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Welcome to the new TGB.tv Server

Last post by IT Troll « Fri Jul 24, 2020 6:03 pm
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by holidayboy » Fri Jul 24, 2020 8:50 am » in News and Announcements

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Hi everybody.

If you're reading this post then you have arrived on our new server.

You should be able to post etc as usual - please contact me if you have any difficulties at holidayboy thegreenbutton.tv

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Much more betterer. Thanks. :thumbup:

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Server and forum upgrades - July 2020

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by holidayboy » Wed Jul 15, 2020 8:36 am » in News and Announcements

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Hi all,

After talking to our current hosts, a few upgrades are required in order to (hopefully) keep the site working well. :|

We're running on a server OS that is nearing end of support and there is also a newer version of phpbb that we'd benefit from as well.

It means that I'll have to take a...

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I thought the only things holiday boy's did were to take holiday's

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Sat Jul 25, 2020 4:10 pm
THANK YOU Gary

Last post by adam1991 « Fri Jun 12, 2020 7:36 pm
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by 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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Donated! I'm using Plex and not WMC, but the epg123 tool allowed me to get accurate EPG data for the live TV. The default Plex data was quite inaccurate. I was able to update the Plex EPG in one simple step and didn't lose any functionality. Love this tool!

Are you using Schedules Direct data?...
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Fri Jun 12, 2020 7:36 pm

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EPG123 Error: Unable to read data from the transport connection

Last post by adam1991 « Wed Apr 22, 2020 3:01 pm
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by sfuher » Tue Apr 21, 2020 5:55 pm

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Please help me fix whatever is not working correctly!

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Beginning epg123 update execution. version 1.3.4.0
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Beginning EPG123 update...

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I live in a resort with a unique line up. This is the only way I could find all channels.

(I work for Schedules Direct)

Please open a lineup support ticket on the Schedules Direct website, and we can look into getting a lineup created that has your actual channels rather than assembling a...

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Last post by adam1991
Wed Apr 22, 2020 3:01 pm
No guide updates since SD servers were down

Last post by technodevotee « Tue Apr 21, 2020 8:44 am
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by technodevotee » Tue Apr 21, 2020 7:33 am

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EPG123 was working fine until SD did their maintenance (thanks Gary) but fails every day now and the log contains

Unhandled exception caught from epg123.exe. message: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.

The MXF file imported is 119.81 hours old.

sorry if there is a resolution...

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I think you had a problem before the servers went down. Your MXF file is 5 days old... servers went down 2 days ago. Without seeing where your exception is occurring, I would recommend clearing the cache and trying an update again.

Thought you might like to know that I went back through the log...

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Tue Apr 21, 2020 8:44 am
EPG123 throws exception when SD is down

Last post by garyan2 « Tue Apr 21, 2020 4:55 am
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by 12noon » Mon Apr 20, 2020 11:47 pm

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FYI, my 1.3.6.20 EPG123 client crashed because it was unable to request an SD token (when the SD database was offline).

7:45:01 AM - Beginning EPG123 update execution. 2020-04-20 12:45:01Z
7:45:02 AM - Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
7:45:02 AM - Failed to retrieve token...

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Ah, so my turn. I see what you are saying and I do that.

Here's the way it goes for my code.
1) If a web exception is thrown, I do catch and parse the response. The log entry will be SD API WebException Thrown. Message: {0} , Status: {1} . If the response is in the SD error message format like you...

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Tue Apr 21, 2020 4:55 am
SD "Server offline for maintenance."

Last post by garyan2 « Tue Apr 21, 2020 12:46 am
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by kmp14 » Sun Apr 19, 2020 1:53 pm
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My guide update has been failing for the last couple of days. I went into the epg123 app to clear the cache last night, but epg123 threw this error: Failed version check. code: 3000 , message: Server offline for maintenance. Sure enough if I went to Schedules Direct and they had a banner at the the...

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Yes, any successful run of an update includes ALL entries regardless whether it was unsuccessful before or not. For every run, if there is information missing, it will request it as part of the download from SD.
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Last post by garyan2
Tue Apr 21, 2020 12:46 am
EPG123 channel metadata

Last post by Space « Mon Apr 20, 2020 1:39 am

by Space » Mon Apr 20, 2020 1:39 am

I have DVRMSToolbox set up to not run comskip on WTV files that have the following metadata:

WM/MediaNetworkAffiliation equals PAY

With the Rovi data, this value was set to PAY when the channel it was recorded from was a premium network (HBO, Showtime, Cinemax, etc.)

