Epg123 guide update

[phillyb]

Hi everyone

New to this forum hoping someone might be able to help.

I've installed a new tv tuner card into a new computer.

Media center so i needed to run the live TV setup again.

So i did the following:

• Backup up Epg123

• Ran the client setup

• Restored the backup

See below picture:


Everything looks to be right, however when i open WMC I get:


I update the guide i then get:


Which removes all the channels from WMC and removes the link from the right hand side, also turns the number on the right hand side to -1

Any advise would be greatly appreciated.

Dont want to have to retune the channels again already had to this on another system with the same problem.

Thank you for you help.

[garyan2]

The [Restore] button returns the WMC configurations to whatever it was when the backup file you selected was created. Doing a [Restore] right after a [Client Setup] will pretty much undo everything you just did.

DVB Satellite lineups from EPG123 will have -1 for channel numbers since the channel numbers that WMC assigns to the scanned transponder channels is somewhat arbitrary. The EPG123 automatch routine uses channel numbers to do its thing, so if the channel numbers of the stations aren't the same between the tuner channels and the downloaded lineup channels, the results will be wrong. However, there will be some channels that will get automatically matched on the first import based on the NID:TID:SID. I am working on a method to make DVB-S users lives a little easier here (at least for 28.8 and 19.2 satellites), but it is very tedious work on my part to get this set up and ready to go... in other words, this won't be available any time soon.

So you need to perform [Client Setup] and for Step 2 you will need to scan your transponders. There is an alternate method to scanning all your transponders using Software Channel-Sorter for WMC tool that another user informed me about, but you will have to figure out how to use that on your own. After studying it a bit, it seems that you will perform Step 2, don't scan your transponders, close WMC and then import the MXF file the tool creates for you... then proceed to Step 3. You will still need to manually map the guide listings to the merged channels in WMC, but you won't have to scan all your transponders manually.

Now I'm a little confused with your images on what lineup(s) you are actually using. Is it Astra 28.8, Freesat, or both?

[phillyb]

Garyan2 firstly thank you for you reply.

Secondly thank you for keeping the epg123 project going.

I'm running Freesat - Astra 28.2e / Eurobird 1 (28.5e)

Thank you for the software suggestion.

I tried doing what you suggested however i now get a view conflict (see attached).

Do you know how i can fix this?

Or would you suggest starting a new setup?

Thank you in advance for your help and support with this problem.

[garyan2]

Is this error after using the tool above? I may have steered you wrong. I just installed the tool and its output MXF file doesn't appear to support the GBR region. If you used the tool, then that is probably the cause.

[phillyb]

Stupid question.

What happens if I click Rebuild WMC database?

Will I loose already tuned channels

The only reason i ask is, I have tune a frequency which found a channel which i did not realize that i need so deleted it.

Now when i re-scan the frequency it does not find the channel that I deleted.

Thank you for you help and support.

[garyan2]

Open the client and click the sudo undelete button to the right of the [All Scanned Sourced] pull-down. The deleted channel should be listed to restore. You may have to widen the client form to see it, or select the down arrow to the right to show the button.

This is one of those weird WMC features that epg123 can help with.

[phillyb]

Hi

Seem to be having a very strange issue.

Channels are being deleted from the guide.

Example itv2 was programmed on friday which now seems to have been deleted

Any ideas?

No ones deleted the channel.

[phillyb]

]Hi
Another strange thing as just happened.

Opened epg123 client

Most if not all the channels had subscriptions, however they have all been deleted.

See attached.

Any advise / help would be greatly appreciated.
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[garyan2]

Could you send me your log file (c:\programdata\garyan2\epg123\trace.log) to support@garyan2.net?

It is very strange to not have any lineups in the pulldown. Click the [Manual Import], select the epg123.mxf file, and after it is done you map need to remap the listings to the channels. Do you have a recent backup in the c:\programdata\garyan2\epg123\backup folder? You might be able to use that to restore your tuners and mapping.

[garyan2]

Definitely strange things going on. Got some questions concerning what I see in your log file.

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[20/10/2020 17:57:07] [ INFO] **** Intercepted "mcupdate.exe -u -nogc" call. Ignored. ****
[20/10/2020 18:11:39] [ INFO] Restarting EPG123 Client to avoid an external process crashing EPG123 10 seconds after adding channels.

The "Intercepted" entry indicates you had opened WMC at that time. Is that true (as far as you know)?
The "Restarting" entry only happens when you add or undelete a channel using the client GUI. Did you do that? More importantly, looking back in the log it appears you had the client open since 17/10/2020.

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[17/10/2020 15:18:32] ===============================================================================
[17/10/2020 15:18:32]  Activating the epg123 client GUI. version 1.3.10.20
[17/10/2020 15:18:32] ===============================================================================

If you had the client open that whole time, then that might be the root of the problem. That means it would have been open through 3 updates and 1 garbage cleanup on 19/10. I've never tested for this case, but the client will "open" the WMC database and link to all kinds of content. I don't know what to expect when those links are broken/moved due to updates and garbage cleanups.

[phillyb]

Thank you for your reply.

Yes I had opened WMC, only to check the undeleted channels.

I was going through the channels that appeared to have been deleted?

The client is opened and closed whenever I don't need it any more.

I opened the client guide on the 20th so don't know why it would be saying it was opened from the 17th

I press the cross in the top right corner, guessing this is right?

Is there a process I can check to see if its still running to close? Don't want have to rebuild the guide for about the 100th time.

Thanks again for your reply.

[phillyb]

Its just done the same thing again.

Could i send you the log file again for you to have a look at please.

I have made sure the program as been closed after every use.

Is there something i'm missing.

I have this installed on two system and the other one seems fine never fallen over.

Any advise would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks again.

[garyan2]

Yes. Please send the trace.log file to support@garyan2.net.