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<blockquote data-quote="Nordfinn" data-source="post: 1306968" data-attributes="member: 145794">So an update: EPG123 is working fine for me, with a simple daily scheduled batch file as a bridge to MP’s XmlTv plugin. In some ways the metadata is better than I had with MC2XML (a direct XML download from Schedules Direct) and in some ways not as good (a JSON to XML process, if I understand correctly). The genre designations are much reduced and not as helpful. Also, before I was getting a star directly in the program box/listing (as opposed to in the description) if a program was new, and that is now gone. But original air date, vs. live, info is there in the description, if one wants it.Schedules Direct now has a note up on their home page addressing MC2XML problems and recommending an alternative, the XMLTV Project. But I couldn’t get it to work. It’s quite complicated, and I’m guessing that some of the commands given in the Quick Start guide are out of date and don’t correspond to a new version of the program, because I had to do some guessing and improvising before I could get the Command Prompt line to execute. I finally was able to configure a Schedules Direct profile and effect a download, but I wasn’t at all clear where the download was saved. I couldn’t find it, and couldn’t figure out how to specify and download location, and so at that point I gave up.Similarly, I gave MP’s old Schedules Direct EPG Client plug-in a try. I could connect to Schedules Direct, but I didn’t go further with it, as it doesn’t seem very configurable and doesn’t indicate where a download is stored so that one can check what’s going on.I could not get epgtalk, recommended above, to work.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Nordfinn, post: 1306968, member: 145794"] So an update: EPG123 is working fine for me, with a simple daily scheduled batch file as a bridge to MP’s XmlTv plugin. In some ways the metadata is better than I had with MC2XML (a direct XML download from Schedules Direct) and in some ways not as good (a JSON to XML process, if I understand correctly). The genre designations are much reduced and not as helpful. Also, before I was getting a star directly in the program box/listing (as opposed to in the description) if a program was new, and that is now gone. But original air date, vs. live, info is there in the description, if one wants it. Schedules Direct now has a note up on their home page addressing MC2XML problems and recommending an alternative, the XMLTV Project. But I couldn’t get it to work. It’s quite complicated, and I’m guessing that some of the commands given in the Quick Start guide are out of date and don’t correspond to a new version of the program, because I had to do some guessing and improvising before I could get the Command Prompt line to execute. I finally was able to configure a Schedules Direct profile and effect a download, but I wasn’t at all clear where the download was saved. I couldn’t find it, and couldn’t figure out how to specify and download location, and so at that point I gave up. Similarly, I gave MP’s old Schedules Direct EPG Client plug-in a try. I could connect to Schedules Direct, but I didn’t go further with it, as it doesn’t seem very configurable and doesn’t indicate where a download is stored so that one can check what’s going on. I could not get epgtalk, recommended above, to work. [/QUOTE]

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