An evolving, supported alternative to Rovi
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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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Thank you Gary! I have 3 WMC boxes and one of them I recently converted to Windows 10 out of necessity. The other 2 boxes are mostly WMC and Win TV. I've had to use a browser to look for programs and manually setup schedules. The WIN TV program often crashes and I loose a lot of programming. The...
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Last post by bikemaker
Mon Feb 15, 2021 9:07 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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Last post by glorp
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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Last post by Skybolt
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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Last post by Space
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.
You and me, both. I try...
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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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Last post by garyan2
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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Last post by garyan2
Mon Mar 07, 2016 6:44 am
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