An evolving, supported alternative to Rovi
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TGB.tv donations drive !
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Hi all,
Just a quick post to see if any of our members are willing / able to make a small donation to help cover our running costs?
I completely understand that times are hard for a lot of folks and many people are unable to offer any financial support.
Please don't feel pressured into donating...
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Hi, there is no suggested donation amount - any amount is much appreciated :thumbup:
Thank you to everybody that has donated :clap:
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Mon Dec 18, 2023 3:58 am
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THANK YOU Gary
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testmonkey » Thu Jan 02, 2020 11:38 am
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Let us ALL say THANKS to Gary the developer of EPG123 with a monetary donation to the cause.
For his relentless pursuit of perfection.
For his unrelenting dedication to supporting the project and especially the time he spends on the tech support lately to get EVERYONE up and running.
During a...
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Thanks again Gary!! Yes!! I'm so very grateful!! Send him MONTHLY DONATIONS for all the hard work he's done to make WMC a MUCH BETTER product than it was when Microsoft bailed on it! I've just completed a new Windows 7 installation on a new (rescued) box using Comcast cable card and it's working...
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Last post by lostgreycells
Thu May 26, 2022 3:39 pm
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How to update channel numbers
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Dave46 » Thu Aug 03, 2017 9:19 am
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I am new to EPG123 and I have failed to update channel numbers.
What are the correct steps to update WMC with the updated channel numbers?
Yesterday the UK moved many channels to new numbers, but the WMC guide still has the old numbers.
For example BBC News moved from 130 to 231
I downloaded the...
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Thank you for taking the time stepping through this with me. In no particular order, here's some things to note:
The Great Britain Freeview selection at the end of the list is because it is a separate and unique option from Schedules Direct. About a year+ ago, I guess it was requested to provide...
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Last post by garyan2
Mon Aug 07, 2017 2:19 am
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Is there any way to retain series when switching to EPG123?
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illuminated » Wed Jul 05, 2017 3:12 am
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I am suffering from the no data available problem like so many others and it seems like the time has come to make the investment in EPG123.
Is it possible to retain the scheduled series in any way? I've tried searching for this and have read the manual. As far as I can tell, they will be...
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Cool. Thanks for fixing that so quickly.
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Last post by 12noon
Sun Aug 06, 2017 9:02 pm
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EPG123 series schedule somehow gone
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Whiznot » Thu Aug 03, 2017 11:37 pm
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I made a change by creating a scheduled task to download EPG and my scheduled series failed to download after the change. I had to set up the series like I had before the change. Was the failure a bug or was it to be expected?
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My first thought is you were still using Rovi guide data. Did you not perform Step 1 - Clean Start? ... an easy way to tell is to open the client GUI and take a look at how many lineups are available in the pull-down combo box. If there is more than 1, then before you scheduled the task everything...
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Last post by garyan2
Sat Aug 05, 2017 7:16 pm
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Not importing updates during scheduled task
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d00zah » Thu Aug 03, 2017 1:19 pm
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Relatively new to epg123 & I think it's great, but I've noticed something recently I hope someone can help me explain.
My scheduled task runs @ 3AM with a successful completion status, including for WMC import:
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Verified actual guide data for the last 2 updates & WMC clearly HAS the data, but the '... days of Guide listings' display didn't accurately reflect it. A WMC quirk, rather than an issue with epg123. Sorry to waste your time, Gary.
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Sat Aug 05, 2017 1:20 pm
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NO signal
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mafaldatv » Wed Aug 02, 2017 2:33 am
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First off, I have no specific reason to think EPG123 is the problem other than it is the only change. So I'm hoping maybe somebody has some ideas, searching the 'net so far hasn't given me any idea.
I installed EPG123 about two weeks ago. Last week I lost a recording because WMC said there was no...
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My levels are pretty much -4.5. I have an amp (a nice tech put it in a few years back). Though it could be coincidence, the problem started only after EPG123. I have a CETON Infinitv 6.
CableCards are cheap, and they dont last forever.
maybe it's time for a new one.
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Last post by Crash2009
Thu Aug 03, 2017 7:02 am
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EPG123 Lineup Issue - NBA TV Missing
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rdevone » Fri Jul 28, 2017 7:21 pm
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I have a lineup issue . The service works great. Glad to be
finished with Rovi
I use Windows 7 Media Center. Home run Tuners Entouch Cable
Houston 77407
My guide downloads successfully and is populated in MC. My issue
is Channel 348 NBA TV doesn't load in the guide. I confirmed
channel 348 is...
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Channel 348 was listed on the left side but no data, 348 wasn't on the right side.
Both sides now have the channel listed.
It appears the issue has been resolved.
Thanks
Randy
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Last post by rdevone
Sat Jul 29, 2017 11:05 pm
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Scheduled task running correctly but no guide data populated
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mcemike99 » Fri Jul 21, 2017 12:46 pm
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I clean installed epg123 a few weeks ago and it populated 28 days of guide data. Since that time, the scheduled task has been running correctly each day and there are no errors in the latest log file but I'm down to 3 days of guide data.
The manual says to rebuild the database which I'm willing to...
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Okay, Looks like everything is on track here. The update from this morning work just fine. I now see 13 days worth of schedule. Is that the most I can import?
I appreciate your time helping with this. I learned a ton about how EPG keeps track of things and how to manage the Task Scheduler.
Tim...
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Last post by garyan2
Sat Jul 29, 2017 4:03 pm
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Broke something: now WMC says "no data available"
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drewp » Sat Jul 22, 2017 4:04 pm
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I installed EPG on Win7 last week and it on was working. Guide was populated and WMC made recordings. Things were good.
Some channels were missing in Guide (but were shown in the client guide tool listings). Before using EPG, sometines I could get WMC to recognize the channels it was missing by...
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I installed EPG on Win7 last week and it on was working. Guide was populated and WMC made recordings. Things were good.
Some channels were missing in Guide (but were shown in the client guide tool listings). Before using EPG, sometines I could get WMC to recognize the channels it was missing by...
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Last post by drewp
Fri Jul 28, 2017 1:18 am
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Query Failure on Timed Update
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Alan G » Wed Jul 26, 2017 12:21 pm
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For the past couple days, I am getting a failure noti ce for the 3AM update (bad gateway and I've posted the logfile. I posted earlier under the bug report about a glitch getting popup warning windows ( ). I got a series of windows last night, This Provider is Attempting to Launch Windows Media...
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Perhaps the problem over the last couple of days was a simple gateway query problem and when EPG123 gets a bad signal it does not do a re-query to attempt the download (at least I think this is how you have programmed it). I've never had any issued with doing the manual update.
Yah, I will retry...
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Last post by garyan2
Fri Jul 28, 2017 1:07 am
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Strange items in EPG123 trace log
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neptunepic » Thu Jul 27, 2017 4:04 pm
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Hi, please see attached log. There are a bunch of entries for Spanish language movies for channels I don't have.
Any idea where these are coming from and why EPG123 is looking them up?
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Beginning epg123 update...
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EPG123 doesn't download any stations that you do not select in the EPG123 GUI. You may have the channel disabled in WMC, but you do have the station selected in EPG123. That is why it is downloading and updating whatever Spanish channel has these movies listed.
You can go into WMC and do a search...
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Last post by garyan2
Thu Jul 27, 2017 4:15 pm
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Are Big Logos Working?
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marvin-miller » Mon Jul 24, 2017 7:49 pm
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Trying to get larger logos in my guide. I have My Channel Logos and it's set to using large logos. The EPG CFG however shows false for that line. So I changed it to True and fired up EPG123 and found out I had to re-enter everything all over again as it cleared out all my settings.
So I set...
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Either way, your efforts are appreciated and Media Center is a heck of a lot better for them! :thumbup: :clap:
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Last post by marvin-miller
Tue Jul 25, 2017 1:45 am
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Steps to add tuner
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DanITman » Mon Jul 24, 2017 12:54 am
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I got another ceton tuner and I'm wondering what the best method is to add the tuner without having to redo epg123. Any advice is helpful. Thanks.
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I got another ceton tuner and I'm wondering what the best method is to add the tuner without having to redo epg123. Any advice is helpful. Thanks.
I don't think there is a way around doing another TV Setup in WMC to add new tuners. You won't need to do anything with EPG123.
So it will look like...
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Last post by garyan2
Mon Jul 24, 2017 1:08 am
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Generic Description on Talk shows, no guests
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hansolo89 » Tue Jul 11, 2017 1:33 am
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I'm using EPG new version. Seth Meyers, Kimmel and, Colbert have just a generic description, no guests.
I use Schedule direct and ota in Los Angeles. Anyone else?
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well i disabled my schedule task running epg123.exe, and added the task from the gui, i executed the schedule talk and it updated for talk shows, not sure if i need to use the script yet
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Last post by hansolo89
Sun Jul 23, 2017 5:11 am
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Duplicate Channels - Cannot remove one
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tecrous » Fri Jul 21, 2017 3:11 am
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Comcast (Comcast - Digital, San Jose) recently renumbered their stations presumably to eventually standardize the station numbers across the US. I think I'd like to migrate to the new numbers since this happened and had some other issues with my tuners leading to scheduling problems. Anyway, is...
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Thanks. I had never run the client before as I did not seem to need it. It works fine.
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Last post by tecrous
Sat Jul 22, 2017 12:38 am
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Missing channels
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sjr » Sat Jul 15, 2017 9:30 pm
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I guess this may be an issue from Schedules Direct but this looks to be where all the talk/info is.
I just installed epg123 and it seems to be working good except for a few channels are now missing from my guide. For the most part this is fine since they almost all are channels I don't watch but I...
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Update from the missing channels I had.
I did a ticket with SD and they got back right away saying they would add the 208 channel listing and to let them know if there were others and what they were. I was going to get the rest today or Saturday when I had a bunch of free time, but it looks like I...
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Last post by sjr
Fri Jul 21, 2017 1:21 pm
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Scheduled Task Mode ?
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Mike88 » Thu Jul 20, 2017 12:32 pm
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I was reading through the EPG123 Installation Guide & don’t understand how to choose a Scheduled Task Mode. I searched for answers using different combinations of search words but did not find an answer, or at least did not seem like an answer.
I’m reading the words but have no idea what the MXF...
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I'll boil it down to, If in doubt, go Full Mode. Once you become familiar with how epg123 works with WMC, then you can consider the other options which will only benefit a multiple WMC network.
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Last post by garyan2
Fri Jul 21, 2017 4:23 am
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Custom Channel Numbering
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werds » Thu Jul 20, 2017 3:57 am
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I am sure someone has answered and I failed in finding it... but heavily contemplating jumping over to EPG123 and while reading the install PDF and other threads to map out what to do and avoid problems I saw this.
15. Selecting the ‘Automatically match stations to channels’ checkbox will direct...
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Don't worry about it. I think I might have to have a glossary in the guide at some point as well.
What I am trying to say is:
Disney Channel:
original channel number = 289
custom channel number = 89
When epg123 does its automatch, it pays no attention to '89' ... it only looks at the original...
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Last post by werds
Thu Jul 20, 2017 4:43 am
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Deleted Channel. How do I get it back?
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daveinames » Wed Jul 19, 2017 1:25 am
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I deleted a channel in epg123 client and I dont see how to get it back.
I see the channel on the right hand side and I can right click on it and I see subscribe but it seems to be greyed out and wont let me click on it.
I also have both CableCard and OTA tuners. I was I selected both sets of data...
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I have never found a way to undelete a channel. You can get the channel back in 1 of 2 ways.
settings->TV->TV Signal->Scan for More Channels->Delete All (if available), and then Scan Again.
settings->TV->Guide->Add Missing Channels-> enter the information to add the channel manually
3rd way is...
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Last post by garyan2
Wed Jul 19, 2017 3:30 am
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Guide populated but nothing scheduled to record
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w@ntonsoup » Fri Jul 14, 2017 5:53 pm
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Denver Comcast.
I got the guide to populate, easily. My series recordings are there, but nothing is scheduled to record. What am I doing wrong? Thanks!
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The warnings section of the setup guide states the following:
Performing this procedure will come at some cost.
All guide customization will be lost (callsigns, channel numbers, favorite lineups, logos, ...)
All scheduled recordings will be lost
TunerSalad users will have to reapply the fix
My...
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Last post by Sammy2
Tue Jul 18, 2017 6:39 pm
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Problem updating guide using EPG123
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EuG00 » Mon Jul 17, 2017 7:09 pm
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Hi,
I'm having an issue.
I downloaded and installed EPG123, signed up to Schedules Direct and was able to just run the update successfully right away and everything worked.
Since I just wanted to try to see if it worked, I didn't perform the Clean Start
So about a week later, it looks like WMC...
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**** Update
So I tried to run as admin - same thing.
I then re-installed it (into default location) and basically it worked.
However, I don't think default location had anything to do with it.
It really looked like the program would silently crash during Step 4/8 for me before and after the...
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Last post by garyan2
Tue Jul 18, 2017 5:07 pm
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Unchecking Channels in the EPG123 Config Software
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jebidia » Wed Jul 12, 2017 12:20 am
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I had a very smooth install and initially I was able to uncheck a bunch of channels and they disappeared from the guide, which is wonderful, but as I continue to find channels I want to remove, when I uncheck them they are not disappearing from the WMC guide. I've tried all kinds of sequences to...
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I went in to epg123.exe today and deleted the task. Then I used the Create button to create the new task. I made sure the Automatically import guide data into WMC was checked. Do I want to check the Automatically match stations to channels checkbox? What happens if I do or I don't check that box?...
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Last post by bouvlover
Mon Jul 17, 2017 10:12 pm
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EPG123 Configuration Setup Screen
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msweda » Sun Jul 16, 2017 10:36 pm
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Has anyone had a problem with the window that opens with the configuration (epg123.exe) not showing the Save and Execute button? It appears to be cutoff with no sliders. Hopefully this is an easy issue as I've been working on this !#$#!!! MC EPG issue for three days solid before I found you folks....
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The reinstall did the trick. Not sure what was causing the errors.
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Last post by feierarc
Mon Jul 17, 2017 6:05 pm
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Recording all programs instead of just new
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wilchek » Mon Jul 17, 2017 1:57 pm
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I have my recording defaults in WMC set to record series as new only. However, it is recording every instance. I am running 1.10 and have all the configuration screen check boxes in epg123 checked including new . The only one I don't have checked is to download logos. Any idea or suggestions? Are...
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I figured it out with your help. I set up the recording defaults to new but each program was still set to new and rerun. My guess is that because this was a new imaged system I must have set up my series recordings before I set the system default to record only new. WMC default is new and rerun....
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Last post by wilchek
Mon Jul 17, 2017 4:35 pm
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Can't "Create" task to auto-update listings
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mrfreeze49 » Sun Jul 16, 2017 6:43 pm
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Hi. I have Windows 7 Pro and use Comcast on the west coast. After all the recent Rovi/MS guide issues I installed EPG123 1.1.9 and subscribed to the 7 day SchedulesDirect trial. Not knowing whether I would keep it I initially used a very simple password to set it up. I also successfully used the...
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I fixed the problem with a system restore. I had to uninstall EPG123, delete the EPG123 folder, reinstall 1.1.10 and reconfigure my lineup again but it's working. I will post again if the problem returns but it's working now. Thank you for the help.
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Last post by mrfreeze49
Sun Jul 16, 2017 11:13 pm
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Logos and Ceton App
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swinn » Sun Jul 16, 2017 2:07 pm
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I have EPG123 working but have a couple of questions.
I'm using the server/client model with EPG123 v1.1.10. The server is running on Windows Server 2012 and I have two clients running Windows 7.
1. I was using MCL and big logos before but I wanted to try pushing out the logos using EPG123. I...
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Awesome! I'll fix my update scripts. Thanks for the info.
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Last post by swinn
Sun Jul 16, 2017 7:40 pm
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Cable card (Ceton 6 tuner) setup???
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user001 » Tue Jul 04, 2017 6:02 am
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I am NOT a newbie. I have read the guide and watched the video but my setup is different than what is shown/written in the guide.
Is there a walk-through for a Ceton 6 tuner WITH cable card setup. The antenna steps in the PDF and video guide result in failure for me.
Thanks in advance.
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Following the EPG123 installation guide, during Step 2, #5 addresses TunerSalad users but that would be you as well with the above command line.
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Last post by garyan2
Sun Jul 16, 2017 4:21 am
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2 4 tuner Cetons - tuner conflict - no tuners available
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mmatheny » Fri Jul 14, 2017 3:54 pm
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OK, sorry if this is answered someplace else (the bug report thread is a mess!) but I have NEVER had this happen in many years I have had this same setup, and seems to have started since I installed EPG123 last weekend. Twice this week it all of a sudden won't tune any channels - tuner conflict, no...
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BTW Great product!!
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Last post by mmatheny
Sat Jul 15, 2017 9:33 pm
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No guide data in WMC after EPG123 install
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denschwee » Wed Jul 12, 2017 11:49 pm
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Hello! I'm new to this forum and program EPG123. I have a membership with Schedules Direct and installed everything the correct way on my PC for the WMC guide data. I was wondering once completing the EPG123 configuration, if the guide in WMC is to show the data immediately, because mine isn't. Do...
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actually, I'm sure I was NOT in the directory you indicated.
C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\eHome
I was definitely in
C:\Windows\ehome
when I went to the directory that you posted, it indicated
1) the files were all new, as of this morning
2) I have no idea what I'm doing! :oops: but at least I know...
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Last post by ekw
Sat Jul 15, 2017 4:35 pm
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Move EPG123 install to a different drive?
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gsr » Fri Jul 14, 2017 4:24 pm
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After I went through the entire installation and configuration process, it occurred to me that having EPG123 do the guide updates on my C: drive, which is an SSD, every day might not be ideal. As long as I update the scheduled task and shortcuts for running the EPG123 GUI to point to the new drive,...
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You can adjust the schedule so that the update runs at a time when any disk load it is not going to impact other processes (not that I think it would with an SSD).
Something like Recorded TV is disk intensive and so is a good case for not using the OS drive. But I wouldn't worry about EPG123.
But...
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Last post by IT Troll
Sat Jul 15, 2017 7:32 am
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Just Switch to EPG123 - Each Ch# Listed 2x
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jfreiman » Sat Jul 08, 2017 1:46 am
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I've got a problem that I don't think is directly related to EPG123, where after installing EPG123 -- I have each channel NUMBER listed two times.
I know some channels are listed multiple times on different channels numbers, but all of these duplicates are driving me crazy and I think it's...
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If there happens to be a way to do this automatically as part of the EPG123 setup, that would be nice as it would save an extra step, but it's not the end of the world.
Unfortunately no. I don't want to run the risk of epg123 guessing wrong whether the devices installed in WMC are connected to the...
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Last post by gsr
Fri Jul 14, 2017 5:42 pm
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The eHome directory is not deleting
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squidboy » Thu Jul 13, 2017 1:33 pm
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Im trying to set this up and I did the clean start in safe mode but that ehome directory is still there with all its contents. should the entire folder be gone or just its contents?
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And we are up and running again.
Good, now take a snapshot of your system.
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Last post by Scallica
Fri Jul 14, 2017 10:31 am
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Problems getting EPG123 Guide to Show in WMC win7
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rronne » Sat Jul 08, 2017 3:18 pm
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I have now tried twice and I must be doing something wrong, but I can not figure out what.
I tried very carefully to follow the installation pdf. My machine:
Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 with standard Windows Media Center Installed
Ceton InfiniTV4
HD Homerun (3 Channel)
Ceton Echo
My problem is...
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There are 2 things that need to happen at this point to populate the guide. That mxf needs to imported into the database, and the guide listings need to be matched to the tuner channel. Both can be handled in the client GUI.
Open EPG123 Client, click the button, and select the epg123.mxf file....
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Last post by turbo111
Fri Jul 14, 2017 9:37 am
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Would a guide update stop recordings?
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dazz553 » Mon Jul 10, 2017 3:28 pm
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This morning I had two shows recording and they were interrupted by something: manually stopped for use by another component . I don't know what would cause that and haven't seen that before. Since I only started using EPG123 a few days ago, I have to ask whether there is anyway e.g. a scheduled...
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Is it obvious that if there was a new DHCP server on the network some or all clients would respond by getting a new IP address?
No, more like the DHCP servers would step on each other trying to service any machine requesting an IP address. There would also be the possibility of assigning duplicate...
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Last post by garyan2
Fri Jul 14, 2017 3:29 am
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Actor Lookup
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marvin-miller » Mon Jul 10, 2017 6:19 pm
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I have no idea if this is related to EPG or not but I've seen issues over the last few years (?) with respect to looking up Actors and the movies they are in. As an example;
I go to My Recordings, add recording, search by actor name. I then punch in the actor name and often I will get no results....
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I guess I feel we really are completely divorced from Microsoft with EPG123. Just in this divorce Microsoft kept the dog (Actor filmography lookup capability) :D
It would be nice to be completely free of Microsoft/Rovi. But loosing yet more functionality is really a lot like this;
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Last post by marvin-miller
Fri Jul 14, 2017 1:37 am
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What is the best workflow to configure 5+ WMC PCs w/ EPG123?
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JShort » Sat Jul 08, 2017 9:25 pm
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The EPG123 guide makes sense and one PC is working great! ROVI has been such a PITA for months now. So, let me begin by shouting out three cheers for Gary Ryan and his EPG123 program! I just made a PayPal donation and hope others are compelled to help as well.
So, as the post title says, what is...
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Yeah, l figured out the epg123Task.xml thing as I played with a .bat... but have some nifty line edit code saved for another day. Too bad my only dual boot these days is Win7/'Nix... still, fun to think about. I'll save this away with my 'WMC for Win10' archive, which I hope to never need.
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Last post by d00zah
Thu Jul 13, 2017 11:44 pm
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New vs. Repeat
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Burger23 » Tue Jul 11, 2017 11:24 pm
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I installed EPG123 yesterday- install went perfectly. LOVE IT.
One issue came up- and it may have nothing to do with EPG123. But I'll ask anyway! I am getting repeats listed as NEW. A repeat of BULL is being shown tonight. It is listed as Scheduled to Record. Yet the original air date is listed as...
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Space's solution above solved issue for me:
select episode, select record series and then select do not record (assuming the default is set to New ) in order for it to not record the repeat episode of which you are currently viewing the details.
Another way to do it is to use the search function...
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Last post by Burger23
Thu Jul 13, 2017 4:14 pm
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EPG123 and my MC app?
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hsolo » Wed Jul 12, 2017 11:14 pm
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I installed EPG123 last night, and the guide in WMC updated fine, all channels now have guide data (Yeah!).
I am having a strange experience when using my MC app on an Iphone-
All scheduled recording show up fine in the app
I can search for shows and set recording totally fine
But if I try to look...
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Clear the MMC cache and let it rebuild. Should be it.
Thanks for the quick replies.
Clearing the cache fixed it.
I totally forgot that was even an option in the app seetings.
Thanks again for helping me figure this out!
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Wed Jul 12, 2017 11:25 pm
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Lineup Services in client is blank
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JDP » Sat Jul 08, 2017 3:50 pm
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Hi guys,
running into an issue in setting up EPG123 for the firs time, in that in the client, my service lineup is blank, as if its not getting the lineup from SD. I am running 1.1.10 EPG123 on a Win8.1 machine. I confirmed my login to SD twice and have followed the steps outlined in the PDF a few...
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I just wanted to say thank you - I was having an issue after installing EPG123 and couldn't figure out what was going wrong, it turns out I just had to delete C:\ProgramData\MyChannelLogos\settings.xml and the setup works as intended. Now if I can only figure out how to get all of my big logs back,...
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Wed Jul 12, 2017 8:30 pm
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Major Snafu with EPG123 setup
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Alan G » Tue Jul 11, 2017 11:53 pm
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I went through the whole process of setting up epg123 and at the end when I restarted WMC it wants me to go through the whole cable card set up. I thought that this was something that was not affected. I am running a Win7 machine with a Hauppauge! two channel tuner. I did read the bit about the...
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Yep, no import progress, no guide data. Did you check the boxes in the EPG123 GUI labeled Automatically import guide data into WMC and Automatically match stations to channels ?
