Tools and other software EPG-Buddy a new EPG Tool with easy usage. (5 Viewers)

[Jasmeet_181]

The category info is there but when there's multiple categories, they're all tagged as <country> instead of <category> (example in the spoiler).

Spoiler

 <programme start="20250527013502 +0000" stop="20250527021705 +0000" channel="DE: 13th Street">
    <title>Law &amp; Order: Special Victims Unit</title>
    <sub-title>Minderjährig (Teil 2)</sub-title>
    <desc>Eine junge Frau wurde erschossen. Cosgrove macht sich zusammen mit Detective Jalen Shaw auf die Suche nach dem Mörder. Benson und Stabler helfen mit und stellen fest, dass es sich um mehr als einen typischen Mordfall handelt.</desc>
    <date>2022</date>
    <country>Krimi</country>
    <country>Drama</country>
    <country>Action</country>
    <country>Thriller</country>
    <country>Fantasy</country>
    <country>US</country>
    <episode-num system="xmltv_ns">23.0.</episode-num>
  </programme>
  <programme start="20250527021705 +0000" stop="20250527025951 +0000" channel="DE: 13th Street">
    <title>FBI: Most Wanted</title>
    <sub-title>Mörderischer Kunstraub</sub-title>
    <desc>Max Tillman meldet den Diebstahl nigerianischer Kunstobjekte. Diese wurden während des Transports zu einem Museum gestohlen. Dabei kamen außerdem mehrere Wachleute ums Leben. Remy und sein Team nehmen die Ermittlungen auf.</desc>
    <date>2024</date>
    <category>Krimi</category>
    <country>US</country>
    <episode-num system="xmltv_ns">4.8.</episode-num>
  </programme>

There's no contact info on the website to report but this attached AI script will change the ones I found. You need Python installed. Part of the script will download epg.xml and rename it to tvguide.xml so you'll also need to remove the URL from the remote tab and delete tvguide.lst if you still have it. Extract the files to the xmltv folder and test it by running the .bat file. If it worked, create a task in Task Scheduler, where you can choose to hide the command prompt.

easy4me on Kodinerds has posted a public api key for easyepg, n829qtk58c7ym5pxdch5smup

 

[joecrow]

Another possibility is that the new EPG provider mostly does not provide genres.

Yes looking at the .xml very few programs have a category entry, where it does MP correctly displays it in the EPG, where the category entry is missing it appears that the actual category description is shown incorrectly in one or multiple "country" entries and consequently MP is not displaying it. In the screenshot of the epg.xml below the "Wetter" program is correctly described as Nachrichten in the MP EPG but the "Roseheim Cop"s program has nothing in the EPG albeit its 2 country entries correctly catergorise it as a "Krimi, Comedy". So the category data is there it is just not correctly defined as such so maybe it is something in the XMLTV plugin that is intepreting the download incorrectly.


Sorry I only just saw the @Jasmeet_181 post!

 

[joecrow]

There's no contact info on the website to report but this attached AI script will change the ones I found. You need Python installed. Part of the script will download epg.xml and rename it to tvguide.xml so you'll also need to remove the URL from the remote tab and delete tvguide.lst if you still have it. Extract the files to the xmltv folder and test it by running the .bat file. If it worked, create a task in Task Scheduler, where you can choose to hide the command prompt.

Thanks for that but to be honest this is becoming too complicated so I think I will go back to the DVB EPG and live with the limited info.

 

[Lehmden]

Hi.
We would like to thank all EPG-Buddy users for their long-standing loyalty. However, we regret to announce that EPG-Buddy will no longer be maintained, as the last "good" EPG source supported by EPG-Buddy, TVSpielfilm, has now discontinued its service. The program can still be used to "prettify" XML files compatible with XMLTV, which is why it is still available for download. However, further development will no longer take place. Given the constant decline of traditional, linear DVB-TV, the demand for such a program is rapidly declining. Today's common distribution channels via IPTV generally include an EPG and cannot be provided with an external EPG. Since our available time is very limited, it makes no sense to continue developing something that is used less and less anyway.