?
The earliest entries start at 7th Sep, 2020 so I’d like to trim it down to only the last week or 2 and the future entries.
Hi John,
The files only contain todays/ or maybe yesterday depending on the time you sync and the next week.
I notice WIN Sky Northern NSW, Channel 53, in the Newcastle XML has no icon. Any chance of adding one?
Thanks.
Hi,
I noticed there’s no icon for Sky News on WIN:
WIN Sky Northern NSW
53
for the Newcastle area.
Any chance we will see one added soon?
Keep up the good work,
Greg
Just wondering if its possible to tidy-up the ordering of channels in the Adelaide feed? SBS world movies it right done the bottom – can’t it appear with the other SBS channels?
I’m also using the guide with NextPVR on the Win10 PC, I view the guide using a browser based app called XSLTV which was broken but I found the right command line option to make it work.
Hi Pierre,
HAve you tried using the channel mapping feature in Plex to map the channels in the correct order?
Thanks heaps for providing this service. I’m using PVR Live on a Shield and a HDHomerun tuner – running sweet.
Great. Enjoy!
I think the Adelaide.xml has stopped updating – not sure how long this has been going, but Ch-44 only has data to 30Jan and other chans upto around 03Feb.
Thankyou for maintaining this. Its fantastic. One thing I just noticed on the Perth xmltv is that the 10 Bold log isnt the correct one. It shows the 10HD logo.
The correct log can be found here;
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/e7/10_Bold_2018.svg/1200px-10_Bold_2018.svg.png
Can this be updated
Thanks Marty we will investigate
Same problem found on Sydney XMLTV files.
This should be fixed. Please check your guides.
Is 10SHAKE is missing from the Gold Coast xml feed. This is the new channel from last month – however, cant say I have watched anything from it as yet.
Hi Vaise,
I am not sure that 10 shake is officially launched yet, it isn’t showing any any of the feeds or guides. When it does we’ll be sure to update.
Hi,
Can you advise how often and when the files are refreshed
thanks
Paul.
They are updated daily, time depends on a number of factors such as region.
I have looked at several of the XML files and they seem to have last been updated on Friday. Are they only updated on weekdays?
They are updated every day. Can you be specific? The updates of course also rely on the channel feeds
I am trying this feed with Plex and seeing the same issue as Sam on October 8, 2019 at 5:43 pm
I am not getting any HD channels in plex. If I filter the guide to HD, no channels show even though they are mapped OK from the tuner.
I have tested with the IceTV XML feed, and the HD channels are there OK.
I am using the Melbourne guide.
Can you please assist?
Hi Alan,
Are you still having the issue, we have not been able to replicate this issue here.
Hi Admin,
Yes, I just tried your xml feed again and the issue is the same.
HI Alan,
I’ve looked at this issue and this will be corrected. Can you confirm that the channels that are HD in Melbourne are channels 1,15,20,30,31,32,70,73,90,95 ?
Hi Alan,
If the HD channels are not showing yet, can you first refresh the guide. If that doesn’t work then can you please rescan channels and then the HD channels should appear. If that doesn’t work, delete the DVR and readd the DVR.
That should fix the problem. Let us know how you go.
Hi Markcs and Admin,
Sorry for the late reply. I have given up on Plex for other reasons, so this is no longer an issue.
Thanks for your help.
Hi,
Using this on Nvidia shield via Plex in Melbourne.
I am having issues displaying the 10 Bold logo. It’s showing 10HD although the show lineup is correct. I’ve readded and rechecked the mapping of the channels and I am still experiencing the issue. This problem shows both on a browser and the plex app on my shield tv.
HI Chobie,
I’ve looked at this and this will be corrected shortly.
/markcs
Hi Legend, i believe Ch 10 released a new channel today in Melbourne Called 10 Shake Ch13.
any chance this can get added?
Hi Michael,
It has already been added and is in the xml. You may need to rescan in Plex and add it in there. Let me know how you go.
Hi There, Thanks for a great EPG, I’ve rescanned the the hdhomerun channels into emby and do remap for new channel 10 channels they no longer load the EPG.
