udm-telus VS unifios-utilities

this is the tutorial I have used in the past https://github.com/peacey/udm-telus

i was able to watch tv using this: https://github.com/peacey/udm-telus only problem is i cannot use tv provider specific services like purchasing a vod movie without getting private ip straight to the tv box. still good enough for now. thanks for the help!

I've tried all combination of settings from https://www.dslreports.com/forum/r30920470- and https://github.com/peacey/udm-telus to try to get it working, but nothing seems to be good.

Since you're using a UDMP, you can actually get IPTV working directly on the UDMP without needing to use TELUS router. This way you'll only need to use one router and connection from the modem. You just need to install igmpproxy on it to setup multicast traffic. See the guide here.

Not through JSON, but you can install igmpproxy on it and configure it. I used this tutorial to get Telus IPTV working with UDMP.

You still need an igmpproxy, this guide here is very helpful even if you don't have telus: https://github.com/peacey/udm-telus

Here is the link to the tutorial: https://github.com/peacey/udm-telus

I just purchased the unifi express and I have been researching its capabilities and more specifically ad blocking functionality. I have found that people are complaining about the ad blocking abilities not being very granular and referring to unifios-utilities and running something like pi hole or adguard as an alternative. Can I safely assume that these options will be available to the unifi express?

https://github.com/unifi-utilities/unifios-utilities <- this cannot be more simple to digest. Stop spreading FUD (and learn to code if you still don't understand how Github works and what is linked)

Install on boot script: https://github.com/unifi-utilities/unifios-utilities/tree/main/on-boot-script

(https://github.com/unifi-utilities/unifios-utilities)

Not natively but they run dnsmasq so you can use unifios-utilities with an on-boot-script to modify dnsmasq’s config and add whatever records you need, including wildcard