Guess this might be related to previous post. But I noticed my recording schedule over xmas was looking thin. After scrolling around the guide seems I lose listings for all BBC channels on Christmas Eve (Mendip). Seems all the channel IDs have changed so BBC ONE West channel needed switching to a...

Wasn't sure what to search for to find out more, so I'm just asking. I just today got an update to my customized guide. This update left my current settings for channels intact, and then added some new ones. While most of the new ones are the movie channels, which I don't subscribe to, so I can't...

I appreciate that BBC 4 is only on from 19:00 but the WMC epg frequently shows 'No data available'.

Eg at 19:40 I check the epg and 'No data available' shows for BBC4 for all displayed time slots. I click on the slot which includes 19:40 and the programme data then appears for the programme and...

Any way to remove undesired channels from the guide? (Porn, spanish speaking , music channels, etc)

Looking at my Windows 7 MCE Guide it seems the EPG isn't listing the BBC channels from the 7th Nov (Thursday) onwards. My EPG is showing 'no data available' from Thursday onwards despite last couple of days of apparently successful manual guide updates.

Local transmitter is Mendip, it's mostly...

My guide is back to scrolling very slowly after thumbnails load and very fast before they do load. Last time this happened I deleted the channel db to fix it but this time no dice. It isn't the drive since it is SSD.

Anyway, I want to prevent the thumbnails from loading so guide scrolls without...

Hypothetically....

How could I merge two different zip codes of guide data?
My parents live on the eastern shore (-ish) of Lake Michigan.
With their extreme fringe antenna/booster/50'+ tower, they can get Green Bay stations.
As a Packer fan, this is important...

When I look at zaptoit for their...

I'm running WMC on a HP HTPC with a variety of third-party IR remotes and a wireless Logitech mouse and keyboard. I've taught the remotes (Phillips, and two One-For-All remotes) most of the basic commands and they work for a while. But after running for several commands, I can use the arrow keys to...

Simple question: When using a cablecard, where does my guide/program data come from? I know some of it comes from the microsoft update service, but I seem to recall some data comes from the cablecard datastream itself.

Is it possible to make the Guide Transparent?

Zap2it has a form for lineup discrepancies, if you click Feedback, bottom left of their site.

I'm running Media Center on Win 7 64-bit, and got to thinking that when scrolling through the TV guide listings, I would prefer for scrolling to stop at the beginning & end of the listings, rather than wrapping around (for lack of a better term) when scrolling vertically through the guide. As an...

I came from Tivo where I could go to the Tivo website and report that channel XXX was listed incorrectly as channel YYY. They would email me back and a few days later it would be corrected. Is there such a thing for WMC?

My channels are all correct but I have a few series setup to record new...

Hi,

My over the air (EIT) guide data is out by around 17 hours. I've changed the PC time back 17 hours so that the guide is correct for what's on 'now' but I'd like the time to be correct.

Hope that makes sense.

Any help greatly appreaciated.

I have a problem with my guide information. Most of it is correct, but it is missing a couple of channels, and a couple of channels are incorrect. I have gone into tasks - settings - guide and redownloaded the guide info, but it is still wrong. What can I do about this? FWIW I have Time Warner...

I am experiencing an issue where cable channels do not display the guide information, only the error message No Data Available . But over the air channels is working correctly.

Everything was working great for years then all of a sudden I am getting No data available for all channels EXCEPT the...

I have just put my first HTPC together and have just set it up using WMC on win7.

My question is does the epg get updated continuously or at specific times of the day on an automatic basis or do I have to manually request guide updates?

Hi all

I have just upgraded from Vista to Win 7 and the guide channel order is driving me NUTS.

Bringing up the guide i would like all my channels in order e.g 7 , 72, 7mate, 9 , Go, Gem and so on.

I have numbered them as follows ch7=1, ch72=2, ch7mate =3, ch9=4, chGo=5, chGem=6 and so on....

