Can't find MP2 client settings? (3 Viewers)

[Lehmden]

Hi.
Most often the EPG did not contain correct series information. Best is to use xmltv plugin and prepare the tvguide.xml with the tool "Episodes2TVGuide" before you import it into MP2. So you will have well prepared series information directly in the MP2 EPG.

Aside this you don't need to add the sources separately. On first save of the TV Configuration the corresponding media sources are added automatically. The folder defined in the "single" custom file name will be added as type "movie" and the "series" folder is added as type "series"...

MP2 only can add your episodes to the Series module if your recordings are containing proper season and episodes numbers in the filename... A working example (the one I'm using) is : "Series\%title%\S%series%E%episode% - %name%" where the "S%series%E%episode%" part ist the most important one for the file name. The rest like %name% did not matter at all. And the folder always has to be "%title%". By the way, %series% is for season and %title% is for the series. Don't know why, but this is ever since the TVE exists.

All proper recognized series episodes are now shown in the Series module with full fanart and! in "Recordings" (thumbnails only). All proper recognized movies now are shown in the Movies modules with full fanart and! in "Recordings" (thumbnails only).

If something don't show up in series or movies module most likely the EPG data was not correct or did not contain enough information to identify the movie/episode... If this happens you need to rename/prepare the files manually or with a tool like tMM, Ember or MKV-Buddy

 

[LaoChe]

I am getting closer. I set the WebEPG plugin to get the guide information and save it to an xml file rather than updating the database. I downloaded episodes2TVGuide and set up a batch file to run it and copy the output to the xmltv folder. I set up the XmlTV plugin to Import new tvguide.xml, delete old programs before import and no text modifcations. The TVguide.xml file that is in the xmltv folder does have episode number (see example below) but the recording files are being saved as SE - title.... (my folder format is now Series\%title%\S%series%E%episode% - %name% so obviously the episode information is not being picked up. I am not sure where to go from here. Thanks again.

<programme start="20160613193000 -0400" channel="WLVIDT-WLVIDT">
<title>Modern Family</title>
<sub-title>Come Fly With Me</sub-title>
<desc>Things go awry when Jay takes Phil out to fly his new model plane; Gloria takes Alex dress shopping.</desc>
<episode-num system="xmltv_ns">0.2.</episode-num>​

 

[LaoChe]

yet another update. The reason the episodes weren't showing was that the EPG was still using old data. I refreshed it and wiped out the EPG data but now when I
go to import the XML file it imports all of the channels but no programs. The xml file looks correct but maybe it is missing something. here is a sample and the full file is attached if anybody can help me out. Thank you.

<programme start="20160603150000 -0400" channel="TVLAND-TVLAND">
<title>Gunsmoke</title>
<sub-title>A Game of Death ... An Act of Love</sub-title>
<desc>A lawyer (Paul Stevens) agrees to defend the Indians accused of murdering Bear Sanderson's wife.</desc>
</programme>
<programme start="20160603160000 -0400" channel="TVLAND-TVLAND">
<title>Gunsmoke</title>
<sub-title>Lynch Town</sub-title>
<desc>Matt forces drunken Judge Warfield to hold an inquest into the death of a female saloon owner.</desc>
<episode-num system="xmltv_ns">18.9.</episode-num>
</programme>

 

[ge2301]

Did you map the the channels within the xmltv settings before importing? Typically the channels are missing, if this is not done.

 

[LaoChe]

I did map the channel first before doing the import. All say they were mapped correctly (image attached - one odd thing, I adjusted the column widths in the mappings tab and now the colors no longer show up - when I try to readjust the columns only the tuning channel and guide channel adjust - but they are all green and when I hover over the white square it says "channel already mapped")

I do have a question on these mappings - Every time I close the config tool and reopen it they are all gone and I have to Load/Refresh - is that normal?

I checked the channel names in the xml file and the channel names on the epiosdes seem to match and also match the guide channels in xmltv but I do think I have the problem narrowed down to the xmltv plugin. Every time I hit Import it comes back with the below results. It finds all of the channels but it says tvguide.xml No programs found.

I also tried this with the xml file that had not been processed by the Episodes2TVGuide file and I get the same No programs found. So when the WebEPG program wrties directly to the database I get all of the episode info in the EPG but no episode info. When I have WebEPG write the xml file to disk and have xmlTV import the file it finds no programs. I have a feeling this is just a setting I have wrong somewhere but I am struggling to figure it out.

Thanks again.

 

[Lehmden]

Hi.
Do you have a copy of the xmltv.dtd file in the directory where you import the xml file from into TV server? Aside this the file has to be in the folder where episodes2tvguide will get the xml file to work on too...

 

[HTPCSourcer]

Every time I close the config tool and reopen it they are all gone and I have to Load/Refresh - is that normal?

Yes, that's OK.

 

[LaoChe]

I do have the xmltv.dtd file in both folders. I created a new folder in "C:\ProgramData\Team MediaPortal\MP2-Server\SlimTVCore\v3.0\Episodes2TVGuide" and copied the .dtd file from the xmltv.dtd folder into it (I assume that was a one time thing and that file doesn't change).

 

[LaoChe]

just a shot in the dark but I notice that my tvguide.xml file doesn't have stop times for any shows. would that make a difference?

 

[Lehmden]

would that make a difference?

Indeed it would. Without stop time, MP can't build the guide entries, so no wonder that you don't have any programs...

A working entry looks like this:

  <programme start="20160608024000 +0200" stop="20160608032500 +0200" channel="axntv.de">
    <title>Elementary</title>
    <sub-title>Rätselhafte Bombe</sub-title>
    <desc>In einer Web-Design-Firma explodiert eine Bombe und tötet zwei Mitarbeiter. Holmes und Watson stellen schnell fest: Der Sprengsatz lag schon seit Jahren dort. Der Detektiv und seine Assistentin beginnen mit den Ermittlungen in ihrem letzten gemeinsamen Fall, da Watson bald nicht mehr als Holmes’ Entzugsbegleiterin arbeiten soll. Sie suchen Heather Vanowen auf, deren Firma das Büro gemietet hatte, als die Bombe deponiert wurde. Holmes findet Gefallen an der attraktiven Frau.</desc>
    <date>2016</date>
    <category>series</category>
    <category>Krimi</category>
    <length units="minutes">45</length>
    <country>USA</country>
    <episode-num system="xmltv_ns">0.7.</episode-num>
  </programme>

the +0200 is the time difference between my local time zone and GMT.