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Message: <blockquote data-quote="50chickens" data-source="post: 506637" data-attributes="member: 47377">yep, i'll definately want to have a look at the log, but i'll also make a version with a big more logging and upload that sometime late tonight (gotta go out for a bit after work). just an aside my plugin calls the xmltv plugin code to import the tvguide.xml once it's created, so if you can import it directly using the xmltv plugin/exe then it's probably something easy to fix (ie, you mentioned that it's having trouble finding the MP folders - which is a remnant of when my oztivograbber app was a stand alone exe rather than a tvserver plugin)here's what my oztivograbber was originally designed for -1. download foxtel channel data from the oztivo site 2. create tvguide.xml file based this data3. create analog channels in MP with channels from tvguide.xml4. assign them to an analog tuner card5. set the set top box channel numbers (eg 411 for movies 1, 502 for fox sports 2)  to those channels so that they can be blasted to by and-81's ir server suite.now, that was my original purpose, but people always come up with inventive ways to reuse things <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />  what you're asking is completely possible with a slight modification to my plugin.currently, if you look in the foxtelchannels.xml file you will see 1 important piece of data - the oztivo code for their EPG data. now, i have only coded the foxtel channels (as i was only ever interested in those) but you can hand edit your foxtelchannels.xml file for any channel that Oztivo provided data for - FTA or pay tv, analog or digital. the problem is my app was only ever designed to process analog tuner stuff <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> so when im saying it doesn't handle digital i mean that it can download epg data related to digital channels, but won't create channels/tuner assignments/blasting info around it. i haven't tried it, but you could try using the xmltv plugin to map those channels in the tvguide.xml to the digital channels you have configured in MP. then, only set my plugin to build the tvguide.xml file without assigning the channels, or setting the external stb id's. so you use my plugin to download the data and xmltv to map and import it. question i have though is .. normally digital channels contain full epg data. why do you want to grab the oztivo epg data instead?? i can probably modify my plugin to handle digital channels in the way you want, but in my analog version creating a new analog channel is pretty easy. i only need to know the external stb channel no - eg 502 = fox sports 3 whereas with digital channels there are way more things to setup (eg tsid, sid no's etc), although iirc MP already has a list of digital channel and their details that i can use. it'd be an interesting exercise tbh. hopefully this clears up the confusion for you <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big Grin    :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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