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[Game_dude]

There should be more than 7 channles My tuner card picks up 73 thats pretty strange yea I do use WebEPG config but it doesn't seem to do anything. When I do click on the WebEPG.exe it just pops up a dos window for a few seconds and its gone I was having great luck with Zapit till they wanted discontinue the free server, I can't beleive how hard it is to get the guide working lol

 

[petsa]

Hi Game_dude,

I took your webepg.xml file and tested it on my system. Surely there is something wrong with it as no EPG data is picked up. I took some of the URLs in the log, see attachment, and pasted it into Firefox but there is no data on the refered page.

I don't use webepg-config but something went wrong so you need to go back and check what it was. It seems as those grabbers are no good...

/Peter

 

[Game_dude]

Hey pesta,

I also can't figure out way there are only 7 channles whille there should be 73 lol yea I can't figure it out at all or find out what went wrong

 

[GadgetMan]

I've tried a couple of the links in pesta running of WebEPG.
eg: http://tv.yahoo.com/tvpdb?d=tvs&id=...neup=us_KY16673&.intl=us&startdate=1183900490

It appears that this grabber won't work with these anymore

_James, is trying to get some help with the out of date grabbers in this thread.
https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/help_needed_mp_0_2_3_0-t24399.html

Perhaps someone might indicate something there for any US MP users. Otherwise, you'll need to find a new EPG grabber.

 

[Game_dude]

Oh kool I'll check it out! btw now that I think about it I beleive the site was working about two weeks ago sucks that it doesn't work anymore and I don't know any other grabbers

 

[m0deth]

Stop trying Game_dude....it will never work for US. I tried for months when first getting into MP, with help from the forums....and the truth of the matter is, if you have cable in the US....zap2it was the only thing that worked right, and fed data to the epg. Even then, this year thanks to our lovely senators and president....everything was off by an hour due to daylight savings being early, zap2it never really recovered from that properly(labs didn't, website did. go figure).

What really sucks for me is...sorta....I just switched to FiOS tv, internet, phone service from Verizon....and they don't seem to be publishing the data ANYWHERE on the net. So scheduling even manually, for use with IR blaster....will become a nightmare. BTW, zap2it lied apparently....no guide data is being retrieved with either of my accounts now, I can login to their site, but no data is downloaded.
Not that it matters to me now, in a week I will have no use for the one hour off, horribly updated, cable epg.

We in the US need a real solution fast, I really wish all these free PVR packages would get together for common good and form some sort of website(yes even for pay, a small yearly fee with codes and such) where we can all download accurate data for all available entertainment via tv in our respective areas.

PS - I'd like to take the opportunity to thank the developer of the Zap2It plugin for MediaPortal, thanks for your hard work on this for us...it was greatly appreciated. I can only hope you might be part of the next solution as your skill is clear in this area.

Once again, thanks from all of us in the US who are usually too lazy to say so!

 

[Game_dude]

I agree man! It is way too hard to setup and I'm giving up on it! I may end up installing MCE again along with MP or just use that Yahoo go for tv just for TV and MP for everything else though it shouldn't be like that its ridiculous I really hope someone can't find out a soultion MP is by far and always will be the best open source media center imo just need to fix that EPG

 

[James]

Yahoo was never maintained, because everyone in the US uses the zap2it plugin. However, they will be shuting down their service soon. So maybe there will be more interest again? Yahoo is also a bad site because they restrict the number of hits per day.

 

[m0deth]

Its not MP's fault....it's the business climate in the US....if a real company like say TitanTV for example would actually bring what users who are registered ask for....like a parsable database feed or even construct a plugin for MP for registered users which would allow access....this wouldn't be a problem. Zap2It could have done the same thing for us....or TVGuide.....I can go on all day. Bottom line is, they can't find a way to overcharge for it, get enough people to sign on, or force some sort of proprietary ad down our throats, it won't happen.

I'd actually even deal with targeted banner ads for entertainment if the guide provided were accurate and served all media options for a given area. Throw a TVSeries sized banner at the top of the guide which is usually dead space to pay for bandwidth/server/upkeep costs.

I'm sure some moronic entertainment lawyer won't like that for some f'ing reason or another....have you ever gotten the feeling that entertainment would get better in the states if all the lawyers dropped dead at once? Then again, court tv, a&e, and others would be lost for programming then....ahh yes...the money again.

 

[m0deth]

Yahoo was never maintained, because everyone in the US uses the zap2it plugin. However, they will be shuting down their service soon. So maybe there will be more interest again? Yahoo is also a bad site because they restrict the number of hits per day.

Anything Yahoo touches turns to crap.....ASE, MusicMatch, Meedio, the list goes on....but HEY! all their sheep users have all these (cool) new gadgets to play with for 2 mins til they realize....if it's Yahoo....it's craaaapp! (insert fake scottish accent here)