New Configuration progam + file format (1 Viewer)

[James]

The problem webepg of loading config files with unmapped channels has been fixed.

Unmapped channels can be left in the config files and must not be deleted. WebEPG will just ignore them.

jadz, thanks for the great support. I have implemented that change as you suggested

mpfrank, not yet. I want to get the current bugs all fixed before add new ones

@All, I'm still looking for more feedback on the new config program? Love it, hate it, could be better? Also I really want to hear how well the auto map feature works. So even if you have a working config file. Please make a backup and clear the mapping and try to auto map

 

[Mew]

Hi James

I think that the new config program is certainly an improvement over the old program as it makes set-up more straight forward and more automatic.

I briefly tried automapping. "BBC1 London" worked OK as did "BBC2" and "BBC 1". "BBC1" however automapped to ABC1.

One amendment I would suggest is that the Add button allows you to add details when the New Channel box contains nothing. Because the line added contains no details, users may not appreciate it is there. When you then run WebEPG.exe it fails (although unless you check the log or processes there is no sign of failure) with the error:

2007-08-18 12:49:35.976103 [ERROR][1]: WebEPG: Fatal Error
2007-08-18 12:49:35.979032 [ERROR][1]: WebEPG: Value cannot be null.
Parameter name: key

As the TVguide-writing.xml is still present in the XMLTV folder it looks like WebEPG.exe is still running.

As a longer term improvement I would like to see WebEPG configuration integrated into MediaPortal as this would be more user friendly. I would guess that you can't really do this until TVE3 is the only TV Engine as it would probably need to sit in the Server configuration (like the XMLTV plugin) and this would not be much good for TV Engine 2 users.

Mew

 

[petsa]

HI James,

It seems as something changed with webEPG in SVN from Aug 21st. It no longer makes an effort to collect merged channels. I posted this on the SVN thread, see my posting on https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/mediaportal_svn_snapshot_08_21_2007_01-t26907.html

I have not been able to test it on newer SVNs but nothing in the changelog indicate it has been changed.

Do you have time to take a look at this?

/Peter

 

[James]

Hi Peter,

Seen the report and fixed it I added this bug when skipping blank channels in the config file. At the top channel level a merged channel is blank (ie no id)

/James

 

[petsa]

Glad you fixed it so quickly!

Have you had any time to think about the issue that the grabber stops when a channel has nothing in the EPG for a given day? It would be very useful if it could just skip that day and continue with next day where there may be epg information. As it is right now the grabber skips the channel entirely.

/Peter

 

[pmcguire]

I noticed that this newer version of webepg has the option to import channels from the tvserver, I tried and and got an error message, is this not implemented yet?

Paul.

 

[Furetto]

Hey, very nice work !

I have here a situation that is probably not unique but a bit annoying.

One of the channels here in Belgium is being used by 3 differents stations (kids, sports and culture) at varying times. I tried once to add the three with complete overlapping but that seems to fail.

Any way I can already do it that I missed ?

 

[vuego]

I have a problem where some channel names include an ampersand.

I.e. in WebEPG.xml I have:

<Channel id="travel_living@discovery.com" displayName="Disc Tr&Liv" grabber="SE\www_dagenstv_com.xml" />

When launching WebEPG-conf.exe I end up with an empty channel list and in webEPG.log:

2007-09-15 02:29:19.625000 [Info.][1]: WebEPG Config: Loading Existing WebEPG.xml
2007-09-15 02:29:20.015625 [Info.][1]: WebEPG: Error loading config C:\Program Files\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\WebEPG\WebEPG.xml: There is an error in XML document (12, 56).
2007-09-15 02:29:20.031250 [Info.][1]: Trying to load old config file format

Using SVN 15881.

Thanks

 

[James]

pmcguire, Its not implemented yet.

Furetto, You can create a merged channel. See on the right side in the mapping details section there are tabs "single" or "multiple / merged". Select multiple and then you can add more than one guide to a channel and put times for which guide should be used.

vuego, did WebEPG-conf generate this file or was it changed by hand? It is generating them correctly here with &

 

[vuego]

@vuego, did WebEPG-conf generate this file or was it change by hand? It is generating them correctly here with &

You're right. I made it by hand and missed the amp; part.

Now I let WebEPG-conf generate the file =

    <Channel id="travel_living@discovery.com" displayName="Disc Tr&amp;Liv" grabber="SE\www_dagenstv_com.xml" />

however it won't map to the original channel but it'll create a new channel with the same name every time the epg is imported.
Any ideas?