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<blockquote data-quote="Lehmden" data-source="post: 1226267" data-attributes="member: 109222">Hi.As opposite to any other EPG data source tvguide.com is NOT offering a separate channel list for download. EPG-Buddy has to grab a single day of data for every available channel to get a clue which channels are on the line up.&nbsp; This is done prior to the &quot;real&quot; data download. And the existence of this pre- grabbed data is a proof that the tool has started as expected. If the &quot;regular&quot; download did not work, then there is an issue with the online data source or the internet connection the time the schedule should run. Did you ever tried to schedule the data download to a different time? (e.g. 2 hours earlier or later) Maybe your ISP is doing some maintenance stuff exactly at the time the scheduled download should run... Aside this nor tvguide.com neither thetvdb.com is known for perfect reliability. There is absolutely no difference between &quot;manual&quot; and &quot;scheduled&quot; data, absolutely nothing. It's exactly the same tool that is called with exactly the same commend line that is downloading the data. So if the schedule starts but didn't download things then there is an issue with either your internet connection or with the source it needs to load data from.&nbsp;[code]&nbsp; &nbsp; ShellExecuteWait(@ScriptDir &amp; &quot;\EPG-Grabber.exe&quot;, &quot;--epg_from:tvguide --grab_epg --create_xml&nbsp; --run_e2t&quot;, @ScriptDir, &quot;&quot;, @SW_HIDE)&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; ShellExecuteWait(@ScriptDir &amp; &quot;\EPG-Grabber.exe&quot;, &quot;--epg_from:tvguide --grab_epg --create_xml&nbsp; --run_e2t&quot;, @ScriptDir, &quot;&quot;, @SW_SHOW)[/code]Here are the two lines of code used to call the grabber tool. The first line is for the scheduled grabbing and the second line is for the manual grabbing. There only is a single difference at the end of the line. @SW_SHOW vs @SW_HIDE. This is a flag to show the &quot;Dos&quot; box where the grabber tool is running in. If you grab manual the dos window is shown (= @SW_SHOW) , so you can see what's going on under the hood. But on daily automated grabbing this is not wanted, that's why there is the &quot;Hide&quot; flag set (@SW_HIDE). If the grabbing is working manual then it MUST BE WORKING scheduled too, as long as the schedule is executed by windows properly...As long as the manual data download is working and windows is triggering the scheduled download as expected (both is the case for you) there is no error possible with EPG-Buddy (or your installation). It's then definitely is an issue with your online connection.You are not the first one having issues to connect to tvguide.com at the scheduled time. Maybe it's better to not use a &quot;full hour&quot; because the tvguide.com server is overloaded by all the tivos, media centers and so on that are grabbing EPG data at exactly this time. Maybe a scheduled time like 03:37 (instead of 04:00) could be a much better choice...By the way, a screenshot of the log folder is not very useful. If you like to help me finding your issue, then I need the log files themselves. In the logs there should be a note, if the online sources are not reachable. This I only can see if I get my hands on the log files...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lehmden, post: 1226267, member: 109222"] Hi. As opposite to any other EPG data source tvguide.com is NOT offering a separate channel list for download. EPG-Buddy has to grab a single day of data for every available channel to get a clue which channels are on the line up. This is done prior to the "real" data download. And the existence of this pre- grabbed data is a proof that the tool has started as expected. If the "regular" download did not work, then there is an issue with the online data source or the internet connection the time the schedule should run. Did you ever tried to schedule the data download to a different time? (e.g. 2 hours earlier or later) Maybe your ISP is doing some maintenance stuff exactly at the time the scheduled download should run... Aside this nor tvguide.com neither thetvdb.com is known for perfect reliability. There is absolutely no difference between "manual" and "scheduled" data, absolutely nothing. It's exactly the same tool that is called with exactly the same commend line that is downloading the data. So if the schedule starts but didn't download things then there is an issue with either your internet connection or with the source it needs to load data from. [code] ShellExecuteWait(@ScriptDir & "\EPG-Grabber.exe", "--epg_from:tvguide --grab_epg --create_xml --run_e2t", @ScriptDir, "", @SW_HIDE) ShellExecuteWait(@ScriptDir & "\EPG-Grabber.exe", "--epg_from:tvguide --grab_epg --create_xml --run_e2t", @ScriptDir, "", @SW_SHOW)[/code] Here are the two lines of code used to call the grabber tool. The first line is for the scheduled grabbing and the second line is for the manual grabbing. There only is a single difference at the end of the line. @SW_SHOW vs @SW_HIDE. This is a flag to show the "Dos" box where the grabber tool is running in. If you grab manual the dos window is shown (= @SW_SHOW) , so you can see what's going on under the hood. But on daily automated grabbing this is not wanted, that's why there is the "Hide" flag set (@SW_HIDE). If the grabbing is working manual then it MUST BE WORKING scheduled too, as long as the schedule is executed by windows properly... As long as the manual data download is working and windows is triggering the scheduled download as expected (both is the case for you) there is no error possible with EPG-Buddy (or your installation). It's then definitely is an issue with your online connection. You are not the first one having issues to connect to tvguide.com at the scheduled time. Maybe it's better to not use a "full hour" because the tvguide.com server is overloaded by all the tivos, media centers and so on that are grabbing EPG data at exactly this time. Maybe a scheduled time like 03:37 (instead of 04:00) could be a much better choice... By the way, a screenshot of the log folder is not very useful. If you like to help me finding your issue, then I need the log files themselves. In the logs there should be a note, if the online sources are not reachable. This I only can see if I get my hands on the log files... [/QUOTE]

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