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Profiles and Users

A profile is a named, published lineup — the thing your clients actually connect to. It scopes a set of linked providers, a set of channel-mapping decisions, and a published version history under one name. For the day-to-day screens (creating, activating, and deleting profiles), see Manage Profiles. For how activation switching and profile scoping actually work underneath, see Profile and Security Model.

One active profile

Only one profile is active at a time. The active profile is what serves the shared, unqualified endpoints:

  • http://<host>:8080/m3u/m3undle.m3u
  • http://<host>:8080/xmltv/m3undle.xml

You can configure multiple profiles, but only one publishes to those shared endpoints at a time — switching the active profile switches what every client connected to those URLs sees. Named per-profile output endpoints (so multiple profiles could publish simultaneously to distinct URLs) are a planned future feature, not available yet.

What a profile shows you

The profile detail page shows:

  • Profile name, creation time, and active/published status
  • Linked providers, priority, expiry, and status
  • The effective refresh schedule (inherited from the global default, or overridden per profile)
  • Last-published time and published history
  • Live, movie, and series counts

Refresh scheduling

By default, a profile inherits the global refresh schedule from Settings. It can override that with its own interval (or manual-only) instead. For the active profile specifically, its effective schedule also drives startup catch-up behavior — whether a refresh runs automatically at startup if the last published snapshot is older than the configured interval.

"Users" here means endpoint credentials, not accounts

M3Undle doesn't have per-viewer user accounts. What's configurable is:

  • UI authentication — whether logging into the web UI itself requires a password (M3UNDLE_AUTH_ENABLED)
  • Endpoint security — a single username/password that client-facing endpoints (M3U, XMLTV, stream, HDHomeRun) can require

See Security for how these two are configured independently.

Deleting a profile

Deleting a profile removes all of its associated data — group filters, channel selections, custom groups, canonical channels, stream keys, snapshots, and provider links. It's blocked while a snapshot refresh is in progress for that profile.