No Channel More 4 & XMLTV not updating, jolly odd, any ideas please? (1 Viewer)

[mm1352000]

Okay lacanox - I'm really trying to help but I'm struggling. Please read this post carefully because I can't be any clearer than this.

You appear to have two distinct problems:
1. When you try to view a channel in MP, you get an error message.
2. You're not seeing correct information in the TV guide.

These problems are not related.

To help you with problem one I need your MediaPortal and TV Server log files. To get them, please follow the instructions here:
http://wiki.team-mediaportal.com/1_MEDIAPORTAL_1/16_Support/3_Forums/2_Log_Files

In other words: start MediaPortal with the watchdog/debug tool, attempt to view a channel, close MediaPortal, post/attach the zip file produced by the watchdog/debug tool.


For the second problem: you posted your tvguide.xml file. I told you that the contents of the file is definitely invalid. That is why the TV Server XMLTV plugin can't import it and why the mapping tab shows each channel as red with no options in the guide channel column. To fix this problem you need to generate a valid XMLTV (tvguide.xml) file. From your first post I guess you're using XMLTV GUI to produce the tvguide.xml file. I think that your XMLTV GUI configuration may be incorrect. I don't know how to help you further with this problem because I've never used XMLTV GUI.

Sorry to be slow but can you tell me exactly where to find & what these XMLTV files look like or are called, thank you

I'm a bit confused by your questions.

For the "where to find" part: you appear to have already found an XMLTV file. That's the tvguide.xml file that you posted above. So, I don't understand why you're looking for a file you already have.

For the "what they look like" part: this is technical detail that I think you could probably ignore. Nobody expects you to know what an XMLTV file looks like. If you're curious: fine. You can look at the attached example (which is my XMLTV file).

For the "what are they called" part: XMLTV files can be given any name you like. By convention they're often called "tvguide.xml", but there is no hard and fast rule about that.

 

[lacanox]

Yes we crossed wires there, I replied before having seen your post. So I can watch all my UK channels, except More 4, either in MP or under the server config & preview channels. Now however that problem seems to be cured & I can view More 4. But the listings in the guide & the description of the program being watched in MP is wrong.

Also the TV listings for More 4 were wrong. Now since all my messing around I am not downloading in to MP the listings at all. When I run the GUI XMLTV on my desk top or from its folder it works fine downloads everything, or seems to but when I go to import via serverconfig/plugins/XMLTV I get the error message "tvguide XML:invalid XML file:data at the root level is inval" which is all that I can read. That was the result of my most recent effort. The effort before stated no TV guide found.

I think I have attached the log files

The reason why I am being confusing is because I am confused. Anyway you have been jolly kind to help me & I shall persevere. My main problem now seems to be not updating the EPG with the XMLTV plugin

 

[lacanox]

OK very tentatively, I think I have cured the problem. After much faffing around the EPG has now been downloaded & imported. I was able to do a remapping for both tuners & then remapping under the XMLTV setup thingy. Thank you again for all your kind help.

Cheers

Lacanox