Thanks for your advise DJBlue, this is something I never did it before. I gave it a try but I am not sure about the results. Let me explain it step by step:
1.- I already have the epg db populated, because I was using epg collector until 2 days ago (now it is deactivated)
2.- The epg grabber seems to work, but I am not sure if it gets the MHW data or only the EIT data. The epg database is being upated with data for those channels that were not populated using epg collector. It is easy to trace them, because the EIT only provides data for "now and next" programs.
3.- The epg.log have an entry that says "dvb:mhw ready MHW 0 titles found". This is one of the reasons why I am not sure that the MHW support is working properly. If I were able to delete the epg database entries I will have a clearer idea about if it's working properly or not.
Is there anyway to clean the epg db? If possible without using the MySQL tools
This is just a remainder to (hopefully) get the attention of some developer / support from the MePo team. After a new server build (DD Cine S2 V6 + CI + Astoncrypt) using MePo 1.2.3 clean installation with no other plugins this is still an issue: epg.log shows that that the grabber doesn't find MHW data in the stream. I suspect that either it doesn't detect properly the MHW2 data or it detects the EIT data first (only now and then progs) and doesn't continue processing the stream.
Would somebody please take a look at this? If somebody could confirm that this is a real issue, maybe including it as a bug to be solved in the future may benefit some other MePo users, at leat in Spain given the fact that this is the only one payTV satellite provider available (several years ago there were two, but no now).
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2013-01-09 02:07:56.169816 [(18)]: EPG: grabber initialized for 5 transponders..
2013-01-09 02:07:57.199875 [DVB EPG timer(19)]: Grab for card:#6 transponder #5/5 channel: C+ RADIOS
2013-01-09 02:07:57.201875 [DVB EPG timer(19)]: EpgCard: grab epg on card: #6 transponder: #4 ch:C+ RADIOS
2013-01-09 02:07:58.247935 [DVB EPG timer(19)]: EpgGrabbing: Start
2013-01-09 02:07:58.249935 [DVB EPG timer(19)]: EpgCard: card: 6 starting to grab DVBS:tvIGITAL+ C+ RADIOS Freq:10847000 ONID:1 TSID:1058 SID:30102 PMT:0x434 FTA:True LCN:135 SymbolRate:22000 Modulation:ModNotSet Polarisation:LinearV InnerFecRate:Rate5_6 DisEqc:None band:Universal Pilot:NotSet RollOff:NotSet
2013-01-09 02:08:28.254651 [(19)]: EpgCard: allow grabbing for 30,0037161 seconds on card 6
2013-01-09 02:08:58.268368 [(19)]: EpgCard: allow grabbing for 60,0184329 seconds on card 6
2013-01-09 02:09:04.010696 [(15)]: dvb:mhw ready MHW 0 titles found
2013-01-09 02:09:04.011696 [(15)]: dvb:dvb ready.EPG 307 channels
2013-01-09 02:09:04.065699 [(15)]: Epg: card:6 received epg for 226 channels
2013-01-09 02:09:04.068699 [EPG Update thread(14)]: Epg: card:6 Updating database with new programs
2013-01-09 02:09:04.072700 [EPG Update thread(14)]: IdleEpgGrabber: no channel found for networkid:0x1 transportid:0x3EC serviceid:0x78B4
2013-01-09 02:09:04.075700 [EPG Update thread(14)]: IdleEpgGrabber: FOX CRIME HD lastUpdate:01/01/2000 0:00:00
2013-01-09 02:09:04.090701 [EPG Update thread(14)]: - Inserted 2 epg entries for channel FOX CRIME HD
2013-01-09 02:09:04.093701 [EPG Update thread(14)]: IdleEpgGrabber: CANAL+ 2 HD lastUpdate:01/01/2000 0:00:00
2013-01-09 02:09:04.095701 [EPG Update thread(14)]: - Inserted 2 epg entries for channel CANAL+ 2 HD
2013-01-09 02:09:04.098701 [EPG Update thread(14)]: IdleEpgGrabber: C+ GOLF HD lastUpdate:01/01/2000 0:00:00
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