Free US Zap2xml scraper - Zap2It replacement (6 Viewers)

[CloFan]

Hi do you have analog or digital cable?

Analog with some Clear QAM thrown in.

 

[cybergeek]

I also have analog but I couldn't get it working I don't know what I was doing wrong. Can you kindly make me some sort of step by step guide if you don't mind, I would really appreciate it.

 

[cybergeek]

I'm still on 0.2.3 and it's always been working fine. The EPG data looks good. I just want to make sure, but are you sure the channel names match the first display name in the data?

3.1 KSNWDT
8.1 KPTSDT
8.3 KPTSDT3
8.2 KPTSDT2

And all those others.

If so, what about your grabber settings? In the Configuration program, go to Television -> Program Guide and click on the Scheduler tab. The Grabber should be set to "TVguide.xml File." Then try clicking Run Grabber, click OK to save the settings, run MediaPortal again, and see if the new guide data shows up.

I also can't get mine to work but I don't see Program Guide under Television?

 

[CloFan]

cybergeek, here is a guide:

Go to mc2xml , and download mc2xml (link about 1/4 down)

Put that .exe into c:\mc2xml\

Copy your xmltv.dtd file into that directory as well (it is located in c:\ProgramData\Team-Mediaportal\TV-Server\xmltv\ or something like that. ProgramData is hidden by default, you'll have to manually type it in- also, this if for Vista, there is a similar drive path in XP but I don't know it off the top of my head)

Run mc2xml. It will ask for country code and zip code, for instance I use "us" and "71923", respectively.

Go into TV-Server setup, click Plugins, and enable xmltv. Expand that drop down box, and go into the xmltv options. First, set the directory on that first page to c:\mc2xml\, then click on the second tab, mappings. Click Load/Refresh, and if everything is good (green boxes), click Save. Then go back to the first tab of the xmltv setup and click Import, and viola, you should have listings.

If any of this didn't make sense let me know and I'll try to clarify. I wrote this based on what I remember, so hopefully I didn't leave out a step.

 

[cybergeek]

cybergeek, here is a guide:

Go to mc2xml , and download mc2xml (link about 1/4 down)

Put that .exe into c:\mc2xml\

Copy your xmltv.dtd file into that directory as well (it is located in c:\ProgramData\Team-Mediaportal\TV-Server\xmltv\ or something like that. ProgramData is hidden by default, you'll have to manually type it in- also, this if for Vista, there is a similar drive path in XP but I don't know it off the top of my head)

Run mc2xml. It will ask for country code and zip code, for instance I use "us" and "71923", respectively.

Go into TV-Server setup, click Plugins, and enable xmltv. Expand that drop down box, and go into the xmltv options. First, set the directory on that first page to c:\mc2xml\, then click on the second tab, mappings. Click Load/Refresh, and if everything is good (green boxes), click Save. Then go back to the first tab of the xmltv setup and click Import, and viola, you should have listings.

If any of this didn't make sense let me know and I'll try to clarify. I wrote this based on what I remember, so hopefully I didn't leave out a step.

Clofan thats alot you trying to help me out but I can't seam to find this directory "c:\ProgramData\Team-Mediaportal\TV-Server\xmltv" What I did was.
1. I downloaded the mc2xml exe file and placed it in the c drive
2. I ran the program and entered my postal code which is V8G4G2 and country code CA "Canada"
3. It made 2 Files an XML file and a DAT file
4. than I went into the MP TV configuration and went to plugins and cheked XmlTV author Frodo version 1.0.0.0
5. I clicked that plugin and went to settings and browsed for the file and picked "C:\mc2xml
6. I went into the Mapping tab and clicked load and thats where it gives me the error "tvguide.xml file not found at path [C:\mc2xml\tvguide.xml]

and thats where I get stuck can you please let me know what I'm doing wrong please.

 

[CloFan]

cybergeek, here is a guide:

Go to mc2xml , and download mc2xml (link about 1/4 down)

Put that .exe into c:\mc2xml\

Copy your xmltv.dtd file into that directory as well (it is located in c:\ProgramData\Team-Mediaportal\TV-Server\xmltv\ or something like that. ProgramData is hidden by default, you'll have to manually type it in- also, this if for Vista, there is a similar drive path in XP but I don't know it off the top of my head)

Run mc2xml. It will ask for country code and zip code, for instance I use "us" and "71923", respectively.

