Custom Data Grabber including Sky UK Channel/EPG Grabber (3 Viewers)

[CCob]

Hi DJBlu,

Great work on the plugin. Been using the older EPG plugin that you developed a while back for a while which has worked flawlessly. I have now decided to upgrade to the newest feature set.

Initially I had it all working with my old database, but then I made the big mistake of trying to get iPimp and the EPG plugin working side by side which really messed up my install. So I started from fresh. I can't seem to get it working from a fresh install with a fresh DB schema (MySQL).

I get the following exception when starting a scan and TV Setup crashes.

05-27 16:39:45.162109 [SetupTv(1)]: Exception   :System.FormatException: Input string was not in a correct format.
   at System.Number.StringToNumber(String str, NumberStyles options, NumberBuffer& number, NumberFormatInfo info, Boolean parseDecimal)
   at System.Number.ParseInt32(String s, NumberStyles style, NumberFormatInfo info)
   at System.Convert.ToInt32(String value)
   at Sky_UK_Channel_and_EPG_Grabber.Setup.Button4_Click(Object sender, EventArgs e)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.OnClick(EventArgs e)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Button.OnClick(EventArgs e)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Button.OnMouseUp(MouseEventArgs mevent)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmMouseUp(Message& m, MouseButtons button, Int32 clicks)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.ButtonBase.WndProc(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Button.WndProc(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.OnMessage(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.WndProc(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam)

Do you have some debug symbols for you current build on the first post. If so I could get you a better stack trace with line numbers too.

Thanks for the great work.
CCob

EDIT:

Reinstalled everything again, and all seems good now. Must have done something wrong on the first reinstall.

 

[Sk3wby]

psykix

TV-Server configuration > Manual Control > Refresh DVB EPG, clears the EPG data for me. If you have MP open on the TV guide at the time you will see all entries change to "no data available" when it has worked.

 

[psykix]

@psykix

TV-Server configuration > Manual Control > Refresh DVB EPG, clears the EPG data for me. If you have MP open on the TV guide at the time you will see all entries change to "no data available" when it has worked.

Thanks for that, I'll give it a whirl later!

 

[onetoomany]

Thought I had this working on freesat, but weird:
Yesterday, I had most channels.
Today, about 50% of them are missing. Every time it updates, I have different levels of population, both of channels found, and again as to whether or not they make it into groups. For example, I've now lost BBC One HD, BBC Two, HD and ITV HD, whereas I was watching them only earlier tonight!

It seems that the freesat channel and grouping data is inconsistent between searches (!!?).
Also, finding that I cannot manually assign channels to groups - the config does not commit my changes.

R

 

[metropolis]

I just have a standard DVB-S card, no sky subscription, and when I do a normal full scan I can pick up many more FTA channels than when using the freesat channel scanner.
What method would you advise for getting all available FTA DVB-S channels and filling them with EPG?

Cheers.
Kev.

 

[smursfter]

Ive read the instructions in post #2 (https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/...custom-data-grabber-plugins-96767/#post747820)

Ive then used it as a base to install the freesat scanner & grabber.

I install the Setup-TvEngine-svn-1.1.6.27839_WithSeriesLink.zip on my tv server & client pc
I installed Setup-MediaPortal-svn-1.1.6.27839_WithSeriesLink.rar on the client pc
Stop the service
I then copied the content "Freesat Channel Scanner.zip" and "Custom Data Grabber.zip" into the relevant folders
Started the service
selected the dvb-s devices I wanted to use with the plugin. and hit the "grab" button.
All looked fine until I tried to then manually scan my freeview stations, nothing seems to come back. It even hangs sometimes

Does this plugin work when you have dvb-t cards in use?

 

[rich76]

Not sure about it working as I haven't got a freeview card in my machine as well but I wouldn't of thought it would break any other scanning.

But 1 thing to mention which you didn't do in your steps for setting up is that both setup tv-engine and setup mediaportal svns need to be installed on both machines ie clients and tv server.

What make of dvb-t do you have? have you tested it with 1.2 beta without the svn? What Operating System are you using?
Maybe with some more info some1 else could confirm it working or not.

Rich

 

[wonkyd]

Ive read the instructions in post #2 (https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/...custom-data-grabber-plugins-96767/#post747820)

Ive then used it as a base to install the freesat scanner & grabber.

I install the Setup-TvEngine-svn-1.1.6.27839_WithSeriesLink.zip on my tv server & client pc
I installed Setup-MediaPortal-svn-1.1.6.27839_WithSeriesLink.rar on the client pc
Stop the service
I then copied the content "Freesat Channel Scanner.zip" and "Custom Data Grabber.zip" into the relevant folders
Started the service
selected the dvb-s devices I wanted to use with the plugin. and hit the "grab" button.
All looked fine until I tried to then manually scan my freeview stations, nothing seems to come back. It even hangs sometimes

Does this plugin work when you have dvb-t cards in use?

I've had no problems scanning with my DVB-T card, Hauppauge Nova TD-500

 

[wonkyd]

Hi DJBlu,

Just tried to run another Channel Scan and the "Index was outside the bounds of the array" has started again. Have tried deleting the Database, using the plugin from the first post. It seems to start timeshifting on the EPG channel, and sometimes it will keep creating new channel instances on my DVB-S2 card until I stop TV Service.

Edit: Tried reinstalling TV Server, no joy

 

[wonkyd]

I don't suppose anyone has a copy of Sky EPG Grabber v1.2.0.5?

Edit: God save the recycle bin

Edit: Alas that doesn't work either now... something has gone horribly wrong somewhere!