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title: "How to Add an EPG (XMLTV) TV Guide to Your IPTV Channels | Zapvo"
description: "Get the TV guide (EPG) for your IPTV channels: where to find the XMLTV address, how to add it in Zapvo and how to fix an empty guide or programs at the wrong time."
url: https://zapvo.app/en/guides/epg-tv-guide
language: en
updated: 2026-10-25
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Guides · 4 min read

# How to add the TV guide (EPG) to your IPTV channels

The EPG (electronic program guide) shows what is on now and next. It comes from an XMLTV address, usually from your provider, and Zapvo matches it to your channels by itself.

1. **Find the guide address** — Look for an “EPG URL” or “XMLTV” link in your provider's email or customer area. Xtream Codes accounts usually bring their guide with them, so you may not need one.
2. **Add it to your source** — When you add an M3U link, enter it in **Guide address (optional)**. For a source you already have: **Settings › Sources**, choose the source, then **Edit**.
3. **Open the guide** — Open **Guide**: channels down the side, the day across. Choose a program for its details, a reminder or, where your provider keeps recordings, to watch it from the start.

## What the guide looks like

On the TV the guide is a grid, on the phone a list. Channels without guide data still play; they simply show no program names.

## The guide is empty

- Check the guide address and load the source again (**Refresh** in the source's details).
- A big guide takes a moment the first time.
- If only some channels have no guide, the guide doesn't cover them: add a second guide address.

## Programs are at the wrong time

First check the device's date, time and time zone. If they are right, the guide was made for another time zone: ask your provider for one in yours.

## How often is it updated?

Zapvo loads the guide again by itself once a day, and whenever you refresh the source.

## Bring your playlist. Zapvo does the rest.

Install Zapvo, add your source and watch. Every feature is free for 30 days, no card needed.

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