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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mm1352000" data-source="post: 1103688" data-attributes="member: 82144">No problem. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />Okay, so to be clear: this means you have a bunch of channels named by channel number (eg. "2", "3" etc.), right?If you mean TV Server when you say "it" then yes.If you mean channel names when you say "provider info" then yes.WebEPG is a means to get EPG data. Nothing more. It cannot lookup a channel number-to-name mapping by cable provider, or "magically" pull in guide data and link it to the right channels.Yes, there's no online database lookup function in TV Server or WebEPG. I'm not aware of the existence of any free database providing that information. I'm sure there are commercial databases, but we can't afford to pay. We run our servers on the smell of an oily rag.[edit: When configured appropriately, the SchedulesDirect plugin may be able to do the renaming etc. and pull in guide data for you... if you're willing to pay for it (7 day free trial, then $25 USD per year).<a href="http://schedulesdirect.org/" target="_blank">http://schedulesdirect.org/</a><a href="https://code.google.com/p/mp-schedulesdirect/" target="_blank">https://code.google.com/p/mp-schedulesdirect/</a>That is one of the guide data options I linked in my previous post.]The one word answer would be "yes".It's expected that you'd manually set the name of each channel to something more meaningful in the TV Channels section:<a href="http://wiki.team-mediaportal.com/1_MEDIAPORTAL_1/141_Configuration/TV-Server_Configuration/03_TV_Channels#Two_slow_clicks_on_a_channel-name" target="_blank">http://wiki.team-mediaportal.com/1_MEDIAPORTAL_1/141_Configuration/TV-Server_Configuration/03_TV_Channels#Two_slow_clicks_on_a_channel-name</a>The names that you set in the TV Channels section (or Radio Channels section) are the names you'll see used in the guide and every other part of TV Server configuration. Those names are completely independent of EPG data. In other words: even if the XMLTV file had the correct names and was filled with guide data, importing it would not change the channel names that you see in the guide. The channel names stay the same regardless of if you have EPG data or not. That's why I said the names in the XMLTV file don't particularly matter. They just have to be recognisable enough to link to the TV Server channels which you would have labelled nicely.As for the mapping in the WebEPG plugin: that's simply to link guide channels to TV Server channels. Nothing more. Obviously you're likely to struggle with that unless you can lookup a mapping from [physical] channel number to channel name on your cable providers website (or somewhere else). If you don't know of any such website then the usual approach is to use the "preview" function in the TV Channels section to view the channel, recognise the channel by the logo watermark etc., and set the name. After the channels have names it becomes possible to deal with the mapping in the WebEPG plugin much more naturally.Does that make sense?</blockquote>

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