I'm wondering if anything...

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Last post by Space
Mon Apr 20, 2020 1:39 am
Listings missing for the Young and the Restless

Last post by garyan2 « Fri Apr 17, 2020 4:29 pm
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by caronson96 » Fri Apr 17, 2020 4:18 pm

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I don't have listings for the young and restless on channel 12.1.

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Actually, come to think of it, I doubt Y&R are even in production right now with COVID-19.

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Fri Apr 17, 2020 4:29 pm
Backup does not complete

Last post by 12noon « Tue Apr 14, 2020 4:50 pm
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by 12noon » Tue Apr 14, 2020 1:04 pm

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I opened the client-guide tool and clicked the Backup button. It created the Config ZIP, but is hung on creating the Backup ZIP. It's been 12 hours, and it still displays the hourglass cursor. Nothing interesting in the log file. Can I give you any additional information?...

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I rebooted because that solves most problems. Sure enough, this time the backup completed within a reasonable amount of time. Thanks, Gary!

IDK if it's worth it, but maybe EPG123 should limit the time it waits for the mcupdate.exe process. If it fails to complete in that time limit, EPG123 can...

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Last post by 12noon
Tue Apr 14, 2020 4:50 pm
Execution exits early

Last post by braigo64 « Mon Apr 13, 2020 2:37 am
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by braigo64 » Mon Apr 13, 2020 1:39 am

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Recently moved and turned on my two WMC computers for the first time in 2 months. One works fine, the other won't update the guide. Updated to latest EPG on both. No issues encountered on the one machine as it behaves as it normally does.

This other machine that won't load guide data cuts out...

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Thanks. That did the trick.

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Mon Apr 13, 2020 2:37 am
Incorrect guide data

Last post by garyan2 « Sun Apr 12, 2020 10:47 pm
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by Space » Mon Mar 30, 2020 7:51 am

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Lineup: USA-NJ65968-X

I've checked this on zap2it, and it has the correct schedule which is:

3/31 9pm ET - channel 504 - New Amsterdam - Righteous Right Hand (Repeat)
3/31 10pm ET - channel 504 - NBC News Special Report: Coronavirus Pandemic (New)

WMC (EPG123 with SD) has some very strange...

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I submitted a ticket about 10 minutes after the last post. Schedules Direct restarted the service that handles the headend requests and it looks like everything is back to normal.

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Last post by garyan2
Sun Apr 12, 2020 10:47 pm
New Client Install Skipping Step 3

Last post by Space « Sun Apr 12, 2020 12:42 am
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by thatsmychin » Sat Apr 11, 2020 6:11 am

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Greetings!
I'm very new to this and may be missing something here. I've run the client setup several times and it continues to skip step 3. I've clicked around a bit to see if there's a way to manually add my Schedule Direct credentials, but I'm not finding anything.

Windows 7 Pro x64
OTA with 2...

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and just to be clear to the OP: while you CAN set u the server on one machine and simply use its output for multiple client machines, that's not required.

You may also simply do a full setup independently on each machine, standalone.

If you do this, make sure that the two machines connect to...

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Last post by Space
Sun Apr 12, 2020 12:42 am
New Years Conversion game plan

Last post by garyan2 « Wed Apr 08, 2020 3:41 am
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by BroadcastHouse » Thu Jan 02, 2020 3:01 am

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I had planned to test the setup of EPG123 on my Windows 7 based WMC install way before I needed it to function, but then life and the holidays ate up my testing time. I noticed just after Christmas I started getting warnings to update the guide because it had less than x number of days. I fast...

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Not a problem and I hope everything is okay now.

As you can imagine, I was pretty busy from mid-December to beginning of February. I'm certainly still here and will help as I can.

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Last post by garyan2
Wed Apr 08, 2020 3:41 am
3 Days of Guide Data Remaining?