I’ve tried redoing the link, but it doesn’t work
Hi
am in the Sydney region using Plex and I noticed today the guide ends on Sunday sep 6 (3 days time). Is the problem my end or yours?
Thanks for your great work..
Hi, current guide has the 7 days, can you please download and let us know.
This is just awesome!
Thank you
Hi I just started using this with HDHomeRun and Plex. Working flawlessly, thanks and great work!
Thanks Dave, glad you are enjoying it.
Same, and it just works 🙂
Thanks Steven
Very grateful of this service but a few popular channels seem to be missing from the Sydney feed:
SBS viceland
SNS ONE HD
the Channel 10 channels
P.S im display all the guide via Emby.
Thanks Mark,
Can you please provide the specific channel numbers that are missing? Not sure how Emby loads the content however the channel names are there in the XML. Have other Emby users noticed this?
You can also load the xml in your browser to check the channel and programs.
Hi, please disregard my post. In emby you need to manually map some channels to the correct channel in the XMLtv feed. Super easy.
How to here for fellow Emby users: https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/89409-few-popular-channels-seem-to-be-missing-from-xmltv-sydney-feed/&tab=comments#comment-919238
No problem Mark, enjoy
Working perfectly with NextPVR – thanks!! This is awesome!
Thanks Justin. Enjoy!
Thanks for your awesome efforts!
I was wondering if it were possible to compile multiple regions? I have IPTV streams from multiple cities and I want to create an EPG.
Hi Damian,
Sorry most PVR’s only load one region. Glad you are enjoying!
How many days of EPG do these feeds provide?
7 days.
This also works on Jellyfin (and therefore probably Emby)
Thanks team
Thanks Steve, yes have heard it works on Emby also
Thanks so much for the hard work on this!
I use it as the EPG on the tvheadend backend.
The fact that it pulls down episode numbers is a life saver for duplicate handling.
Thank you Lindsay. Glad you are enjoying.
Thanks so much for this. Awesome work.
Only issue I have is that the logos for the following channels appear to be missing for Adelaide:
10 HD
SBS HD
7 Mate HD
No biggie, but would be awesome to have them appear.
Jason.
Hi Jason,
Is this on the browser or TV? Some of the security settings on some browsers appear to not like certain logos. Let us know and we can investigate further for you.
All the best
Bridjee
Excellent work. I’ve just started to use this with Emby. Looks great. Will have to let the Aussie Emby community know about this….. 🙂
Glad it is working well with Emby and yes, please share and enjoy!
It works great on Jellyfin as well
Thanks Steve, good to know
This is just brilliant! Thank you
Thanks Steve, Enjoy!
Works very well with my Tvheadend and HDHomerun combination. Thank you for all your effort. Much appreciated.
Ohh and thankyou so much for the great work 🙂
Widebay feed – Is there no HD Channel 7? Channel 7 is there but no 70.
I might be interpreting it incorrectly too.
Hi Dan,
Can you please retry mapping now. It should be all good. Thanks
Awesome job guys, thanks for pulling this together.
Thanks Chris, much appreciated
Today my guide stopped showing channels
Worked yesterday
Have a hdhomerun works with its own app, just not in Plex now
any ideas or changes
Im on Ballarat guide
Hi the Ballarat guide seems to be ok on our end, we don’t have HDhomerun so cannot check specifically if there are any issues.
This is excellent. I have been using it for a few days with HomeRun from SiliconDust – Their hardware is good (very well constructed, but a bit pricey in Oz though). Unfortunately their software is pretty basic and won’t run on an AppleTV; but by using the Channels DVR apps with the /Perth.xml feed it is working really well with an AppleTV, iPad, iMac (Catalina) and Windows 10.
Cheers, and a heartfelt “Thank You”.
Thanks for the feedback! Enjoy …….
Thanks for the guide…..have you managed to get Channel 32 – SBS World Movies…My region is Adelaide.
Cheers
Hi Adam,
It should be added now. Plex should pick it up in the next run or you may have to enable the channel in Plex settings afterwards.
I am so pleased that sbs world movies ch32 Adelaide has been added. Thankyou very much!
You’re welcome. Enjoy!
Thanks a lot…..top marks.
