Tools and other software EPG-Buddy ATSC USA Testing (4 Viewers)

[breese]

You're right, I forgot to adjust the grabepg helper tool. It works with all sources excerpt for TVGuide...
Simply replace the file with the attached one and the scheduler should work.

The last version (3.2.9) does not include the fixed Grab.epg so the scheduler does not work.
Good One in post #22

 

[breese]

I am one step closer to the First Start error.
It is registered as an AutoIt Error


What is interesting is when you run EPG-Buddy the first time, it creates 2 log files
EPG-Buddy.log
EPG-Grabber.log

If you look inside EPG-Grabber.log you can see it grabs the channels for TV SPIELFILM live
After that it does this and dies

[2017-03-22 05:35:29,232] [INFO ] [TVGUIDE ] [4 ] Login on TVGuide.com
[2017-03-22 05:35:29,232] [INFO ] [TVGUIDE ] [4 ] email : ''
[2017-03-22 05:35:29,233] [INFO ] [TVGUIDE ] [4 ] password: ''
[2017-03-22 05:35:29,676] [INFO ] [TVGUIDE ] [4 ] result: {"status":"failed","message":"<ul class=\"user-form-messages\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<li class=\"user-form-messages-message user-form-messages-message-error\">The email field is required.<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t<li class=\"user-form-messages-message user-form-messages-message-error\">The password field is required.<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/ul>\n"}
[2017-03-22 05:35:29,677] [INFO ] [TVGUIDE ] [4 ] Login failed
[2017-03-22 05:35:29,678] [INFO ] [SQLITE.DBCONNECT ] [20 ] Connect to database 'C:\Program Files (x86)\EPG-Buddy\EPG-Buddy.s3db'
[2017-03-22 05:35:29,729] [INFO ] [GETCHANNELS ] [2 ] Add New channels
[2017-03-22 05:35:29,730] [INFO ] [GETCHANNELLIST ] [3 ] Get channellist for grabbing.

 

[breese]

It seems that at some point after the initial download of TVGuide channels, EPG-Buddy drops at least one channel.

On the initial grab of channels
[2017-03-22 05:43:13,466] [INFO ] [GETCHANNELS ] [2 ] Add channel: WMEU You & Me
[2017-03-22 05:43:13,467] [INFO ] [GETCHANNELS ] [2 ] Add channel: WMEU CBS HDTV
[2017-03-22 05:43:13,467] [INFO ] [GETCHANNELS ] [2 ] Add channel: WMEU Decades

When configuring the EPG info the WMEU CBS HDTV is missing. There could be others, I have not checked the entire list
WMEU Decades and You & Me are correct, heroes & icons, I have no idea it came from

3/22/2017 9:14:55 AM - Info - Write Available Channels done for WMEU Decades
3/22/2017 9:14:58 AM - Info - Write Available Channels done for WMEU Heroes & Icons
3/22/2017 9:15:00 AM - Info - Write Available Channels done for WMEU You & Me

 

[breese]

@Lehmden what tvguide ini file is this new version using to grab?
I am having timezone issues.

 

[Lehmden]

f you look inside EPG-Grabber.log you can see it grabs the channels for

This is intended. As long as you don't have any configuration made the channel update is done for all sources. As soon as you have configured one or two (or so) sources the channel update runs on selected sources only. And this also is the reason that you need to restart EPG-Buddy after you've entered your tvguide.com credentials. Any other supported source can delver the channel list without being logged in. But at tvguide.com you need to be logged in to get the channel lists. So on first run the login fails, as there are no credentials available at this time. As result the channel list for tvguide is empty at first start...

what tvguide ini file is this new version using to grab?

It don't use any tvguide.ini as it grabs data directly from tvguide.com using the configured lineup to know which channels to download. The EPG- data is provided in JSON format at tvguide.com. Attached is such a JSON file from tvguide.com for channel "WBBM HDTV" as example. EPG-Buddy downloads all those JSON files (there are literally tenthousands of them) valid for all channels and all days you have configured. Once the download is finished the data is converted into a form, the TV server (exact the XMLTV plugin) can understand. A tvguide.ini is not involved in this process at all. This conversion process also is the reason for those out of memory errors as up to now the conversion is done in RAM.

At the moment we try to prevent those out of memory errors that appears with big lineups. This is a general problem not limited to tvguide. But as "European" lineups are normally not that large this hasn't been appeared before... The issue is a bit tricky to solve and sadly will lead to much more disk space needed for EPG-Buddy to work and it also will decrease the speed. We try to limit those drawbacks as much as possible but it will take some more days to solve this.

 

[Lehmden]

Hi.
New version 0.3.2.10 to test. This one hopefully don't throw oom errors that easy.
The issue with the not constant channel list sadly still is open...

 

[piscdi]

Hi,
Just a quick note to say that your new version seems to be working as advertised. I loaded it Saturday and did four grabs with all channels populating (MY issue was missing channels, not the memory draw as others reported - but I only have 30 or so channels to begin with, all OTA). Sunday, EPG-Buddy grabbed all channels again as scheduled......SUPER!! This morning I checked before work and the scheduler had not activated so I did a manual grab and again, all channels were present. I will take a better look at what may have caused the scheduling failure, but for now, I am a happy camper. Thank you again for all your efforts.

 

[Lehmden]

Hi.

This morning I checked before work and the scheduler had not activated

Was the pc awake at the time the EPG grabbing should run? The scheduler can not wake the system for EPG grabbing and the used windows command "schtasks.exe" that creates the schedule in taskplaner is not able to set the option "re-run this task as soon as possible after a run has failed". So if the system is not awake the automatic EPG grabbing is not executed for this day. Not much we could do against this. If you don't run your TV server 24/7 you best set the powerscheduler plugin to wake the pc for EPG grabbing at the same time or probably one minute earlier (or so) as EPG-Buddy should grab EPG data automatically.

 

[piscdi]

Hi Lehmden,
Thanks for your reply. Server runs 24/7 so I don't think that was an issue. Just checked the log (it didn't run again this morning either) and the error message is :

[2017-04-04 03:00:14,004] [INFO ] [TVGUIDE ] [4 ] result: {"status":"failed","message":"<ul class=\"user-form-messages\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li class=\"user-form-messages-message user-form-messages-message-info\">Are you sure you have an account? If not, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tvguide.com\/user\/register\/\">here<\/a> to create one.<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/ul>\n"}
[2017-04-04 03:00:14,010] [INFO ] [TVGUIDE ] [4 ] Login failed​

When I run a manual grab (and the one instance when it grabbed by timer on Sunday) the handshake is successful. Could it be timeout issue? The "t"s remind me of placeholders I used to use for connecting automated calls. But it did work on Sunday, so I don't have a clue. Thanks again.

 

[bc420]

Successful grabs over here 4 days on both my providers, I haven't tried for more days yet. It properly mapped to channels for each provider with separate files EPG-Buddy.s3db . Very nice work!