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No, because the series IDs are different in the new metadata/lineup.Sammy2 wrote:Is this usable with EPG123 to restore the recording schedule??
And maybe this should be posted in the "Introducing EPG123" thread?
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I do have an image but it's months old. I don't want to take over sammy's thread, I only posted that because from my experience you can't just roll back once you convert to epg123. I just want Sammy to know what my experience was before he plunges in. So if you make a back up image before converting, which I didn't do, you should be in good shape.
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do these entries change when not agreeing to the guide terms of service in step 1.3 and therefor need to be changed back in step 1.5?
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I believe that is the premise, I didn't check before and after though. I just checked what is currently there and they are set like in step 1.5. I did re-image and roll back to Rovi, so my settings are from a completed setup, if that helps.
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I suffer from analysis paralysis at times but I want to have a complete and clear understanding of what it is that I am doing beforehand. Tomorrow is Saturday and I will have some time in the morning to run through the whole set up. I'm just mocking through the steps right now. I even fired up EPG123 and put in my SD log-in information but that is as far as I've gone with that.Skybolt wrote:I believe that is the premise, I didn't check before and after though. I just checked what is currently there and they are set like in step 1.5. I did re-image and roll back to Rovi, so my settings are from a completed setup, if that helps.
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That is correct. When not agreeing with the ToS, the 2 registries are cleared. We restore them in 1.5.Sammy2 wrote:do these entries change when not agreeing to the guide terms of service in step 1.3 and therefor need to be changed back in step 1.5?
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So the entries still appear in regedit but have different values or they are gone and need to be put back in to the registry? I have not added entries in the registry before only changed those that already exist so I'm not too familiar with it. I don't usually edit the registry at all. Maybe your software can be made to just do it? There are other tools on here that do that so I'm just wondering.. Thanks for all your hard work on this!garyan2 wrote:That is correct. When not agreeing with the ToS, the 2 registries are cleared. We restore them in 1.5.Sammy2 wrote:do these entries change when not agreeing to the guide terms of service in step 1.3 and therefor need to be changed back in step 1.5?
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The entries are still there. fAgreeTOS reverts to a value of 0, and strAgreedTOSVersion reverts to an empty string when you disagree to ToS. I had thought about having epg123 make the changes but didn't want to deal with user access privileges and all that. Maybe later in the developmentSammy2 wrote:So the entries still appear in regedit but have different values or they are gone and need to be put back in to the registry? I have not added entries in the registry before only changed those that already exist so I'm not too familiar with it. I don't usually edit the registry at all. Maybe your software can be made to just do it? There are other tools on here that do that so I'm just wondering.. Thanks for all your hard work on this!garyan2 wrote:That is correct. When not agreeing with the ToS, the 2 registries are cleared. We restore them in 1.5.Sammy2 wrote:do these entries change when not agreeing to the guide terms of service in step 1.3 and therefor need to be changed back in step 1.5?
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garyan2 wrote:That is correct. When not agreeing with the ToS, the 2 registries are cleared. We restore them in 1.5.
Have you thought through what happens when someone reruns TV Setup after installing EPG123 successfully ? Since the T&C are agreed to in the registry will this not result in MS/Rovi suckiness reinfecting the MC ? It's certainly a realistic scenario if someone needs to make a tuner change, e.g.garyan2 wrote:The entries are still there. fAgreeTOS reverts to a value of 0, and strAgreedTOSVersion reverts to an empty string when you disagree to ToS. I had thought about having epg123 make the changes but didn't want to deal with user access privileges and all that. Maybe later in the development
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When you run through TV Setup again, it will require you to agree to the ToS again as well, so it will be the same as an initial setup. That is however a good point to support including the registry mod in epg123 for 1 less step to have to remember when changing tuners.glorp wrote:Have you thought through what happens when someone reruns TV Setup after installing EPG123 successfully ? Since the T&C are agreed to in the registry will this not result in MS/Rovi suckiness reinfecting the MC ? It's certainly a realistic scenario if someone needs to make a tuner change, e.g.
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In this case the optional Step 0 is not required because the database will not be polluted with Rovi but rather populated with Schedules Direct. If running TV Setup for whatever reason one would need to start over at Step 1. I get that.garyan2 wrote:When you run through TV Setup again, it will require you to agree to the ToS again as well, so it will be the same as an initial setup. That is however a good point to support including the registry mod in epg123 for 1 less step to have to remember when changing tuners.glorp wrote:Have you thought through what happens when someone reruns TV Setup after installing EPG123 successfully ? Since the T&C are agreed to in the registry will this not result in MS/Rovi suckiness reinfecting the MC ? It's certainly a realistic scenario if someone needs to make a tuner change, e.g.
