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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Blue Lightning" data-source="post: 1176969" data-attributes="member: 115994">I use a custom data grabber (which I won't detail because Australian TV networks are really protective of their schedule for some reason..), but it could stop working at any time. So I have it insert a fake "TV Guide Data Expiry" program at the end of the availability for each channel (runtime 1 minute) and set that as a series recording. So if I see this coming up in the guide in the next few days then I know the data is running out or my grabber isn't running for some reason, and I can look into it.The issue is on channels where they've left a "TBA" at the end of the day until maybe the day or two before airing, so this still displays the "TV Guide Data Expiry" program until then (as well as when the data actually ends) even though the XML data only has the entry once for that channel. This also happens on channels that don't run 24 hours, for example if a channel ends at 9pm then my XmlTv file has "TV Guide Data Expiry" at 9pm on the final day, but after 1-2 weeks I'd end up with "TV Guide Data Expiry" on at 9pm every day (even though the XmlTv file only has it at the end). Some of them disappear of course if the program before ends up being changed to 9:02pm or something like that.Those cases might be specific to my situation and not feasible to fix, but there's another issue with it that I noticed recently which I believe is related to the same feature/bug.TEN is launching a simulcast of their primary channel in HD (TEN HD) next week. It's available for tuning now so I've tuned it but disabled it until it actually starts (at which point I'll disable TEN and re-enable TEN HD). I told TEN HD to use the guide data for TEN, which resulted in suddenly getting every TEN scheduled recording listed twice (once for TEN, again for TEN HD) even though I disabled the channel. I removed the TEN guide mapping for TEN HD but the data continued to display in my schedule for a day or two (and cancelling the TEN HD recording also cancelled the TEN recording, so I was stuck with it recording both channels even though one is just a "coming soon" promo screen). I suspect once TEN HD starts and I disable TEN (and un-map the guide for it), I'll probably keep getting TEN scheduled recordings for a few days. Would it be possible to add a manual data purge button for specific channels? This would resolve the re-mapping issue retaining old data. I feel like it's probably doing this in the background after a day or two but a button for it in the TV Server Config would be useful. About my issue with "TV Guide Data Expiry" not clearing, is there something I can provide in the XmlTv data that would force Mediaportal to dump the cached version of the entry when it imports a newer one (such as providing a unique ID for the program)? Or does it have some sort of flag for informational programming that causes them to be treated differently (eg "TBA", "Programs Resume 6am" "Channel starts on Wednesday", etc)?</blockquote>

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