EPG not working (1 Viewer)

[Ian Bennington]

I hope some one can help I am using free sat and I am based in Warwickshire UK.
The problem I have is with the basic setup the EPG will not down load any more than the next two programmes on any given TV channel.
I have come across MC2XML but I am having a headache of getting it to work, please could some one ever give me a step by step guide on how I am to get this to work or point me to where there is a guide I can use.

Many Thanks for all your help

 

[Jasmeet_181]

The easiest way to get guide data would be to use DJBlu's Custom Sky Data Grabber. This can get Sky's EPG, including channel numbers and series links as well as sort and manage the channels for you (encrypted channels can be ignored).

The latest version is here and a guide is here (don't enable CAM in step 4).

 

[CyberSimian]

I have come across MC2XML but I am having a headache of getting it to work

Users of WMC in the UK are currently having problems downloading the Microsoft internet EPG (as in: It don't work at all), so it is not surprising that you cannot get MC2XML to work (it uses the Microsoft internet EPG).

I don't use satellite, but I believe that there is an EPG channel for satellite, but it is a radio channel. So you need to look at the radio channels that you can receive, find the one whose name suggests that it is the EPG channel, and then include that channel in your channel line-up. Finally, you need to enable "DVB EPG Grabbing" in "TV Server Config", and specify that radio channel as the channel to grab from. (Apologies in advance if I have not explained that correctly.)

-- from CyberSimian in the UK

 

[wjw]

An alternative is to use XMLTV. I'm also in the UK and prefer this to all other methods. Full guide is in the Wiki at

http://wiki.team-mediaportal.com/1_...s/2_TV_Setup/4_TV_Guide_Setup_(EPG)/XMLTV_GUI

Once set up you get 12 days data, full programme description as in the Radio Times and, most important if you use the TVWishList plugin, you get series and episode numbers to avoid recording repeats.

 

[CyberSimian]

Users of WMC in the UK are currently having problems downloading the Microsoft internet EPG

According to the following post, the Microsoft EPG for the UK has returned!

http://www.thegreenbutton.tv/forums/viewtopic.php?p=101502#p101502

-- from CyberSimian in the UK