Recent content by pfilippone

Thanks for the info!! After installing strawberry perl and 'cpan install LWP :: protocol :: https' (no spaces around the :: ) I was able to get newzap2xml.exe to work!! I wonder if there's some programmer at Gracenote who's bored and thus just for fun likes screwing with us and keeps coming...

@antidot: I appreciate your help in getting EPG listings to work, but unfortunately I get an error when using newzap2it.exe . Error screenshot: newzap2it-err.png Any assistance you can provide is greatly appreciated. I disabled my antivirus to avoid the issues mentioned previously. Also I...

Thanks for the batch file! I wonder why the IP keeps changing. If they wanted to stop providing us with the service, they would just stop the program or service that generates the XML. Do you suppose one day we'll be able to have our AI agent generate the XML directly by scouring the web?

I think I found a workable and FREE solution. EPGSHARE01 is a site that seems to provide FREE EPGs for lots of countries. I wrote a batch file that downloads the USA EPG file (yes, one file for the WHOLE USA). It comes as a compressed .gz file. The batch file extracts the gz file (you need to...

I was too, until some years ago Schedules Direct raised their prices. Now $35 per year, while not going to bankrupt anyone, is a bit high for something that is not exactly rocket science. So I switched to Zap2it. Now I'm in the same boat as the OP. Currently looking for another free source.

Looks like it's not working (again). I can get the TV listings on the web page TV Listings- Find Local TV Listings and Watch Full Episodes But not working to get XML.. It could mean the end of Zap2it for good. I'm researching the web for a fix. Also researching other FREE TV guides in...

NOT A MEDIAPORTAL ISSUE. Using MediaPortal1, Kodi for TV viewing. Today I noticed the TV Guide in Kodi stopped updating. A Google search, and I discover Zap2it (the free source for TV guide EPG in XML format) stopped their service. Does anybody out there know of a free replacement? I am...

(Holy moly!) Update: After more hours spent troubleshooting this issue than I care to admit publicly, I finally have things working again. Notes: - It does not appear that the Hauppauge USB Dual tuner was the problem. I returned it and got a HDHomerun Flex Duo 2 and saw the same issue. I...

Thank you for the info and especially for your time. I've ordered a HDHomerun Flex Duo 2. I'm using a mini PC for TV, it's too small to fit any card from TBS. Hopefully the HDHomerun will work, and last longer than the previous HDHomerun I had (HDHomerun Extend HDTC-2US) which was hot to the...

I've been successfully using MediaPortal1 and TV Server 1.17 on Win7 for years, using first a HDHomerun tuner, when that died, a Hauppauge WinTV DualHD ATSC USB tuner. Recently the Hauppauge tuner died on me (still shows up, but all channels show 'no signal'), so I went and purchased a new...