Yes, everything was checked. At the same time I was doing all this, there were Windows updates being downloaded (though...
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Last post by Alan G
Wed Jul 12, 2017 1:05 am
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How to stop auto update
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arcturus » Tue Jul 11, 2017 2:05 pm
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My Schedules Direct subscription expired. How do I stop EPG from connecting? Client and EPG.exe update functions appear grayed out. Clicking delete button doesn't allow to uncheck auto update (full mode).
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Delete or disable the scheduled task.
Start-->Control Panel-->Administrative Tools-->Scheduled Tasks
Nice, that's what I'll do.
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Last post by arcturus
Wed Jul 12, 2017 12:34 am
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Missing a few logos
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roberto188@gmail.com » Tue Jul 11, 2017 8:29 pm
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95% of the logos show up, but a few don't. any idea on how to fix this? I know i've got them downloaded because i verified in the folder, just don't show up in the guide.
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My FIOS1NJ logo wasn't coming up, so i checked the logos folder and the png file was named FIOS1, not FIOS1NJ, so I renamed it and reimported the mxf file. Still not go.
Copy your FIOS1NJ.png to FIOS1.png so that both channels will have the same logo.
In order for the logos to be present in the...
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Last post by garyan2
Wed Jul 12, 2017 12:08 am
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New to EPG123 having problems
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smoothboy2 » Tue Jul 11, 2017 10:28 pm
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I am new to EPG123. I obtained a Schedules Direct Account and downloaded and installed EPG123.
I first tried the Step 1 method and was able to download the channel lineup for my zip code. When I opened the WMC Guide I had the correct channel lineup but every channel said No Data Available. Also...
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It's very likely you've missed something... not sure we know how you configured well enough to say what.
In the EPG123 GUI, all the channels you wanted had checkboxes? Did you enable automatch? There's a little green ball over your lineup (e.g., include, not exclude)?
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Last post by webminster
Tue Jul 11, 2017 10:53 pm
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After EPG123, WMC setup hangs
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dochockey » Sun Jul 09, 2017 10:24 pm
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I have successfully installed EPG123 on one computer on my home network. The second computer will not install. I have tried it several times. The clean start button will not work, so I used a safe boot and that worked. Then. I rebooted and went into WMC and went through the TV Setup. When it gets...
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Hmmm ... sacrifice any chickens to lift the curse?!?
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Last post by garyan2
Tue Jul 11, 2017 9:24 pm
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Install without updating media center TV signal
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roberto188@gmail.com » Tue Jul 11, 2017 12:35 pm
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Is there a way, even if it's manually to install EPG123 without having to resettup the TV signal in WMC. I ask because I have a number of WMCs running remotely that I gain access to via Remote Desktop, and under RD Media Center does not allow you to setup a TV signal. Any advice or is this just a...
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Then doing just step 3 will hold you over just fine.
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Last post by garyan2
Tue Jul 11, 2017 6:03 pm
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New to EPG123 and started getting warning
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jamestx10 » Mon Jul 10, 2017 2:27 pm
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New user so maybe I missed this. The first few days I had no warnings but now I am seeing this in the log:
Failed to parse the schedule Md5 return for stationId 91994 (ACUWTHH) on 2017-07-10 and after.
Failed to parse the schedule Md5 return for stationId 102454 (FRT166H) on 2017-07-10 and...
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Long time EPG123 user. Those errors occur occasionally and are usually due to issues with Schedules Direct data. 95% of the time the issue is fixed within hours... occasionally days. Since I get 21 days of data, it's never an issue for me. The problem gets resolved usually before I knew there was a...
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Last post by Sammy2
Tue Jul 11, 2017 2:23 pm
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Can I edit channels in Media Center?
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bradly1101 » Thu Jul 06, 2017 12:07 am
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So far everything is working fine for me. I'd like to edit channels in Media Center so I can preview. Is that possible, or will it just get overwritten on the next import?
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So, the question comes down to once EPG123 is all setup, I can use the normal WMC methods to edit channels with WMC or 3rd party programs (guide tool), work fine as they always have ?
Yup, everything works as they did with Rovi, except you know ...
Accurate guide data
Movie production year and...
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Mon Jul 10, 2017 2:28 am
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A few issues switching to EPG123
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Zumaone » Sun Jul 09, 2017 8:31 pm
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Hello, Finally got tired of the guide issues with MS/Rovi and ran into the three following issues I hope someone can help with:
1. During EPG123 initial setup, you select your area and it lists guides available for your area. On this list, it says double click to select or right click to preview....
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Yes, I have the tuner channels on the left.
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Mon Jul 10, 2017 12:25 am
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Automatic WMC update
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seacom » Sun Jul 09, 2017 4:31 pm
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Should I accept WMC update notification? I have installed EPG123 client 2 days ago I am getting automatic WMC notification from the PC window I am suspecting it's the Rovi/Microsoft regular updates I used to get before installing EPG123 client? :?
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Fair enough. I'm all 'Emby for WMC', except for TV. Currently no viable substitute for TV in WMC, but for all other libraries, Emby make things VERY attractive. Point was, it made the 'Green Orb' go away.
I haven't used the Emby for WMC in quite a while. It was a staple for a long time since I...
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Last post by garyan2
Sun Jul 09, 2017 11:24 pm
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EPG123 Guide Info Question
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Ken H » Wed Jul 05, 2017 2:15 am
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For films, is the year of release consistently listed?
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Not a problem at all, deselect the Include station logos from .\logos directory and you will be fine. MCL will be just like it was.
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Sun Jul 09, 2017 10:35 pm
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Don't understand channel management
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dazz553 » Sun Jul 09, 2017 3:34 pm
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There are three channel listings. Can someone please describe what they all mean? Why is it so complicated? Why can't I simply manage a single list of channels, and check the box if I want the channel to appear in the guide? Also, there is an issue with channel 501 described below.
By the way a...
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This arrangement of (un)subscribe is necessary to accommodate all users, especially international users. Some of the lineups provided by Gracenote are incomplete or incorrect. The flexibility of EPG123 here allows any user to manually apply any station listing to any tuner channel; basically tailor...
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Last post by garyan2
Sun Jul 09, 2017 4:08 pm
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After installing, I see "live tv setup"
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dazz553 » Thu Jul 06, 2017 5:41 am
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It seems that after following the instructions (including Clean start ) that I am magically supposed to see the guide data in WMC. Instead, I see what I've seen ever since the Clean start step, which is live tv setup . I tried Rebuild WMC Database a couple times. Although in the epg123 client there...
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Awesome. Thanks for updating us. :thumbup:
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Sun Jul 09, 2017 3:10 pm
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Question about WMC guide update
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KarterJK » Sun Jul 09, 2017 12:53 pm
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EPG123 is great, no problems what so ever..
My question has to do with when the guide updates. I edit my channels and remove any that are unnecessary (example 700, 701). It used to be that when Windows updated the guide it put those channels back in, making me have to edit them again. Using...
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Here are some rules concerning this question.
If the station is not selected for download (EPG123 GUI) then it will not be available in the guide.
If the channel is disabled in the guide, EPG123 respects that and leaves it disabled.
If you delete the tuner channel, EPG123 does not add tuner...
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Last post by garyan2
Sun Jul 09, 2017 3:03 pm
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Question about moving to EPG123 and DRM
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okuturn » Sat Jul 01, 2017 11:37 pm
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With the current problems with the guide on WMC I'm interested in moving over to this solution. I couldn't find reference to this so I thought I'd ask. I see the installation prefers a clean install . Will this affect the cablecard DRM activation that is already in place on my machine? I have a lot...
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Just a few more questions PLEASE:
I have MyMovies working perfectly with hundreds of movies and TV seasons. Any issues?
My wife and I do a bunch of recording HD TV to be time shifted. Any issues? What about fast forwarding threw commercials. Any issues?
What about CableCard DRM? What about already...
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Sun Jul 09, 2017 2:32 pm
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EPG123 works great but have a question
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iasm » Sat Jul 08, 2017 8:30 pm
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Very happy with the switch so far and did donate and encourage others to do the same if there pleased.
Not sure if my question is even related to the guide. I have locals on both cable and ota.. I try to record locals using the ota tuner (hd home run) not the cable channels since it frees up space...
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To step through the process, go to edit channels and select the ATSC channel 4.1
Select Edit Listings
type the first 4 letters of the channel callsign and hit enter, this will quickly get you to the cable channel
select the callsign with the cable channel 104 to the left of it
select Combine...
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Sat Jul 08, 2017 9:39 pm
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Getting Recordings Working?
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Fuzzball » Sat Jul 08, 2017 4:28 am
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The latest Rovi/MS guide data headache left me with a lot of missing guide data as of late and pushed me to finally switch to EPG123. I backed up my series recordings and did a restore after epg123's guide data was in place. I can see the 170+ series from before, but nothing is set to record.
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I do the same thing with zap2it. Mark all the series as My Fave and then look at View My Calendar to look for all the episodes marked NEW .
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Last post by Space
Sat Jul 08, 2017 6:32 pm
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Attempting update, hard crashes
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RiC0MD » Sat Jul 08, 2017 3:50 am
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Running into an issue, so I too was no longer getting guide updates, so decided to give EPG123 a try.
Rebooted in safe mode, did step 1 clean
Rebooted back to normal, proceeded with the rest of the steps in the PDF, when I click save and execute, I can see a progress bar come up for a brief second...
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Okay, sometimes I am blind to my own code. The only catch I had setup for this function was an IO exception, nothing to catch an xml parsing exception. Easy fix.
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Last post by garyan2
Sat Jul 08, 2017 4:33 pm
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Noobie question re scheduling update
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Dean L. Surkin » Fri Jul 07, 2017 2:03 am
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I checked the option to automatically import listings to WMC, and the box to set time to update the listings is grayed out. Is this normal behavior?
When I look at WMC, all guide data has been populated.
Win 7 SP1, EPG 1.1.10, HDHomeRun cable card tuner.
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Thank you. I deleted the task set for 00:00 and created a new one for 12:00. I also made a PayPal donation to you.
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Sat Jul 08, 2017 12:44 pm
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EPG123 Data Not Showing in WMC
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Kayser273 » Fri Jul 07, 2017 6:45 pm
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I have been using EPG123 for a couple weeks flawlessly until today when I had an unrelated issue that made me reload EPG123 and now it is not showing listings in WMC.
Due to issues getting some of my channels recently I followed the guide elsewhere in this forum to reload the DRM function in WMC....
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Thanks for the quick reply...after rechecking all the settings, the Automatically match stations to channels button wasn't clicked. It was odd because every other setting carried over from the old version to the new one without having to alter anything but for some reason that became unchecked....
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Sat Jul 08, 2017 3:27 am
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MXF custom location on server?
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plharvey » Sat Jul 08, 2017 1:44 am
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I have a NAS that I would like to use on my WMC computers to access the MXF file since my main computer might not be powered on at the time the guide is updated on some of them.
Is there a way to customize the location of the MXF file when EPG123 generates it?
If not, I can create a task to run...
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I have a NAS that I would like to use on my WMC computers to access the MXF file since my main computer might not be powered on at the time the guide is updated on some of them.
Is there a way to customize the location of the MXF file when EPG123 generates it?
If not, I can create a task to run...
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Last post by garyan2
Sat Jul 08, 2017 1:57 am
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New EPG123 setup - cannot get the guide to update
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GaryDZ » Fri Jul 07, 2017 1:02 am
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I followed the instruction... and cant get the EPG to update.
My client screen looks different than the walk through screen shots. The left side of the screen Guide Channels has all of the channel numbers checked. but no service names. See attachement. I tried to clean start a few times, Rebuild...
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Got it!!
Thank you
Donation coming shortly
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Last post by GJ51
Fri Jul 07, 2017 9:07 pm
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EPG123 and unsupported Win10 WMC
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SpencerC » Fri Jul 07, 2017 7:24 pm
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I'm considering converting over to EPG123 due to all of the guide issues we are experiencing lately. I am running the unsupported version of WMC on Win10. Does EPG123 support this?
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Yes.
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Fri Jul 07, 2017 7:28 pm
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EPG123 Guide not importing into WMC
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rtg_shadow » Thu Jul 06, 2017 9:58 pm
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I am running Windows 7 Home Premium and today was the final straw with the build in guide downloader that WMC has.
So I installed the latest EPG123 (1.1.10_w7) and walked through the installation guide. The first issue was when I tried to open the epg123Client I got this error:
Unhandled...
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Thanks Garyan2! I did not expect to get a response back from you tonight! But we were thinking the same thing, I went to turn windows features on and off and .NET 3.5 was turned off. So I turned it on and after that EPG123 ran without any errors and then right after my scheduled guide update time,...
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Fri Jul 07, 2017 8:10 am
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How do I update EGP123 from 102 to 119
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spyke562 » Fri Jul 07, 2017 12:44 am
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Hello everyone...kind of new to epg.
So far working great however I noticed I am missing some guide data for a few channels. As I loaded epg to check things out I see there is an update.
I downloaded, extracted, and redid my settings in the new 1.1.9 bit from looking at the scheduled tasks it...
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Oh wow good catch...I should have looked at the actual line :wtf:
Thanks again for your help and replies!
I will keep an eye on things going forward.
This all started because I lost some guide data on a few channels and I noticed some other channels had their channel logo reverted back to and...
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Fri Jul 07, 2017 6:33 am
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My Reinstallation
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Cavebat » Thu Jun 22, 2017 12:08 am
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After my reinstall of Win 7 Pro and upgrade of my hard drive to a Samsung SSD, I was unable to get the WMC guide data to download after 40 hours of troubleshooting. When submitting this problem to GB Forum over the last weekend, I was encouraged and persuaded to download and use EPG123.
After a...
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Make a System Image immediately after you get a working WMC. Actually I do a few.
1) after a basic OS
2) after all the updates
3) after all the drivers
If I mess something up, restore point or system image takes me right back to where I was before the screw up.
Go to Help...Type System Image...
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Fri Jul 07, 2017 5:12 am
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v1.1.10 Release
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Sammy2 » Thu Jul 06, 2017 11:49 pm
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As I don't have Win 8 or Win 8.1 is there a way to tell epg123 that I am in fact up to date? This version is only for that particular OS and I'd prefer not to see a notice that I'm not up to date when I don't need to update for Win7.
Thanks.
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Correct.
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Fri Jul 07, 2017 12:01 am
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EPG123 server or client?
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iasm » Thu Jul 06, 2017 4:11 am
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Looking to switch to the epg123 and read the install manual and am confused with the scheduled guide update and option server.client,or full. I use one main machine with two xboxes as extenders.
Thanks
dont want to guess at things i dont know
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Looking to switch to the epg123 and read the install manual and am confused with the scheduled guide update and option server.client,or full. I use one main machine with two xboxes as extenders.
Thanks
dont want to guess at things i dont know
In your case, you will want the Full Mode (both server...
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Thu Jul 06, 2017 4:17 am
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No guide data after EPG123 setup
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Jacksondorf » Wed Jul 05, 2017 7:09 am
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I have two WMC PC's One of them stopped showing guide data.. there was two week showing, and then over night I get the message No Guide Data. It was running the rovi data from MS. On my other one I am running epg123. So I went through the epg123 setup on the problem machine. All seemed to go fine....
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@bradly1101: feel free to delete 3 of your duplicate postings! :thumbup:
I've never seen it not import, or a least try to, when commanded. Are you sure you had the Automatically import ... checkbox checked? Was there any errors in the trace.log file that first time?
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Wed Jul 05, 2017 11:14 pm
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Schedules Direct and Ultra HD Channels
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bouvlover » Wed Jul 05, 2017 1:23 am
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I just installed EPG123 today. Installation went very smoothly, despite my reluctance to mess with my WMC PC. :roll: I have Comcast HD service. Prior to today I had channels going up as far as 1400 (as I recall). Comcast had recently added a whole section of Ultra HD channels that they are working...
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Thanks garyan2 and rkulagow for your responses. I just submitted a ticket to Schedules Direct and sent them a link to the channel lineup in my area. Thank you both for your help. :)
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Wed Jul 05, 2017 8:37 pm
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EPG123 1.1.4 crashing during import
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webminster » Thu Jun 29, 2017 2:03 pm
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Been running 1.1.4 for a couple months now, last two days it's started failing for some reason. Yesterday, the following at the tail of the trace log:
Entering writeMxf().
Exiting writeMxf(). SUCCESS.
Entering writeImageArchive().
Exiting writeImageArchive(). SUCCESS.
4797 files deleted...
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No. By default it is 9999.
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Wed Jul 05, 2017 12:25 am
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Upgrade vs. clean install
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captain_video » Tue Jul 04, 2017 1:40 pm
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I've been using EPG123 for quite some time and I love it. I'm currently at version 1.1.3 and I wanted to upgrade to the latest version. I looked at the installation instructions and saw that it only addresses a clean install and not an upgrade. In the past I just unzipped the files and copied them...
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Your PSA says to start on step 3. Is conflict with ROVI no longer a problem?
On Create a scheduled task, I wasn't sure which mode to use. I import programming straight to my server from the Internet along with a tv. I have 2 satellite tv's using xbox.
My PSA was strictly for a stop-gap for those...
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Last post by garyan2
Tue Jul 04, 2017 6:17 pm
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EPG123 is not populating the guide
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KarterJK » Mon Jul 03, 2017 12:08 pm
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I must be doing something wrong because because it just isn't populating the guide.
I am running
Windows 8.1 WMC
version 1.1.9 EPG123
I select 'I do not agree' under Program Terms of advice
run 123EPG
it processes and creates the proper files
but it isn't being sent to Media Player
what am I...
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Just an update ... it appears the client will not work with the Windows 8.0 version of WMC. It works fine for Windows 8.1, but the mcepg.dll which is referenced in my code is different enough that it will not work.
:oops: After 16 months, nobody ever told me it didn't work in Win8. :oops:
I...
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Tue Jul 04, 2017 4:33 am
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New EPG123 setup only finding 2 tuners
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adcsstl » Sun Jul 02, 2017 2:59 pm
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I am trying to setup EPG123 so that my guide actually works. However, during step 2 when I decline the Programming Guide Terms of Service, WMC only recognizes 2 tuners. I have accept the Terms of Service, it recognizes that I have 3 tuners. I have an HD Homerun Prime. What do I need to do to make...
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I do re-run Tuner Salad each time I update though.
:?: You only need to re-run Tuner Salad if you do Step 1, or possibly a Database Rebuild. What do you do when you update?
OK, I now realize my updates didn't go as planned... I think I went from 1.0.2 to 1.1.6 during the upstream outage, which...
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Mon Jul 03, 2017 5:53 pm
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v1.1.9 Release
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garyan2 » Sat Jul 01, 2017 5:37 am
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Added some more enhancements and a more focused method of using the station logos provided by SD/Gracenote.
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Hey Gary,
Can you put the install directory location back in when updating? I guess it keeps the location in the registry or somewhere.
I have it installed to 'C:\Program Files (86)\epg123'. When your installer became available and it asked where I wanted to install it to, I picked 'C:\Program...
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Last post by garyan2
Mon Jul 03, 2017 2:31 pm
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Can't download guide data as of SD anniversary date
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dougn » Sat Apr 22, 2017 1:12 am
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I've been using EPG123 with Schedules Direct since April of 2016. My SD subscription was set to expire on April 22, 2017. Several weeks ago I renewed SD. When I login to my SD account it shows that my account is now good through April of 2018. When I bring up the GUI in EPG123 it also shows...
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This brings up an idea for a feature request. Would it be terribly hard to put a summary in the event log or trace log after a update run that says something like :
retrieved data for for channels , channels had fewer days of data.
I notice that the OC types over in the rovi guide threads are...
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Last post by stuartm
Sat Jul 01, 2017 12:01 am
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Reasons the guide will not update using v1.1.8
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kd6icz » Tue Jun 27, 2017 3:07 am
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I feel like at this point I should be a veteran user going back 10 months now....
This is a brand new build that's been up one week now. 1.1.8. I scheduled the daily update to occur at a random time early in the morning. I don't think anything is recording and the first time I scheduled it for...
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its the regular guide
Sorry to hear that. Condolences to you and yours. :angel:
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Last post by garyan2
Thu Jun 29, 2017 12:25 am
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Create custom xml file?
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eric859 » Mon Jun 26, 2017 9:03 pm
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Can I use EPG123 to create a custom populated xml file to match the iptv channels I use? If not, does anyone know of a different program?
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Can I use EPG123 to create a custom populated xml file to match the iptv channels I use? If not, does anyone know of a different program?
If I understand what you want to do correctly, the answer is Not Yet , but it is planned.
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Tue Jun 27, 2017 12:53 am
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New User Error
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DanITman » Sat Jun 24, 2017 3:55 pm
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Just getting started with epg123 and every time I run the client software I get a .net frame work error. I plan to convert to epg123 this weekend. Thanks
Here is the error:
Passed Lineup does not have a WMIS Uld with its headend Id. Parameter name: lineup
See the end of this message for details...
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I also just put in a safeguard against importing guide listings when there are no tuners configured. So thank you for reporting the issue! Your experience just made epg123 just a bit better. :thumbup:
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Sat Jun 24, 2017 5:38 pm
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v1.1.8 Release
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Sammy2 » Mon Jun 19, 2017 11:40 am
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now have the option to download channel logos from Schedules Direct right into your guide. EPG123 will download, crop, resize, and save in the .\logos folder automatically. Currently logos are saved at 225×75 pixels which may change in the future or allow the option for 96×42 pixels. The initial...
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I'll give it a whirl and report back my findings.
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Fri Jun 23, 2017 9:19 pm
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Father Brown Series and Episodes
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mldenison » Fri Jun 23, 2017 5:52 pm
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I'm curious if it's an EPG123 or SD issue where the Father Brown series on PBS comes through with no series or episode information. Or something else.
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I'm curious if it's an EPG123 or SD issue where the Father Brown series on PBS comes through with no series or episode information. Or something else.
I'm getting series/episode information no problem. Might be something else ... have you checked zap2it for your lineup to compare?
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Fri Jun 23, 2017 6:13 pm
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I installed the 1.1.8 "installer" on a brand new W8 box toda
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kd6icz » Wed Jun 21, 2017 2:39 am
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I just wanted to let you know Ryan.
I do have a technical question though. When checking the box that says use the word new instead of the original aired date, does that affect the recording scheduler in any way? Meaning can WMC still tell the difference between new vs. reruns?
Sent from my...
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This should affect all airings of that episode, not just the one that has the NEW flag, so all airings will have the new OAD (but WMC will only record one of them).
You've got it right, Space. I'm just going to add 1 technical clarification. All airings of that episode will have the new OAD as...
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Fri Jun 23, 2017 2:42 pm
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How to fix: "ERROR: Access is denied." ?
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seanbperiod » Wed Jun 21, 2017 4:02 pm
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I'm running v1.1.8 but the scheduled task comes up as Access Denied. How do I fix this so I don't have to manually update?
Thanks!
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Right. The scheduled task will still run. You just won't be able to see the status in GUI unless running it as administrator.
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Wed Jun 21, 2017 5:14 pm
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Station Number Mismatch
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Sammy2 » Mon Jun 19, 2017 2:51 pm
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Beginning epg123 update execution.
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Beginning EPG123 update execution. 2017-06-19 08:15:00Z
DaysToDownload: 30 , PrefixEpisodeTitle:...
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Entering getAllScheduleEntryMd5s() for 30 days on 441 stations.
Successfully retrieved Md5s for 441 station's daily schedules.
Found 8105 cached daily schedules.
Successfully retrieved 436 station's daily schedules.
Downloaded 1247 daily schedules.
Processed 9352 daily schedules for 441...
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Mon Jun 19, 2017 4:20 pm
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v1.1.7 Release
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garyan2 » Thu Jun 15, 2017 3:34 am
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One last quick release to put in some more protections and include automatic backups of your configuration file when changed, and the ehome\backup files whenever the Step 1 button is used.
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You have the option to do either... whichever you prefer.
