Dreamlink T3- Copy and Paste functions explained

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C/P thanks to crazed 8.4

With the Dreamlink models and this T3 model in particular, we can use multiple ways to connect to our server channels.

Once you get things setup and saved then it’s as easy as choosing which you want to use as your connection type.

There may be and are reasons why you may want to use an alternate connection to the same server.

One of them reasons recently came into discussion. It was about the EPG and some errors that are present with the EPG when using the MAC attached method.

In this case what can be done is simply switch over to the Playlist URL connection method and add a working EPG URL and the EPG problem disappears.

The Dreamlink is especially nice for this because once you have your connections setup and saved accordingly, then you can keep your MAC attached to your code and still will be able to switch between that method and the Playlist method simply thru the menu and your saved connections.

This function will not work like this with other receivers, because if there is a MAC attached to your code, then the Playlist URL method will not work. For that Playlist connection to work, the MAC would need to be deleted from your code and that needs to done using the donation checker, which means extra steps for you when switching between the methods.

So anyway, that is a good reason to get this setup on your Dreamlink.

Once setup, its just a simple switch between connections, done thru your T3’s menu.

Things you will need.

1. Total commander installed. It can be found in your T3’s MOL2 Market, under the ‘ETC’ category. I thin it is found way near the end of the selections, so scroll all the way right till you find it.

2. USB memory/storage drive, formatted at FAT32 or exFAT.

3. An m3u Playlist URL (this is code specific, so it will need to be attained from the server by you).

4. A working EPG URL designed to work with our server (this EPG data is and are being created by members in the community)

5. And of course a PC or Laptop with Notepad Text Editor or similar.

6. And lastly, some patience may be needed.

It will look like a lot of info to take in, but the process is in reality rather easy. And again, once it is setup you will have the advantage of options concerning how it connects, which will only take a choice on which connection to use in your ‘Connections’ menu, and with no need to edit your code with the donation checker.

Easy Peasy

For this example, I will be using the URL from

p1.iptvprivateserver.tv

Lets get started…

Assuming that you have gone to your Market and have installed Total Commander, next thing we need is your m3u Playlist URL.

This is not the same as your Server URL.

The Server URL would look something like this (depending which portal is used)…

http://p1.iptvprivateserver.tv

While the m3u Playlist URL will look something like this…

http://p1.iptvprivateserver.tv:80/get.php?username=******&password=******&type=m3u_plus&output=ts

Where the asteric would be replaced by your donation code.

Where to get this Playlist URL?

You can get the Playlist URL using the donation checker. Or simply take that Playlist URL shown above and replace the asterics with your donation number and that then would be the Playlist URL needed.

If using a different portal than

p1.iptvprivateserver.tv

you would also need to change that in the URL line to correctly match yours. Donation checker can be found here!

Donation Checker & IPTV Reset

Once you have access to that Playlist URL or have edited the coded one shown above to match your info, then open a new document in Note pad Editor on your Laptop.

Paste that Playlist URL there in that doc and name it as --> URL_playlist

Before we continue, we will also be needing the EPG URL.

Both of the EPG URLs shown coded below are thnx to a couple members…. Kens/Shooty and acidjesuz

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kens13/epg/master/guide_ks.xml

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/acidjesuz/epg/master/guide.xml

With one of those EPG URLs, place it on a Notepad doc as you did with the Playlist URL

Paste that EPG URL there in that doc and name it as --> ‘URL_epg_kens’ OR ‘URL_epg_acid’

You can name these docs anything you want.

I use the ones above so they start with the same digit and therefore are seen on my USB drive in that order.

In other words, it is only for organizational reason that I picked those names.

Important to know.

Place these URLs onto their own separate Notepad doc and each named accordingly, so they can be seen as separate files and seen as to what file it is, as this will be important later when opened with Total Commander.

So now you should have at least two ‘named’ docs sitting on your desktop (3 docs if you decided to have both of them EPG URLs, to be used at your discretion).

Put the docs onto a USB storage drive and insert that drive device into the T3.

THIS GUIDE IS A WORK in progress and will be finished asap.
Currently posted as to keep content and the post saved and not lost.
I need a short break.

