Guide Data Outage - 2017 Edition

[HighVolTag3]

ok after trying to update via media center to no avail

i opened up cmd and ran mcupdate.exe -uf after this listings now show data till after the 4th


this would lead me to suspect auto update is still broken on Microsoft's end

[Space]

Nope, I have data up to 8/5 @ 8pm ET on all channels. FiOS Freehold, NJ listings.

[kensiko]

I successfully used epgbuddy to get epg but for another media center application. Is there any way to write to WMC data ?

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[jtbnet]

FIOS East (MA) I skipped doing any manual updates yesterday and sure enough this morning my data has updated to end 8/5@8PM with the nitely auto update

[JohnW248]

ok after trying to update via media center to no avail
i opened up cmd and ran mcupdate.exe -uf after this listings now show data till after the 4th
this would lead me to suspect auto update is still broken on Microsoft's end

More likely there was a problem on your machine with the last update date and the forced update (the -uf forces a guide download) cleared the old date with the new data. Keep watching it and if there is still a problem you might have to reset Media Center.

[bencjedi]

ok after trying to update via media center to no avail
i opened up cmd and ran mcupdate.exe -uf after this listings now show data till after the 4th
this would lead me to suspect auto update is still broken on Microsoft's end

More likely there was a problem on your machine with the last update date and the forced update (the -uf forces a guide download) cleared the old date with the new data. Keep watching it and if there is still a problem you might have to reset Media Center.

I'm having the same problem, so just issued that command. Will open WMC in 30 minutes and see if I have more guide data. The last few days I got a notice my guide data was running out and would click download, but the guide wouldn't extend even after the successful notice.

[bencjedi]

ok after trying to update via media center to no avail
i opened up cmd and ran mcupdate.exe -uf after this listings now show data till after the 4th
this would lead me to suspect auto update is still broken on Microsoft's end

More likely there was a problem on your machine with the last update date and the forced update (the -uf forces a guide download) cleared the old date with the new data. Keep watching it and if there is still a problem you might have to reset Media Center.

I'm having the same problem, so just issued that command. Will open WMC in 30 minutes and see if I have more guide data. The last few days I got a notice my guide data was running out and would click download, but the guide wouldn't extend even after the successful notice.

That worked. I have guide out til August 5th 8pm now. Thanks!

[Gadget Guy]

Like many others, I changed zip codes a few times during this fiasco. Using GuideTool, all the providers for the zip codes I used are in the Lineup menu. Is there anyway to clear this stuff out without losing my custom channel numbers I had to put back?

[Crash2009]

Like many others, I changed zip codes a few times during this fiasco. Using GuideTool, all the providers for the zip codes I used are in the Lineup menu. Is there anyway to clear this stuff out without losing my custom channel numbers I had to put back?

When you do a backup inside GuideTool, doesn't it save your custom numbers? or does it just save the default numbers?

[Gomberg]

Here is what I did (Win7 Home Premium):
Start->cmd.exe->rt click Run as Admin->cd \windows\ehome->mcupdate -uf
It ran very fast, I thought it had failed. But in a couple of minutes my grid was repopulated.
Many thanks to all.

[Gadget Guy]

When you do a backup inside GuideTool, doesn't it save your custom numbers? or does it just save the default numbers?

I have not had any luck with backups. When I do a restore it seems to merge the saved channels with what is already there and I'm left with a bunch of duplicates.

[thallipoli]

Hey all, just installed a new analog card for my wife who wants to record.

I successfully installed WMC in Windows 10 Creator update and I know the EPG has been an issue for a while now. So, is it supposed to work or not ? I'm in Canada.

Does WMC in Windows 10 creators update setup for cable cards (silicondust hd homeprime) or OTA? If so what version of WMC did you use?

Thanks

It's set up to analog cable. It's WMC manual install 8.8.1 from digitallife

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Thanks.

PS; got the guide until 08/07 - HDprime with RCN cable card.

[anotheruser]

Yesterday's update had 1 day of new data. Today's update has 2 days of new data. Actual schedule data ends 8 pm EDT August 8.

This is the first time we've had 2 updates with new data in weeks. It's also the second time we've seen a full 13 days in a long time. (13 days means fresher data).

I'll be a happy camper if they can keep this going.

[sgbroimp]

Something interesting last night just before 9:30 PM EDT (Comcast at 06413). I was looking the guide, got up to go to the kitchen and came back to a message that stated I needed to restart WMC. I have never seen that message before, but I did it and when I came back a lot of my guide info was back to "no info". Not all channels but the bulk of them in the HD range (here 1000+).
So I decided to do a manual update of the guide and in a few minutes all was restore to normal again, or at least as far as I could see without spending a ton of time on it. Maybe the back room folks are still "tinkering with the controls"?

[anotheruser]

The streak of daily updates with new data ends at 2 days since today's update contains no new data.

[tsh2000]

My updates are through 8/8 @ 8PM now.

[tsh2000]

Not sure how much the ehome folder is usually supposed to take but I ran out of disk space today and saw that the ehome folder is taking up 2GB of space.

[jtbnet]

Not sure how much the ehome folder is usually supposed to take but I ran out of disk space today and saw that the ehome folder is taking up 2GB of space.

That seems awfully large... C:\Windows\ehome on my Win7 system is only 112MB.

[scrambler]

Not sure how much the ehome folder is usually supposed to take but I ran out of disk space today and saw that the ehome folder is taking up 2GB of space.

That seems awfully large... C:\Windows\ehome on my Win7 system is only 112MB.

Same thing here, mine is also 112MB
I suggest you go to ehome and check the size of the various subfolders, and find out which one(s) is(are) overly large

[technodevotee]

if it helps any, my windows\ehome folder is 98MB but my programdata\microsoft\ehome folder is 2.2GB