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Sun Jun 18, 2017 6:50 am
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Deleted LineUp
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rjj21 » Thu Jun 08, 2017 1:24 pm
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I suddenly have no guide data in Media Center. I was using v 1.0.2. I tried to upgrade to 1.1.5 when I saw data was missing but when I run EPG123 Configuration and click LineUps button it shows a window with Transport=Deleted and Name = DELETED LINEUP. If I try to add new it tells me Selected...
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End date now 7-7-2017 this is great news.
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Sat Jun 17, 2017 7:58 am
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SD deleted my channel line ups
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jethro67 » Tue Jun 13, 2017 8:04 am
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This is getting as bad as rovi :roll:
If I try to make a new one it just deletes it as soon as I save it.
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7-7-2017 end date Yea!!! thanks guys
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Sat Jun 17, 2017 7:57 am
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Cannot Search EPG123 Guide Listings
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Tntsotb » Mon Jun 05, 2017 5:12 pm
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Uninstalled epg123 v1.0.2 because could not search EPG listings through WMC and series recording requests not being honored
Installed epg123 v1.1.4
Guide search and series recordings worked perfectly for ~ 3 weeks
Now cannot search EPG listings through WMC
Now series recording requests are not...
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Gary, Space: Thanks for all of your assistance with my problem, which is now resolved.
I performed a database rebuild from the epg123 Client gui. Although I provided it with the .mxf file in my epg123 directory, the DB rebuild wiped out all of the guide listings within WMC. I manually ran the...
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Fri Jun 16, 2017 4:57 pm
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Comcast Lineup Update
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mldenison » Tue Jun 06, 2017 11:43 am
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This past Saturday, I got a message in WMC that a new cablecard was detected. I see this message every week or two and always attributed it to the vagaries of WMC. I always run through the setup anyway.
This time, it made me choose a new Comcast provider type (digital). It then downloaded the...
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Sweet. Thanks.
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Thu Jun 15, 2017 3:49 am
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v1.1.6 Release
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garyan2 » Fri Jun 09, 2017 10:34 pm
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In light of the recent issues, I thought I would do a quick release that contains one more check to help mitigate any impact to the user's guide listings when something like this happens again.
What is in place:
v1.1.0 and above counts the number of stations downloaded during an update and...
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^just in time to update to 1.1.7 if you're up to it!
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Thu Jun 15, 2017 3:42 am
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Unable to cast object of type 'Microsoft.MediaCenter.Guide.C
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bennytheball » Wed Jun 14, 2017 8:01 pm
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Have a problem with 1.1.6 that is preventing loadmfx from running. Had the same error on 1.0.0 but loadmfx still ran ok.
====================== Beginning epg123 client execution. =====================
Import=True , Match=True , NoLogo=False
Beginning epg123 client execution.
import filename =...
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Not being able to open the client GUI suggests you have a database corruption. Normally I would recommend doing a database rebuild. Since you can't open the GUI (I'll have to figure out why I'm not catching that), you would need to boot into Safe Mode to do it ... the client GUI doesn't try to open...
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Wed Jun 14, 2017 10:31 pm
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Made the plunge to v1.1.6 Clean then Errors
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Sammy2 » Tue Jun 13, 2017 2:27 pm
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Okay. I did it finally.
I did a manual run right after installation and the trace.log shows what looks to be a clean run. I deleted and created a new task using the buttons in the GUI on the epg123 configuration menu. I do not have multiple machines getting guide data so I didn't do it in the...
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Last night's scheduled run was clean but I'm still only seeing 14 days in my guide. I'm not sure if it is current beyond 7 days but will monitor it.
As far as automatch goes, I think I'll be enabling that before I put in my ticket with Schedules Direct. I know I lost one channel recently but I...
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Wed Jun 14, 2017 3:41 pm
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Diminishing Listings
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aptrpt » Fri Apr 21, 2017 11:52 pm
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I have noticed that during the last two weeks or so, I am getting fewer listings than before. Some days I am down to 17 days out of 21, on others it will download most of the 21, but half of the channels will not contain data. There are no errors showing up on the epg123 log.
Is anyone else...
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Are these upstream issues common? I haven't been around that long to know the history but I sometimes wonder if getting timely program guides from any source has become one big cluster.
I've been using Schedules Direct/Gracenote for nearly 2 years now and as far as upstream problems they've been...
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Wed Jun 14, 2017 4:19 am
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Log reporting incorrect time
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DOS4EVER » Mon Jun 12, 2017 2:42 pm
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My log is reporting the incorrect time; it seems to be five hours ahead. My PC date and time are correct.
It should read 09:36...
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Activating the epg123 configuration GUI....
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Next rev will be back to local time ... just added an entry in the log with to record GMT as suggested.
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Tue Jun 13, 2017 5:06 pm
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Get Guide Data From Different Source?
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Octavean » Fri Jun 09, 2017 6:22 pm
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Recently, Plex has released PleX DVR. It uses a complete guide data list which is free for all users of Plex DVR and has recently added Live TV. It requires a Plex Pass however.
My question:
Is it possible to access the guide data from Plex DVR for EPG123,...?
Or rather how feasible would it be...
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Where does Plex get it's data? AFAIK it is from Gracenote, SchedulesDirect's upstream provider .
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Mon Jun 12, 2017 4:04 pm
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Getting guide data back
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eyeSpy » Sun Jun 11, 2017 6:36 pm
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After many months of things running flawlessly, the SD interruption has caused me to do many potentially dumb things to try to get back to normal. I had gotten pretty close but the fact that WMC still had channels that I wasn't pulling was bothering me, since those had No data available in the EPG....
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If you do the TV Setup again, it breaks the link between channel and epg123 guide information. You have to reimport the .mxf file and rematch the listings to the channels.
Open EPG123 Client (epg123Client.exe).
Click the button and select your 'epg123.mxf' file.
Once it completes, click the...
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Sun Jun 11, 2017 7:23 pm
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Reading the log
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rjj21 » Sun Jun 11, 2017 6:36 pm
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Before I post a ticket with Schedules Direct I want to validate I am reading the log entries properly. First question is how do I know how many days were retrieved (I know they should be sending roughly 7 right now). I ask for 30 which probably exceeds their normal capability but I can't seem to...
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Before I post a ticket with Schedules Direct I want to validate I am reading the log entries properly. First question is how do I know how many days were retrieved (I know they should be sending roughly 7 right now). I ask for 30 which probably exceeds their normal capability but I can't seem to...
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Sun Jun 11, 2017 7:14 pm
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Command Line Argument Confusion
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rimmel » Sun Jun 11, 2017 1:21 am
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Because of the Schedule Direct service outage I have not run an update in a few days. However, before that I was running epg123.exe v1.1.4 without command line arguments. It says in the V1.1.4 guide that epg123.exe has one argument that Creates the WMC EPG guide .mxf file according to the...
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epg123.exe => EPG123 GUI
epg123.exe -update => creates the mxf file
epg123.exe -update -p => creates the mxf file and shows the progress window
If you do a save and execute from the GUI, it will close the GUI and basically perform a -update -p.
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Sun Jun 11, 2017 1:28 am
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EPG123 newbie - channels missing
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anywhereelse » Tue Jun 06, 2017 10:16 pm
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Hi, I'm completely new at this, and I hope someone can point me in the right direction. I'm in the UK, and have moved into a house that has a satellite dish - no conventional TV aerial. My Win7 Media Centre now has a TBS8900 DVB-S2 TV card, which receives Freesat okay, and I've just discovered the...
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Hi Gary, a huge thank you for this - it's absolutely crystal clear and I think I now have all the channels working as advertised. Thanks again! Jeremy
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Fri Jun 09, 2017 10:22 pm
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EPG123 1.1.5 Guide Data Missing
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wuping » Fri Jun 09, 2017 6:03 pm
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I'm having a issue with some of my channels missing guide data, I've ran it a few time and even reinstalled and reset the WMC database nothing has worked so far. The logs are below.
Activating the epg123 configuration GUI....
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Gracenote, the upstream provider to Schedules Direct, is having issues with their API/CDN servers. It is actively being worked right now and from the sounds of it should be fixed sometime today.
thanks for the info
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Fri Jun 09, 2017 6:23 pm
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Failed to parse the schedule Md5 return
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Sammy2 » Sun Apr 23, 2017 12:54 pm
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I'm back on v1.0.2 because it works pretty well and I don't want to mess with success. At any rate, I think this has been discussed before but I don't remember what the course of action is/was.. Here's a snippet of my log from today. I had one of these for various different stationId's in the past...
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It's baaack!
Last night's run and then a manual run. I check again later and if it persists I'll open a ticket with Schedules Direct.
Search before posting :)
I guess I could have but I have this thread bookmarked and just went directly to it to post. Lesson learned and I won't be doing...
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Thu Jun 08, 2017 5:38 pm
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v1.1.5 Release
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garyan2 » Tue Jun 06, 2017 2:23 pm
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I let v1.1.5 into the wild this morning. A lot of behind the scenes work in support of future growth in an all in one package.
Created installation package for future updates and upgrades
Revamped the trace and event logging for better support of multiple programs. Now have 2 sources in Event...
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Right now, I have the privileges required at admin, my other options are poweruser, lowest, and none. I can run some scenarios and see if poweruser will be possible.
If the end game is to have install as a service then it is still going to need admin rights. If the next step is a System Tray tool...
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Last post by IT Troll
Thu Jun 08, 2017 9:22 am
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Missing channels
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prairiedog » Thu Jun 08, 2017 2:44 am
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I am using WMC on Windows 8.1, fully updated.
Tonight I noticed there were only 3 channels in the lineup and as I investigated more I saw EPG123 was not seeing any channels above 725 - and all but 3 I subscribe to are above that. I checked the lineup on Schedules Direct and it lists all the...
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Yep, he just replied to me at SD. Thank you!
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Thu Jun 08, 2017 3:15 am
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Issue with HDHomerun Prime and WMC
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jasonmcroy » Mon Jun 05, 2017 8:30 pm
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So, this topic may or may not be related to epg123 specifically but the issue is preventing me from using epg123 so I thought I would start here.
A little background: I have just signed up for Cable TV and I am using an HDHomerun Prime. I had Cable TV about 6 months ago but cancelled it due to...
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I just wanted to give an update. I reinstalled 8.1 (this time I downloaded the ISO from Microsoft instead of using my original disk - save me TONS of time on installing updates!) and all went very smoothly.
I just installed and ran epg123 and all looks good. WMC picked up the Prime and my ATSC...
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Last post by bobbyp9999
Wed Jun 07, 2017 2:17 am
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EPG123 v1.14 Epic Fail
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ViperJohn » Wed May 17, 2017 12:51 am
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Classic case of If It Ain't Broke Don't Fix It here. Been using 1.02 for a long time after starting with and initial setup using an early .9x version if memory serves. v1.02 has been flawless but being long in the tooth thought I would upgrade to v1.14. I upgraded like I have in the past by just...
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Speaking of, when I was working on the future system tray component, I recall wishing I had a SVG of the logo to work with. Did you happen to make one and if so could you send it to me?
Sorry, it only ever existed as a bitmap, never a vector. SVG is flexible, but when you get down to the smaller...
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Mon Jun 05, 2017 1:12 pm
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EPG123 locks/hangs WMC guide
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cordcut2013 » Thu May 18, 2017 1:14 am
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I have been fortunate and have had very few, relatively minor and solvable problems with WMC over the past several years of using it. I converted to Rovi back when MS dropped the service and had been using Rovi for my OTA menu without problems until I found EPG123. EPG123 is slick with much better...
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CordCut
Take a look at the Windows event log. I would bet there will be many WMC errors that may give you a clue to the lockings cause. If the log is flooded to the point you can't make heads or tails out of it clear it then reproduce your locking scenario and then check the event log again
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Mon Jun 05, 2017 6:57 am
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Removing Duplicate Channels on Multiple WMC PC's
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dafunk60 » Thu Jun 01, 2017 9:34 pm
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Comcast just added the new Master Lineup to my head end resulting in duplicates of almost every channel. One of the things I really liked about EPG123 is that I could select only the channels I wanted in the Full server & client version of epg123 and these would be the only channels I would see on...
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Yah, I'm on 'holiday' and just sitting around working on the next version since I have time. Tapatalk let me know you posted.
You will have to perform the operation on all the clients as well. Comcast appears to be doing the lineup restructure everywhere ... I would think the 'original' channel...
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Thu Jun 01, 2017 10:06 pm
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EPG123 V 1.14 & MCLXL
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jachin99 » Fri May 26, 2017 5:21 pm
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I have EPG123 v1.14 for my guide provider, and my channel logos XL for channel logos setup on a fresh install of win 7 ult. x64. I have performed the setup of epg123 a few times, including booting into safe mode, and performing step one. I cannot get guide data loaded into WMC. i am able to select...
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After reading through a few other posts, I reconfigured epg to automatch stations, and it worked so now I feel like a dummy. What command/component of windows or epg 123 performs that particular task because before I thought it was as easy as using loadmxf. Sorry for your troubles.
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Thu Jun 01, 2017 2:34 am
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Error events from EPG123
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stuartm » Sun May 28, 2017 9:35 pm
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Hi Gary, I finally have a little time to work on my notifier for when EPG123 fails to run properly. I updated one of my HTPC's to 1.1.4 and I need to generate
an error event from EPG123 to test my code. What is an easy way to do this? I tried to just run an update manually with the net unplugged,...
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That's been fixed for the next release, hopefully soon. The failure will have to happen during an update to get the 0xDEAD code in v1.1.4. Unfortunately, failing to get the token at the beginning generates an event id of 0.
To test out your code, disconnect the network after the update has started...
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Sun May 28, 2017 10:43 pm
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New to epg123, can't get epg123client to load
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seanbperiod » Tue May 23, 2017 11:32 pm
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Since the Robi guide data is no longer downloading, I thought I'd give this a try. I'm running Windows 10, with a version of Windows 8 Media Center.
Epg123 runs fine and I was able to configure it, but I can't get epg123client to run. As soon as I open it, it closes. I've also tried running as...
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Thanks. I probably do that if I run into any issues. I have a unique setup utilizing both OTA and QAM stations which the automatic scan never finds and I have to add everything manually. But I strictly use the guide and nothing else, so it sounds like I may not have any issues.
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Wed May 24, 2017 12:23 am
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Station Count Mismatches
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glorp » Wed May 17, 2017 9:18 pm
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These are snips from the last 7 days' logs. Does this seem odd or is it expected that the station count should be different than the stations data retrieved count? It started a while back and seems to vary some every day. Before that I think those two counts were always the same. I've not noticed...
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Try getting that out of Microsoft/Rovi/Tivo or whatever/whomever they are these days..
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Last post by Sammy2
Mon May 22, 2017 11:38 pm
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EPG Logos
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bigjohns97 » Wed May 17, 2017 4:18 am
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I was recently looking to switch over to the EPG logos and noticed that none of them work because Xfinity is currently duplicating a lot of channels on 600-800 range with 1000-2000 range channel numbers to be more like Uverse.
Because the EPG chooses the file name as the channel name this ends up...
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I ended up using a rename utility and then running your logos and then running MCL XL over the top and there are very few stations left that don't have logos.
You can make your own, or also download pre-made ones. Have a quick read through this one.
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Fri May 19, 2017 4:15 am
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EPG123 client can not update guide
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yucca1960 » Wed May 17, 2017 8:43 pm
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when trying to update the guide on the client computer this is the message that I get
====================== Beginning epg123 client execution. =====================
File \\hugo-server\c\epg123\epg123.mxf does not exist.
but if I do it manually will import it without problem
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thanks Garyan2 that did the trick
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Thu May 18, 2017 7:43 pm
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Lost Guide Data Last Night
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Sammy2 » Tue May 09, 2017 11:42 am
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I noticed I had no scheduled recordings this morning after WMC popped up an error about rebuilding the recording schedule. Here's the log. Tons of errors. No data in the Guide either
5/9/2017 12:51:42 AM] ===============================================================================
Beginning...
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You disabled your existing scheduled task to run epg123. Did you then select Schedule Task (or whatever it is called) in epg123 to create a new daily task?
Yes, I deleted the original epg123_update task in task scheduler (I recall having some issue deleting it from within the EPG123 client. I...
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Last post by webminster
Tue May 16, 2017 9:29 pm
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Why is my guide not updating?
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nudder » Sat May 13, 2017 12:57 am
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This is my second attempt at installation and everything seems fine but the guide is not updating. It's indicated data to 3/25/16 at 3pm since I did the initial download. The trace seems to be indicating success but the guide isn't updating. Can anyone tell from last night's trace what the issue...
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You are not importing it into the database.
If you open epg123.exe GUI, you may see red text in the Scheduled Task group the says ### Client Mode ONLY - Guide will not be downloaded. ### Your task has to be created with the 'Automatically import guide data into WMC' option selected.
The exception...
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Sat May 13, 2017 1:29 am
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After upgrading from 1.0.1 to 1.1.3, WMC crashes
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Scallica » Tue Mar 07, 2017 4:24 pm
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I upgraded my test system from 1.0.1 to 1.1.3. I followed the instructions carefully including running the utility. The WMC EPG populated successfully, but when I click on any listing in the guide, WMC crashes. I used the Clean Start feature in the EPG123 Client tool, but the results remain the...
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I can live without similar movies and reviews as long as there is some description of the movie I am happy. My concern was more based around having any reliance on Microsoft that was not something that could be turned off. Sounds like that is not the case.
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Last post by stuartm
Sun May 07, 2017 6:45 pm
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More on Logos...
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marvin-miller » Thu May 04, 2017 5:50 am
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Or should I say Moron logos ? :oops:
OK, in the docs for EPG123 it seems to say that it will automagically include logos in the .mxf file. I have no idea what this means but.....
I'm trying to get logos in the guide. So according to the docs you need to create a logos directory in the EPG...
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For UK people I have posted additional Freeview logos in the MCL thread. They never seem to get added for some reason.
These are the higher resolution 75 x 225 pixel logos which I guess get scaled automatically depending on display resolution / DPI.
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Sun May 07, 2017 3:57 pm
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Poll: What to add next?
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garyan2 » Fri Apr 21, 2017 6:19 am
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So testing the waters to see what the community thinks about future epg123 capability.
Custom Lineups: This is going to happen at some point because I want it, but think about streaming channels like SlingTV. What I do is add DirecTV and DISH in my lineups and nearly all the cable channels...
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Gary, is it possible to get EPG123 into DVBLink Server, and or Kodi?
To get epg123 in DVBLink Server, I believe it would have to be a XMLTV file. This is certainly possible to have epg123 create the file.
As far as getting it into Kodi, you can use DVBLink (with the XMLTV import) or pvr.WMC...
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Sat May 06, 2017 3:09 pm
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Single channel missing data
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nudder » Thu May 04, 2017 12:34 am
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New to EPG123 after searching for alternatives after Rovi managed to start loading channel data for the correct channel number but from a nearby city so actually for a different network.
Anyway, new installation of EPG123 with subscription to SchedulesDirect all went smoothly. Data for all...
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Well, seems to be fine now. I didn't see any errors in the log, but I noticed the data wasn't updating either, despite the log saying the daily download was completing.
So, I just started from scratch and all data is now populated. Hopefully the download will now update the listings too.
Thanks...
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Last post by nudder
Fri May 05, 2017 3:23 am
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Unhandled Exception: System.ObjectDisposedException:
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Sammy2 » Tue May 02, 2017 2:26 pm
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In addition to the errors last night's run took nearly 2 hours before it quit. I am still on v1.0.2, BTW.
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Beginning epg123 update execution....
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Any ideas?
Sent from my SM-G930P using Tapatalk
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Last post by Sammy2
Fri May 05, 2017 12:58 am
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v1.1.4 Release
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garyan2 » Sat Apr 15, 2017 9:53 pm
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I'll be releasing v1.1.4 probably later today. It will be pretty minor but some have been asking ...
added method to force guide import regardless of recording status
added exception handling for all JSON response messages from SD. Will gracefully exit instead of crashing.
added option in...
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I saw that - now you've done it, you've got me to read the manual! :clap:
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Last post by marvin-miller
Thu May 04, 2017 7:32 am
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EPG123 not downloading schedules
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neilhollingum2 » Wed Apr 26, 2017 5:22 pm
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I have recently subscribed to Schedules Direct and used EPG123 to download listings. On my first machine it all seems to work fine. On my second machine I am unable to download the schedule information.
In the EPG123 log file I have Lineup GBR-0001195-DEFAULT has been excluded from download and...
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Thanks for the heads-up gayan2 - that fixed the problem.
Best Regards
Neil Hollingum
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Last post by neilhollingum2
Thu Apr 27, 2017 6:27 am
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Clarifying upgrade process from 1.0.x to 1.1.4
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webminster » Wed Apr 19, 2017 11:40 pm
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Looking at a test upgrade from 1.0.2 to 1.1.4... I recall there being some process to run a migration utility and import an MXF file. However, I don't see any of this in the documentation in the 1.1.4 w7 zip file, nor the utility. Is this no longer required, or is a step upgrade from 1.0.x to some...
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LOL.. Just for me? You know what I go through for WAF around here!
I want to move forward but saw a few posts of borked guides so I'm a little reluctant. I don't want to fix it 'til it's broken!
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Last post by Sammy2
Wed Apr 26, 2017 2:20 pm
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EPG123 - Down to 3 days of guide data
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kd6icz » Sun Oct 16, 2016 6:37 am
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I'm not sure why. Any idea?
Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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Just wondering; How long will you keep supporting epg123, Gary? We need this for continued use of WMC going forward..
I keep thinking I'll reach the end of development and into sustainment to just keep up with API changes that will come... but keep finding things to improve on and features to add!...
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Last post by garyan2
Tue Apr 25, 2017 12:54 am
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Scheduled task not fully updating
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darekd » Sat Apr 22, 2017 1:17 am
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I have a small problem that it's not a big deal but I'm curious why this is happening. My guide is fully downloaded and currently I have 14 days of data until May 4. For some reason my scheduled tasks are only going til May 1. Shows from May 2 thru 4th will appear in the list but it will take few...
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My guide updates daily but my schedule recordings are not updated until PC restarts.
That doesn't make much sense. Does your normal program search work?
If it happens again, you could try to force the matter by running c:\windows\ehome\mcupdate.exe -PvrSchedule or c:\windows\ehome\mcupdate.exe...
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Last post by garyan2
Tue Apr 25, 2017 12:42 am
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epg123Client.exe Run as Admin results in blank MSDOS window
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Tntsotb » Fri Apr 14, 2017 6:11 pm
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I have been trying to upgrade
From v1.0.2
to v1.1.3.
Instructions that I am following show:
Those upgrading from v1.0.2 and below still need to use the utility for a seamless transition.
epg123utility.zip for Win7/Win8+
I downloaded epg123utility.zip to my Windows 7 64-bit desktop computer....
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And what happened @Tntsotb? Is this all working now?
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Last post by Sammy2
Mon Apr 24, 2017 8:54 pm
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Install problem 1.1.3
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Slangaren » Thu Apr 13, 2017 8:09 am
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20170413_095905.jpg Hi,
I have had 1.0.2 running for a while, but for some reson it stopped giving updates some weeks ago. (Don't know why and didn't investigate).
It works on my other PC.
I then downloaded 1.1.3 and tryied to install.
I have been able to run client.exe and have with safe mode...
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Tried manual import. Said Read 100%, but then no difference.
With the manual import, do you now have guide information? You may have to manually attach the guide listings to the channel in WMC->Edit Channels (or however the translation is).
Do you have Guide Tool? It might be able to help in...
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Last post by garyan2
Thu Apr 20, 2017 3:12 am
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Some Channels missing Data
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tomlando » Sun Apr 16, 2017 8:56 pm
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Hello, This is my first time posting a problem here.
I installed EPG 1-2-3 v1.0.2 on Feb 6, 2017 and it has worked perfectly until now. I have noticed that my local ABC Station has 'To Be Announced' posted from 4/21/17 at 2:00 AM until 5/3/17 1:00 PM. My Local Fox Station is 'TBA' from 4/21/17...
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Well, Today i turn on the TV and checked the guide and the 'TBA' issue has been corrected. I had done nothing...not even restarted my 24/7 HTPC. I don't know What, Where, When, How or Why, but thank you to the people here who answered and assisted me.