My provider added a new channel, according to their web site. I can't remember, is there an easy way to add this channel to my guide without going all the way through TV setup again?

Ceton diagnostics shows it as a clear channel, btw.

Finally got the dream setup working. One cable card... 6 tuners on the network via InfiniTV6. Live TV on all computers in the house including the Surface and laptops. But I ran into a problem on the Surface... Media Center refuses to download the guide listings... Has anyone gotten this...

Hi all

In live in the UK and the TV guide I have is always showing no data available for BBC Three and BBC Four and ITV. I have downloaded the latest listings.

Any idea what the problem could be? Anything I can do?

I have a TBS 6981 DVB-S2 card

Kind regards, Andrew

What triggers the guide to change the channel name associated with a channel? I am asking because VSHD changed to NBC Sports Network over a year ago but still shows up in WMC as 'VSHD'. The zap2it guide for my area shows the channel as NBCSprtsHD, but WMC still shows it as VSHD. Should it...

It looks like March 18, 2013 is the date when Chicago WSL/ABC7 will stop broadcasting on VHF 7 & only be using UHF 44 frequency. They have been using both freqs for a few years & I get both.

But which channel should WMC7 use for the guide listings? In Edit Channel > guide listings I can choose 7.1...

My Channel Logos 2 can increase the number of rows to 11.

But how can I increase the number of Columns ??

For whatever reason, I could not get my WMC7 to find cable company's digital TV signals with my Hauppauge HVR-1950. In the end after several software updates and many failed attempts of letting Media Center try to find the hannels, I stumbled into a way to manually add channels. It works and I get...

OK, so I just got my WMC PC set up, am in Finland, have the language set to English everywhere I can find anyplace to specify language (including the Windows OS) and overall, everything is working fine. I have a dual tuner DVB-T card that tunes fine and I can pull up the guide, but the names of all...

I'm sure this must have been asked before but I wasn't sure what to search for, 'auto scroll' didn't turn anything up.

Anyway, I find it quite annoying when scrolling through the guide in media centre and the guide starts to automatically scroll. The problem is that by the time I manage to stop it...

I am having problems with the media center guide. the big problem is show like Merlin, Continuum, Lost Girl show as repeats but they have never been shown in the US yet they have a date of something like 2012 but in the US they have not been shown before which means the guide is giving us incorrect...

A few days ago, I wanted to set WMC to record a show that was playing on Thursday January 10, 2013. I went to the WMC guide and searched the show that I wanted to record. Search couldn't find it. Manually navigated through the guide hour by hour, and found out that my guide ends at 7 pm Wednesday...

As a result of MS knacking up the guide data last week, I've spent a few days using data downloaded from Digiguide and imported using MCE 7 Reset Toolbox. I've uninstalled those now to return to using the native data only. Rather than go through every single channel and remap the listings data back...

Hi All.

I have been using WMC, and have loved it. In the last couple days though, ABC. no longer appears in the channel guide, (where you click a show to record it etc.) ALL the other stations are fine. Even the ABC. sub-stations are fine. This is a first. I live a few miles West of Chicago. Is...

Hi,

I asked about this in the International section, but figured this would attract more views over here.

Does anyone know of a way to add season and episode number in the guide, so that when I record a series, it gets organised, and I know where to start from? I am using XMLTV files if that...

Is there a way to add more categories to the guide? The current list is really lame. I would like to see things like Documentary, comedy and others.

is it me... or is pretty much everything flagged as a repeat even though its not? are ms purposely not bothing with guide data now that they're trying to ween us off media center?

Looking at the Electronic Program Guide this morning, all the OTA channels are updated thru Nov 7. However, all the cable channels show No data available after 8:00pm October 28. When I try to do a manual update, I get the message that the download failed, and I should look at Media Center System...

For those here in the US, you know that CBS goofed their entire schedule Monday night, apparently at the last minute. Instead of showing new shows, they chose to show reruns instead--no doubt due to the storm.

