Careful to make sure you don't enable EPG grabbing in MP TV Service. Only use the Sky plugin to grab EPG. What was the output on the grabber display after you ran an EPG update? Has it grouped, sorted and numbered your channels too? Remember you don't need to do a channel scan in MP TV service, just run the Sky grabber.
Custom Data Grabber including Sky UK Channel/EPG Grabber (1 Viewer)
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Ireland
That's interesting .. I wonder if that's what's causing my problems? If so it's a dealbreaker, since I MUST use DVB EPG grabbing to get the EPG both for the Irish DVB-T terrestrial channels and also the German / Dutch channels on Astra 19.2E.
You can select which channels do grab EPG and which ones don't, it just takes a bit of messing. I've got exactly the same setup as you @AlunS. I tried getting the German stuff through MP but it didn't seem to pick up all the EPG - I had much more success with DVBViewer so in the end devoted the 19.2 tuner to DVBViewer and kept it all separate from MP.
- February 23, 2008
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Well I don't seem to be able no matter how much I disable any other EPG to get it to show for all channels and I fail to see what I am missing here, I do an initial sync of channels, then install Custom Data Grabber.zip and UK Channel and EPG Grabber.zip select Ireland let it run it's collection, start up mp client and it always shows all categories but it lacks the EPG, it collects also logo's fine but sadly most of the EPG is missing.
Sorry for not haviing read all previous pages, but is the problem with getting EPG for german channels present only for this custom data grabber?
I live in Germany and have absolutely no problems receiving data for german channels from Hotbird 13 and Astra 19.2 since MP 1.2
I live in Germany and have absolutely no problems receiving data for german channels from Hotbird 13 and Astra 19.2 since MP 1.2
Don't scan for channels before you install the grabber. Install MP, get the grabber working then grab. It will create you a channel list. I remember from trying it your way that it did prevent some EPG loading. Don't scan channels before you run the grabber.
Thanks for posting - yes I had a 19.2 tuner running in MP for a while but couldn't get it to grab all channels - I'm sorry, I can't remember which ones it didn't grab EPG for but maybe one was SPORT1. It's useful to see what's on there as they sometimes have English FA Cup matches on.
It was also pretty awkward having to go through all the channels it scanned in and tick them to receive EPG and avoid ticking the Astra 28.2 ones (leaving them to the Sky grabber).
- February 23, 2008
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Nice that did the trick 
could or should that perhaps not be in the documentation as an optional way of configuration?
could or should that perhaps not be in the documentation as an optional way of configuration?- February 23, 2008
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I am officially sorted many thanks to everyone that helped me out