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<blockquote data-quote="Sticks" data-source="post: 668494" data-attributes="member: 107605"><p>Hi Guys,</p><p></p><p>I finally have my TV Guide working properly. I never did get "Apply time compensation when loading tvguide.xml" working properly in the TV Server Config. XmlTv plugin settings. I finally went into my systems clock settings, looking for anything that could be wrong. In the Time Zone tab I found "Automatically adjust clock for Daylight Savings Time" was unticked. After checking the Daylight Savings Time checkbox my system clock jumped back one hour so I set the proper time and reran mc2xml.exe. I had to delete the mc2xml.dat file, otherwise it just told me my guide was up to date and exited. After running mc2xml I simply rename xmltv.xml to tvguide.xml for MP.</p><p></p><p>Danweis, I don't know what you are missing, hopefully some of what I've outlined below will help you. I'm seldom around on weekends thus the slow response. I do have my TV Guide working and will be glad to help if I can. Feel free to ask or even PM me if you like.</p><p></p><p>Wouter, thanks for your efforts! I've noticed the left pane in post have a "Thanked" number of times rating. If there is something I need to do in order to add one to your "Thanked" count, besides says thanks in the post, please tell me what it is.</p><p>Thanks again for your efforts.</p><p></p><p>There's some pretty good MediaPortal instructions at the <a href="http://mc2xml.yourfreehosting.net/?h=4ny30y" target="_blank">mc2xml</a> site at <a href="http://mc2xml.yourfreehosting.net/?h=4ny30y#mediaportal" target="_blank">MediaPortal Instructions</a>. The steps are numbered so I'll refer to the step numbers and point out the parts that were a little confusing to me. Hopefully this will help some other newbs to epg guide data.</p><p></p><p>Step 1. says to place a copy of xmltv.dtd in your mc2xml folder. I expected the link to xmltv.dtd to start a download of the file but it simply displayed a rather large text file in my web browser. I right clicked then clicked "Select All" and pasted the text into a text file I created and renamed to xmltv.dtd. Since I'm not sure exactly what a .dtd file is or how it should be laid out I'm far from sure this was the proper approach but it seemed to work.</p><p></p><p>Step 2. I skipped this one since I want most local channels anyway. I may do something here at a later date.</p><p></p><p>Step 3. says you must open a dos box and run mc2xml via the command line to get the tvguide.xml file. I did not do this, I just renamed the default xmltv.xml file to tvguide.xml and all seems well. I should point out that I'm still in the testing stage and have not scheduled mc2xml to run at a given time. I will probably create a batch file and follow the given command line instructions when I setup a scheduled time to refresh the guide.</p><p></p><p>Step 7. says to select your group. I've been playing with MP's channel grouping a bit so I have some odd groups. I simply selected "All Channels" here.</p><p></p><p>Steps 9 and 10. refers to channels and descriptions and simply says to do it without giving instructions. To complete this step I clicked the arrow that drops a list for each channel in the "Guide channel" list. I'm currently only using MP with OTA (Over The Air) channels so this was pretty easy for me. After dropping the "Guide channel" list I selected the appropriate selection for each "Tuning Channel".</p><p></p><p></p><p>One other problem I overcame:</p><p>After finally getting my Guide populated and displaying programs in the proper time slots I scheduled a couple test recordings. MP said it was starting to record and the little red "Record" dot came up in MP for the duration of the recording but nothing was saved in my F:\TV\LiveTvCapture which I had set as my "Recording folder". This seemed odd because I had successfully done some manual recordings before getting the Tv Guide working. After a good bit of digging I found that both WinTV (the simple pvr app. that came with my tunner card) and nPvr (the pvr app. I tried before finding MP) were both still listed in my Programs/Startup folder. After deleting both apps. from the startup folder and rebooting life is good. I successfully scheduled and recorded several programs while I was away for the weekend.</p><p></p><p>Dan, </p><p></p><p>It looks like I was a little late with my post to be any help to you. Glad you got it worked out.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sticks, post: 668494, member: 107605"] Hi Guys, I finally have my TV Guide working properly. I never did get "Apply time compensation when loading tvguide.xml" working properly in the TV Server Config. XmlTv plugin settings. I finally went into my systems clock settings, looking for anything that could be wrong. In the Time Zone tab I found "Automatically adjust clock for Daylight Savings Time" was unticked. After checking the Daylight Savings Time checkbox my system clock jumped back one hour so I set the proper time and reran mc2xml.exe. I had to delete the mc2xml.dat file, otherwise it just told me my guide was up to date and exited. After running mc2xml I simply rename xmltv.xml to tvguide.xml for MP. Danweis, I don't know what you are missing, hopefully some of what I've outlined below will help you. I'm seldom around on weekends thus the slow response. I do have my TV Guide working and will be glad to help if I can. Feel free to ask or even PM me if you like. Wouter, thanks for your efforts! I've noticed the left pane in post have a "Thanked" number of times rating. If there is something I need to do in order to add one to your "Thanked" count, besides says thanks in the post, please tell me what it is. Thanks again for your efforts. There's some pretty good MediaPortal instructions at the [URL="http://mc2xml.yourfreehosting.net/?h=4ny30y"]mc2xml[/URL] site at [URL="http://mc2xml.yourfreehosting.net/?h=4ny30y#mediaportal"]MediaPortal Instructions[/URL]. The steps are numbered so I'll refer to the step numbers and point out the parts that were a little confusing to me. Hopefully this will help some other newbs to epg guide data. Step 1. says to place a copy of xmltv.dtd in your mc2xml folder. I expected the link to xmltv.dtd to start a download of the file but it simply displayed a rather large text file in my web browser. I right clicked then clicked "Select All" and pasted the text into a text file I created and renamed to xmltv.dtd. Since I'm not sure exactly what a .dtd file is or how it should be laid out I'm far from sure this was the proper approach but it seemed to work. Step 2. I skipped this one since I want most local channels anyway. I may do something here at a later date. Step 3. says you must open a dos box and run mc2xml via the command line to get the tvguide.xml file. I did not do this, I just renamed the default xmltv.xml file to tvguide.xml and all seems well. I should point out that I'm still in the testing stage and have not scheduled mc2xml to run at a given time. I will probably create a batch file and follow the given command line instructions when I setup a scheduled time to refresh the guide. Step 7. says to select your group. I've been playing with MP's channel grouping a bit so I have some odd groups. I simply selected "All Channels" here. Steps 9 and 10. refers to channels and descriptions and simply says to do it without giving instructions. To complete this step I clicked the arrow that drops a list for each channel in the "Guide channel" list. I'm currently only using MP with OTA (Over The Air) channels so this was pretty easy for me. After dropping the "Guide channel" list I selected the appropriate selection for each "Tuning Channel". One other problem I overcame: After finally getting my Guide populated and displaying programs in the proper time slots I scheduled a couple test recordings. MP said it was starting to record and the little red "Record" dot came up in MP for the duration of the recording but nothing was saved in my F:\TV\LiveTvCapture which I had set as my "Recording folder". This seemed odd because I had successfully done some manual recordings before getting the Tv Guide working. After a good bit of digging I found that both WinTV (the simple pvr app. that came with my tunner card) and nPvr (the pvr app. I tried before finding MP) were both still listed in my Programs/Startup folder. After deleting both apps. from the startup folder and rebooting life is good. I successfully scheduled and recorded several programs while I was away for the weekend. Dan, It looks like I was a little late with my post to be any help to you. Glad you got it worked out. [/QUOTE]
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