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Last post by tomlando
Mon Apr 17, 2017 6:20 pm
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Failed to create MXF file error after update to 1.1.3
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markfromBrooklyn » Wed Apr 12, 2017 2:06 pm
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I updated to EPG v 1.1.3w7 this morning, 04/12/2017. All seemed to work, used utility, etc, canceled existing update task, created new one, and hit save and execute. Ran almost instantly. Log shows errors:
Did not find expected Md5Schedule file in cache directory.
Problem occurred during...
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77584 Comcast digital Houston
I tried it on another machine with up to date windows 10 and received the same error.
Thanks, found your error. It is the videoProperties attribute for movie MV003820310000.
{ programID : MV003820310000 , airDateTime : 2017-04-29T20:00:00Z , duration :9000, md5 :...
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Last post by garyan2
Mon Apr 17, 2017 2:56 am
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Did not find expected Md5Schedule file in cache directory
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choliscott » Sun Apr 16, 2017 12:04 pm
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I was in the process of selecting a few additional channels on the EPG123 GUI. When I hit Save & Execute, the Window closed prematurely.
When I looked at the trace.log file, I noticed it saying error like the following:
Failed to parse the schedule Md5 return for stationId 16485 (ESPNEWS) on...
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OK, I tried the save & execute step again and it fully worked.
Thanks again!
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Last post by choliscott
Sun Apr 16, 2017 8:37 pm
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Did SD lose most of my lineup?
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webminster » Tue Apr 11, 2017 2:02 pm
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Something really whack at SD last night or so? Almost all the channels disappeared from my guide, EPG123 unmatched almost all my channels (I though I'd turned that off...). Opened a ticket with SD. The GUI shows a much shorter list now...
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I'm getting The expected number of stations to download is 154 but there are only 0 stations available from Schedules Direct. Aborting update for review by user. on 1.1.0 and I'm also on Comcast. I opened a ticket with SD.
EDIT: Fixed in less than 5 minutes by SD! It looks like EPG123 aborted...
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Last post by garyan2
Wed Apr 12, 2017 2:53 am
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v1.1.3 Release
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garyan2 » Fri Mar 03, 2017 7:19 am
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New version has been released to address what I broke in v1.1.2 (and v1.1.1).
This should be it for a while unless someone finds a bug.
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One last question for Garyan, say I deleted a channel in epgclient (oops), is there a way to put it back?
Unfortunately, there is no way to undelete a channel. I may at some point find a way, but not there.
For OTA, you can 'Scan for More Channels', 'Delete All', and 'Scan Again'. You can do the...
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Last post by garyan2
Tue Apr 11, 2017 2:14 pm
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Search Results Don't Match Search Words
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alphamabox » Sat Apr 08, 2017 2:08 pm
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Not sure what's going on with this but it's really odd. I'm trying to add new recordings using the search title feature in WMC but once I type in the title, it lists shows that aren't even close to the search term.
Example search term:
How Its
Results:
A Haunting
A Haunting : Back From...
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Not sure what's going on with this but it's really odd. I'm trying to add new recordings using the search title feature in WMC but once I type in the title, it lists shows that aren't even close to the search term.
This will typically be related to Windows Search or indexing. There was something...
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Last post by alphamabox
Sun Apr 09, 2017 3:38 am
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Missing OTA channel
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sterno9 » Wed Apr 05, 2017 6:26 pm
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I just did a fresh install of windows 7 64 with full windows updates. System info: Z170 mb, Sandisk Boot SSD, WD mechanical HD for recordings, Hauppauge quad tuner . Cleveland WOIO CBS 19 won't tune in for me. I'm getting full signal strength, but the screen stays blank when I tune to it and...
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That's for all the help. I've been adding and removing channels several times a day for a couple weeks now but you guys finally set me straight. I guess following directions isn't my strong suit. I'm recording for the next 30 mins, but now I can tune to WOIO again from the guide. I'll mess with the...
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Last post by sterno9
Thu Apr 06, 2017 2:41 am
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Cannot deserialize the current JSON array
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CrossCech » Wed Mar 15, 2017 6:17 pm
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I updated EPG123 to v1.1.3 from a version that required me to use the special utility. It seemed to work successfully at the time. I was able to update and import the guide into WMC fine. Then after about a week I started getting an error when opening EPG123.exe. The following is the error I see in...
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Hi - when opening a ticket, please don't use the Schedules Direct forum if you've having a specific issue. Instead, open a ticket at the Schedules Direct website, because there's metadata in the ticket that I use to troubleshoot what's happening.
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Last post by rkulagow
Tue Apr 04, 2017 7:10 pm
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EPG123 Object reference not set to an instance of an object
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dcrossman » Tue Feb 07, 2017 1:50 am
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Tried all day today to get epg123 working and finally gave up. Thankfully, I had done a system backup last night and had a restore point. The rovi epg also finally came back to life all on its own.
Trace.log's final few lines are:
====================== Beginning epg123 client execution....
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Hi Gary
Thank you for your fast support. I have finally had a chance to look again and can report success - thank you.
The problem for me was that 3. Save & Execute was erroring as I explained. I was running a utility called MCE Standby Tool. When I stopped this application from running at...
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Last post by canyouhelp
Fri Mar 31, 2017 12:01 am
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Guide and search are missing, but WMC sees the data?
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kd6icz » Wed Mar 29, 2017 1:08 am
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I had to re-run guided setup today to add another Prime. After I manually executed epg123 WMC immediately started to record scheduled shows and would display what was on a live TV show if info was pushed, but the guide and search are missing.
Help! I don't know what to do...
Sent from my XT1650...
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Close WMC.
Open epg123Client.exe and verify text beside button says configured.
Close epg123Client.exe
Open WMC.
Somehow.... I have a feeling you knew that would work.
But I will say I had the latest beta of the HDHomerun software installed and I uninstalled it - and reverted back to the stable...
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Last post by kd6icz
Wed Mar 29, 2017 3:53 am
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Workaround for scheduled guide import on version 1.1.X while
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choliscott » Mon Mar 27, 2017 9:08 am
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I tried the recent versions of EPG123, but noticed quickly that it wasn't working for me on the scheduled guide import, because something was being recorded at the same time as the import.
Is there a way to have it run and create the guide file as normal and import the data regardless if WMC is...
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I tried the recent versions of EPG123, but noticed quickly that it wasn't working for me on the scheduled guide import, because something was being recorded at the same time as the import.
Is there a way to have it run and create the guide file as normal and import the data regardless if WMC is...
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Last post by garyan2
Wed Mar 29, 2017 2:04 am
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WMC shows 10054 channels
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wareway » Sat Mar 25, 2017 12:28 am
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I installed EPG123 with a clean start. My configuration is 6 digital cable tuners and 2 OTA tuners (because cable isn't as reliable in my area). I used 2 lineups from Schedules Direct, 1 for cable, 1 for OTA. I unchecked all the premium channels and others I am not subscribed to or interested in....
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You don't want to delete them in GuideTool just mark them unselected in EPG123. If you delete them in GuideTool they are gone for good unless you re-run TV Setup. If you unselect them in EPG123 you can re-enable them if your provider does ever start using unselected ones. I made the mistake of...
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Last post by glorp
Tue Mar 28, 2017 3:58 pm
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Can backups of the ehome folder be used to restore data?
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lostgreycells » Fri Mar 24, 2017 8:32 am
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I've set up daily backups of the ehome folder but don't have a clue whether it can be used to restore my programming if I have to replace the OS after a hard drive failure. (C\ProgramData\Microsoft\ehome\)
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Yeah, after exploring drive imaging, mceBackup, and other strategies, I concluded that the number of times my 7MC has crashed (zero) outweighs any benefit I get from such a backup. Instead, I keep meticulous instructions on how I set it up, and I replace my drives (SSD and HDD) on a...
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Last post by 12noon
Sun Mar 26, 2017 6:02 pm
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Questions about guide files
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jachin99 » Thu Mar 16, 2017 3:17 pm
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When EPG123 creates my guide data, what kind of file does it create? Is it a .db file or an xml file. If it is XML, what tool does EPG123 use to create said file? Is it mc2XML or some other program? Where is this guide file located, and how does windows media center fetch it, and display it?
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Does Loadmxf run everytime I click on TV guide In WMC or open WMC itself?
No and No. The loadmxf utility, as far as I can tell, is strictly there for 3rd parties to import mxf files into the database. The mcepg.dll contains its own internal loadmxf routine.
Basically, there is no need to run...
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Last post by garyan2
Tue Mar 21, 2017 1:55 am
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WMC has corrected a problem with your recording data
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slaingod » Mon Mar 06, 2017 12:19 am
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So this is the second time in a month that I have gotten the Windows Media Center has corrected a problem with your recording data and will download the Guide again.You should review your recordings to verify they are still scheduled correctly.
When this happen, recordings don't happen and the...
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Something to keep in mind while deciding how to do what you want ...
The schedule download dates and times are based off GMT, so depending on what time zone you are in, the day could end at 4PM, 5PM , 6PM, 7PM, or 8PM. If you only download 1 day, then the listings will end at that time.
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Last post by garyan2
Sat Mar 18, 2017 5:12 pm
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More guide questions
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jachin99 » Fri Mar 17, 2017 2:29 pm
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Is it possible or even normal for WMC either on its own, or through a third party tool to load two separate MXF files into a database, and have Windows Media Center display those as separate listings in 2 separate programs within WMC, I.E. One set of guide data is displayed in TV Guide, while the...
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Pretty sure what you are asking is possible. Depending on how you install EPG123 you can end up with both Rovi data and S-D data in your WMC EPG database because each schedule update program is loading it's respective mxf. The Rovi comes from the ongoing MS schedule updates if they are not disabled...
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Last post by glorp
Fri Mar 17, 2017 5:36 pm
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2 Lineups in EPG 123
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jachin99 » Thu Mar 16, 2017 5:45 pm
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If I create 2 lineups in EPG123, does this create two separate MXF files, or one just one file that is parsed by Windows media center and or EPG123 at some point? Does EPG123 actually run along with Windows Media Center, or does it just create guide file?
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- Just one.
- EPG123 only runs when downloading & creating the .mxf file. It uses Microsoft's external loadmxf.exe to actually load it into the WMC EPG database. These two steps (create and load) are separated by functionality into the main epg123.exe gui and the epg123Client.exe. You can create...
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Last post by glorp
Thu Mar 16, 2017 6:35 pm
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Using epg123 to create MXF file for sports
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jachin99 » Tue Mar 14, 2017 4:29 pm
I am playing around with the idea of getting some functionality back in the sports strip, and so far only the On now tab has any kind of functionality out of the box. On now can read the guide within EPG123, and show a sports news RSS feed at the bottom but for some reason, it will not display any...
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Last post by jachin99
Tue Mar 14, 2017 4:29 pm
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Suggestion: Download less data daily
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12noon » Mon Mar 13, 2017 1:59 pm
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Is it necessary to download all 14 days (or whatever) every day? Would there be a benefit to downloading less data every day? EPG123 could download only the next two or three days and also the new days (like the last two days of the specified span of listings data, so days 13 through 15, for...
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If every single MCE user ends up switching to EPG123 / Schedules Direct because they don't want to deal with Rovi anymore, then we can start thinking about these sorts of issues. But, that would be a good problem for us to have!
But honestly, the entire design of the API was around minimize the...
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Last post by rkulagow
Tue Mar 14, 2017 1:19 am
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EPG123 v1.1.3 - first night's update failed?
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DSperber » Tue Mar 07, 2017 10:33 pm
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Well, this was unexpected.
I upgraded from v1.1.1 to v1.1.3 yesterday afternoon. Simply ran the updater/installer within C:\EPG123 so that the replaced files went right there. No problems.
Today, looking at this forum, I saw a new thread that said WMC crashes looking at the Guide after upgrading...
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You should update when you want to - we need to adjust on our side to ensure that we can provide service when you make your request. From the logs on the servers, I'm not seeing issues any longer now that we've upgraded the pool, even at 2A, so if that's when you want to update, then do it.
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Last post by rkulagow
Sat Mar 11, 2017 2:16 pm
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Unhandled exception, event ID 1000, v0.9.9
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artm » Thu Mar 09, 2017 5:03 am
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Been getting this error lately. Auto update is good for a few nights but then this pops up for one or two straight nights. Doing a manual update always succeeds.
Here's the recent log with a successful run and then two error runs, all auto update:...
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OK, I'll force myself to upgrade...always leary of that!
I assume it's as simple as overwriting the program files?
Up to 1.0.2, yet. To go higher, you need to use the utility tool ... or not, if you use automatch.
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Sat Mar 11, 2017 3:21 am
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Details not being added to filename
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RobbieH » Fri Mar 10, 2017 4:04 pm
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New question:
Now that my guide and all is working, I see something new/different in this version. I have EPG123 set to append the filename with the season and episode numbers. These are not being added. Also, I'm pretty sure in the old version, the station name was included, now those are not...
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Now I understand. I thought they were the same thing, one being at the front and one being at the end. But now I understand. Thanks!
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Last post by RobbieH
Fri Mar 10, 2017 4:53 pm
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5 days of guide data remaining with EPG123
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spmnemrc » Tue Feb 28, 2017 1:50 pm
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My EPG123 will not update WMC7. My end date is 3/4/17.
The scheduled task runs without error.
The EPG123 is up to date as of 2/28/17.
If I save and Execute in EPG123 is appears to run without a problem. I cannot see any problems in the log.
Please help
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Turns out that when I deleted and created a new scheduled task, I missed a checkbox in the EPG123 GUI (epg123.exe) to automatically load the MXF file after it was created.
Unless you completely blew away the EPG123 directory to start over again, you could load up EPG123Client.exe, select Manually...
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Last post by embj
Fri Mar 10, 2017 7:42 am
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No Guide Data
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RobbieH » Thu Mar 09, 2017 6:37 pm
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Last night I noticed I had no guide data in WMC. I was running a version of EPG123 older than 1.0, so I decided to start completely over. I downloaded the new version last night, cleared the WMC data using the utility, then installed and ran EPG123. The SchedulesDirect download worked, and it...
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EDIT - I found a setting in the lineups column on the right that I missed or somehow got changed. At the top is a green or red circle, and I'm guessing when it's clicked to red, it does not pull that lineup. I changed it to green, and now it's importing more data than before I believe.
Correct....
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Last post by garyan2
Thu Mar 09, 2017 7:44 pm
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I am on v0.9.9 Can I upgrade to v1.1.3?
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Randyored » Sun Mar 05, 2017 3:31 pm
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So, I have been using v0.9.9 and it has been great. I have been noticing some oddities and thought I'd catch up.
The standard upgrade is to replace the binaries.
Would that still work if going from v0.9.9 to v1.1.3?
I looked at doing the version progressions one at a time, but when I tried to...
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What odities are you experiencng in 0.9.9? I'm using the same version and only have one recent issue, which isn't a real problem: sometimes auto-update fails but within a day or two recovers.
I firmly believe that if it isn't broke, leave it alone!
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Last post by artm
Thu Mar 09, 2017 5:28 am
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No new guide for 2 days
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thorhtpc » Wed Mar 08, 2017 5:50 am
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The last 2 days I have not received any new guide. Here is the trace.log for the 2 days
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Beginning epg123 update execution.
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epg123...
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Failed for a third time in a row last night. Did a manual update this morning and it succeded. So I will adjust the time it updates. I think it happens at 4am right now.
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Last post by thorhtpc
Wed Mar 08, 2017 7:59 pm
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Getting exception from scheduled task
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packetloss » Mon Mar 06, 2017 3:07 pm
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Hopefully this is something simple to figure out. When I run (1.1.3 but same thing happened with the previous versions as well (1.0 - current) manually everything works fine every time. It downloads the listings and loads it into WMC and I have a full 20 days of guide data.
However, whenever the...
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I think I discovered the problem. I had a folder with v 1.0xx in it and another folder with 1.1.x in it and even though I set up the scheduled job from 1.1.x it was referencing the 1.0.x exe. Once I deleted that folder and rescheduled the job everything seems to run fine.
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Last post by packetloss
Tue Mar 07, 2017 1:51 pm
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Proper way to disable/renumber channels
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RyC » Mon Feb 13, 2017 2:17 am
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I finally had a spare Saturday and made the switch. I'm wondering what the proper way to disable/renumber channels is, though. What I like to do is disable any channels I don't get and all SD channels. Then, renumber the HD channels to the SD channel number.
At first, I unchecked all the channels...
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Oh nice thank you! Good to know I wasn't crazy :D
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Last post by RyC
Mon Mar 06, 2017 6:54 pm
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Feature Request: Sort channel #s numerically (not lexically)
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12noon » Wed Mar 01, 2017 5:26 pm
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It would be very helpful if the channels in the clients' list-view controls were sorted numerically instead of lexically. I don't know about anyone else, but most of my low-number channels are useful and the higher ones are not. Usually, I can go through them quickly with SPACE ARROW-DOWN SPACE...
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No problem. That's what I get for upgrading right away. ;)
It might be nice to have a thread dedicated to release notifications (that only you can post to). That way people can subscribe to the thread and receive an e-mail when there's a new release.
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Sat Mar 04, 2017 10:29 pm
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No guide data after WMC recovered from an error
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mikey1273 » Sun Feb 19, 2017 5:49 pm
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I got an error message the other day in media center that it recovered from an error and to check my recordings. I didn't have any set at the time so I just clicked ok, found they show I wanted on live tv in the guide watched it and moved on to other things. Next day I got the same message but now...
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Holy crackers. My problem was stupid user error. I deleted all my EPG123 files and re-installed EPG123. I noticed something - I had changed my days to download days to 30 in the previous release. I left it at the default 14 days and just added everything back and now it's working fine. The other...
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Last post by JustBrowsing
Sat Mar 04, 2017 7:17 pm
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EPG123 Removing/Adding Channel
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Kevbo Kev » Fri Mar 03, 2017 9:44 pm
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Whenever I try to remove the Standard Definition of the CW channel, it will also remove the High Definition, even though I never unchecked that HD channel. I was able to remove all other SD channels with no issues, but the CW will not allow me to remove the SD without it removing the HD. I even...
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There are a couple things about how epg123 works to understand what you are seeing.
1) When you subscribe to a lineup, you are not getting the lineup ... you are gaining access to the stations in that lineup.
2) Each station has a unique stationId and that is actually what epg123 cares about.
3)...
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Last post by garyan2
Fri Mar 03, 2017 10:19 pm
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v1.1.2 Release
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garyan2 » Tue Feb 28, 2017 4:03 am
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I know, right!?! I pushed out a quick release to address an error in my code. I tried to be clever and do in 2 lines of code, what should have been done properly in 3 lines, not thinking about the impact to international users. The fix was for sorting of the listviews and channel/subchannel...
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Fixes are available. v1.1.3 has been released.
Thanks for the quick fix, and for the Operation Complete pop-up when manually importing the MXF :-)
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Fri Mar 03, 2017 3:21 pm
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Future v1.1.0 Release
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garyan2 » Sun Oct 23, 2016 10:02 pm
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Well, there's been a lot of good suggestions out there for new features as well as a couple things I learned epg123 is missing. I'm making this a 1.1 since the changes will be significant. I'm giving everyone an early heads up because this is actually going to be a breaking update (something I've...
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It's not something I am currently working on.
No worries. Given that I haven't had an outage since making the switch, it probably isn't worth the dev time anyway.
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Thu Mar 02, 2017 9:28 pm
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Program Images from Schedules Direct
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garyan2 » Tue Feb 28, 2017 4:16 am
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For those that noticed we were missing some program images, mainly new series images and sporting events, you may now notice that as of last night we have them back. rkulagow from Schedules Direct has been working hard on the servers and re-architecting how the images are cataloged and updated as...
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So we should be on 1.1.1 or later and delete guideImages.xml and we'll see better series images? Or will this work for previous versions?
It will work for previous versions as well. Though I changed some code to prepare for and use new API features, the current SD API maintains backwards...
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Thu Mar 02, 2017 3:40 am
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v1.1.1 Release
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garyan2 » Sun Feb 26, 2017 11:43 pm
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Just release version 1.1.1 to address some minor issues and add some improvements. More information on the website Download page.
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Yah, I took a look at the price tag on a certificate, and was somewhat discouraged from taking that path. I'll take a look again to see if I feel any different. :problem:
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Thu Mar 02, 2017 2:26 am
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Md5 Mismatches and EventLog Error
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garyan2 » Wed Mar 01, 2017 5:58 am
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A lot of people may be noticing an error in their trace.log file like the below. If you look in the Event Viewer and find the EPG123 Warning entry, you will see many, many, many Md5 mismatches listed (or listed in the trace.log file if not using v1.1.x). In this particular case, I believe this is...
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Excellent. Thanks for the info! :)
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Wed Mar 01, 2017 4:12 pm
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Error on log during nightly update
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DSperber » Tue Feb 28, 2017 4:45 pm
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Ok, what have I done wrong.
Newly installed WMC system and EPG123 v1.1.0 (originally), updated to v1.1.1. I now see there's a 1.1.2 so I guess I should upgrade again.
Theoretically things are working fine as I can manually run EPG123.exe during the day and the Guide gets updated just fine. But...
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Indeed. Success tonight.
Many thanks for interpreting the error for me.
Case closed.
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Last post by DSperber
Wed Mar 01, 2017 1:05 pm
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No lineup EPG with Guide Tool or epg123Client
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hansolo » Mon Feb 27, 2017 11:23 am
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I have an issue with my PC under Windows 8.
I run epg123 without noticeable problems, but the lineup EPG123 lineups with Schedule Direct isn't visible under Guide Tool or epg123Client.
When I run epg123Client, I have an error System.FormatException.
Version of epg123 is 1.1.1
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Great, all is working now (trying the self extracting 1.2)
Many thanks!
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Tue Feb 28, 2017 8:32 am
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Unable to get EPG123 to work with WMC7
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spqr1 » Sat Feb 25, 2017 10:49 pm
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EPG123 can NOT be made to work with WMC. Worked on it for several days. No matter what I do, the WMC program guide remains without data when using EPG123 (Yes, I followed the how-to PDF to the letter). Incredibly frustrating.
So I gave up, let's hope Rovi remains active with WMC for a bit longer...
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OP registered just to post that? :crazy:
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Mon Feb 27, 2017 8:56 pm
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There is an error in XML document (3,14)
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acemib » Sun Feb 26, 2017 10:46 am
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Like many, I left WMC after the Rovi debacle in search of other programs. For me, I have satellite AFN and I live in China. I use Colossus as my tuner card. A few days ago I discovered the great epg123! So I am back and hoping to revive my WMC experience.
But, my noobie tech savvy is lacking. I...
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Gary - you nailed it. Was the HD PVR program that wasn't finding my card. I needed to reload the software from hauppauge. Then I did a clean start with epg123 and was able to load the guide. Awesome! Thanks a ton. Now I just need need to troubleshoot why the video stutters and drops audio (but that...
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Last post by acemib
Mon Feb 27, 2017 2:34 pm
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v1.1.0 Release
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garyan2 » Thu Feb 09, 2017 6:22 am
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FOR THOSE UPGRADING FROM PREVIOUS VERSIONS OF EPG123: IF YOU DON'T READ ANYTHING ELSE IN THIS POST, READ THE FOLLOWING:
1. FOLLOW THE !UPGRADE_README.PDF FILE TO AVOID LOSING CHANNELS IN YOUR GUIDE, AND
2. DELETE YOUR EXISTING SCHEDULED TASK AND CREATE A NEW ONE WITH EPG123 OR EPG123CLIENT...
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I had this same issue all my HD comcast channels (portland oregon) were 700 & 800s apparently comcast is reordering all its numbers and HD will be all 1000s. in the meantime they still have all the old channel numbers available. In epg123 if you disable a new 1000 channel it also disables its...
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Sun Feb 26, 2017 1:16 am
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API Call Time Outs at Schedules Direct
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Sammy2 » Fri Feb 24, 2017 2:12 pm
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Beginning epg123 update execution.
