Suggestion: add "Guide data end-date" to tray mouse-hover flyout

[DSperber]

Just a thought...

Hovering the mouse over the EPG123 tray icon produces a very nice flyout showing the last update date/time. It also shows the version of the EPG123 program.



I often want to check the last guide data available date. To do this there are several ways, but one semi-direct multi-click drill-down way is through WMC and then:

Tasks -> Settings -> TV -> Guide -> About Guide listings

which produces the guilde end-date I'm looking for:



Might be very useful if this very "Guide end date" could be added as one new additional line to the tray icon mouse-hover flyout from EPG123.

Just a suggestion.

[garyan2]

Would be nice, but not going to happen. The information the notification tray provides is primarily from the registry that is updated when you import new guide listings (by the client). The program gets the version from itself. There is a registry for guide end date that could be used, but it only gets updated once the database reindexing has completed... that could be a few minutes, few hours, or few days. So not a reliable source.

The guide end date can also be incorrect. WMC will report the end date of the longest lasting station. You could have 1000 channels with 999 only having 1 day of listings, but if you have 1 channel going out 14 days then that is the date it will use. If you want more accurate end date/times, you can use the client. Scroll right (or expand) the client and you will see a column for 'Guide End Time' for each individual channel. You can also sort that column to quickly see the soonest any station runs out of listings.