Last post by MSMTC « Tue Apr 07, 2020 5:09 pm
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by MSMTC » Mon Apr 06, 2020 6:51 pm

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Just got notification I have less than 3 days guide data-I’ve been using for ~4 months no issue (Windows 8.1 WMC)

Rebooted, no fix, downloaded most recent update, no fix

Is there an identified solution? I tried finding it in this post string but didn’t see (I’m not a savvy user)

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That worked-thanks!

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Last post by MSMTC
Tue Apr 07, 2020 5:09 pm
v1.3.5.0 versus v1.3.6.20

Last post by StinkyImp « Tue Apr 07, 2020 2:13 pm

by StinkyImp » Tue Apr 07, 2020 2:13 pm

I thought you might find the following information interesting!

I chose two separate seven day time periods when there were no Recordings in progress .

Jan 10 - Jan 16, 2020
Version 1.3.5.0

EPG123 Log Parser (and Report Generator) - v 1.7.6 (64 bit)
Report Created on 04/07/2020 at 06:48:28...

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Tue Apr 07, 2020 2:13 pm
Guide not updating

Last post by beauford « Tue Apr 07, 2020 5:48 am
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by beauford » Sun Apr 05, 2020 7:17 pm

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I was able to get the guide in media center the first time. It has not updated sense.

The epg123.mxf file is showing today's date so I assume epg123 is working, am I right?
What causes media center to import the data into WMC?
Thanks

the log:

Activating the epg123 configuration GUI. version...

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Thanks, all is well.
When i click refresh lineup it changes it ti EPG123 HDHR-US to MXF Converter That is where i was going wrong.
Thanks again for all of you help and work.

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Last post by beauford
Tue Apr 07, 2020 5:48 am
No guide listings after SD renewal

Last post by garyan2 « Sat Apr 04, 2020 3:54 pm
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by bruceb2 » Wed Apr 01, 2020 2:51 am

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EPG123 was working fine, but after renewing my Schedules Direct account, I cannot get any EPG data. SD says all is fine on their end, and my account on their page shows it has been renewed. EPG123.exe shows my account expiration date out into the future as well, but WMC shows guide end date as 3/30...

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Makes sense... the wireless may not be up yet. I would recommend you edit the task in Task Scheduler and set it so that the network needs to be up before the task starts.
taskNetwork.PNG

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Sat Apr 04, 2020 3:54 pm
Windows 10 without WMC

Last post by Sammy2 « Fri Apr 03, 2020 6:05 pm
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by Sammy2 » Wed Apr 01, 2020 10:06 pm

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Probably been asked before but I've not been following along lately but can I use epg123 on my newish Win10 PC for xmltv guide data?

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Yah, that's about the time I stopped using it, but I think Luke fixed it. I never verified.

I think I saw something about that too but I never verified either.

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Fri Apr 03, 2020 6:05 pm
All my listings are gone

Last post by jlordl « Thu Apr 02, 2020 11:56 pm
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by jlordl » Thu Apr 02, 2020 12:14 am

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I've been using epg123 happily with WMC and Schedules Direct since Dec 2019. On Monda, I went to program recordings for the week and had No Data for every channel. I've downloaded and installed the latest version 1.3.6.20 and run the client setup several times, but I still get nothing. It seems my...

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Sorry, open the configuration GUI, click the button and try adding a new lineup.

Thanks so much--that worked. You're the best!

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Thu Apr 02, 2020 11:56 pm
WMC reporting recording conflicts where none exists after switch to EPG123

Last post by IT Troll « Wed Apr 01, 2020 8:42 pm
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by sirlou2001 » Mon Mar 09, 2020 6:27 am

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So I used a SiliconDust HDHomeRun with 2 tuners. I am running Win 8.1PRO with WMC. I set up both the EPG123 client and application following the instructions closely. The guide data populates properly from the Schedules Direct download. I can record shows no problem...except when WMC is set to...

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I hit the same issue a few years back, albeit with a completely different tuner (and before I started using EPG123). I found running some extra PvrSchedule tasks fixed it for me. I never had this issue with Windows 7, only with Windows 8.1, and after it had previously been running fine for a few...

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Wed Apr 01, 2020 8:42 pm
Main channel of 4 not seen

Last post by garyan2 « Mon Mar 30, 2020 9:01 pm
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by mebehoof » Mon Mar 30, 2020 4:35 pm

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Hi all,

In Yale, Mi 48097 and trying to watch WDIVDT which is the main WDIV channel (I think) and it won't come in it shows very little signal but all the other WDIV channels come in fine. This broadcast station location is right in the same area as WXYZ, WADL and many other Detroit local...

