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<blockquote data-quote="Pat Clark" data-source="post: 1144940" data-attributes="member: 123421">It turns out that EPGC has a &quot;merge&quot; function to combine several .xml files into one.It worked out for me. I set up EPGC to collect from just the one physical channel which has the channel I was missing. Then I set up the merge creating a new tvguide.xml file containing both sets of guide data. Unfortunately, it generates new channel IDs from the &quot;other&quot; guide file. [One nice thing the merge did was eliminate all the &quot;duplicate&quot; channel ids which halved the size of the list when you are mapping.]Once the merged file existed, I re-mapped the channels in XMLTV using the new channel ids, and did a manual import. I also set up the process to run twice a day in task-scheduler, together with the 14-day schedule-grabber twice a week, with their times set up appropriately, and with EPGC not on the hour or half-hour.Seems OK for now. TV server will see a new tvguide.xml twice a day, every day, from the new process, and twice a week from the 14-day one.One thing that one needs to do in EPGC, I think, is to set the channel ID algorithm to &quot;full channel ID&quot; or some such. This was mentioned in a post by somebody in their forum, I think. (I forget just where that option is, but its in there somewhere.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Pat Clark, post: 1144940, member: 123421"] It turns out that EPGC has a "merge" function to combine several .xml files into one. It worked out for me. I set up EPGC to collect from just the one physical channel which has the channel I was missing. Then I set up the merge creating a new tvguide.xml file containing both sets of guide data. Unfortunately, it generates new channel IDs from the "other" guide file. [One nice thing the merge did was eliminate all the "duplicate" channel ids which halved the size of the list when you are mapping.] Once the merged file existed, I re-mapped the channels in XMLTV using the new channel ids, and did a manual import. I also set up the process to run twice a day in task-scheduler, together with the 14-day schedule-grabber twice a week, with their times set up appropriately, and with EPGC not on the hour or half-hour. Seems OK for now. TV server will see a new tvguide.xml twice a day, every day, from the new process, and twice a week from the 14-day one. One thing that one needs to do in EPGC, I think, is to set the channel ID algorithm to "full channel ID" or some such. This was mentioned in a post by somebody in their forum, I think. (I forget just where that option is, but its in there somewhere.) [/QUOTE]

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