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Message: <blockquote data-quote="luci5r" data-source="post: 752025" data-attributes="member: 113478">mm,This time I have understood the process very clearly & vividly. I now know exactly what I have to do! I took your post, contents of my tvguide.xml and the tv server configuration panel - I went through your explanations & looked at the corresponding process in the other 2 windows - and quite honestly, this was the only way I could truly understand the process. I can admit this is a bit complicated, nevertheless, I have understood what needs to be done here. Let me start at the beginning.I'm still working on this but you did point me in the right direction - not a wild goose chase at all! Indeed, IRSS is what I needed. I was able to get IRSS installed and also learned about what I need to do, using the "TV3 Blaster Plugin", to blast the Set Top Box using the remote within MediaPortal. I'm having a little problem right now not getting anything in my Port settings - but that is a separate matter and I'll be working to resolve that. I did want to confirm to you that you did indeed point me in the very correct direction and anyone in my position needs to be looking at IRSS & TV3 Blaster Plugin to get the IR Blaster situated & working with MediaPortal. As I stated above, I now understand the process. Using PHP/MySQL - I need to first "create" the channels. This I can do by actually pulling out the Channel Name & Number from the tvguide.xml (using PHP) and the creating a loop procedure to run through all the channels & creating their corresponding tuning details - all this will insert All the channels in the Channel & TuningDetail table in the MySQL database. Once this is done; I can fire up the TV Server Configuration. Since I'll be using the same Channel names as in the guide, the Mappings section of the XMLTV plugin should be able to match up the channels dynamically (This I saw does happen indeed - it is 'smart', in essence). Once that is done & saved - I need to import my guide so that all information/programming for each mapped channel is imported. Once this is done, I can use the TV Mapping section to map All my channels to my Colossus card. I guess once I have the PHP/MySQL script creating all the channels for me in the Channel & TuningDetail tables - which is somewhat of a programming par - the rest is really not that hard. You are correct - I understand this now. I will be (at least hoping) to use option #4. Using my tvguide.xml to pull out names & numbers and feed into Channel & TuningDetail tables. I second this; I wouldn't even call it that patchy - we're really going step-by-step here. This should be very helpful to a lot of people. If I'm successful in my effort (as I have been thus far starting from scratch & getting both Live TV & TV Guide working with MediaPortal/Hauppauge Colossus) ... I would not mind working on a Wiki for this process. This is clearly a somewhat complicated & tedious process - but the more I'm understanding it - the more easier it's getting to proceed. I'll update you with how I'm making out; and of course - don't be surprised to see me back here with Questions!!Thanks!!</blockquote>

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