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With your USB drive device loaded with the 2 ‘named’ text docs and that device inserted into the T3, open the Total Commander app that should be showing on your Home screen (shown last in line if just recently installed).




In the Total Commander the first thing you will notice is that there are two halves to the screen and each is showing the same thing. This is how the linux boxes always work. What you are seeing is two instance of the same thing. It makes it an added bonus for working heavy with your computer (or android) and and added to the linux boxes ability to more work then a windows box, per say. So simply just pay attention to the one side.




Open SD-card

You should then see the contents of that USB drive/device.

Choose your ‘named’ Playlist .txt file




The contents of that file will now appear and along with the keyboard. We will not need the keyboard so use the exit button on the RCU to remove the keyboard. If the keyboard shows up again, do not worry about it. It can stay onscreen and will not be an interference for us.




The contents of that .txt file should be that Playlist full URL.

http://p1.iptvprivateserver.tv:80/get.php?username=******&password=******&type=m3u_plus&output=ts

Leave everything as is and then….




First use the mouse cursor button your RCU to bring up the onscreen mouse pointer.

Hover the mouse pointer at or near the end of that server line and hit the Enter button RCU.

You should see a small greenish colored balloon object (editing balloon), it will appear hanging at the end of the URL line.

Hover your mouse pointer directly over that balloon and press enter again. Should now see two options appear.

Choose ‘SELECT ALL’




The shown URL line will now light up and 4 selections should be seen.

Choose ‘COPY’




Using the RCU Exit button, exit all the way back out of the Total Commander and onto Home screen.

Use the RCU mouse button to remove the mouse pointer from onscreen.

Scroll over and open the MOL2

You will need to be seeing the connections screen.

If not then enter the RCU menu button and then the onscreen connections menu.




There are two main options there.

1. Portals - this is what you would be using with the MAC attached setup.
2. Playlists - this is where we will add and connect or disconnect new m3u Playlist(s)

You can add up to 10 in each of the two main categories.




Open ‘Add m3u Playlist’ option.

The keyboard will appear onscreen again.

‘Playlist Nickname’ is the first line.

Name it anything you want (the shorter the name the better for less digit entering when doing the digit entering thing thru RCU and onscreen KB)

Then either the RCU Exit button and scroll down to next line which is the Playlist URL line, or click on that hooked arrow digit on the KB, which will also take you to the next line.

But we will not be needing the KB for this next line. You can leave the KB onscreen thou, It will not interfere will our progress at this point.




Bring up the mouse pointer again with your RCU button.

Hover over the Playlist URL line and when the pointer becomes a txt editor pointer, press and hold the RCU Enter button.

That will bring up the green balloon as seen before.

But if the keyboard shows up instead, use the exit button on RCU to remove the KB and then try again hovering over the line and when your press the enter (OK) button hold it for a bit longer and the green edit balloon will show up.




Hover over that balloon and an option will appear.

PASTE

Click on that and your m3u Playlist URL which you previously copied using Total Commander will now appear on that line.




Next thing would be to add an EPG URL, but before we exit this to get back to the Commander to again use it’s copy function, we have to connect this now or it will not save.

So exit outta that mouse pointer mode on your RCU and scroll down to connect and click it.

It needs to connect in order to save.




After if has connected and been confirmed, then you bring up the connections menu again and disconnect that connection, this needs to be disconnected in order to use the edit function to add the EPG URL once e are ready for that.




Next thing is to open Total Commander and do the same with the URL .txt file with the copying function… and then exit Commander.

Open MOL2 > connections and then open the edit function seen on that new connection you just created.

Enter the EPG URL in the same manner as you did with the Playlist URL.

And then re-connect this again while still in this same menu… which is in order for that EPG URL line to be saved correctly.

Don’t forget to do this now at this point or that EPG URL will be lost.




You can also create another connection with the same Playlist URL and with the second EPG URL and then can choose which ever one you want to connect, at any given time.

And remember there is no need to delete the MAC from being attached at the server website, so you now also have the option to connect to that portal at any given time as well, simple as clicking on the widget.




That would give you 2 working connections with different methods that you can easily switch between and a third or more if you choose to create them with different EPG URLs being used.




Thnx again guys for the work on them EPGs !!!