[solved] XmlTv not importing programs (1 Viewer)

[ArdaVonWoolf]

Hello,

Looking to move my Win7 Ultimate WMC box to a Win10Pro OS and started here with MP2. Got the live TV, OTA ATSC tuning working and moved on to what the docs admit is THE most important feature of a TV tuner. The Guide.

Followed the writeup for XmlTv, after finding WebEPG is long unfunctional, and on the last stage I am at all my channels are imported, but none of the programs. I have inspected the tvguide.xml file and it is 16MB and filled with program data, it just seems to fail to import.

Yes I scanned for channels, did the mc2xml thing, imported and meticulously mapped channels, saved, and re-ran the import. All worked as written except that one thing--it reports the xml file was imported successfully.

I am choosing the legacy Microsoft EPG sources, I am still getting guide data in Win7 MC. And as I mentioned, there is loads of data in the XML file--which I assume is the process.

Where should I be looking for the issue?

Thanks
-AvW

 

[HTPCSourcer]

Hello AvW,

Where should I be looking for the issue?

Did you map the xmltv channels to your own MP2 channels? You can verify the Status in the TV Configuration under Plugins/XmlTv on the Mappings tab: select your MP2 channel group and click Load/Refresh which will display your tuning and guide channel Information.

 

[ArdaVonWoolf]

Yes, as I said I mapped the channels. I left three without a respective mapping as blank, and they show as red, otherwise everything looked correct.

 

[HTPCSourcer]

Then we'll need logs in DEBUG mode.

 

[ArdaVonWoolf]

I'm looking at the XML data and they all have a "programme start" value beginning with 2015. E.g.
<programme start="20150930183000 -500" stop=20150930190000 -500" channel="I56.26...etc...

Does this mean these are from the year 2015, as in September 30, 2015 ?

That would be the reason, none of the guide data is in the future.

That would seem to be an odd result...

 

[ArdaVonWoolf]

full example. logs attached.

<programme start="20150713163000 -0500" stop="20150713170000 -0500" channel="I42.27859524.microsoft.com">
<title lang="en">5 Eyewitness News at 4:30</title>
<category lang="en">News</category>
<category lang="en">Other</category>
<category lang="en">Series</category>
<episode-num system="ms_progid">1.SH009617010000</episode-num>
<episode-num system="dd_progid">SH00961701.0000</episode-num>
<audio>
<stereo>stereo</stereo>
</audio>
<new />
<subtitles type="teletext" />
</programme>

 

[ArdaVonWoolf]

OK. Changed the system date on the computer to July 26 2015 and ran the import--programs imported into the guide successfully. Checked in MP2 and yup, the guide has data.

So...why am I getting 2015 data? The tvguide.xml names Zap2it as the generator, and I see current listings on zap2it.com.

 

[HTPCSourcer]

Sorry, as this is not a MP2 problem, I can’t really help you. No idea about zap2it.

 

[ArdaVonWoolf]

Ok, the mc2xml using the MC version is broken. I found this for working with zap2it using a different parsing tool zap2xml

xmltv install / configure for ATSC / OTA U.S.A

Maybe this will help the next WMC user to get the guide to work. I bet if I went with my gut to go with TitanTV instead of trying to replicate the WMC guide, I wouldn't have had any problems.

Thanks
-AvW