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epg123 version 1.0.2 , DaysToDownload: 30 , PrefixEpisodeTitle: True , AppendEpisodeDesc: True ,...
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I put in a ticket with Schedules Direct and got a response in far less than an hour. It is all fixed up now. I just now got a chance to do a manual run and it ran with no errors!
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Fri Feb 24, 2017 8:45 pm
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Guide Data missing for a few channels?
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arbeck » Tue Feb 21, 2017 4:12 pm
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This weekend, I noticed that my guide data had a whole bunch of channels set up to simulcast on channels 1000+. I updated EPG123 to the new version and used it to remove all of those channels so I only had one copy of each in the guide. I didn't notice at first (until something didn't record), but...
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Cox does this too.
Here's the issue. Channels 1-999 are SD, and 1000-1999 are HD. So if Channel 2 is NBC SD, Channel 1002 is NBC HD.
For the most part this works perfectly. But if I sort the channels in EPG123 by channel number, and deselect channels 1-999, then some of my channels from 1000-1999...
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Fri Feb 24, 2017 5:02 am
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Brand new EPG 1.1.0 install on brand new PC/WMC: no go
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DSperber » Mon Feb 13, 2017 11:45 am
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I'm trying to get my second HTPC running, but am having some major problems. Help would be appreciated.
First the background...
I have a current ASUS P8Z77-v Pro motherboard HTPC (with nVidia GTX 750ti graphics and Eizo monitor via DVI) with Ceton InfiniTV 4 (4-tuner for Spectrum/TWC) and...
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Create a System Image ASAP Believe me, as I accomplished more and more in little steps, I kept running Macrium Reflect. Didn't want to lose anything done in the past 15 minutes and have to re-do it should disaster strike!
Turns out with my Win7 C-partition at about 84GB usage but residing on an...
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Last post by DSperber
Tue Feb 21, 2017 5:18 am
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Guide Search Messed Up when Titles have Colons (:)
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V1de0Lovr » Sat Feb 18, 2017 5:33 pm
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Not sure if this is a problem with Schedules Direct guide data or possibly with the way that EPG123 is loading it, but I don't get accurate search results if there are programs with a colon (:) in the title. A guide search for Planet Earth only shows Planet Earth: Africa and other titles that have...
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Totally unrelated, but I noticed a minor issue with the Client application after upgrading to 1.1.0. On my media center PCs I use the display option to make text bigger, at Medium 125%. The Client application had buttons cut off until I set text back to Smaller 100%. Otherwise its looking good for...
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Last post by garyan2
Tue Feb 21, 2017 4:38 am
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Getting guide data for channel found in scan
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JTScribe » Sat Feb 11, 2017 9:41 pm
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So the OTA guide for my ZIP code doesn't have a particular channel that I can get. All the other channels I can get show up fine but I'm just missing the one. Is there a way to manually add it?
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Okay, so anything checked in the 2,3,4 columns will show up with my primary lineup? I get the Louisville Fox channel, too, so I'd honestly forgot about the problem since I hadn't missed any shows. ;)
Correct. EPG123 doesn't so much subscribe to lineups as it identifies the stations to download....
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Last post by garyan2
Tue Feb 21, 2017 2:47 am
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Tuner Hardware Upgrade
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stuartm » Sat Feb 18, 2017 12:48 am
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Hi Gary, I am about to upgrade my Dual ATSC tuner card to a quad tuner card. I assume I don't need to wipe the Database just re-run tuner setup. Correct?
Thanks.
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Tuner upgrade went really smoothly. Imaged my disk. Swapped in the new 4 tuner card for the old 2 tuner card. Installed the driver for the new card. Re-ran tuner setup. Had to manually add the VHF channels as per usual. Then ran an EPG guide update manually with automatch selected and everything...
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Mon Feb 20, 2017 11:25 pm
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Separate Lineup for OTA and Cablecard
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SciFiGeek » Mon Feb 13, 2017 1:18 am
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I started using EPG123 last week with 1.09 and now have 1.10. There have been trials and tribulations...
On to my current situation...
I have an SD Homerun for OTA with 2 tuners.
I have a Ceton Infinitv PCIe with 6 tuners and cablecard .
Because sometimes there is interference with the broadcast...
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I figured it out... Finally the 2x4 of enlightenment struck me in the head... read on.
No actually I am doing the same thing, as far as I know you HAVE to start with a single episode recording on the second channel.
Earlier in the week I had someone rerun TV setup in the hopes of fixing cablecard...
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Last post by SciFiGeek
Sun Feb 19, 2017 6:49 am
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Recovering Deleted Channels
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glorp » Fri Feb 17, 2017 5:45 pm
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Gary, I need a little advice. The long and short of it is that I need to restore channels above 1000 on one of my media center installations. Is there any easy way to do that or a magic piece of code that might just add them back in rather than having to completely run through set up again?
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That worked flawlessly. Just re-ran TV Signal set up normally and declined guide T&C as usual. When it was finished checked that WMC had no guide, which it didn't. Ran epg123 and used Save. Checked again and had a blank guide with all 9999 channels. So didn't even bother building a new .mxf...
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Last post by glorp
Sat Feb 18, 2017 7:22 pm
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BUG: v1.1.0 Task and Win10 Issue
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garyan2 » Sat Feb 11, 2017 8:11 am
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All,
Apparently, MS introduced a bug in Win10 version 1607 (anniversary update) that affects the execution of Scheduled Tasks. The bug causes only 1 action, of the possible 32 actions, in a task to execute unless the task Principal is elevated or a service. Unfortunately, my new scheme for...
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Would that be similar to add Network Service to the Administrators Group?
net localgroup administrators Network Service /add
Don't remember what this one does, but the 2 go together.
net localgroup administrators Network Service /delete
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Last post by Crash2009
Tue Feb 14, 2017 7:09 am
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V1.1.0 Upgrade Experience
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rimmel » Tue Feb 14, 2017 2:09 am
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I just upgraded from V1.0.2 to V1.1.0. The WMC guide seemed to update OK. I received about 30 of the following warnings in one Media Center event log entry:
The MD5 hash of Program xxxxxxxxxxxxx does not match the expected MD5 provided by the Service Schedule
I assume this is Schedule Direct...
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I just upgraded from V1.0.2 to V1.1.0. The WMC guide seemed to update OK. I received about 30 of the following warnings in one Media Center event log entry:
The MD5 hash of Program xxxxxxxxxxxxx does not match the expected MD5 provided by the Service Schedule
I assume this is Schedule Direct...
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Last post by garyan2
Tue Feb 14, 2017 2:17 am
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How do I force Scheduled recordings to repopulate?
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SciFiGeek » Mon Feb 13, 2017 1:37 am
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This is my second issue... I was running EPG123 1.09 at the time.
I think this happened because I backed up my series recordings with software that may have put odd locks on the file and or folder.
In any case I opened media center and it said something about corruption and the guide would be...
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I discovered that if I ran the PvrScheduleTask task it immediately fixed up all the spurious conflicts. This task simply runs mcupdate -PvrSchedule . So I created my own task which runs this command after the daily EPG download and after the opportunistic OTA scan. I may not need it now, but I...
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Last post by garyan2
Mon Feb 13, 2017 2:29 pm
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Following Import of Recording Schedule, Nothing Records
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packetdog » Sun Feb 12, 2017 4:12 pm
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Hi Folks,
Other than the $25 annual cost for SD Membership, this solution seems to be elegant, and just fantastic. I really like something that does better than the original. Very impressive.
I'm encountering an issue however that I'd like to outline. Put simply, nothing will record. Here's the...
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I wouldn't think a do-over would be necessary. Below are the registry entries (from the epg123_guide.pdf) that allow the Guide to be visible.
Capture.PNG
Those settings are checked whenever epg123Client.exe is opened. So I would suggest,
Close WMC.
Open epg123Client.exe
Verify button status says...
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Last post by packetdog
Sun Feb 12, 2017 8:17 pm
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EPG123 Initial Setup Issues
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vaju0503 » Fri Feb 03, 2017 3:21 am
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So I'm new to using EPG. Here is my setup I have the hdhomerun prime with cable card and have comcast cable. Windows EPG is on the fritz lately so I want to try this out but get confused when trying to get it to work. I understand just about all the documentation but must be doing something wrong...
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Since both lineups have the same channels, won't be a problem. The program ID, service ID (station), and channel number are all the same. The lineup that a scheduled recording is from isn't recorded.
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Last post by garyan2
Wed Feb 08, 2017 5:03 pm
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How to confirm my EPG is not Rovi?
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kansanian » Wed Feb 08, 2017 5:27 am
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Well, set this up finally. Got it started Sunday night, but finished the football game.
No auto match. No step 1 safe mode.
Scheduled recordings gone as noted, most rebuilt, no biggie.
PBS mapping (and other locals) remapped to just hdhomerun prime vs tuner card. Couple lineup edits.
Question...
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There's a lot of tell-tale signs that you can tell, but I think the easiest is to look at the details of any program. There will be a language identifier at the bottom. MS/Rovi will say English (United States) , while EPG123 will just say English .
Or you can wait a few days and install v1.1.0...
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Last post by kansanian
Wed Feb 08, 2017 5:02 pm
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No Data Available / Failed to parse the schedule Md5
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tecrous » Fri Feb 03, 2017 6:45 am
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So new potential user after EPG failed to update for me. Using Comcast San Jose Digital (95008)
Looks like maybe data being returned might not be expected format strings vs integers but I'm no expert but relevant line seems to be:
Failed to parse the schedule Md5 return for stationId 63138...
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Last night's run was clean as a baby's bottom!
Not sure if this is good or bad. I've seen plenty of unclean baby bottoms in my time. :lol:
It's a good thing.. Like right after a bath.. LOL!
At any rate I wanted to report back that I continue to have error free runs each night. Thanks for...
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Last post by Sammy2
Tue Feb 07, 2017 3:25 pm
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Can't schedule football series in WMC
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cjlewis » Fri Nov 11, 2016 5:00 am
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I'm not sure if this is an epg123 question or a WMC one but this problem started after I installed and ran epg123.
I'm using WMC in Windows 7 64-bit. I have two Hauppauge USB tuners. I did the clean epg123 install (steps 1 and 2) and am on my free 7 day trial of Schedules Direct. I'm pulling the...
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Record by Title works. Thanks!
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Last post by chunki
Tue Feb 07, 2017 4:07 am
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EPG123 Breaks HDHomeRun Prime in WMC 7. How to Fix It.
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kbystrak » Fri Nov 25, 2016 8:12 pm
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I am putting this post out there to help other people who may be having the same problem I had when installing EPG123 on Media Center in windows 7 with a Silicon Dust HDHomeRun Prime tuner. I am the caretaker of at least 10 different WMCs with HDHomeRuns. I have begun migrating them all to EPG123...
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This has me a bit leery of installing EPG123, as my setup uses a pair of HD Homeruns. If you do the complete reset as outlined above (the 13 steps in the first post) do you have to re-validate your cable cards ... or will they simply be seen okay by Media Center when you re-configure it? Also,...
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Mon Feb 06, 2017 7:31 pm
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Multiple attempts and still no success importing guide data
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eric90066 » Mon Feb 06, 2017 12:43 am
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Hello,
First, let me just say I know epg123 works because I have two htpcs and one of them works flawlessly with it.
But that one HTPC was updated over 8 months ago.
Due to the recent guide update problems reported here, I decided to take the plunge and update my family HTPC with epg123....
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I honestly don't have a clue right now. I do have a curiosity though ...
I looked harder at your trace.log contents and noticed that the run you posted was running at the same time as your scheduled task was running. In effect, you were running 2 instances of epg123 at the same time. Once you...
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Mon Feb 06, 2017 7:07 pm
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Installation Problems
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davidhp » Mon Feb 06, 2017 12:03 am
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I just tried to install EPG123 and I messed it up somehow. I am using WIndows 8.1 Pro and a Hauppauge 2650 Dual Tuner with cable card from Cox Cable in Las Vegas (89117). I am not a real computer savy person when trying to run programs but I can usually persist long enough to get it going.
I...
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The only way that Rovi could still be there is if the eHome directory did not get deleted in Step 1, or you forgot to answer 'I do not agree' to the Program Guide Terms of Service.
Any other users using the 2650 out there? I had to do something special for the HD PVR ... just want to make sure I...
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Last post by DaveInPa
Mon Feb 06, 2017 6:41 pm
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Questions about EPG123
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dmike1379 » Fri Feb 03, 2017 12:27 am
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It looks like EPG123 is a viable option. If there is no fix by 2/5/17. I will give EPG123 a try, before trying another PVR program.
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Thanks zap2it shows all of Phoenix and Tucson channels and sub in my zip code.
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Sun Feb 05, 2017 10:32 pm
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EPG123 now has duplicates of all channels
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spanner » Sat Feb 04, 2017 5:06 pm
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this morning i checked my guide and every channel has a duplicate, comcast portland oregon. for instance the discovery channel 707 now has a mirror channel 1449. this is true for every channel. when i uncheck 1449 in epg123 it automatically unchecks 707 also so i cant remove them that way. I can...
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Sounds like Gracenote/Schedules Direct is keeping up with Comcast changes. What it means is you will unlikely experience problems with your guide in the transition. You may need to take a look at your scheduled recordings if they are set for specific channel numbers for recording. I don't know how...
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Last post by spanner
Sun Feb 05, 2017 4:50 am
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Errors in Last Night's Log
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Sammy2 » Tue Jan 24, 2017 3:23 pm
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I think this is a Schedules Direct issue but I'll start here..
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Beginning epg123 update execution.
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epg123 version 1.0.2 ,...
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The last two nights' runs were clean and I never opened a ticket with Schedules Direct. These are Standard Definition Channels I don't watch anyway so I wasn't too worried but was on the look-out for more channels being missed.
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Thu Jan 26, 2017 3:44 pm
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Some questions about setup
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jwaltrip » Sun Jan 22, 2017 10:29 pm
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I have WMC on Windows 7, with a HDHOMERUN Prime.
I ran into an issue where WMC was not updating the guide, and after having the same issues after a complete reinstall of Windows, I decided to try this. Also, nio impressed with Rovi
1. Followed instructions to install
2. Deal with HDROMERUN issues...
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OK... so everything I need I should be able to do from epg123.
I am setting up a test VM to try out.
Guidetool is useful, do clear out all of the unused or unwanted channels.
Question... is there any impact if I remove a channel using guidetool that is in my lineup? will epg123 just ignore it?...
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Last post by garyan2
Tue Jan 24, 2017 6:41 am
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Channel in guide and added by EPG123 but not showing in WMC
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mskenny » Thu Jan 19, 2017 9:13 pm
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I had the issue with the did not find expected Md5Schedule file in cache directory error last night. This happened just as Verizon decided to move WBTS, our new local NBC station, to a new channel, 510, from the existing channel 516. This wasn't showing up in Schedule Direct so I opened a ticket...
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Thanks, I'll give this a try. For now, I was able to get my old HD HomeRun to find the channel in Clear QAM and after doing a rescan in WMC I have that channel working so I can record and watch the local NBC station. I'll look at fixing it over the weekend.
Melissa
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Last post by mskenny
Fri Jan 20, 2017 5:21 am
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EPG123 error
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tfellenbaum » Thu Jan 19, 2017 10:25 am
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I have been using EPG123 for a good 5 or 6 months now without any issues, But on my last update Epg123 has been giving a message that it has stopped working. This is more like windows telling me that epg123 has stopped working. It always happens right after the seconds set of numbers counts all the...
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Looks like we have had some more Md5 mismatches from SD. We are actively working on a solution, and I already have a work-around in the upcoming version... mismatches will no longer be an issue in v1.1.0 and above.
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Last post by garyan2
Fri Jan 20, 2017 1:11 am
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Use of epg123Client.exe
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jmsnyc » Thu Oct 13, 2016 10:07 pm
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Hi,
I have two machines on my home network both running WMC. I actually got this to work after viewing the installation guide but the guide was not clear on how much setup on the 2nd machine would need to be done and at first it did not work. I then setup EPG123 on the 2nd machine as if it it were...
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OK. I'll just wait for 1.1. I really don't need guide data on these PC's because I only use them to watch multiple baseball games. So... 5 months out of the year they get zero use for the most part. I think election night was the last.
I only built them because Newegg had a deal that you got the...
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Last post by kd6icz
Wed Jan 18, 2017 5:36 pm
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EPG123 / DVBlink server and WMC
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bigjohn » Wed Jan 04, 2017 11:06 pm
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Hi everyone.
I have a WMC that has been running with EPG123 for a while now, but just last night I got the corruption in guide data error from windows, and, had to re-setup live tv (arrgh).
Here's my setup:
I have 4 tuners (Colossus media capture devices) that grab the signal off HDMI from my Dish...
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The real crazy stuff was when the end of CES coincided with The Other Show . (AES Adult Entertainment Expo) :)
Looks like AES is next week.
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Last post by Crash2009
Sat Jan 14, 2017 2:46 am
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Cannot browse advance guide - OK 2nd attempt
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IT Troll » Thu Dec 29, 2016 12:19 am
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This is not strictly an EPG123 problem, but I thought I would post here as this is where the EPG experts live. :wave:
I've experienced this issue in two different systems (Windows 7 and 8) both with MS EPG and EPG123. I hoped EPG123 might fix it but sadly the problem is still there. If I advance...
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OK, thanks for confirming. At least I now know this is a known bug in Media Center.
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Last post by IT Troll
Thu Dec 29, 2016 12:17 pm
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EPG123 updates "old" guide
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xairboater » Thu Dec 15, 2016 11:36 am
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I am a novice, so I hope I can explain to make sense: I started using EGP123 in September (love it!). All has been well until I tried to modify selected channels in my lineup. I added channels for HBO, ShowTime, and Max, and removed 3 EPIX channels I no longer receive. When I save and execute , all...
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Problem solved! I appreciate the help!
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Last post by xairboater
Fri Dec 16, 2016 12:58 pm
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Channel Number Changes
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rimmel » Tue Dec 06, 2016 2:46 am
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Comcast recently moved one of my channels (KXLYDT2) from one number (304) to another (114). I can still access this channel via the old number (304) from the EPG123 guide even though channel 304 no longer exists in the Comcast guide! How is this possible? There is no channel 114 in the current...
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I followed you suggestion and opened a ticket with Schedule Direct for the Comcast channel number change. Once the change appeared in my SD channel lineup I ran EPG123 with automatch enabled and received the following messages in the trace log:
Matching KXLYDT2 to channel 114
Unmatching KXLYDT2...
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Last post by rimmel
Fri Dec 09, 2016 2:21 am
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Nightly update failing but update runs manually
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mskenny » Tue Dec 06, 2016 3:46 pm
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For the last few days, the nightly scheduled run of EPG123 has failed. I get invalid username or token has expired when it tries to login to Schedules Direct:
12/6/2016 2:45:00 AM] ===============================================================================
Beginning epg123 update execution....
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I changed it to run once a day at 8 am. Hopefully that will do it. Thanks!
Melissa
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Last post by mskenny
Tue Dec 06, 2016 8:17 pm
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Guide shows "No Data Available" in WMC 7 using EPG123
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nebd3313 » Sat Nov 26, 2016 7:24 pm
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I am having problems with the Guide in Windows Media Center 7/ HD HomeRun Prime since I changed Cable providers. Since I was having problems anyway, I decided now would be the time to use EPG123 instead of Rovi. I have gone through many, many steps to get to this point and this is where I am now:...
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Sorry, evidently I did not subscribe to this thread to get notifications. Since your cable channels are not encrypted, and your screen shot confirms that, then no CableCARD is needed (I think). The issue here is going to be all your clear cable channels are QAM and are not identified by channels 1...
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Last post by garyan2
Thu Dec 01, 2016 11:39 pm
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Task - Cannot Delete
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SpiritualMadMan » Wed Nov 23, 2016 2:28 pm
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Using the latest EPG123 1.0.2 W7
Turned on the set this morning and there was no guide data.
The caption under Task said it had run...
One respondent said to delete the Task and create it again.
Was unable to delete task and recreate.
Trace log said there was an access issue.
Set everything...
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To create/delete the update task, you need to run EPG123 as administrator.
Was there anything in the trace.log file to identify why your guide wasn't updated in the first place? The only thing I can think of is if you created the task and then moved the location of epg123.exe.
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Last post by garyan2
Wed Nov 23, 2016 3:44 pm
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CBS primetime issues 11/22
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webminster » Tue Nov 22, 2016 8:10 pm
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Looks like the primetime CBS schedule tonight for EPG123 users may be very wrong, with NCIS, Bull, NCIS:NO starting at wrong times. Zap2it shows the same schedule as WMC does, but TVGuide is different with normal times for the shows. I'll be checking and manually resceduling stuff tonight, any...
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Yeah. So it must be only some lineups are whacked. Mine is the Fort Collins CO area.
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Last post by webminster
Tue Nov 22, 2016 11:14 pm
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Inband data for channels without EPG data
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hego25 » Mon Nov 21, 2016 10:08 am
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SD does not provide data for all my subscribed channels,
so I want to get the inband data (better than nothing!)
It seems that NOT agreeing to the Program Guide TOS turns the inband service off.
(EPG123 Installation and User’s Guide page 4 Step 2, item 4)
Is there a way to reactivate inband data...
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SD does not provide data for all my subscribed channels,
so I want to get the inband data (better than nothing!)
It seems that NOT agreeing to the Program Guide TOS turns the inband service off.
(EPG123 Installation and User’s Guide page 4 Step 2, item 4)
Is there a way to reactivate inband data...
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Last post by garyan2
Tue Nov 22, 2016 2:03 pm
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Question about the EPG123 cache directory
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seajunk » Mon Nov 21, 2016 6:24 pm
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How often can i clean out the cache directory?
Is it used at all after the creation of the mxf?
The parent directory is part of my backup schedule and I was wondering why i had 30K files more than normal :)
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If nothing changes for a given piece of data, EPG123 just loads it from the cache instead of using up resources re-downloading it again. So, yes, the data in the cache folder is used after the mxf is created. Previously downloaded data is cached so that it doesn't have to re-download data that it...
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Last post by Space
Mon Nov 21, 2016 8:25 pm
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Schedules Direct server is down
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neptunepic » Wed Nov 16, 2016 12:12 am
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Schedules direct JSON server has been down for four hours.
Is there anyone who knows when this will be resolved?
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Vista Robert? Wow. Can't you get with the times and use the same outdated tech we use?! This is so 2006.... ;)
I'd upgrade if it was free... and had Media Center. :) The PC is really just a Media Center appliance, it's not used for anything else.
I thought about upgrading to SageTV or another...
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Last post by rmeden
Fri Nov 18, 2016 3:15 am
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Search function issues after switching to EPG123
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cjohnson » Tue Nov 15, 2016 8:18 pm
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Hopefully someone here can help me out with learning how to use EPG123. I tried EPG123 recently and I found that could no longer search the guide the way that I could with the ROVI guide setup before. I used to be able to.. Recorded TV > Add Recording > Search > Title > .
I followed the pdf guide...
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The search will return zero results if the indexing hasn't been performed. EPG123 will kick off the reindex job after the guide listings are successfully imported.
Anything in the trace.log file that would indicate a failure to start the reindexing?
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Last post by garyan2
Wed Nov 16, 2016 3:29 am
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Tonight's the night I take the leap
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adam1991 » Mon Nov 07, 2016 1:03 pm
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Absent anything major happening, tonight I start the leap to EPG123. That's the plan.
It seems that Tivo has decided, unilaterally and without cause, to remove a single channel from my lineup. It simply doesn't exist, period. This happened within the last week.
It's the local Fox affiliate....
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Oh, I hear you. Trust me.
Good luck with the transition. I remember you dissing on replaytv because you thought 7mc was so superior. I now use both (replaytv/WiRNS and 7mc). 7mc has guide problems. EPG123 helps alot. And of course having HD and cablecard is great. But 7mc occasionally defecates on...
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Last post by jonwz
Wed Nov 09, 2016 12:40 am
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Update error Md5Schedule file
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a.white05 » Thu Nov 03, 2016 12:40 am
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First - thanks for the epg123 utility, it's been working great the last 2 months for me. Ran into an issue today though - getting the following error: Did not find expected Md5Schedule file in cache directory. Failed to create MXF file. Exiting
The timing on this is terrible as my guide didn't...
