kramaring wrote:Pleased to say it is working again. My guide settings are now showing an end date of 23/09/2016 12:00:00
I can't think of a recent post anywhere that had made me more relieved and happy! Thank you v much kramaring for sharing this and for the Green Button for notifying me and Gmail for popping it up onto my iPad!
I have just spent a very frustrating 48 hours trying to migrate from BDS to EPG_123. Full marks to Gary Ryan for developing and sharing this - no criticisms of him whatsoever. But the number of problems and issues involved in getting this working with a comprehensive set of free-to-air satellite channels, and the time to learn and resolve them, was beginning to get me down. When this post came through I instantly decided to abandon it for now and go back to the bad old BDS data.
My advice to anyone here with satellite tuners contemplating EPG123 is to allow plenty of time. Days and nights in my case.
Do back up ehome first as per the user guide before allowing WMC to recreate it for EPG123. You can then replace it and be back with BDS quickly, if it's still available.
Maybe try a couple of channels first to get the hang of how it works? i still found problems later though.
Then get all of your WMC satellite channels working with the correct sources before trying to get EPG123 to populate. This took me a very long time rescanning and checking Wikipedia for the correct frequencies.
Automatching stations to channels is necessary or else the guide will not populate. However, this is where things started to go badly wrong for me. Many WMC channels would become disabled when matching. The EPG123 log then showed, for example, station/channel 107 BBC4HD want to match to 909 rather the 107. For the first few channels I was able to swap WMC channel numbers so, in this example, 909 and 107 would be switched. This method actually stopped being effective at 107.
Do get the Guide Tool and pay $5 to activate it to allow subscriptions. I had done this in the last couple of hours and was able to turn off EPG123 automatching and link stations and channels using Guide Tool. But I then accidental deleted a WMC channel using Guide Tool and was not able to restore it despite taking backups. Misery was descending...
The kramaring brightened my day up!
I know there is no future in the Microsoft provided EPG data. I know I am going to have to move to another and eventually do away with WMC. But nothing else is available that does what WMC now does for us and has done very well for years. Turning off WMC will be another Concorde moment in my life.