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Drive-by:

Scan for additional channels in WMC by settings->TV->TV Signal->Scan for More Channels. When that is done, you will need to go into the client and map your guide listings (right side) to your new merged channel (left side).

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Mon Mar 30, 2020 9:01 pm
Only 4 of 6 tuners detected

Last post by sgbroimp « Sun Mar 29, 2020 2:48 pm
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by sgbroimp » Tue Mar 24, 2020 1:33 pm
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Installed EPG123 in December. No problems, a great system. During the install I recall clicking a box regarding maximum 4 tuners override or something like that and assumed until now all was well. (Of course it is rare that all 6 are needed). Last night Comcast went down and I got the no tuners...

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Will give that a go. Thanks for your quick help on all this. Much appreciated and I hope by others also. Stay well!
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Sun Mar 29, 2020 2:48 pm
TMDb searches

Last post by Space « Sat Mar 28, 2020 8:54 pm
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by sanjosanjo » Sat Mar 28, 2020 6:51 pm

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Hello. I notice in the trace.log file that there are a lot of searches for shows that I don't recognize, like this:
TMDb catalog search for How to Be a Player from 1997 found 1 results.

I've never set up anything with TMDb, so I don't know how these got in there. They take up a significant...

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Okay, I'll just leave things alone. I cleared the cache yesterday because I wasn't getting guide updates, so maybe that's why it's so verbose for the last couple days.

Please change the time that your automatic updates run. Using the value of midnight (0:00) causes stress on the Schedules Direct...

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Sat Mar 28, 2020 8:54 pm
No tuners associated with, etc.

Last post by sgbroimp « Sat Mar 28, 2020 3:05 pm
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by sgbroimp » Fri Mar 27, 2020 2:09 pm

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I am getting this message in my log for 12 channels and the Epg TV icon has gone from green to red, though not sure the two are related. Are these new channels that Comcast has added (hard to believe as mostly they take away channels - ha ha) and what do I do to get rid of these reports? To be...

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Thank you, Gary,
Two things: You must be right about the red status not being related to the tuner messages as last night when I got home the green status light was back on and I had taken no action so ti cleared up itself looks like.

Secondly, I tried to manually tune those channels (result...

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Sat Mar 28, 2020 3:05 pm
Missing Channel

Last post by garyan2 « Fri Mar 27, 2020 3:42 am
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by eraser808 » Fri Mar 27, 2020 1:23 am

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OTA Channel 19.6, WXIXDT6, ID:114195
Zip 45244

SD added the missing channel to their lineup USA-OTA-45244 a week ago. Verified the channel and guide information displays in the Gracenote/Zap2it grid for zip 45244. Also verified the channel is listed on SD site under the lineup that is being...

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SD just let me know, and I verified, the station is fixed and is viewable in EPG123 now.

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Fri Mar 27, 2020 3:42 am
Guide failure to update after a few months of flawless performance

Last post by Scallica « Thu Mar 26, 2020 11:19 am
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by jwk » Sun Mar 15, 2020 6:03 pm
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EPG123 has worked flawlessly since installation. I believe this morning 3-15-2020 it failed to update. Tracelog attached.

Some things to note:
I had a couple of entries for 4 FiOS channels that were marked for future use as 4K. A few days or maybe a week or so they guide information stated...

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I think you guys have beaten the off topic discussion in this thread to death. If I were a moderator, I would lock the thread at this point. I think people can make up their own minds about whether or not to upgrade based on their own needs and any further rehashing of it here would be pointless....
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Thu Mar 26, 2020 11:19 am
How to back up WMC and install on another Win 7 PC?

Last post by garyan2 « Thu Mar 26, 2020 7:56 am
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by Ken H » Mon Mar 23, 2020 10:03 pm

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I've used WMC for years, using a variety of setups with OTA and/or CableCard.

I'd like to create a backup of the entire guide set up, and also be able to use it with a new Win 7 PC I'm trying to get going.

What's the best, easiest way?

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I guess it may not be understood that the TV Setup has to be done after the restore on the new computer. That is why you will lose that information.

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Thu Mar 26, 2020 7:56 am

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