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Just to follow up, guide update worked properly today. Thank you again for the quick replies.
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Fri Nov 04, 2016 2:26 am
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Epg123 Unhandled Exception
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rimmel » Sun Oct 30, 2016 12:51 am
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I just attempted to run Epg123 and it crashed after only a few display lines in the command window. I was able to collect the following information:
Application Event Log Entry
Application: epg123.exe
Framework Version: v4.0.30319
Description: The process was terminated due to an unhandled...
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I waited about an hour and reran Epg123 and it worked OK. No idea what happened before?
As a side note. When this exception happened more error information was displayed in the command window, but none of this stuff appeared in the trace log. I was not able to cut and paste command window messages...
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Last post by garyan2
Sun Oct 30, 2016 2:42 am
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Errors in v1.0.2
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Sammy2 » Tue Oct 18, 2016 12:19 pm
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Look at 12:03:27 and 12:05:32.
Scheduled Task issue with automatch and reindex?
10/17/2016 12:01:49 AM] ====================== Beginning epg123 client execution. =====================
Import=True , Match=True , NoLogo=False
import filename = epg123.mxf
Successfully imported .mxf file into...
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Correct. A Save&Execute will commit you acceptance or denial of a new channel. Until then, it will just keep logging the new channel in the trace file.
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Last post by garyan2
Fri Oct 21, 2016 1:50 am
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Guide Tool fails to run after EPG123 setup
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MGilbert » Thu Oct 06, 2016 6:36 pm
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Hi, I am uk based and using a dual TBS6280 satellite tuner on Windows 7 home premium (32-bit), and like others I have seen no guide data from the MS-sponsored source for several days. I have used DVBGuide during previous “outages” but switched back to default source when it came back into service....
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Same version on Win7, looks nothing like that on my machine, no lineups at all show.
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Last post by webminster
Wed Oct 19, 2016 4:05 am
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Wrong listings for channel 32.4 NYC on Zap2it
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tperez2 » Mon Oct 17, 2016 7:41 am
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The listings for channel 32.5 on zap2it in nyc should be on channel 32.4 i use WMC to change the listings but it reverts to normal the next day is there anyway to make the correction permanent? so i dont have to correct it each day? epg is showing the listings on zap2it correctly but zap2it is...
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Sorry about that, I pulled this one out of the Unanswered Section. I didn't notice this was in the EPG123 section.
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Last post by Crash2009
Mon Oct 17, 2016 8:13 pm
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v1.0.2 Release
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garyan2 » Sun Sep 25, 2016 7:50 am
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Minor changes ... mostly cosmetic. A nice added feature is the ability to rebuild the WMC database for when the guide just will not correct some programs/schedules regardless of what the input data from epg123 says.
Main reason for sending this out now was due to MS deciding EPG123 was a trojan...
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Pretty much what the epg123 website says. I think visually it is just adding the language to the program entries and the categories will be title case now ('Science F iction' versus 'Science f iction). All other changes were under the hood and added some capability like event log entries.
I went...
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Last post by Sammy2
Mon Oct 17, 2016 6:33 pm
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Error using loadmxf.exe to import new guide information
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chriswallingford » Sat Oct 15, 2016 10:34 pm
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I was using WMC w/EPG123. All was well and right with the world. Then I got bitten by a Windows 10 update that removed WMC. I'm on Version 1607, Build 14393.321 . Reinstalling WMC is mostly going okay, but I'm getting this error in the EPG123 logs. My understanding is that loadmfx.exe should be a...
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I'm a little bit confused. I thought WMC is NOT available in Win10 (meaning Microsoft eliminated/removed it a a feature). Is there a way to get WMC to work in Win10? Thanks.
There is, and as far as I can tell it works okay but I wouldn't recommend it for a main HTPC. As everyone found out, the...
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Last post by garyan2
Sun Oct 16, 2016 4:21 pm
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EPG123 GUI Not Picking Up Changed Channel
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bryankennedy2 » Thu Oct 13, 2016 2:28 am
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Background: The local ABC affiliate in my town (central Illinois) changed, going from WHOI to WEEKDT2. Seeing as how both zap2it and SchedulesDirect were both showing the old WHOI listing (and, therefore, the wrong shows), I send in a ticket to SchedulesDirect to get it resolved. I received an...
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Following up on this - everything is good. XML was updated, JSON wasn't. Thanks to SD for getting things squared away!
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Thu Oct 13, 2016 11:53 pm
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Guide completely wrong for Pac-12 Networks Oregon
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ppilot » Thu Oct 06, 2016 3:34 am
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So I've been noticed in the days since I switched over to EPG that Pac-12 Networks is completely off. At the same time, my guide with the HDHR DVR service is correct so I am not sure where guide information is being pulled from. Any ideas on how to fix this?
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Always err on the side of letting us know that something is wrong. That's how to ensure that we hold Gracenote's feet to the fire if the data that we have access to isn't correct, or doesn't match what's on Zap2It.com
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Last post by rkulagow
Wed Oct 12, 2016 10:32 pm
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epg123.exe detected as a trojan
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garyan2 » Sun Aug 21, 2016 2:38 am
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Evidently Microsoft Security Essentials (Antivirus) now detects the original binaries of 1.0.0 as containing a trojan (Win32/Codinx.B!cl). Rather than rush a new build out that I am working on, I just recompiled the same code of 1.0.0 with a slight change in order to not be detected as a virus....
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Soo
I've been holding on v1.0.0. Is it safe to update now? IIR v1.0.1 had a little bit of regression but is v1.0.2 good to go with no false positives?
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Last post by Sammy2
Sat Oct 08, 2016 8:21 pm
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EPG123 - Disappearing Channels Issue
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CWguyFL » Thu Sep 29, 2016 10:53 am
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EPG123 has been working fine since I started using it several days ago (version 1.0.1).
Today a large block of channels have disappeared from my JSON lineup. The missing channels are present in the same legacy lineup at Schedules Direct, so this appears to be a problem with the Schedules Direct...
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Do you use Schedules Direct anywhere else?
I'm not sure if your question was to me and I believe you already got to the cause of the problem, but just to follow up...I do not use SD anywhere else, I do have FiOS and my zip is 21040. Everything has been good since I added my deleted lineup back on...
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Last post by garyan2
Fri Oct 07, 2016 4:57 am
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EPG123 event log - new channel?
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webminster » Tue Oct 04, 2016 7:16 pm
I don't think the codes for EPG123 1.0.2's Event Log logging is documented anywhere, but is there (or could there be) an event logged if new unmatched channels are found? Something that if automatch/autoadd was disabled, one could put in an event trigger to mail you if a new channel was found so...
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Last post by webminster
Tue Oct 04, 2016 7:16 pm
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Missed Survivor S33 E02
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Sammy2 » Mon Oct 03, 2016 8:08 pm
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Last Wednesday this didn't record. I got E01 and E03 and E04 are in the scheduled recordings.
Any reason this happened?
Charter Digital 92508
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Sounds like what has happened to me on random occasions... did you get a partial recording? I've gotten a message in my event log for Media Center saying something like something something for use by another component. Never figured out what the other component was, or why, and at that time there...
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Last post by Sammy2
Tue Oct 04, 2016 3:18 pm
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Duplicate Recordings
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Sammy2 » Mon Oct 03, 2016 8:05 pm
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In general I have my system set to default to New Only but am picking up occasional duplicate recordings. Is this a data flag issue? If my wife wouldn't delete them sooner than she tells me about them I could tell you what shows they are but I'll keep a look out in the future. I'm posting now just...
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I'll tell my wife to not delete the duplicates so I can get a handle on it. She's pretty good with that so long as her plethora of shows don't get bumped due to a full recorder drive. That shouldn't happen because there's about 1.5Tb of space on that drive and she's pretty good about watch and...
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Last post by Sammy2
Mon Oct 03, 2016 10:39 pm
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Lineup update question
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stuartm » Tue Sep 27, 2016 10:07 pm
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I noticed that one of the channels in my cable lineup had the wrong listings for the channel. Zap2it also had it wrong. (I think at some point my cable CO switched what they were providing on that channel). I see that Zap2it is now updated to the correct listings for the channel, so I assume that...
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Duh-oh :oops: I was of course checking the listings at the front of the guide. They are indeed filling in new stuff with the proper listings. I was expecting that all listings would update once the lineup was fixed. The channel entry is still wrong (station ID and description are the old ones) I...
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Last post by stuartm
Fri Sep 30, 2016 10:03 pm
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Adding the downloaded logos to the guide?
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ppilot » Wed Sep 28, 2016 6:32 am
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So I downloaded all the logos, but they aren't populating in WMC. Is there something else I have to do in order for them to show up?
Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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Would there be any interest in having a WMC formatted logo archive?
I think it's a good idea, the problem is the logistics, who would supervise it? who would host the website? etc.
Maybe this is me being naive but would setting up an album on imgur with direct link access work? It would...
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Last post by ppilot
Thu Sep 29, 2016 11:31 pm
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EPG123 zap2it support
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neptunepic » Tue Sep 27, 2016 12:52 am
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Hi all, I have recently discovered EPG123 and it seems to be working great. The only thing that troubles me is how it's limited only to paid memberships to Schedules Direct.
Is there any way EPG123 could be modified to allow downloading and importing data to WMC from the free Zap2It EPG service?...
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Do you get a subscription breakdown by country? I'd be interested to hear how many there are in the UK. I don't have a breakdown by application by country.
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Last post by rmeden
Thu Sep 29, 2016 10:18 pm
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No data after EPG123
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Jimmersd » Wed Sep 28, 2016 11:57 am
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I have been struggling to get this to work but have hit snags.
I know this step doesn't matter but installed the EPG123 directory in C:\.
I rebooted into safe mode, ran it as admin and hit Clean Install.
Rebooted and opened WMC.
Reran Digital Cable Advisor.
When I clicked TV Setup I got a popup...
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Thanks for all the replies, I'm up and working with guide data now. The documentation is great. My bad.
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Thu Sep 29, 2016 2:32 pm
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Thu Sep 29, 2016 11:32 am
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Epg123 UK BBC listings
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wavemachine » Tue Sep 27, 2016 9:37 pm
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Hi,
I have been using EPG123 for three weeks quite happily but have now noticed all the listings for BBC 1 channels and BBC2 had end on Friday 30th showing no data available after then. All other channels seem fine.
Is anyone else seeing this, is it a configuration proble, a problem with...
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Problem solved, I rebuilt the WMC guide database which caused the BBC listings to disappear completely, I then remapped the BBC channels in guide tool and all is well again :)
Cool. Did you use the Rebuild WMC Database button? I suspect that your listings went stale because the stationId was...
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Last post by garyan2
Thu Sep 29, 2016 12:42 am
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New Feature Request - Check WMC state before Update
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bennytheball » Wed Sep 28, 2016 6:08 pm
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I have a request for a new feature.
After the new guide data has been downloaded, check to see if WMC is doing anything before applying the updates. I may be wrong, but it appears that is WMC is recording a program when the updates are applied the recording is stopped. This has happened to me...
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I have a request for a new feature.
After the new guide data has been downloaded, check to see if WMC is doing anything before applying the updates. I may be wrong, but it appears that is WMC is recording a program when the updates are applied the recording is stopped. This has happened to me...
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Last post by garyan2
Thu Sep 29, 2016 12:39 am
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MCUPDATE fails: nettv package name invalid???
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DSperber » Sun Sep 18, 2016 3:18 pm
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Now that I've got the nightly update for EPG123 1.0.1 properly scheduled and running again, this evening at 2AM it ran as expected. The 2AM run time actually was what I'd set, even though when I pushed the OK button it appeared to be changed to 3AM. I guess that didn't really happen.
Anyway, this...
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And in fact, this error has not appeared in the past two days, and of course nor has the Green Button icon appeared in the System Tray indicating an event error. I haven't noticed anything else not working properly. For whatever reason nettv is no longer valid, un-checking the two WMC nightly...
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Last post by IT Troll
Mon Sep 26, 2016 10:58 pm
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1.0.2 error #2
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radagast » Sun Sep 25, 2016 10:00 pm
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Hi, I'm getting an identical error as bshiers8250133 in the post submitted today as well titled 1.0.2 error .
Brighthouse Digital cable zip 46032.
Do you need additional info from me? Looks like exactly the same error as in his/her pic.
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Thank you! And thanks for keeping WMC alive!
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Last post by radagast
Mon Sep 26, 2016 12:05 am
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Null object exception when running EPG123
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radagast » Sun Sep 25, 2016 9:29 pm
Indiana Brighthouse cable here- my guide data ended today for HD channels too, although I think there are a few days of data in the guide for SD channels.
I have a sub to Schedules Direct already and already set up EPG123 on another HTPC at my house already, and that other box still has a fully...
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Sun Sep 25, 2016 9:29 pm
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1.0.2 Error
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bshiers8250133 » Sun Sep 25, 2016 3:19 pm
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I am a newbie here, but thanks for a great program! Currently I just have an OTA tuner, but will be also getting cable soon. I've registered and have 2 lineups set with SD, one for OTA and one for cable.
I have the OTA guide info working great. When I enable the Cable Lineup, I'm getting the...
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Looks like that fixed the issue! Thanks for the quick response!!!!
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Sun Sep 25, 2016 4:39 pm
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Problem fetching SD data
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denmonta » Wed Sep 21, 2016 4:45 pm
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Decided to try EPG123 as we seem to have problems with the Guide data on WMC.
I just renewed and paid for 1 year membership to Schedules Direct and can see after login that my membership expires Sep 21 2017.
When I run the epg123.exe it seems that I am not allowed to get the data.
I have tried...
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Gary, you are totally correct.
I was running an instance of Emby that uses the same Schedules Direct account and it was doing a guide update at that time.
Since it was the initial load of the guide data, it took a long time for Emby to be done with it.
As soon as I saw Emby was finished, I tried...
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Last post by denmonta
Wed Sep 21, 2016 8:10 pm
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Quirk with trace.log file
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tabbyplague » Fri Sep 16, 2016 12:03 pm
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Well this is weird... I use the Task Scheduler to run a daily task of the epg123client.exe to update my WMC guide on one of my WMC client computers. I use the following string: epg123client.exe -i \\192.168.1.3\epg123\epg123.mxf -match. In the Actions section of the Task Scheduler task I have set...
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Both of you guys are correct - found another trace.log file in my windows\system32 directory which appears to be the default for Task Scheduler. Have changed the start in directory to match my current epg123 directory and will see if it appends the current trace.log file when it runs tomorrow....
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Tue Sep 20, 2016 2:25 pm
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v1.0.1 Release
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garyan2 » Sun Aug 28, 2016 6:03 am
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Been what, 6 weeks since the release of 1.0.0? Some nice updates.
Reworked the tracing code to also add entries in the Event Log (see below). Note: to gain this feature, the epg123 GUI must be run once ‘as Administrator’ to create the registry entry.
Checks for 0-byte length cache files that...
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I ran EPG123 again this morning and the season/episode info has returned!
Problem #1 was the option was not enabled in the EPG123 GUI.
Problem #2 was there was a widespread FiOS issue in the north-east.
Here is what was in the trace log for every single channel:
Failed to parse the schedule...
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Last post by Scallica
Wed Sep 14, 2016 12:46 pm
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Schedules Direct UK Freesat Data only 8 days?
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camelopardis » Thu Jul 21, 2016 12:36 pm
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I've just migrated to EPG123 and am very pleased - in general much better than the old MS data. I have DVB-S2 tuners and set it up with the SD UK Freesat (England) listings. I laboriously did several transponder scans to pick up all the new channels (becuase MS's setup is so outdated!) and...
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Yes, but he was going to ask the upstream about the possibility of more frequent updates for this feed.
It would also be useful to know if any schedule changes are pushed out between these weekly batch updates.
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Wed Sep 14, 2016 9:40 am
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Remote Potato
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garymeter48 » Wed Sep 07, 2016 2:29 am
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I use Remote Potato to remotely access my HTPC WMC guide. I can only see 14 days of guide data and I would like to see all 21 days provided by EPG123. Does anyone know how to change Potato so I can see all of my guide data. The old forums for RP are closed.
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That is true from the server component but not for the mobile client apps. So you could fix it for web access but the apps might not reflect or handle the change. The title limit issue I mentioned is a client-side bug.
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Sun Sep 11, 2016 6:33 am
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EPG123 install, but WMC guide errors on setup
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MarkJohnson » Sat Aug 27, 2016 2:17 am
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I installed the EPG123 as the guide suggests on an existing win7 setup. I booted into safe mode and removed ehome or whatever. Rebooted in normal mode and setup the registry entries. Then ran EPG123, then signed up for SD for a year. Went back to EPG123 selected all channels, 14 day guide, and...
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Would a reboot be required after copying files to update services or something?
Not at all. Epg123 does not reside in memory or run as a service. It is just a simple little executable that does its thing and releases all resources when done.
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Sat Sep 10, 2016 3:14 am
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There are no channels in the guide
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CCH » Thu Jul 14, 2016 9:18 pm
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I followed all the directions in the guide but when I opened WMC after the epg123 update and clicked on the guide I got There are no Channels in guide then a choice of edit or cancel. If I edit then I see a whole list of channels with empty boxes. Should I do an auto scan then try with EPG123 again...
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It turned out to be my WMC, not your wonderful program. I did a format, got the tuner software installed used the same instance of epg123 I used when I was getting errors before. Since this was a fresh install of not only Windows 7 but WMC I just had to setup WMC according to your directions and...
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Thu Sep 08, 2016 1:49 am
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OCONUS Freeview Lineups in Search
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garyan2 » Sun Sep 04, 2016 1:53 am
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This question is primarily for those in Great Britain, Australia, and New Zealand at the moment. Earlier this year, Schedules Direct started providing the ability to select your lineup based on the transmit tower in lieu of a postal code. This seems kinda redundant to me, but curious on how many...
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I can certainly see some benefit to having that ability to select a specific tower, but right now I'm worried about sustainability ... the freeview selections are basically hard coded right now. I think the end result will be possibly a radio button to select between Country/Postal Code and...
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Wed Sep 07, 2016 3:39 am
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No guide data after rolling back to restore point
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Sammy2 » Sat Aug 27, 2016 5:43 pm
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AMD hit me with a driver update for my HD7850 Video Card. Stoopid me, I installed it. Well that was causing LiveTV to play for a couple of seconds, have a black screen and then play again.. repeatedly. UGH
I couldn't get the driver to properly roll back so I rolled back to a restore point from...
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Very similar here. I treat my HTPC's as an appliance. No windows updates after initial setup of the HTPC. I do run Microsoft Security Essentials but the only web related activity is when I download WMC related apps like the netflix and amazon apps, MCL, or EPG123. Once everything is in a working...
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Last post by stuartm
Tue Sep 06, 2016 7:24 pm
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WMC records non-New episodes
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artm » Fri Sep 02, 2016 12:19 pm
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Running EPG 0.99, SD, Comcast Boston. Everything's fine except for a recording schedule anomaly:
I have a series recording for Storage Wars on channel 837 AETVHD, new episode, anytime.
I see on the schedule these times on 09/20: 10AM, 1030, 1100, 1130, ...100PM; 10 episodes in all.
Looking at...
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I am having an issue with a series that my wife records. Teen Mom OG (don't judge me, my wife watches it) wants to record the same episode twice. The first instance is correct, but the latter is a duplicate (re-airing the next day). I checked epg123.mxf and the is only defined exactly once in...
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Sun Sep 04, 2016 12:38 am
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EPG123 and UK Freesat
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MrFluffy » Wed Aug 31, 2016 10:49 am
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Hi, I know this has been covered a few times and I've read and re-read all the posts but cannot get a working setup.
I have an HTPC running W7 x64 and have spent many hours trying different setups without success.
The main problem I have is that if I run through the setup and get all the channels...
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Thanks Gary, I think I'm there now! I went into the channel edit settings and found the duplicate channel numbers with the proper channels unticked.
I ticked the channels that I wanted and then went into each channel manually and attached the listings from the EPG123 listings.
I've done about 10...
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Thu Sep 01, 2016 10:16 am
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EPG123 not working
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jbamford92 » Sun Aug 28, 2016 8:50 am
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Hi. I followed the guide for EPG123 but doesn't seem to work I keep getting guide listings cannot be downloaded at this time. Would anyone have any ideas? I am using Freesat with the DVBSkyS952 everything works except the listings.
Thanks.
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Where is this error occurring? It is not a message from epg123, so is it coming from WMC?
The relationship between epg123 and WMC is one-way ... epg123 imports the data in the WMC database, but WMC is not aware of epg123. In other words, WMC cannot direct a guide update from epg123.
Hi managed...
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Last post by jbamford92
Mon Aug 29, 2016 4:45 am
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Created a new MXF Importer
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glugglug » Sun Jul 31, 2016 7:47 pm
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It's using MXFImporter.Import like LoadMXF is, but first it replaces a few methods in the ScheduleEntries, ProgramMerger, and ProgramMatcher classes to ensure all the updates are imported.
For example, it picks up the recent change to the HD flag for shows on STZESP (FIOS channel 363) while the...
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Updated to work on Windows 8.1 again (hopefully).
There were 2 issues:
1. PrepareMethod was failing on the replacement MergeScheduleEntries. This is supposed to pre-JIT compile it so the compiled code can be copied over that for the built in MergeScheduleEntries method. Maybe it is too big for...
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Last post by Jim-W
Sun Aug 28, 2016 6:28 pm
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EPG123 UKFreesat setup question
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RobsterUK » Fri Aug 12, 2016 8:21 pm
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Have been using EPG Collector fairly reliably for the past 12 months (its been a case of if it ain't broke, don't fix it!), but a few channels have dropped out of sight recently so its time to wipe the DB & start over.
I'm on UK Freesat and well aware that single transponder scans are needed to...
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Have been using EPG Collector fairly reliably for the past 12 months (its been a case of if it ain't broke, don't fix it!), but a few channels have dropped out of sight recently so its time to wipe the DB & start over.
I'm on UK Freesat and well aware that single transponder scans are needed to...
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Sun Aug 28, 2016 7:08 am
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EPG123 Not Updating
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SalmonSurprise » Fri Aug 12, 2016 11:28 pm
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I got EPG123 working, but now it says guide listings end in less than 3 days, so it has never been updating the guide except when I manually open EPG123 and re-execute the command. Isn't this supposed to automatically update WMC via a scheduled task or something?
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Another thing to be aware of is if the task was setup in a different location. You may want to use the GUI to Delete and then Create the task again. There should be something in the trace.log file to indicate why it did not execute; if there is nothing in the log, then the task is pointing to the...
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Last post by SalmonSurprise
Sat Aug 27, 2016 7:22 pm
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EPG123 Guide Data Not Importing / Error Message in Log
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realdiehl » Tue Aug 23, 2016 8:38 pm
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Hello,
I had EPG123 working perfectly fine in windows 10 until the anniversary update. As such, I just downgraded and did a fresh install of Windows 7. Upon following the directions (like I did previously with my working setup), I have come across an error where EPG123 appears to process normally,...
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You're using the version of EPG123 that's for Win 7 right?
Wow... In one sentence, you probably solved my issue... and made me realize I'm a moron! lol
I had the setup file saved on a USB drive and I loaded it on to my freshly installed computer... not even remotely thinking that it was the...
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Tue Aug 23, 2016 8:54 pm
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EPG123 & Hauppauage Collossus Anyone? Tuner Not Available
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marvin-miller » Sun Mar 27, 2016 5:33 am
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Hi folks!
I followed with interest EPG123 as I was running into the same Microsoft/Rovi issues that everyone is facing so today I thought I would give it a try.
Windows 7 / Clean MCE install w/Hauppauge Colossus.
If I use Arcsoft I can see the video & audio from the Colossus. This tells me...
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You're correct. The turner was not enabled. This was the case for any channel I added after the initial install.
Just to be clear, to correct this I went to => => => .
I then selected the channel name that is not working. then: => => => =>
Glad you're up and running. Looks like I'll add some code...
