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<blockquote data-quote="Pat Clark" data-source="post: 875067" data-attributes="member: 123421">[I assume you mis-typed your question and meant without an internet connection.]&nbsp;I have not done it with Media Portal, but most stations in the US do broadcast the information, so it should work. Cable companies usually do not rebroadcast the information, so it will not work.&nbsp;The information is presented for just a short time span ahead of the current time, and a tuner needs to tune to each channel to retrieve it.&nbsp; I don't know how all this works in Media Portal, but from options I have seen but not used, it seems that MP will operate a spare tuner if available as required to keep the Guide reasonably up to date.&nbsp;The information I've seen is quite short, often just the program's name.&nbsp; Combined with the short &quot;time window,&quot; I would worry that using it for DVR purposes would be disappointing.&nbsp;Depending on the plugins you use, an always on internet connection is not required, but see this thread: <a href="https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/threads/msloopback-device-for-singleseat-users.51028/" target="_blank">https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/threads/msloopback-device-for-singleseat-users.51028/</a>.&nbsp;So you may be able to figure a way to download EPG on a schedule where Internet is available.&nbsp; I have a slow connection (750kb) and the download of EPG info takes a few minutes (less than 5) each time. Since each download grabs about 2 weeks of data, you may be satisfied downloading infrequently. You could also figure a way to download on a machine which has internet, and copy it to the subject machine.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Pat Clark, post: 875067, member: 123421"] [I assume you mis-typed your question and meant [U]without[/U] an internet connection.] I have not done it with Media Portal, but most stations in the US do broadcast the information, so it should work. Cable companies usually do not rebroadcast the information, so it will not work. The information is presented for just a short time span ahead of the current time, and a tuner needs to tune to each channel to retrieve it. I don't know how all this works in Media Portal, but from options I have seen but not used, it seems that MP will operate a spare tuner if available as required to keep the Guide reasonably up to date. The information I've seen is quite short, often just the program's name. Combined with the short "time window," I would worry that using it for DVR purposes would be disappointing. Depending on the plugins you use, an always on internet connection is not required, but see this thread: [url]https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/threads/msloopback-device-for-singleseat-users.51028/[/url]. So you may be able to figure a way to download EPG on a schedule where Internet is available. I have a slow connection (750kb) and the download of EPG info takes a few minutes (less than 5) each time. Since each download grabs about 2 weeks of data, you may be satisfied downloading infrequently. You could also figure a way to download on a machine which has internet, and copy it to the subject machine. [/QUOTE]

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