If you've already imported your playlist, done a scan & have successfully scanned service(s) you can skip this and the next two steps.

Open the m3u playlist in your favourite text editor and copy a URL, any url as long as it points to a MPEGTS stream.

To determine the correct SID for your playlist follow these steps: If your provider only allows you to view a limited number of concurrent streams you'll need to enter this value into the Maximum # input streams field for your network, not doing so may lead to scanning and/or tuning failures. The prerequisite is that the imported IPTV MPEG-TS stream(s) only have one service with identical service identification (Service ID - SID). To create services without scanning/service probing you must set a Service ID (usually this value is 1) and turn off Scan after creation during the creation of an IPTV Automatic Network, existing networks can be edited and then forced scanned to achieve the same outcome. Disable Service Probing/Speed up Scanning/Create Services Without Scanning ¶ In such cases you must disable the probing, or set the maximum number of input streams. Some service providers don't allow this kind of probing/mass scanning and may deny (or rate limit) access to the streams, leading to scan failures. Tvheadend will (by default) probe each entry in the playlist for service details, depending on the size of the playlist, this can take a very long time. Changes to a URL (on a reload of the playlist) would mean Tvheadend sees the entry as a new 'mux', existing muxes/URLs that are no longer present in the playlist will be removed. The URL (including query string) is used as the identifier. The IPTV Automatic Network parses a playlist (in m3u format) and creates all muxes from this list.

Disable Service Probing/Speed up Scanning/Create Services Without Scanning.

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