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Last post by garyan2
Wed Aug 17, 2016 6:12 pm
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.NET Framework Update
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Sammy2 » Tue Aug 16, 2016 11:43 am
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IIR epg123 runs on .NET v4.0 but Media Browser Server seems to want a newer version. Are there any ill effects on epg123 due to installing it?
This may be the kick in the but I need to move my MB Server to another machine of User Account..
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NM!
Stoopid me! In the wee hours of the morning I forgot to run epg123 as administrator. I just logged in remotely and all ran fine.
sorry to bother you!
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Last post by Sammy2
Tue Aug 16, 2016 4:43 pm
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No data guide at all!
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royfra » Sun Aug 14, 2016 5:47 pm
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Hello all,
just install epg123. I follow the guide step by step. Everything seams to work with SD. I have a new epg123.mxf generated. No error message when it update WMC guide...but ..I don't have any data in my guide.
Btw, i'm in Canada so I need to hack WMC to get ATSC signal scanned. Also, my...
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For you info. Here's the SD linup for my postal code
and here's all the channels that I can get OTA in my region
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Last post by royfra
Tue Aug 16, 2016 10:27 am
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Wrong Episodes and Duplicate Recordings
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Jim-W » Sun Aug 14, 2016 9:29 pm
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On TOONHD Ch 757 some episodes of King of the Hill, The Cleveland Show, American Dad, Family Guy, Rick and Morty, Squidbillies and Brad Neely's are different / wrong and don't match Zap2It.
On TOON Ch 257, standard def, all episodes and descriptions are correct and match Zap2It.
Also when I...
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It's not a missing file... this is happening within Visual Studio within my WIn8.1 VM as well.
The attempt to replace the ScheduleEntries.MergeScheduleEntries is failing.
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Last post by glugglug
Sun Aug 14, 2016 11:19 pm
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Strange "BrainDead" issue
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webminster » Tue Jul 19, 2016 6:34 pm
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Have been trying to figure out an issue with a listing apparently not updating. There is a series BrainDead on CBS, that has an upcoming airing on 7/24 at 9PM MT (for me). This isn't on the guide, it shows a rerun of Elementary . Looking at various online services (Zap2It, TVGuide, FutonCritic)...
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That's the main point of this alternate MXF Importer -- to make the updates that the one supplied by MS skips so that your schedule completely matches what is in the MXF file.
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Last post by glugglug
Fri Aug 12, 2016 2:32 am
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epg123 failing three days straight
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Sammy2 » Sun Aug 07, 2016 12:12 pm
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First failed run
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Beginning epg123 update execution.
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epg123 version 1.0.0 , DaysToDownload: 30 , PrefixEpisodeTitle: False ,...
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Three days of great runs and no Out of Disk Space errors to boot.. Thanks again mldenison for the tip on clearing out all that garbage and to Gary for his quick assessment of the issue and providing a great and viable solution!!
EPG123 ftw!!
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Last post by Sammy2
Thu Aug 11, 2016 11:18 pm
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v1.0.0 Release !!!!!
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garyan2 » Sun Jul 17, 2016 5:54 pm
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A last minute rush to get v1.0.0 out in support of our friends across the pond. My efforts to be more internationally friendly ended with those in Great Britain not getting some program descriptions. I was hoping to get a few more things done before this release, but no big deal. I think I'm going...
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Brilliant program. I actually logged in to research an issue I was having with Rovi's guide and I stumbled on this. Can't wait to try it out. Thanks Gary.
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Last post by eric90066
Tue Aug 09, 2016 5:37 am
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EPG123 and Ceton's "my MC"
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iankb » Tue Aug 02, 2016 3:29 pm
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I always used Ceton's my MC app on my iPad to check the guide when I was away on holiday, etc. This was very important when the Microsoft guide data went AWOL.
Although less important with EPG123, has anybody managed to install the My Media Center server without it messing-up the excellent EPG123...
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I use the Android version, but my experience is not too different.
The Series Gallery does show pictures however tapping on any of these series causes MMC to close (app crash).
Mine doesn't crash, but quite often it will not be complete and I need to enter and exit the gallery a number of times...
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Last post by Sammy2
Mon Aug 08, 2016 1:52 pm
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No mcepg.db in eHome - Win10
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jrwendt » Thu Aug 04, 2016 5:21 pm
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I have tried several time to get WMC installed onto the most recent version of Windows 10. I have tried everyone's detailed advice about clean installing WMC 10.0.10134.0v2.1 and EPG 123.
I followed GaRyan2's detailed instructions to the T.
This is the error line I get with the EPG123 import...
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You may as well install The Anniversary Update first as there will be no stopping it.
There should be some links in the Win 10 forum or over on the master thread over at My Digital Life.
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Thu Aug 04, 2016 10:07 pm
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After EPG123 install unable to do DVB-2 single scans
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nairnmonster » Mon Jul 18, 2016 4:47 pm
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Hi,
Like many in the UK in the last two weeks our EPG has again gone... I have had enough of this and sought out EPG123. Looks exactly what I needed and for £20 for a year of no issues and fantastic and fully updated EPG it was perfect. So I followed the PDF install guide word for word, after my...
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i tried a backup but never worked, its okay the channel is back and only takes 10mins to re-order.
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Thu Aug 04, 2016 3:08 pm
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Suddenly getting duplicate scheduled records
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webminster » Sat Jul 30, 2016 9:06 pm
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EPG123 1.0.0. I noticed today looking through the upcoming record schedule, that I've started seeing both 7pm and 10pm scheduled records of Kelly File on FOXNEWS. Both each days are labelled as the same episode number in the description. It didn't do this before, it's like it suddenly decided it...
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Figured as much it'd be a whole reset or at least eHome. Just trying to figure out best (least damage) approach to fixing the dupes. This ain't it.
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Last post by webminster
Wed Aug 03, 2016 2:11 am
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Channel 5 HD suddenly missing cannot see it in SD List
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camelopardis » Sun Jul 24, 2016 11:12 am
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HI Guys - got a strange problem today. I definately had CH5 HD setup in my guide (UK Freesat) but this morning it was missing. I had it manually setup as channel number 5 in the guide, but the guide now just goes from channel 4 to channel 6, missing it out. I have checked through the entire rest of...
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I'm glad you found a way around this, and it confirms some of my suspicion of what is happening, but I don't see this issue on any of my setups and would like to recreate it. That's why I was asking those questions. I need to know how the channel was born, how it was altered, and how it died.
What...
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Last post by garyan2
Mon Aug 01, 2016 1:44 pm
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Found some undocumented flags for Programs and ScheduleEntry
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glugglug » Fri Jul 22, 2016 12:01 am
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ScheduleEntry has an isClassroom flag, which I guess corresponds to the cableInTheClassroom flag from SchedulesDirect. Also an integer minumAge field (does this interact with parental controls?). I would have expected that one on a Program rather than a ScheduleEntry..
Programs have a bunch of...
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ScheduleEntry has an isClassroom flag, which I guess corresponds to the cableInTheClassroom flag from SchedulesDirect. Also an integer minumAge field (does this interact with parental controls?). I would have expected that one on a Program rather than a ScheduleEntry..
The TV ratings are on the...
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Fri Jul 22, 2016 12:46 am
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French EPG issues
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lachape_one » Thu May 12, 2016 6:18 pm
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Salut
I found EPG123 thanks to you guys, awesome, it's been 4 years I looked for a way to complete the french new digital terrestrial tv ( TNT ) channels guide, which remained desperately empty all these times. I also found that lineups includes my cable provider Numericable, it's just wonderful,...
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Great. I'll need to make a change on the server so that the TNT lineup is offered with the other lineups for FRA; until then, if you'd like to use TNT then please open a ticket at the Schedules Direct website.
OK but no need for now, but don't worry, i'll open another ticket about Numericable and...
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Thu Jul 21, 2016 7:57 pm
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UK Freesat + IRL DVB-T
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mukki » Sun Jul 17, 2016 11:06 am
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Great program so far
Uk epg has died again, ireland dvb-T OTA guide still fine
Switched to EPG123 and delighted to have uk back (And better)
But ireland dvb-t guide is now not loading, is there a fix for this
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Excellent, glad that it works. Tell your friends!
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Thu Jul 21, 2016 6:43 pm
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Minor Text Display Formatting Issue
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glorp » Thu Mar 10, 2016 11:01 pm
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The Show Name: Season XX, Episode YY string appended at the end of an episode description needs one or two leading spaces before appending. See attached graphic.
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It's baaaack.
Oops. Must have missed this when I added the 'append episode description' and changed the 'prefix episode title' checkboxes. It'll be a quick/easy fix.
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Thu Jul 21, 2016 3:44 pm
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Only UK shows no episode or season number
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mallinder » Thu Jul 21, 2016 9:48 am
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Nearly all the shows have a episode number and season number excpet for a lot of soaps (emmerdale, coronation street, hollyoaks) and live shows like the wright show (channel 5). It just gives a # and then some numbers. This is how it is in the epg guide (using schedule direct) and the sky and...
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Just standard WMC really, but with the Recorded TV HD add-on for better presentation of recordings and other media files.
In the past I used Remote Potato for remote/mobile access but I haven't bothered with that on my current build.
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Thu Jul 21, 2016 11:34 am
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WMC and Windows 10 and EPG?
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jwbutton » Mon May 30, 2016 4:14 am
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Just started with epg123 and Schedules Direct.
I am running Windows 10 64 bit and installed WMC version 10.0.10134.0v2.1 and EPG123 v 0.9.7.
If I follow this epg123 installation step: Perform the setup as normal except for the agreement of the 'Program Guide Terms of Service' screen. Select the I...
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Just the current public release (TH2 + Updates). Not anything from the preview rings.
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Mon Jul 18, 2016 10:51 pm
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No listings in guide - error messages in trace
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colincliff » Sun Jul 17, 2016 6:27 pm
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I have tried an initial run of EPG123 and am running in to the following error resulting in no listing in the guide. Am I doing something obviously wrong?
thanks in advance!
====================== Beginning epg123 client execution. =====================
Import=True , Match=True , NoLogo=False...
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Please check now.
Having problems with schedule MD5s ... the correction not flow up correctly?
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Mon Jul 18, 2016 3:31 am
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EPG123 Won't work with WMC
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CCH » Sun Jul 17, 2016 6:11 pm
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I was having problems updating guide from Rovi. I followed all the steps setforth in your guide including setting up with schedules direct. When i attempted to populate the WMC guide with EPG123 data nothing seemed to happen and when I tried to open the guide I was warned that there were no...
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Thank you again. I want to try a few things before I take this further.
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Sun Jul 17, 2016 6:59 pm
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FAQ for beginners
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klaberte » Thu Jul 07, 2016 3:29 pm
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With deference to all of you, I thought it would be a good idea to create a place for a FAQ for newbies, such as myself. Here are some of the questions I had after reading through the materials and trying to set up WMC to work with epg123. If this is useful, we can reorganize this FAQ in the future.
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Q: When I run epg123 in a shell, the last shows Kicking off ReindexSearchRoot task . What happens if I close the shell while Kicking off ReindexSearchRoot task is still active?
A: ???
The only thing that will not happen if the shell is closed during the reindex is 1) the exit code of the reindex...
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Mon Jul 11, 2016 8:55 pm
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Usability Suggestions
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klaberte » Sat Jul 09, 2016 3:17 am
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Perhaps these could go under Bug Reports or Feature Requests , but I thought there could be a thread for improving user experience (UX). If others think this should be merged, by all means!
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With a 21 day guide on FIOS, the cache directory has over 90K files.
It takes much longer to read from the cache than it does to populate it on the initial run because of disk seeks to all these files (when building the cache, writes get buffered).
It would run a lot quicker as one big file, or...
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Last post by glugglug
Sun Jul 10, 2016 6:24 pm
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Error When Running EPG123
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choliscott » Sun Jul 10, 2016 9:48 am
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I decided to update my HTPC for the free W10 upgrade before it the end of the month & restored W7 from a system image.
When I went to run EPG123, it crashes after about a minute, with the following error:
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Activating...
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Typically only see something like this when you have 2 instances of epg123 running. Only a single token can exist at a time so if you open an instance of epg123 while another session is running, the new session invalidates the last token and creates a new one. It is also possible there was a...
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Sun Jul 10, 2016 5:14 pm
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Listings are not showing up in WMC (Win 10)
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andy_d » Sat Jul 02, 2016 10:12 am
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Hi. I decided to try this out since I've been having issues with the Rovi guide. If I go by the trace log...
====================== Beginning epg123 client execution. =====================
Import=True , Match=False , NoLogo=False
import filename = epg123.mxf
Successfully imported .mxf file...
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More detail can be found here ... should be enough information to get it done. I of course can put together a much better step-by-step demo.
Excellent! Good visual example. I will add it to Beginner FAQ!
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Sat Jul 09, 2016 1:52 am
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Did epg123 not complete last night?
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Sammy2 » Fri Jul 08, 2016 2:33 pm
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Here's my latest trace.log (just last night's run). There is no new log as this one is well under on meg so it isn't truncated. It just looks like it didn't fully complete if you look at the last line. Also, I used GuideTool to hide all these new Charter OnDemand stations because there of no use to...
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No ramifications. epg123 at that point was just waiting for the ehprivjob to exit. I wouldn't worry about doing a manual run.
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Fri Jul 08, 2016 3:52 pm
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Poll for new EPG123 feature
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garyan2 » Wed Jun 01, 2016 3:29 am
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When working on some other things, I figured out how to embed images in the .mxf file. This means that you could possibly enjoy a rich guide on a computer that does not have internet access and still have all the series/program images and movie posters. If you use the .\logos directory to override...
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I never notice much lag on my echo extenders.. Not any more than on the HTPC itself which is minimal at most.
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Fri Jul 08, 2016 2:40 pm
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Tuner Not Found - Help!
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NathanP2007 » Fri Jun 24, 2016 4:47 am
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Okay so I have a freshly installed Windows 7 machine that I have setup to be my new HTPC. I will use it with my SiliconDust HDHomeRun Prime (6cc). I installed the SiliconDust software and setup Windows Media Center (per normal) and everything went smoothly. All 6 of my tuners were found, the Guide...
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The mcupdate tasks do more than just download/apply Guide data. Occasionally the runs do database maintenance, cleanups. There's still value in letting those tasks run.
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Last post by webminster
Tue Jul 05, 2016 4:08 am
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Using Multiple Lineups
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JTScribe » Thu Jun 16, 2016 7:26 pm
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What with MS's continuing guide weirdness I'm considering switching my father-in-law's computer over to EPG123.
Do the extra lineup tabs allow me to do this without another Schedules Direct subscription? I am on CableCard and my father in law is on OTA.
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Thanks!
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Last post by Scallica
Mon Jul 04, 2016 11:56 am
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New Release of EPG123
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rimmel » Sun Jun 19, 2016 8:37 pm
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[Question} When you put up a new release of epg123 can I just extract the executable from the zip archive and copy it over the old executable in the current epg123 directory and use the existing cache directory and config file. Or must I delete all the old stuff and begin anew.
This brings up...
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The current implementation is perfect for running epg123 as it allows updating the *.exe to the latest version from a remote session without having to prevent someone watching the HTPC while the app is easily updated from another room, city, state or country.
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Last post by Sammy2
Tue Jun 21, 2016 4:41 pm
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WMC updating the guide outside EPG123?
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Sammy2 » Tue Jun 07, 2016 1:52 pm
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For whatever reason but probably unrelated to epg123, I had a crash of WMC on my HTPC this morining and when I went to look at the log, I noticed that WMC indicates it updated the guide yesterday whereas in other logs it just says the epg is up to date. Here's a screen shot of the log....
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Isn't Mcupdate useless now because of EPG123? I have it disabled in task scheduler.
That's not good. If you use EPG123, you can and should still run the mcupdate task. It will run every day or every 5 days depending on what you then do with the internal WMC options for doing downloads, but either...
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Wed Jun 08, 2016 12:06 am
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How much to donate?
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mitchedo » Sun May 29, 2016 2:33 pm
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Hi,
Question for the dev. If you could charge for EPG123, how much would you charge?
I just joined Green Button. I didn't realize I never registered. I've lurked from time to time, but now that I've found EPG123, I expect to be here a lot more.
I haven't installed EPG123 yet; I just found out...
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Thanks... the goal was to make it as simple a transition as I could manage. I have 1 more group of people (those with Hauppauge Colossus tuners ) to make their transition just as easy as everyone else's and I think it will be done.
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Sun Jun 05, 2016 4:18 pm
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v0.9.7 Release
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garyan2 » Sun May 08, 2016 1:44 am
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New version out tonight.
A few improvements to address issues we really didn't know we had (live pre- and post- sports shows as Repeats) ... read all about them at .
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In the EPG123 lineup channel listing? There's a couple of buttons over the list All and None that can be helpful.
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Last post by webminster
Sun Jun 05, 2016 3:30 am
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Feature Request: Disable Update Checking
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Scallica » Wed May 18, 2016 1:39 pm
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Gary,
Is it possible to add a checkbox in the GUI to enable/disable update checking on startup? I prefer not to upgrade if things are working and every time I start EPG123 a popup box appears indicating a newer version is available.
Thanks.
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I actually slipped the changes in for this in 0.9.8. There will no longer be a popup in the GUI, but there will be bold, red, all caps banner at the bottom stating an update is available. Won't be able to miss it.
In the About Guide in WMC, instead of just saying (Update Available) , it will now...
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Last post by garyan2
Tue May 31, 2016 4:05 pm
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EPG123 and Windows 10 WMC support
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yucca1960 » Thu Apr 28, 2016 6:06 pm
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Does EPG123 work with WMC in Windows 10?
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The WMC v12 installer kept failing (the newer WMC package that works with EPG123). It refused to install and I finally found that forum above that told me how to bypass all the DISM (?) errors I was having. So it calls the process an in place upgrade of Windows 10. It is essentially a refresh and...
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Tue May 31, 2016 3:37 pm
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Full plot of Survivor finale anyone?
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STC » Thu May 19, 2016 1:47 am
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I did a lol.
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I doubt that Microsoft is doing anything like that, why not adjust the feed to populate the movie year instead? It would be an easier fix and not cause any other side affects.
Also, why would WMC be doing a movie lookup for something that is not marked as a movie (unless it is improperly marked)?...
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Thu May 19, 2016 8:25 pm
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Questions and Features
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rimmel » Fri Apr 08, 2016 11:30 pm
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Questions: (1) When the epg123 program executes does it refresh the entire guide from Schedule Direct (SD) or append new days to the end of a previous run stored in the cache? In other words, will all SD guide changes made since the last epg123 update be picked up by the next run.
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It looks like you have a log file that EPG123 writes status, progress etc. to. Do you also write entries to the Windows Media Center Event log? The WMC guide updates get recorded there as well as a bunch of other WMC information/error/warning entries may be written there. The reason I ask is that...
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Last post by garyan2
Fri May 13, 2016 4:55 am
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Indexing would not start & 10,000 channels appear
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scyto » Sat Apr 30, 2016 6:13 am
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Great app, just found it. I had real issues get the index to work ehpriv job would not complete. The solution was to delete and rebuild the whole Windows search index. Makes me wonder if a corrupt index was root of some other issues too.
I am in US 98033 with cable tv - is it normal to have ten...
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Does this change your thinking, if we have ability to auto add channels can we have option of not having 10k channels?
there is a new option to automatically download newly added stations to your lineups
for CableCARD users, this means it will also be automatically added to your guide if...
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Last post by garyan2
Sun May 08, 2016 5:31 am
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Some Issues with One-Off shows coming through as Series
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Sammy2 » Fri Apr 29, 2016 6:20 pm
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Maybe this needs a Ticket at SD??
I'm seeing this show as a series yet it seems they are the same shows and it is filling up my drive:
VICE: Special Report: Fixing the System (This recorded 5 times but is no longer listed on Zap2it so maybe it's fixed.
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I'll check Other Showings and stay tuned.
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Fri Apr 29, 2016 7:34 pm
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FR: Premiers (Carried over from the General WMC Guide forum)
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Sammy2 » Fri Apr 22, 2016 2:08 pm
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Continued from here .
I was looking at Program Details from the guide. I believe you were looking at the program details from the scheduled recordings (why you see the OAD and I didn't).
The premieres section is how I found Containment ... hadn't even heard of it so thought I'd take a look. I'll...
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New version is released...enjoy.
That's great, thanks for continuing to develop new features to epg123.
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Wed Apr 27, 2016 3:30 am
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Automatch is Ignoring Disabled Channels in Schedules Direct
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Sammy2 » Sun Apr 24, 2016 4:21 pm
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So I decided to toggle on Automatch when I upgraded to v0.9.5. I had disabled a lot of channels using Guide Tool but Automatch brought them back and they are showing in Guide Tool as enabled now. I had never disabled them on the Schedules Direct website so I figured that must be why they came back....
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^ is also cleans up the categories/genres as well... definitely a benefit to being able to control what guide information to download.
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Mon Apr 25, 2016 4:53 pm
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EPG123 - Whole Home Configuration
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glorp » Tue Mar 15, 2016 10:30 pm
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I followed the steps @ exactly. Each WMC went flawlessly. Guide is installed for 14 days on each. All channels mapped. All plugins untouched.
You should be able to get between 25 to 30 days of schedule data, depending on the station. Since EPG123 uses the delta algorithm in our API, it will only...
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Yes, that would be welcomed. Right now I run three identical setups so do find it wasteful to update three times every night.
Two clients pulling the data from the server is very nice. The only inputs from the user should be: network login info, network location of server and a time to schedule...
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Last post by artm
Sun Apr 24, 2016 7:43 pm
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trace.log entry: [WARNG] Time discontinuity
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artm » Thu Apr 07, 2016 1:11 pm
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Been getting a lot of these lately, in two systems:
4/7/2016 5:01:43 AM] Time discontinuity detected. Service 47540 (SPROUT) EP021046540040 (entry 678) ends at 2016-04-17 10:30:00Z, EP021046540040 (entry 679) starts at 2016-04-17 10:00:00Z.
What do they mean?
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They're gone (or at least mitigated a lot more) due to my work with Gracenote.
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Sat Apr 23, 2016 10:48 pm
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Add Episode Title to all shows with ESI
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Space » Fri Apr 08, 2016 6:44 am
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Nitpicky feature request:
If an episode has ESI (EP type program), then always include an episodeTitle (create one if none exists in the SD data).
If you look at all your upcoming recordings in the view scheduled list, it is difficult to determine if an episode is recording because it is a...
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It just uses the series name as the episode name.
Thanks for the information. I'll look for this in the future..
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Wed Apr 20, 2016 2:33 pm
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epg123 v0.9.5 release
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garyan2 » Sun Apr 17, 2016 8:04 am
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Just posted version 0.9.5 on the website. I spent a lot of time trying to get the automatch perfect ... but I wasn't successful in completely cleaning out some previous version 0.9.x leftovers. It is really just a nitpicky thing, but I wanted to completely erase all traces of the previous versions....
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I think we may be talking 2 different things. The duplicate tuners is having 8 tuners assigned to a single channel when there is only 4. I believe you are talking 2 duplicate channels with the same tuners.
duplicate tuners: station 2.1 with tuners A, B, C, D, A, B, C, D
duplicate channels: station...
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Last post by groovejumper
Tue Apr 19, 2016 11:12 am
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Generic info in EPG123
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garnuts » Fri Apr 15, 2016 5:32 pm
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I converted my main HTPC from Rovi to EPG123 yesterday. As with Rovi, I still see generic info for late night and daytime talk shows.
Columbus, OH: WOW digital cable lineup (cablecard)
Today Fri 4/15: Jimmy Kimmel and Tavis Smiley show generic info (no guests). All other day and late night shows...
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Today Fri 4/15: Jimmy Kimmel and Tavis Smiley show generic info (no guests). All other day and late night shows seem to be correct.
Monday 4/18: Kimmel, Fallon, Meyers, Smiley all show generic info going forward in guide.
My experience has been that this works this way virtually all the time...
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Last post by garnuts
Sun Apr 17, 2016 9:17 pm
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Elapsed time for update, good or bad?
