How it correlates with your following sentence then?
I already submitted a PR to Kodi which will enable skins to mark channels and programs that are archive capable, sadly it is very late in the development cycle for it to be accepted into Kodi v18, but it should make it in one way or another into v19.
It’s only part of the feature. What was accepted is a change that allows Kodi to know whether a channel has archive support or not. You still need whatever addon you’re using to support the archive feature as well.
Have you seen ongoing discussion about it maybe?
The only acceptable solution for TK is proper suppport in addon itself like other addons do. I already started to look how to achieve this functionality but without any final work. Instead of few lines in Kodi there must be bunch of functionality in addon that’s why I gave up for now.
Here is some of the discussion if you want toread 
IPTV Simple Client with archive support
Thanks @vpeter. Are you brave enough to give it another try some day? 
Probably not in near future. Last time I got some progress but then I come to one showstopper which I couldn’t find solution myself and also didn’t got any useful feedback on this issue.
When running, epg charges about 5 minutes
xml - url & xml from location always time above 5 minutes
when it loads, it shows the archive for all channels
and I have an archive only for 75% of channels
how to fix it???
If your playlist doesn’t contain this information, and you are using the URL suffix in the Archive settings, there is currently no way to only have some channels be listed as archive capable.
if I turn off the archive in pvr the icon disappears from the timeline
but it doesn’t turn off from the channel window
I checked several visable but it didn’t help either
ListItem.IsPlayable
ListItem.HasArchive
Yes, I see the problem.
I’ll take a look when I have time.
I pushed a fix for this. It should be available in the nightly build tomorrow.
It should be version 3.8.3.2
After disabling the archive, you will need to disable and enable the addon in order to reload all the channels. Then you should notice that the archive markings are gone from the channel list and from the guide.
There is a Play programme button when the channel has archive support.
I don’t see any when manually added catchup-source tag.
My skin was corrupted, just reinstalled ot.
GOOD NEWS THANKS
ok I checked and it doesn’t work for me
the archive icon still appears in the tv window with and without channel logos
only turns off in the guide window
nothing has changed
(pvr addon restared of corse)
what is the correct marking of the m3u list the archive icon is also everywhere and I don’t have an archive for each channel
my list has a signature
timeshift ="7"
I don’t understand what you mean, please post a screenshot
sorry bro after update pvr & restart system archive icons do not show up when the archive is turned off
the problem is here
My question is
#EXTINF:0 id=“12” group-title=“Movies” timeshift=“7” ,12
this is the marker for my timeshift , archive=“7”
how to mark it correctly in the m3u list so that it is where the archive is and not everywhere
The addon will prioritize catchup-source if it’s in the m3u list. If the tag is present, it will use it to determine whether a channel has archive capability or not.
If you have a custom URL suffix defined in the addon settings and catchup-source is not available, then all channels will be tagged as archive capable, as there is no real way to determine which one has archive and which does not.
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