Setting up WebEPG (getting a UK EPG) (1 Viewer)

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So I've downloaded the webepg-conf.exe from this post: https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/webepg-136/cannot-get-webepg-work-1-0-final-50750/#post347259 and installed in place of the one that came with the MP 1.0 install.

I followed the instructions here to get WebEPG working: https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/...pg-media-portal-1-tv-server-39288/index2.html

But it does not seem to work. After executing the webepg.exe to fetch the EPG data, the TVguide-writing.xml file gets created but is only 35Kb in size and does not grow any bigger. I also was expecting this file to replace the TVguide.xml file once it has finished populating, but it never does.

Are there further steps I need to perform to get an EPG for MyTV?
 

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    Be patient. WebEPG scrapes websites for the EPG information, so if you have a lot of channels and slow websites that it is using it can take a while. Mine takes about half an hour to scrape about a dozen channels.

    When the process completes, tvguide-writing.xml will be renamed to tvguide.xml.
     

    wjw

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    There is another way for UK users. I use XMLTV GUI to grab from the Radio Times website. I have a fast broadband so, for me, it works extremely quickly (14 days of programs for about a dozen channels in a few seconds) and MP seems to load the new data within a few minutes.

    Obviously you need to configure XMLTV (a) to choose the guide site you want to use - Radio Times site is currently free! - (b) to put the new TVGuide file wherever you told MP to look for it and (c) choose the channels you want to download. I use Vista Task Scheduler to wake the PC up from hibernate at 0900 and then run the grabber program once the network connection is available.

    Works for me every day.
     

    son_t

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    Be patient. WebEPG scrapes websites for the EPG information, so if you have a lot of channels and slow websites that it is using it can take a while. Mine takes about half an hour to scrape about a dozen channels.

    When the process completes, tvguide-writing.xml will be renamed to tvguide.xml.

    Yes, I have about 100 channels, but each time I run webepg.exe, after a short while it just stops (nowadays creating just a 77Kb file). I check using task manager and the program is not running in memory, so it must have finished? The tvguide-writing.xml never turns into tvguide.xml... Could the webepg.exe program be falling over getting data for certain channels? (I used the automapping option to associate channels to EPG sites.)

    There is another way for UK users. I use XMLTV GUI to grab from the Radio Times website. I have a fast broadband so, for me, it works extremely quickly (14 days of programs for about a dozen channels in a few seconds) and MP seems to load the new data within a few minutes.

    Obviously you need to configure XMLTV (a) to choose the guide site you want to use - Radio Times site is currently free! - (b) to put the new TVGuide file wherever you told MP to look for it and (c) choose the channels you want to download. I use Vista Task Scheduler to wake the PC up from hibernate at 0900 and then run the grabber program once the network connection is available.

    Works for me every day.

    I had a look at this and couldn't find out how to integrate it with MediaPortal... have you any pointers?
     

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    son_t

    Can you post your webepg log C:\ProgramData\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\log or C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Appdata\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\log

    Use the forum advanced + feature to upload and attach.

    Just ran WebEPG here, with the old channel names and it took 10 seconds for 32 dvb-t channels, but it does need a bit of a update for all the recent name changes.
     

    son_t

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    I will do once I get home to have another go on the box I've set up, and find it behaves the same...

    I've managed to get this working on a box that has just 1 Freeview tuner (which can only receive 5 channels!)
     

    wjw

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    It doesn't "integrate" as such. The only thing you need to do in the XMLTV plugin is to define where the TVGuide.xml file will be when XMLTVGUI has run. I tell XMLTVGUI to put the new file on the desktop (just so it's easy to check occasionally that the daily job has run)so that's where XMLTV looks.

    I don't use WEBepg at all.

    Everythng else is the same
     

    son_t

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    Thanks. How do you tell XMLTVGUI which channels to get the EPG data for? I assume I need to export the channels list somehow using MP and then point XMLTVGUI at it?
     

    wjw

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    No, it's the other way around. You run XMLTVGUI and select Tools/settings/grabbers. This will get you a list of optional sites to grab from. Select "UK-RT" - don't just tick the box but also click on the text to highlight the entire line. Then on the bottom of the window you'll see that "channels" has become available. Click on this and you'll see all of the channels that this site offers. Choose the ones you want, click OK twice to get back to the main window, then Grab Listings. The TVguide file will be written wherever you selected.

    After that it's all down to MP to populate its database exactly as it would have done if using WEBepg.

    This can be done in batch mode also. If you look in the directory you installed XMLTVGUI into, you'll also see a program called Xmltvconsole. This is what you use - it uses the settings already created.
     

    son_t

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    Can you post your webepg log C:\ProgramData\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\log or C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Appdata\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\log

    Use the forum advanced + feature to upload and attach.

    Just ran WebEPG here, with the old channel names and it took 10 seconds for 32 dvb-t channels, but it does need a bit of a update for all the recent name changes.

    Here are the log files. I'm still having the problem...
     

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