Hi there,
This looks amazing. I’m trying to use it with xteve to use with plex. When I put it in I get the following error:
XML:encoding “ISO-8559-1” declared but decoder.charsetreader is NIL
Any ideas?
Does this work now that encoding has been changed to UTF-8 ?
Can I request a few changes/updates?
* ABC KIDS Listen icon URL is going to a page not found
* 9 Rush is a new channel. Would it be possible to get feed and icon?
* Would it be possible to get a 7mateHD icon?
Thank you so much for this service!
Thanks Kirk,
Can you please let us know what region you are in, it makes life easier for all requests thanks. We’ll look into what we can do.
Sydney
Thanks
ABC KIDS Listen icon URL is going to a page not found – will be fixed in the next release.
For new channels, in Plex you need to do a rescan to get them in Plex. Plex does not automatically add channels. If this doesn’t add the channel please let me know.
Please make sure your mapping in the setup is mapped to the 7mateHD feed not the regular 7mate selection, that should give you the icon. If it doesn’t please let us know
Legend! Would it be possible to also get:
* 29 – tripled j Unearthed feed and icon?
* 203 – ABC Country feed and icon?
* 204 – ABC NewsRadio feed and icon?
Can I donate $10 for your time and effort?
Those three radio channels are coming very very soon. However, the guide is not published anywhere, so the EPG will be empty. You will be able to map and listen to those stations though
Incredible service. Thank you
Great guide for Plex. Would it be possible to add SBS World Movies, Adelaide CH32. Cheers.
Thanks team. This is amazing
This is amazing. Thanks heaps!
Very nicely put together, kudos all round. This is so much better and (so far) more accurate than the FreePG feed (R.I.P.)
I would be happy to help any way I can (30+ years in software dev ?) if you need it
Thanks Andrew, Much appreciated will reach out if we need it.
HI Andrew
Happy to take any contributions on github!! Please submit any changes or updates and I’ll happily look at them!
Thanks
How often are these EPG’s updated please?
Hi Andy,
They are refreshed daily.
Thank you so much. Does it support HD recording?
Hi Andrew,
This depends on the info published.
Hi any chance of adding SBS world movies ?
Hi Adam,
If you can let us know what region you are in and the channel SBS Movies is on we can check for you
Yeah wow, thanks very much.
Just switched over from IceTV.
Do you have a PayPal link for donation? I’ll set a reminder for a month and if all is working well I’d be happy to throw $5 your way.
Thanks for the comment Josh, no donation needed, just enjoy!
Hi
Thanks for this, I tried IceTv but it does not give access to all channels. this is far better
Thanks so much!!
Damien
Thanks Damien, I am glad you are enjoying
You’re a bunch of legends
Thanks Steve, glad to help
The second line of the XML file
!DOCTYPE tv SYSTEM “xmltv.dtd”
Makes Excel and Access reject the import of these files. It would be so nice if that line wasn’t there.
I realise this is a niche thing, but I figure it doesn’t hurt to ask.
Hi Robert,
Sorry these XML’s are not for EXCEL or Access.
guide works perfect except the tv show neighbours on 10 peach always shows up as a movie and not the show making it impossible to series record,
Hi Ashleigh,
Can you send us the region and we’ll have a look.
This should be fixed in the next update
Hi
The guide works fine but I can’t get HD channels to work in Plex, they all map back to SD channels, even though HD guide is mapped to HD channels.
Everything works fine with IceTV’s feed. Any ideas?
Hi Sam,
You can manually override in advanced setting in Plex recordings to specify the channel. Can you please let us know what region you are in so we can investigate?
This xml file work the first few times i loaded it in TV Scheduler Pro but it now sends java into 100% cpu usage.
Hi Bob,
This was designed for Plex, so not sure how your app works. Is is still happening now?
Sorry it looks like this had been added, I just needed to delete and re-add my PVR in Plex.
Hope it is all working well Bill.
Hi guys, is there any chance of this being updated to include the new Radio stations?
Thanks so much for putting it together by the way!
Thanks this is awesome,
What buffer before/after are people using to avoid missing the start/end of shows?
This site is for the XML feeds, that is normally done in the PVR software