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<blockquote data-quote="Lehmden" data-source="post: 1216013" data-attributes="member: 109222"><p>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...</p><p></p><p></p><p>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 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSON" target="_blank">JSON</a> 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.</p><p></p><p>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.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lehmden, post: 1216013, member: 109222"] 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... 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 [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSON']JSON[/URL] 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. [/QUOTE]
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