In addition, they simply pre-empted the entire 10pm hour for storm coverage, wiping...

My guide data has MANY errors on MANY channels, plus I cannot get data past about 7:00PM tonight! My machine reboots every day at 5:00am. Comcast Houston.

EDIT: It reboots because I have a scheduled job!!! Not just for the heck of it!!!

I love WMC ... but when I'm scanning for channels, it seems to take forever and it gets most of them wrong. I'll spend hours fixing all the channel lineups and selecting the HD versions and deselecting the low res versions of the channels. And I have to manually add about 20 channels that the scan...

My guide does not seem to update on its own anymore. Does anyone know how I can check if the service that does this is running? The guide does update if I go through WMC and manually tell it to update. pain in the butt though.

Hi,

I'm running Windows 7 version of Media Center with a Ceton InfiniTV4 connected to Comcast. I've been running this setup for years now with very little issues. Last night, when I was reviewing my scheduled recording list, I noticed that it seemed to only be scheduling things available via OTA...

Back when DirecTV was in dispute with Viacom over Nick channels and such, they disappeared from the guide on my Media Center. Thank you guide data source for keeping Media Center from recording a bunch of black screens. However, when the dispute was settled, and the Nick channels were added back to...

What is the best way to backup not just the selected channels, but also the tuners associated with them. Is guidetool the only option? Can it do what I want...

example:

I currently have 6 CC tuners, 4 QAM, 2 Analog, 2 ATSC tuners.

On a fresh scan one of the local stations is found on all the...

Since I switched to WMC a couple years ago from Tivo, the thing that has most annoyed is not one I would have predicted. I read that the guide data comes from the same source and should be the same, however, in Tivo most shows used to give an episode number. This is never present in the WMC guide...

I have a HD HomeRun Dual by SiliconDust and cant seem to get the program guide to work. During set up with WMC the scan finds channels but when finished they don't show up in guide. I can add and watch the channels but no guide information. I have tried different zip codes with the same result....

Hi Folks;

Our provider (Shaw) made about 40-50 channel lineup changes about a month ago. The guide in Media Center 7 is still all screwed up. I've posted several times over at connect.microsoft.com and even included a one page .pdf with a complete road-map to all the changes.

They're useless...

It's sad that there is no current development on WMC. But not too bad, outside of a few annoying bugs, it works pretty well. My concern is the guide. Where does it come from? Do each of the stations provide it in some kind of standard format?

Just got WMC up and running with a a Ceton InvitiTV 4 and a Comcast cableCARD. I noticed right away my MCE guide was missing two channels I frequent: SpikeHD and Comedy Central HD. Between calling Comcast and my own troubleshooting I discovered that it was the Zap2It TV listings for my town that...

For those in the UK, I've raised a Connect ticket to request proper EPG data for the new 4Seven channel that launched this week across all platforms.

I know in band data is available, but it would be nice to have the proper data. Not that I actually expect this will happen...

I'm new to WMC and noticed the setup for the automatic program guide requires a minimum 6 hour time window. Yet a manual update takes only a few minutes.

I'm curious why the 6 hour requirement. Does the automatic process only take place 4 times a day?

By default mine is set from 12:00am to...

OK,

So playing around trying to get my Ceton and CableCard working, I downloaded the full blown guide (I get a new Cable card in the AM and I should have it working then)

The problem is, I have 900 Channels in my guide --- When my card is active I should have about 60 or 70 -- Is there a way to...

We had a major Channel upgrade and change. Now the guide is old and isn't reflecting the new channels as well as the channels that have changed. For example, NBC and CBS which used to be 785 and 784 and have now been moved to 704 and 705. 704 and 705 don't even show up in the guide and 785 and 785...

I'm still getting download error when I manually instigate the guide download.

This is *such* fun.

So I am a hockey fan and the NHL playoffs are on during this time of year. unfortunately, this means that WMC doesn't get a lot of lead time on getting the guide data updated with each game.