Maybe my analysis paralysis will come to some good here.. LOL!
If you have the Registry Hacks built into EPG123 it merely needs to be run elevated, correct?
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One other question comes to mind. Should extenders be powered down during this procedure or does stopping the ehome service in Step 0 accomplish this?
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I believe you 100% but what does fAgreeTOS do then or maybe more importantly why does WMC think it needs T&C agreement still ? Just put the guide on the TV menu strip and there's something else that really defines agreement ?garyan2 wrote:When you run through TV Setup again, it will require you to agree to the ToS again as well, so it will be the same as an initial setup. That is however a good point to support including the registry mod in epg123 for 1 less step to have to remember when changing tuners.
I've been trying to think through this for a couple of days about how to revert if needed, how to rerun tv setup, but my head starts to hurt, LOL.
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It is a Microsoft Control thing. They want you to agree to the ToS for their guide and these Registry Entries tell them that you agree. Maybe, before downloading guide data each time their servers check this entry in your registry?glorp wrote:I believe you 100% but what does fAgreeTOS do then or maybe more importantly why does WMC think it needs T&C agreement still ? Just put the guide on the TV menu strip and there's something else that really defines agreement ?garyan2 wrote:When you run through TV Setup again, it will require you to agree to the ToS again as well, so it will be the same as an initial setup. That is however a good point to support including the registry mod in epg123 for 1 less step to have to remember when changing tuners.
I've been trying to think through this for a couple of days about how to revert if needed, how to rerun tv setup, but my head starts to hurt, LOL.
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I don't know if it is so much a control thing as it is an ego thing. Why in the world would anyone want to use a guide other than the guide provided by Microsoft?!? It also may be a privacy/legal thing ... in the process of setting up and providing the guide, some information is transferred across the internet such as your service, lineups, possibly IP address. OR, and probably even more likely, is simply the ToS agreement is part of the TV setup and providing the logic to determine whether you already agreed or not wasn't worthwhile.Sammy2 wrote:It is a Microsoft Control thing. They want you to agree to the ToS for their guide and these Registry Entries tell them that you agree. Maybe, before downloading guide data each time their servers check this entry in your registry?glorp wrote:I believe you 100% but what does fAgreeTOS do then or maybe more importantly why does WMC think it needs T&C agreement still ? Just put the guide on the TV menu strip and there's something else that really defines agreement ?garyan2 wrote:When you run through TV Setup again, it will require you to agree to the ToS again as well, so it will be the same as an initial setup. That is however a good point to support including the registry mod in epg123 for 1 less step to have to remember when changing tuners.
I've been trying to think through this for a couple of days about how to revert if needed, how to rerun tv setup, but my head starts to hurt, LOL.
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OK. I confirmed this on my last remaining unconverted MC that is still on MS/Rovi.garyan2 wrote:When you run through TV Setup again, it will require you to agree to the ToS again as well, so it will be the same as an initial setup. That is however a good point to support including the registry mod in epg123 for 1 less step to have to remember when changing tuners.
It seemed to me that it did not always ask for re-confirmation of guide T&C on an already setup system if you had confirmed before but I just went through Tasks->TV->TV Signal->Set up TV Signal. When I got past the Region, ZIP stuff it did indeed ask me to confirm agreement to the T&C again. I guess it had been so long since I had had to run TV set up my memory was bad and I thought this step could be skipped by MC if it saw fAgreeTOS = True on a EPG123 installed system. More specifically one that had been MS/Rovi and was then converted. No worries. Carry on with the good work
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OK..
The deed is done and all is well. So can I now restore my re-mapped channels that have been saved using Guide Tool previously or do I need to go back in and re-number the channels?
Also, in Guide Tool, I'm only seeing RTW line up on the right side. To show other line ups do I have to select them in Schedules Direct??
Thanks.
BTW, It took forever to download data from tmdb as it kept pausing:
The deed is done and all is well. So can I now restore my re-mapped channels that have been saved using Guide Tool previously or do I need to go back in and re-number the channels?
Also, in Guide Tool, I'm only seeing RTW line up on the right side. To show other line ups do I have to select them in Schedules Direct??
Thanks.
BTW, It took forever to download data from tmdb as it kept pausing: