MediaPortal Forums HTPC/MediaCenter

Go Back   MediaPortal Forum » MediaPortal 1 » MediaPortal 1 Talk


MediaPortal 1 Talk General talk regarding our HTPC-software MediaPortal 1 takes place here.

Reply
 
Thread Tools Display Modes
Old 2008-08-18, 11:49   #1 (permalink)
Portal Member
 
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Dartmoor, England
Age: 39
Posts: 48
Thanks: 2
Thanked 2 Times in 2 Posts

Country:


fixed WebEPG with TVServer - couple of questions

I installed the new MP 1.0 RC2 over the weekend and decided to take the plunge and use the TV server (I'd always used the built-in TV plugin before). Mostly it's good (detects all three parts of my HVR3000 properly at last, and channel changing is much quicker ), but the EPG is really confusing me. I use WebEPG and it always worked perfectly with the old version of MP, but with TV server I'm really struggling.

After searching the forums I found that I'd missed the xmltv mapping settings in the TV server config, which did get EPG mostly working. Why does it now need this mapping when it never did before?
Anyway, this is the first thing I can't work out even with searching:
In the xmltv mapping in server config, the drop-down list of channels does not contain some channels I want to use (e.g. ITV1 Westcountry, Film4 +1). Where does this list come from? Can I add extra channels manually, or is it hard-coded?

Apart from that, it all seemed to be working nicely. But the entire guide is an hour late, almost as if it's set for the wrong time zone. Do I need to adjust for BST manually now, using the time zone offset in tvserver? (never used to have to before). I found a few threads mentioning similar things after daylight saving time changed, but they all seemed to resolve themselves on their own.

If I can sort those couple of issues out, I'm happy

Thanks in anticipation,

Rob

Oops... possibly should have posted this in the TV server subforum. Mods please feel free to move it

Rob

Last edited by RobNorthcott; 2008-08-18 at 21:16. Reason: Automerged Doublepost
RobNorthcott is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 2008-08-18, 21:15   #2 (permalink)
Portal Member
 
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Dartmoor, England
Age: 39
Posts: 48
Thanks: 2
Thanked 2 Times in 2 Posts

Country:


fixed Found it!

I just had another fiddle with my system and managed to find the answers to my problems:

Those channels weren't appearing in the server xmltv mapping list because they had somehow lost their mapping in webepg, so didn't exist in the tvguide.xml file. Simple, but I just couldn't see that yesterday

The hour-offset thing seems to have been fixed by unticking the "compensate for time zone" thing in the tvserver xmltv plugin. By default it was enabled and set to zero hours, so I just left it, but that's what seemed to be cocking up the times.

All is well again with my MP installation

Rob
RobNorthcott is offline   Reply With Quote
Reply

Bookmarks

Tags
couple, questions, tvserver, webepg

Thread Tools
Display Modes

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off
Trackbacks are On
Pingbacks are On
Refbacks are Off

Similar Threads
Thread Thread Starter Forum Replies Last Post
just a couple of questions justerini My Films 2 2008-07-22 02:01
Couple questions someone2 MediaPortal 1 Talk 1 2007-01-21 22:08
A couple of questions tormi General Support 1 2007-01-04 14:17
Couple of questions DamNick General Support 2 2006-04-14 16:18
A Couple Of Questions pieroxy General Support 1 2005-11-21 18:13


All times are GMT +1. The time now is 13:24.


Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.7.3
Copyright ©2000 - 2008, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.
Search Engine Optimization by vBSEO 3.2.0 Protected by Akismet Blog with WordPress
Advertisement System V2.6 By   Branden