I went to watch a New Jersey Devils game tonight on MSG+ and realized that the guide had not been updated...

Somehow I've ended up with duplicate channels in the guide even though the channels are not duplicated in the setup guide. When I try and set a recording, I get conflicts because of the duplicates. I tried to delete the duplicate channels out of the guide, but that ended up messing up the recording...

Hi, I have lost internet connection on my 6 year old computer with Windows XP and the 2005 WMC and have gotten a new one with Windows 7 and the new WMC.
I would love to still be able to update the GUIDE DATA on the old computer.
Is there any way to transfer the DATA info from a new version of WMC...

First post in this forum, Thanks Guys from bring TGB back from the technicolour awfulness.

Right,

So I have two sat dishes connected through a diseqc switch.

One points to 28e astra for UK FTA channels and the other points to 13e to hotbird for the Polish FTA channels.

This all works very well...

Is anyone having issues with listings only running until 11th/12th January. I've tried numerous manual updates and re-indexing. Are the providers on holiday or do I have to delete the database and re-run setup? :o

My WMC7 set up pulls in clear qam stations (mostly the locals, which is fine for me). I live in CT, but I actually pull in five or six stations from New York. My guide listings are set up for my zip code/provider, but I only get guide listings for the CT channels, and no guide listings for the NY...

Hi! I'm new to TGB, but I'm hoping you can offer a solution I haven't tried yet. This is not a new complaint from users from what I can tell.

I have used WMC for years and LOVED it - when it was on my old and now dead HP media center PC running windows XP, that is. My old PC died a couple months...

I recently did a reinstall, and cannot find the article on how to change the time 7MC checks for guide updates. Can someone point me in the right direction? I have a Ceton, if that makes a difference.

Hi guys

So I know that the stations are moving around for freeview. I pressed the yellow button about 100 times..... I know i need to rescan

Anyway
I scan and after a couple of days I get a selection of multiple stations. That is to say one that works but a mirror listing that does not work

This...

I noticed Channel 4 HD here in the UK stopped working a few days ago. I have looked on KingofSat and found the new transponder settings as follows:

11127 V on 22000.

Regards,
Cog.

When trying to add a recording by searching the guide, I always get No Results Were Found. Occasionally it says that the Indexing Service isn't started but it's running and I can successfully search the computer for files without a problem. I've also made sure that WMC was in the included locations...

Hi All,

Interesting thing going on with my media centre as of late. BBC HD (or BBC One HD) appears fine when I do a full transponder scan however I get the infamous no signal message on the screen

If I use DVB viewer it works fine. I've tried rescanning, deleting the full program line up but it...

Is there any utility that can back up/edit/restore the guide data itself - not just the channel listings, but show names, descriptions, etc? I want to edit the actual program data.

Thanks

Is there a way of scrolling quickly through the Guide from one day to the next? There's the four-way arrow control which scrolls one screenful at a time forwards or backwards or displays the next few channels, but all the obvious things like Ctrl-click, Shift-click, Alt-click on the right-hand...

Hi everyone,

I've had problems for a few months now in Media Center 7. I'm using the media center guide with a Win Nova T 500 tuner.

I'm also using the GuideTool addin (have been using this for the last week or so).

Unfortunately most of the channels appear duplicated and when I use Media Center...

Is there any easy solution to automate the inclusion of the DVB-S2 HD channels, and also ITV HD, into W7MC Guide?

I am using the TBS6981 S2 dual tuner with W7MC and each time I do complete TV satellite scan, I have to manually configure most of the HD channels and I have yet to succeed with C4HD....

Where does one report guide issues? The link at the other site for feedback seems to be incorrect. FiOS in Texas has the Longhorn Network listed as 320, which is correct in the rest of the country, but in Texas(FiOS specifically lists Keller, TX during setup) The Longhorn Network should be Ch 79 in...