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artm » Fri Apr 15, 2016 2:25 pm
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So, I'm running 0.9.4 and am getting update times of over 1 hour. I seem to recall the 0.7.6 doing it in 18 minutes or so.
Is this normal?
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Based on my own experience with just-installed 0.9.4, it looks like the number of channels you download for could make a significant difference in the nightly update performance.
In my own case I only have 89 channels selected. And my log shows:
Generated .mxf file contains 69 services, 1848...
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Sun Apr 17, 2016 7:52 pm
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Log error: EPG123 not an approved app from SD, error 1005
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DSperber » Sat Apr 16, 2016 6:10 pm
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Brand new installation with 0.9.4, long enough for two nightly updates to have run apparently successfully at 3AM.
Very impressed with the fact that both nights the whole process completed in under 3 minutes.
epg123 execution time was 00:02:53.1291041.
epg123 execution time was...
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I activated that feature today, so everyone should be getting pop-ups from the GUI and notifications in the trace.log file directing you to the website for an update. Unfortunately, the update isn't posted yet ... I'm trying to get it pushed out real soon.
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Sun Apr 17, 2016 1:35 am
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Warning in the Log? Automatch too Quick? (v0.9.3)
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Sammy2 » Wed Apr 13, 2016 12:11 pm
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12:00:00 AM] ===============================================================================
Beginning epg123 update execution.
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epg123 version 0.9.3 , DaysToDownload: 30 , PrefixEpisodeTitle: True , AutoImport: True...
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Sure. Was actually planning on it; I'm tired of banging my ahead against the wall. The issue I am working on doesn't appear to have any kind of impact anywhere in the function of the guide/lineup, it just doesn't seem complete. I don't have the specifics here (will send out later tonight), but...
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Thu Apr 14, 2016 8:48 pm
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SD or EPG123 error?
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bw1 » Wed Apr 13, 2016 9:30 pm
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Today the teams got updated for the NHL Playoffs.
My Zap2it lineup recently changed from NBCSNHD to NBCSDTB WideOpenWest NBC Sports Network HD DET B and shows: Premier League Match of the Week from 7 - 9 PM, but my WMC after updating with EPG123 shows: NHL Hockey Detroit Red Wings at Tampa Bay...
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I think I may need a road map here. Let's see if I understand correctly.
Zap2It - NBCSDTB (used to be NBCSNHD) has Premier League Match of the Week with Detroit vs. Tampa Bay? correct
EPG123 - NBCSNHD has NHL Hockey with Detroit vs. Tampa Bay correct except EPG123 is correctly getting NBCSDTB and...
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Thu Apr 14, 2016 11:21 am
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EPG123 is not finding and/or matching all 3 of my HDHomeruns
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bw1 » Mon Apr 11, 2016 3:13 pm
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Since experiencing many of the same issues with MS/Rovi EPG and also nearly running out of guide data recently, I decided to try setting up epg123 on my desktop while keeping my HTPC production box up and running on MS/Rovi for now. Fortunately, it seems to be getting guide data again, but I'd...
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Thanks for the pointers. So Media Center only uses date originalAirdate to set New status but GraceNote/SD provide (possibly?) date originalAirdate, boolean new ( new if defined or not new if not defined) and boolean repeat ( repeat if defined or not repeat if not defined). And in these Indy Car...
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Thu Apr 14, 2016 4:50 am
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Automatch Explanation
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kanipek » Wed Mar 30, 2016 1:14 pm
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I was wondering if you can explain exactly what/how the automatch feature is doing and what exactly it is looking at for matching.
I understand what it is supposed to do. But for me it is not working correctly. Basically it is disabling all the non-CableCard channels.
Not a big deal. But I would...
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I can't find them anywhere, I tried manually adding them in but didn't get to complete the task before the honey dos kicked in and then we were out of the country for 8 days on vacation so I haven't had a chance to do anything in the last couple of weeks really.
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Mon Apr 11, 2016 6:34 pm
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Migrate recordings to EPG123 setup
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artm » Sun Apr 03, 2016 5:06 am
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I'm about to migrate my recording schedule from WMC to a new test setup with EPG123. It's a long choir so can I assume that there will be no tool to help us do this?
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In the end I simply captured several screenshots of the schedule before switching over and re-entered it one by one.
No big deal.
That's what I did. Only issue is if a series is off season and not in the guide you need to put it in manually as a Keyword search so when it is in the guide you get...
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Mon Apr 11, 2016 2:17 pm
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Tuners assigned to channels are doubled?
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carlmon » Fri Apr 08, 2016 5:40 pm
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I am running Windows 8.1, and using epg123 version 9.3 all seems good, except I noticed that all channels show my tuners twice.
Specifically, If I look at the guide, select a channel, Edit Channel, and Edit Sources, I will see each tuner shown twice.
I have 3 Silicon Dust Prime for Cable...
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Ever since the Rovi switchover, my Windows Media Center machine went from an appliance to a second job for monitoring outages and issues. I feel like epg123 may have turned the corner for me, big thanks garyan2!
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Sun Apr 10, 2016 2:57 pm
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"Unsupported compression method" in 7-zip file
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mistress » Sat Apr 09, 2016 4:29 pm
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I am at my first bumbling steps discovering EPG123.
I have downloaded the 2 latest versions from garyan2.net, receiving a 244 KB file. When I run 7-Zip -- I get this error message for each of the four files in the archive: Unsupported compression method .
Has anyone got a suggestion?
Is the...
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Well, Duh!
I searched Google for the Unsupported Method 7zip and found . . .
When you try to extract a .7z (7-Zip) file show the following errors:
unknown method
Or
unknown compression method
Solution:
Download and install the latest version of the 7-Zip software from
I gotta get me some...
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Sat Apr 09, 2016 6:59 pm
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Error in log file: SD API WebException Thrown
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artm » Mon Apr 04, 2016 12:58 pm
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SO, I have v0.9.2 running on two laptops, both timed to update at 4:00AM. One works fine, no issues. The other returns this error in the log file below.
When I run it manually, it works. What's going on? Can I not run two SD updates at the same time maybe?...
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v0.9.4 is up on the website. Very minor update, but I said I would do it. Contains additional information in the trace log when a WebException is thrown and parses 4DTV channels properly.
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Fri Apr 08, 2016 6:04 am
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Rovi Keeps Comin' Back :(
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marvin-miller » Sun Apr 03, 2016 7:08 pm
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Run for the hills...oh no, it's Rovi! :lol:
I can get EPG123 and WMC working just fine with my Schedules Direct account which is great news :thumbup:
Only one problem though, after several hours or half a day or some period like that I fire up Media Center and I find that recording history and...
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XBoxTV most probably uses the same data.
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Fri Apr 08, 2016 2:11 am
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EPG and SD Lineups
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eclas » Wed Apr 06, 2016 3:28 pm
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I've searched but can't find any info on this.
In my situation I move to another area going north in summer south in winter.
I have setup 2 lineups at SD. 1 for north and 1 for south.
I was wondering How I can get epg to download a specific lineup only. Is this possible?
on a side note, lineup 2 is...
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Thanks. I didn't see that option. I have both lineups that I can toggle as needed now!
quote= garyan2 ] I've searched but can't find any info on this.
In my situation I move to another area going north in summer south in winter.
I have setup 2 lineups at SD. 1 for north and 1 for south.
I was...
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Wed Apr 06, 2016 4:00 pm
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FR: Enhance Guide Listings from thetvdb.com
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Paint » Mon Apr 04, 2016 4:42 am
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garyan2,
I want to thank you so, so much for creating EPG123. You have literally saved my Ceton 6-tuner Win 7 x64 setup on FIOS.
Zap2it guide listings are much better than the Rovi guide listings for me, but there are still some errors that sometimes occur with season and episode numbers.
Would...
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garyan2,
I want to thank you so, so much for creating EPG123. You have literally saved my Ceton 6-tuner Win 7 x64 setup on FIOS.
Zap2it guide listings are much better than the Rovi guide listings for me, but there are still some errors that sometimes occur with season and episode numbers.
Would...
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Mon Apr 04, 2016 6:06 am
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ReIndex Took 3 Hours?
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Sammy2 » Thu Mar 31, 2016 1:54 pm
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Here's a log of last nights run on v0.9.2. All went well and there's no longer reporting of time slot mismatches but the ReIndex took 3 hours! Hmm.
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Beginning epg123 update execution....
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Last night's run was 3 minutes.
It turns out that I was recording a 3 hour movie at midnight the night before. That is a priority so I think I'll leave the task priority as is because it did finish, it just took a while..
I would agree ... do you know if the task was created with 0.7.6 (priority...
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Sun Apr 03, 2016 5:18 pm
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Record Series not Honoring Show Type: New (Generic Desc.)
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Jim-W » Fri Mar 25, 2016 1:58 am
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I'm not sure if this is even an EPG123 issue but, (and I could be wrong) I don't remember this happening pre-EPG123 with Zap2It or even after the Rovi change over.
If I Record a Series and select Show Type: New, WMC records just the new shows... perfect, but WMC also records episodes that have...
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Not the way I would like to see it resolved ... have no idea what the issue was.
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Sat Apr 02, 2016 6:40 pm
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My EPG123 Issue
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RonBo » Fri Mar 25, 2016 5:31 pm
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Well...Here's my sad story....My guide data ran out on Mar 7th. I tried to install EPG123 after all the recommendations from this form which resulted in a nasty MalWare problem. After wiping my HD clean and reinstalling my Vista operating system, I ended up with the ZapIt guide again and I have...
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I have found this little tool quite useful to disable the win10 junk and re-enable getting normal win 7 updates:
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Sat Apr 02, 2016 6:04 am
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v0.9.0 Release
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garyan2 » Thu Mar 24, 2016 1:54 am
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This release, I believe, is really close to what the final product will be. Here is what to look forward to:
Incorporates Lineup Selector and Guide Tool functionality
Automatically matches stations with guide channels (based on tuner channel, not display channel)
Disables channels that have no...
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I use TunerSalad Footlong. I have 9 cablecard tuners (InfiniTV6 and HDHR Prime) and six ATSC tuners (three HDHR Connects). I think I had to rerun TunerSalad after deleting the eHome directory because WMC would only find four of each type of tuner. Once I reran TunerSalad it found all 15 tuners....
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Thu Mar 31, 2016 6:52 pm
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EPG123 v0.9.1 cannot search
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artm » Wed Mar 30, 2016 4:00 am
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So, I had Win7 & v0.7.6 installed in \program files (x86)\EPG123 directory and the search functions worked fine.
I installed v0.9.1 in a separate directory (\program files (x86)\EPG123-0.9.1), ran it, all looks good. Except that any search criteria I enter (whether in guide view or add recording...
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More success.
I ran 0.9.2 and all is well. All MC searches work fine.
Perhaps it is wise to add this fix about MC and Windows search service for systems that are not correctly setup? Mine was, I just undid it!
Attached is my latest trace.log.
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Thu Mar 31, 2016 4:29 am
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EPG123 v0.9.1 Log
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Sammy2 » Mon Mar 28, 2016 10:09 pm
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I downloaded, installed and ran EPG123 from a remote session just a bit ago and thought I'd post my log.. Or part of it anyhow. This brings to mind that the logs are getting cumbersome and I have a suggestion. Emby Server creates logs all the time but what it does is create a new log when it...
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For some reason, I am having difficulties getting epg123 to create a task to run on the NT AUTHORITY\SERVICE account. It should be pretty easy, but I am missing something or this would have been done a long time ago. Every once in awhile I will research it again, but still never find a method to...
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Last post by garyan2
Thu Mar 31, 2016 2:33 am
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EPG123 v9.2 Log
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kanipek » Wed Mar 30, 2016 2:37 pm
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Saw some errors while v9.2 ran. Thought I would give you the log to see what is wrong, if anything.
WMC did update and appears normal.
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Your log shows no time slot discontinuities for the March 30 run.
These errors look to be a small coding change required on Gary's part. I think I'll wait until the next release.
Error: The following error was encountered while processing the file. Aborting.
You cannot call clear on a Channels...
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Last post by garyan2
Thu Mar 31, 2016 2:27 am
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OAD for SH type shows
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Space » Wed Mar 16, 2016 3:25 pm
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Any progress on the research about adding OAD for SH type shows (as opposed to EP episodes)?
From my analysis of a sample MXF file, it looks like you can add OAD (if it is available from SD) to any SH type show where isSeries is not true, perhaps leaving it off of those marked with...
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Sneaked that one in there. In fact, I did it so long ago when working on v0.9.0 I completely forgot. By default, I now put any OAD in the file regardless of the show type. Also, for the isGeneric flag, I apply that to all SH type programs that are not identified as a series. Could backfire on some...
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Last post by garyan2
Wed Mar 30, 2016 4:27 am
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Issue with EPG123 or Schedules Direct?
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kanipek » Mon Mar 28, 2016 6:04 pm
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So today I noted no data on WEWSDT from yesterdays run using v7.6, thought this was odd so I went into edit listings and there is no longer a WEWSDT listing (ABC HD in 44646) there is a listing for WEWS (ABC SD in 44646). So I selected the WEWS listing and figured all would get sorted out on my...
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You can't have easy problems, can you? I'm going to try to get a handle on what you're seeing ...
The disappearing WEWSDT and WKYCDT are missing from the Guide and/or epg123 lineup? If it's missing from the lineup, the problem is with SD, especially if the listing changes to WEWS and WKYC. If it...
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Tue Mar 29, 2016 3:22 pm
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EPG Cache
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mldenison » Mon Mar 28, 2016 5:55 pm
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I looked at the cache directory today. I noticed a huge number of files in it dating back to the original install.
I deleted all of them except today's files and have 15,000+ files remaining.
Is there any way the the executable could clear out these files each time it runs?
Thanks
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And now some even more for generic series descriptions. Don't worry mldenison, it will just have to download all the files again ... no impact to the output. It will just take a little longer to perform an update.
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Mon Mar 28, 2016 8:39 pm
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EPG123v5/v6 - BUG - Series Record
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kanipek » Sat Mar 26, 2016 8:30 pm
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I have an interesting possible bug going on.
I recently chose to set up up a new series recording for Matlock. I did so from the WMC Guide by selecting a channel finding the series and the setting it to record from that channel only. What I ended up getting was every episode of Matlock from every...
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I have an interesting possible bug going on.
I recently chose to set up up a new series recording for Matlock. I did so from the WMC Guide by selecting a channel finding the series and the setting it to record from that channel only. What I ended up getting was every episode of Matlock from every...
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Mon Mar 28, 2016 6:10 pm
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Epg123 with an Ceton InfiniTV tuner + an Xbox 360 extender
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Ladislaus » Fri Mar 25, 2016 11:24 am
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:?:
My Windows 8.1-based HTPC uses a Ceton InfiniTV tuner (4 tuner USB) for CableCARD-only usage (no OTA) with an Xbox 360 as an extender. With only 1 WMC system (alas, no test rig), I'm hesitant to fix something that isn't broken. Does the community here have experience (suggestions, steps...
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If you've got a spare hard drive then I'd make a clone of your existing drive and use the clone to play with. That's what I did with my setup and it worked great. If something goes south then you still have the original drive to fall back on. I used EaseUS Drive Copy to clone my drive. It was free...
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Last post by captain_video
Mon Mar 28, 2016 12:57 pm
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Feature Request - Lineup merging
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HTBruceM » Thu Mar 03, 2016 8:04 pm
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Lineup merging into WMC (i.e. eliminate requirement for Lineup Selector)
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...You could theoretically accept the TOS, setup all the tuners, archive the backup, rerun tv setup and denying the guide TOS, and importing the lineup backup file... then run epg123.
That worked!
So now I'm on the reservation, should be protected from Rovi and have an easy backup of the...
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Last post by KenL
Fri Mar 25, 2016 7:04 pm
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SxxExx / #xx position, location
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STC » Sat Mar 05, 2016 4:09 pm
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What are the possibilities for having this information elsewhere within a shows structure?
Viewing SxxExx as pert of the title before the title is nice but my personal option would be to show it at the end of the title not beginning. If it's possible.
This is purely personal preference and may...
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I missed all this. I think I'll do the unchecked set up.
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Last post by Sammy2
Wed Mar 23, 2016 9:31 pm
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Getting ready to switch to EPG123
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Sammy2 » Mon Mar 14, 2016 6:27 pm
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I think it is about time for me to get on board. Today's lack of guide data past March 19 in WMC and you guys reports of what are basically non-issues is the kicker for me.
I mean, this looks like it is pretty polished and at RC status from what I'm reading here.
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^Same thing. Either way accomplishes it. Just need to get the programs out of memory so they don't lock files in that directory.
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Last post by glorp
Wed Mar 23, 2016 8:57 pm
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Adding a Channel?
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Jim-W » Tue Mar 22, 2016 8:48 pm
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I have EPG123 up and running and it's working great but I need to add a couple of channels I missed.
Adding the channels in EPG123, clicking Save and running the task does not work.
Do I need to Save & Execute in EPG123, then run Lineup Selector and Guide Tool again or what is the easiest...
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Since you changed your channel numbers, I would limit your options to just the channel edit in WMC ... setting->TV->Guide->Edit Channels ... goto channel 637 and Edit Listings to find the proper lineup by Callsign or Channel Name and select it.
Version 0.8.0 is basically a dead branch ... it was a...
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Last post by Sammy2
Wed Mar 23, 2016 2:17 am
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Verifying EPG123 Guide Update runs
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Sammy2 » Mon Mar 21, 2016 6:03 pm
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Simple question..
How to verify that the guide update has run to update the guide data?
Somewhere in the events log?
Thanks.
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What is the reason for starting with a low timeout for getAllScheduleEntryMd5s and then increasing it with each retry?
Depending on server load it may succeed in the first try, or the second.
What is the advantage of using a smaller timeout value for the first call and a longer value for the...
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Last post by Space
Tue Mar 22, 2016 1:39 am
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PlayReady/DRM Question
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Desparado » Sun Mar 20, 2016 4:12 am
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I'm wanting to switch to EPG123 but I have a cablecard and my cable company has almost all my channels DRM protected (even the major networks like NBC, ABC, etc!). I also have countless hours of recorded material that I haven't watched yet. Can anyone confirm that deleting the eHome directory will...
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I can also confirm that deleting eHome directory does not break DRM.
I use Cablecard and have 1 DRM channel and have installed EPG123 by deleting the eHome directory and PlayReady did not break.
I will say that I've been using Schedules Direct with Big Screen EPG for months prior to the release...
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Last post by DaveInPa
Mon Mar 21, 2016 1:14 pm
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epg123 logo
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garyan2 » Fri Mar 11, 2016 7:15 pm
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Okay, I've been testing out the next version (v0.7.6) which will include daily schedule caching to reduce network bandwidth, schedules direct api calls, reduce timeouts, yada yada.... Everything is working great; just want to do some tuning and benchmarking, as well as test out some corner cases to...
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:D Yay, thanks for picking my design. I'm glad I was able to contribute to this worthy project. :thumbup:
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Last post by IT Troll
Sun Mar 20, 2016 10:48 pm
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Updates WMC or not
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artm » Sun Mar 20, 2016 3:37 pm
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After installing EPG123 how do I deal with this:
1. album art: if I disable that in WMC will I still get that data form TMB during the EPG123update?
2. WMC downloads between time period: is that for the guide or other data as well (artwork)? Should I disable that since EPG123's update handles...
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I was thinking more along the lines of a FAQ, but yes ... absolutely agree. This is especially needed considering how big the EPG123 subforum is getting.
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Last post by garyan2
Sun Mar 20, 2016 6:51 pm
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Rovi data still in guide
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artm » Sun Mar 20, 2016 3:13 pm
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So, is it typical to have Rovi data still in the guide after switching to EPG123? I have been testing it, after deleting the ehome folder, and notice quite a few peculiarities.
Some screenshots attached show this for the movie Crazy People, on March 31, on channel 225 RETRO here in Comcast Boston....
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I believe we're answering all your question over here .
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Last post by garyan2
Sun Mar 20, 2016 6:38 pm
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Second Days Schedule Update Run Time
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glorp » Wed Mar 16, 2016 3:51 pm
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Starting a thread so this doesn't get mixed in with all the other setup questions.
Question:
Yesterday after I installed EPG123 on 2 existing MCs it ran the initial schedule dl and update. Took a total of ~7 minutes for each to complete.
03/15/2016 02:04:54 PM] epg123 execution time was...
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Here are the values for the task priority...epg123 is currently 7. I'm going to change it to 6 to be a low normal priority as opposed to a below normal task.
I changed one a few days ago to priority 4 from the original 7. It really didn't seem to make much difference. However I no longer see...
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Sun Mar 20, 2016 4:18 pm
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My experience with EPG123 - as requested
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Skybolt » Tue Mar 15, 2016 11:07 am
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Ok, so let me start off by saying I recolonize Gary's hard work and do appreciate anyone's attempt to help out the community.
My experience with epg123 last night rendered my system useless for live tv at this point and WIN7 MCE needs to be reinstalled from scratch to get it working. Again no...
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Yeah, I have to agree with you on the happy with 7MC, I also love it. I just don't love where it's not going and earlier this week I hosed my system and almost couldn't recover from it. That is what made me switch, not because I don't like 7MC. None of my channels are copy freely, so I have to use...
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Fri Mar 18, 2016 9:26 pm
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Interesting Finding (OAD changed??)
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ewtaylo » Fri Mar 11, 2016 7:25 pm
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I have been going through my scheduled recordings every so often to see if generically filled in shows get episode specific information before their recording date and I just saw the opposite happen. I have opened a ticket on SD but I thought I would post it here.
When I added the new season of...
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Is it true, Space, that you set all your season passes as new&rerun, channel specific? Perhaps that is what I need to do with mine.
For the most part, yes. The only time I don't is if there are a lot of repeats of previous seasons (meaning seasons that were on before I created the Season-pass...
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Wed Mar 16, 2016 3:48 pm
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Is step 0 optional?
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kmp14 » Tue Mar 15, 2016 7:50 pm
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Step 0 can still be considered optional, but certainly advised. By running TV Setup again and not agreeing to the terms of service for the EPG, that should disconnect you completely from Rovi. The problem doing it this way is that the database is messy ... if you search by category, actor, or movie...
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The folder is C:\Program Data\Microsoft\eHome
The files & folders people are deleting (without having to do the Uninstall & Reinstall WMC is the mcepg*.db file(s) & the folder(s) of the same name. I usually found this easiest to delete these under safe mode.
@STC, weird, garyan2 and I had...
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Last post by choliscott
Wed Mar 16, 2016 5:34 am
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Using EPG123 with logos
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Space » Wed Mar 02, 2016 10:16 pm
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OK, thanks. I think I'll wait and see what garyan2 has to say about it. If EPG123 put 'em in it should be able to take 'em out :) If that's not possible I'll look at MCL as the route. I tend to just keep a very vanilla guide so that something I mess with doesn't break it.
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Thanks. Don't know what happened for MCL to prevent the SD logos from showing. I just ran a MCL logo update and repopulation.
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Last post by STC
Sun Mar 13, 2016 4:29 pm
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Feature Request - log file additions
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HTBruceM » Mon Mar 07, 2016 4:07 pm
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I have the following suggestions to include in the LOG file. Most of these are intended for future debugging by the developer and users as the tool matures.
1) Output the EPG123 version number into the log file.
2) Output the EPG123 configuration options that were in effect at the time of...
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+1, and if possible:
4) write an update run start and update run finish (with success/failure code or flagged as info/error event) message to Windows Applications and Services/Media Center Event Log
I also see these from 0.7.5 which I assume are not really errors but just some info from SD during...
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Mon Mar 07, 2016 7:27 pm
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Schedule Update Timeouts
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glorp » Sun Mar 06, 2016 3:51 pm
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After about a weeks' worth of successful updates, todays' run failed like when I reported trouble before. I have the full trace, which is very short, and I'm adding below. The lineup ID was edited. This was a run from v0.7.3. It ran off my scheduled task and I just let it fail and run to...
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Just posted the new version (v0.7.5) with the doubled timeouts. Also has much better tracing.
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Mon Mar 07, 2016 6:44 am
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