- August 2, 2016
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Dear MediaPortal experts,
I use MediaPortal TV server as a back-end to Kodi. Until yesterday, it was working almost fine (I think).
I have both the DVB EPG and the WebEPG plugin enabled. I have never been too sure how these work together: I assume that they work in tandem, writing data to the same database, and entries are updated by whichever of the two ran more recently. Can someone confirm if this is correct?
I would notice that there appeared to be a delay in the database actually updating the programme information. For example, if I noticed that a channel was mapped incorrectly in WebEPG (and therefore the wrong listings were appearing in Kodi), I would go and re-map that channel; click "Grab Now"; wait until it finished grabbing; save; and then re-load Kodi (with the option of not caching EPG data and always refreshing it from the database). However Kodi would not give me the new listings immediately, and I might have to wait some time before it did. I do not know what caused this. However I could live with it, which is why I said it worked "almost" fine.
Anyway - today I saw that BBC Four EPG information gave a message saying that the user should re-tune / re-scan channels in advance of the Olympics. I therefore went into the MediaPortal TV Server configuration and scanned for new TV channels.
Next thing I know, Kodi shows no EPG information at all. It's all blank. It's as if refreshing the TV channel list has disabled the EPG from working. I went back to the WebEPG plugin to re-scan - which completed successfully (saying that it imported 102 channels and 3217 programmes) - however despite this, the actual EPG still shows as blank.
Moreover, when I go to the "Manual Control" screen of the configuration and click "Refresh DVB EPG", it is now no longer working. It pops up the message "EPG Grabber will restart in a few seconds..." - however nothing happens. I do not see any activity on my TV card. It was working before, but now it is not.
Does anyone have a clue what might be happening here? Could it be a corruption of the database in which the actual EPG information is stored? I have tried to investigate, but I have no idea where the location would actually be on my hard drive. I poked around in the "Team MediaPortal" folders in AppData and ProgramData (I'm on Windows 10), however I can't find any database files. A Google search for MediaPortal EPG database location only returns results related to setting up the EPG, but neglects to mention where the database is actually stored.
Please help!
Thanks.
I use MediaPortal TV server as a back-end to Kodi. Until yesterday, it was working almost fine (I think).
I have both the DVB EPG and the WebEPG plugin enabled. I have never been too sure how these work together: I assume that they work in tandem, writing data to the same database, and entries are updated by whichever of the two ran more recently. Can someone confirm if this is correct?
I would notice that there appeared to be a delay in the database actually updating the programme information. For example, if I noticed that a channel was mapped incorrectly in WebEPG (and therefore the wrong listings were appearing in Kodi), I would go and re-map that channel; click "Grab Now"; wait until it finished grabbing; save; and then re-load Kodi (with the option of not caching EPG data and always refreshing it from the database). However Kodi would not give me the new listings immediately, and I might have to wait some time before it did. I do not know what caused this. However I could live with it, which is why I said it worked "almost" fine.
Anyway - today I saw that BBC Four EPG information gave a message saying that the user should re-tune / re-scan channels in advance of the Olympics. I therefore went into the MediaPortal TV Server configuration and scanned for new TV channels.
Next thing I know, Kodi shows no EPG information at all. It's all blank. It's as if refreshing the TV channel list has disabled the EPG from working. I went back to the WebEPG plugin to re-scan - which completed successfully (saying that it imported 102 channels and 3217 programmes) - however despite this, the actual EPG still shows as blank.
Moreover, when I go to the "Manual Control" screen of the configuration and click "Refresh DVB EPG", it is now no longer working. It pops up the message "EPG Grabber will restart in a few seconds..." - however nothing happens. I do not see any activity on my TV card. It was working before, but now it is not.
Does anyone have a clue what might be happening here? Could it be a corruption of the database in which the actual EPG information is stored? I have tried to investigate, but I have no idea where the location would actually be on my hard drive. I poked around in the "Team MediaPortal" folders in AppData and ProgramData (I'm on Windows 10), however I can't find any database files. A Google search for MediaPortal EPG database location only returns results related to setting up the EPG, but neglects to mention where the database is actually stored.
Please help!
Thanks.