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<blockquote data-quote="Lehmden" data-source="post: 1169954" data-attributes="member: 109222">Hi.The &quot;Tray Launcher&quot; is a tool that starts MediaPortal2 Client if you press the &quot;Green Button&quot; on a MCE- (compatible) remote. For WMC there is a windows service running doing the same thing, if WMC is part of the OS... The other &quot;strange&quot; icon is for the &quot;MP2-ServiceMonitor&quot;. This shows the status of the MP2- Server and here you can start and stop the server, even if it is not running on the same machine... So both are not &quot;useless&quot;. OK, if you don't use any remote the tray launcher can be useless and for this it can be removed from autostart...As you are living in US you are not that lucky regarding EPG data. For US there are not so many good EPG data sources available. In Europe the EPG data is broadcast on the same channel than the TV program, so you don't need to do much at all to get EPG data. It's called &quot;DVB-EPG&quot; bud sadly this did not work for ATSC...In opposite to Microsoft we are a non profit Open Source project and so we are not able to pay lots of $$$ every month to provide the users a good EPG. The costs of the EPG data used in WMC are the primary reason why WMC was dropped in Win10... You can use Schedules Direct or Zap2It as US- EPG source. For both you can find guides here in the forum... <a href="https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/threads/xmltv-install-configure-for-atsc-ota-u-s-a.133048/#post-1166099" target="_blank">https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/threads/xmltv-install-configure-for-atsc-ota-u-s-a.133048/#post-1166099</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lehmden, post: 1169954, member: 109222"] Hi. The "Tray Launcher" is a tool that starts MediaPortal2 Client if you press the "Green Button" on a MCE- (compatible) remote. For WMC there is a windows service running doing the same thing, if WMC is part of the OS... The other "strange" icon is for the "MP2-ServiceMonitor". This shows the status of the MP2- Server and here you can start and stop the server, even if it is not running on the same machine... So both are not "useless". OK, if you don't use any remote the tray launcher can be useless and for this it can be removed from autostart... As you are living in US you are not that lucky regarding EPG data. For US there are not so many good EPG data sources available. In Europe the EPG data is broadcast on the same channel than the TV program, so you don't need to do much at all to get EPG data. It's called "DVB-EPG" bud sadly this did not work for ATSC... In opposite to Microsoft we are a non profit Open Source project and so we are not able to pay lots of $$$ every month to provide the users a good EPG. The costs of the EPG data used in WMC are the primary reason why WMC was dropped in Win10... You can use Schedules Direct or Zap2It as US- EPG source. For both you can find guides here in the forum... [URL]https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/threads/xmltv-install-configure-for-atsc-ota-u-s-a.133048/#post-1166099[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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