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1: The Quest channel / 2: EPG Updates
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<blockquote data-quote="CyberSimian" data-source="post: 1291124" data-attributes="member: 141969"><p>You need to use "TV Server Config". On the "TV Channels" panel, you will find that there are two entries for "Quest" -- the old one and the new one. Simply delete the old one. When this happens in the future, you can select a channel and click the "Preview" button on the panel. If the channel is working, a small preview screen appears showing the channel. If the channel is not working, some sort of error message is displayed in a pop-up.</p><p></p><p>In the case of this change to "Quest", I think that the channel moved from one MUX to another. This causes various ids to change, and "TV Server" cannot recognise that the channel has moved (so you end up with both the old and the new channels after a rescan). When rescanning, you should normally enable "Channel movement detection" to avoid this duplication of channels wherever possible.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>You have not specified how you obtain the EPG. If you use the broadcast EPG (this is what I use), you can enable either the TV Server "idle" grabber, or the TV Server "timeshift" grabber. Unfortunately, these need somewhat contradictory settings.</p><p></p><p>In principle I use the idle grabber in the morning at 06:00 hours, for a duration of 40 minutes (this is 30 minutes of grab time plus 10 minutes of contingency). The idle grabber is suitable provided that you are not watching or recording a programme at your chosen grab time. Grab from a single channel ("BBC1 HD" is recommended); do not select more than one channel. See <a href="https://www.team-mediaportal.com/wiki/display/MediaPortal1/DVB+EPG" target="_blank">this page</a> in the Wiki for further details.</p><p></p><p>If you want to obtain last-minute updates, you need to use the timeshifting grabber, and set a suitable grab repetition interval, and a suitable grab duration (perhaps 1 hour and 2 minutes respectively). However, TV Server will grab from the selected channel(s) <strong>only</strong> when you watch or record one of those channels. So to be sure of getting the last-minute EPG changes, you would have to select <strong>all of your channels</strong>, and watch or record something. This conflicts with the optimum setting for the idle grabber (and will dramatically slow-down the idle grabber). Also, a grab duration of 2 minutes is insufficient to collect the entire EPG, although it will collect the EPG for the next few hours (including the last-minute changes).</p><p></p><p>My solution is to use the timeshift grabber (not the idle grabber), and schedule a daily recording of "BBC Radio 1" at 06:00 hours for a duration of 40 minutes. This then still works on the rare occasions when the HTPC is in use for watching or recording, and I can manually record from that channel if I want to obtain last-minute updates. I could instead schedule another daily recording at (say) 18:00 hours for a short duration to obtain the last-minute updates for that evening. The downside is that I need manually to delete these recordings, but being radio recordings they are of minimal size (in comparison to TV recordings).</p><p></p><p>-- from CyberSimian in the UK</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CyberSimian, post: 1291124, member: 141969"] You need to use "TV Server Config". On the "TV Channels" panel, you will find that there are two entries for "Quest" -- the old one and the new one. Simply delete the old one. When this happens in the future, you can select a channel and click the "Preview" button on the panel. If the channel is working, a small preview screen appears showing the channel. If the channel is not working, some sort of error message is displayed in a pop-up. In the case of this change to "Quest", I think that the channel moved from one MUX to another. This causes various ids to change, and "TV Server" cannot recognise that the channel has moved (so you end up with both the old and the new channels after a rescan). When rescanning, you should normally enable "Channel movement detection" to avoid this duplication of channels wherever possible. You have not specified how you obtain the EPG. If you use the broadcast EPG (this is what I use), you can enable either the TV Server "idle" grabber, or the TV Server "timeshift" grabber. Unfortunately, these need somewhat contradictory settings. In principle I use the idle grabber in the morning at 06:00 hours, for a duration of 40 minutes (this is 30 minutes of grab time plus 10 minutes of contingency). The idle grabber is suitable provided that you are not watching or recording a programme at your chosen grab time. Grab from a single channel ("BBC1 HD" is recommended); do not select more than one channel. See [URL='https://www.team-mediaportal.com/wiki/display/MediaPortal1/DVB+EPG']this page[/URL] in the Wiki for further details. If you want to obtain last-minute updates, you need to use the timeshifting grabber, and set a suitable grab repetition interval, and a suitable grab duration (perhaps 1 hour and 2 minutes respectively). However, TV Server will grab from the selected channel(s) [b]only[/b] when you watch or record one of those channels. So to be sure of getting the last-minute EPG changes, you would have to select [b]all of your channels[/b], and watch or record something. This conflicts with the optimum setting for the idle grabber (and will dramatically slow-down the idle grabber). Also, a grab duration of 2 minutes is insufficient to collect the entire EPG, although it will collect the EPG for the next few hours (including the last-minute changes). My solution is to use the timeshift grabber (not the idle grabber), and schedule a daily recording of "BBC Radio 1" at 06:00 hours for a duration of 40 minutes. This then still works on the rare occasions when the HTPC is in use for watching or recording, and I can manually record from that channel if I want to obtain last-minute updates. I could instead schedule another daily recording at (say) 18:00 hours for a short duration to obtain the last-minute updates for that evening. The downside is that I need manually to delete these recordings, but being radio recordings they are of minimal size (in comparison to TV recordings). -- from CyberSimian in the UK [/QUOTE]
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