Go into TV-Server setup, click Plugins, and enable xmltv. Expand that drop down box, and go into the xmltv options. First, set the directory on that first page to c:\mc2xml\, then click on the second tab, mappings. Click Load/Refresh, and if everything is good (green boxes), click Save. Then go back to the first tab of the xmltv setup and click Import, and viola, you should have listings.

If any of this didn't make sense let me know and I'll try to clarify. I wrote this based on what I remember, so hopefully I didn't leave out a step.

Clofan thats alot you trying to help me out but I can't seam to find this directory "c:\ProgramData\Team-Mediaportal\TV-Server\xmltv" What I did was.
1. I downloaded the mc2xml exe file and placed it in the c drive
2. I ran the program and entered my postal code which is V8G4G2 and country code CA "Canada"
3. It made 2 Files an XML file and a DAT file
4. than I went into the MP TV configuration and went to plugins and cheked XmlTV author Frodo version 1.0.0.0
5. I clicked that plugin and went to settings and browsed for the file and picked "C:\mc2xml
6. I went into the Mapping tab and clicked load and thats where it gives me the error "tvguide.xml file not found at path [C:\mc2xml\tvguide.xml]

and thats where I get stuck can you please let me know what I'm doing wrong please.

Ah ha, I forgot a step. First though, are you on XP or Vista? I'll get that directory path for you either way, but it's different per operating system.

Two options. First:
You need to make a shortcut to the mc2xml.exe on your desktop, right click the shortcut, click properties, and you'll see the word "Target" followed by "C:\mc2xml\mc2xml.exe". After the ", you need to add this:

-o tvguide.xml

, so that the entire string is "C:\mc2xml\mc2xml.exe" -o tvguide.xml
You'll need to run this shortcut every time you want to update the guide.

OR, second:
Set up a Scheduled Task in Windows to run every day, week, or whatever. While setting this up, you pick what file you want to run (mc2xml.exe), and any options you want to run with it. You want to enter -o tvguide.xml into that box, then finish the setup and maybe run it once.

All this is doing is telling mc2xml to output a file called tvguid.xml instead of mc2xml.xml or whatever.

 

[cybergeek]

Clofan I'm still stuck on your 3rd step I cant locate this file "c:\ProgramData\Team-Mediaportal\TV-Server\xmltv" What I did was.
1. I downloaded the mc2xml exe file and placed it in the c drive
2. I ran the program and entered my postal code which is V8G4G2 and country code CA "Canada"
3. It made 2 Files an XML file and a DAT file
4. than I went into the MP TV configuration and went to plugins and cheked XmlTV author Frodo version 1.0.0.0
5. I clicked that plugin and went to settings and browsed for the file and picked "C:\mc2xml
6. I went into the Mapping tab and clicked load and thats where it gives me the error "tvguide.xml file not found at path [C:\mc2xml\tvguide.xml]

Where do I get the tvguide.xml file from?

 

[CloFan]

Got that file location for you. This is in Vista: C:\ProgramData\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\xmltv\xmltv.dtd

For Windows XP, the file is: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\xmltv\xmltv.dtd

You get tvguide.xml from the "-o tvguide.xml" option I told you to set via scheduled task or shortcut. See my post before this for instructions.

 

[cybergeek]

Got that file location for you. This is in Vista: C:\ProgramData\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\xmltv\xmltv.dtd
For Windows XP, the file is: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\xmltv\xmltv.dtd
You get tvguide.xml from the "-o tvguide.xml" option I told you to set via scheduled task or shortcut. See my post before this for instructions.

Awsome Thanks CloFan I got it working I was missing this part "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\xmltv\xmltv.dtd" because I have XP.

How often will this update I have a shortcut set?

 

[CloFan]

It'll update whenever you double click the shortcut. You can set up a Scheduled Task (google it if you've never done that) to run every day, week, whatever. I just have mine running every day at 6am.