xmltv install / configure for ATSC / OTA U.S.A (4 Viewers)

[Lyfesaver74]

Awesome write up and it is great to have a free option again! Thanks!! Sadly for me I have 792 channels and only about 100 of them map automatically. Same problem with MC2XML. It's Verizon FiOS's fault, not the scrapers. I have it all set up again and will just have to spend time some day mapping them all again

Thanks for pointing this out to me

 

[Lyfesaver74]

This had the same unwanted side effect SD has, and that is after I use the plugin, now half my channels are messed up. I got a lot of double channel numbers. 504 Fox 4 & 504 HBO West. Any tips on how to keep this from happening?

 

[breese]

When doing the mappings in xmltv, you have to verify what the channel # is...
I try to use TVGuide.com as a reference...

 

[Lyfesaver74]

But see... the channel numbers were all right after the scan and before mapping. Should be able to tell it no to change the numbers

But basically what I am learning is..... to this day.... in this world.... with this technology... FiOS users still can not get a working EPG without going over each one of the 792 channels . Even the ones that got matched with a "Green" color to indicate a full match are getting their channel numbers changed, so every channel is suspicious.

Not that it is anyone's fault but my own. If I wanted it fixed badly enough I should learn to code and fix the problem myself, as no other FiOS users want to. The naming Verizon does on their channels is absolutely horrid.

 

[Lyfesaver74]

Again, thanks tho. Awesome work as I would much rather go over each channel and fix it when it is free, seeing as how I have to do the same thing for MC2XML or SD, both of which costs money. So kudos to you, sir

 

[breese]

What version of MP2 did you install?
The latest test version is giving issues with saving the channel numbers I know I changed correctly

 

[Lyfesaver74]

I am using MP1, in your first post you mentioned it was for MP1 and MP2, right?

 

[breese]

Yes... I had it working in MP1 before I switched completely over to MP2

 

[mm1352000]

This had the same unwanted side effect SD has, and that is after I use the plugin, now half my channels are messed up. I got a lot of double channel numbers. 504 Fox 4 & 504 HBO West.

With the greatest respect, the XMLTV plugin has no capacity to cause this problem. I'd bet a lot of money you haven't disabled the SD plugin, and so it's continuing to cause problems for you.

 

[Lyfesaver74]

I have it off and have had it off since I started with Zap2it. To be fair, i will agree that it was not the plugin if you say it cant do that. Maybe SD had some residual effect or I did something else along the way.