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<blockquote data-quote="DocGolden" data-source="post: 54690" data-attributes="member: 19960">OK - I finally got it figured out...&nbsp; As an aside, someone ought to document these issues &amp; put them in the wiki (Television setup has nothing created).&nbsp; For someone new to MP, this is an absolutely dreadful process that will scare off those who have no programming/debugging experience...I found some interesting things:-&nbsp; it seems that there's some strange bug in xmltv-0.5.43.&nbsp; It kept reporting errors about expecting a bit instead of 'Black &amp; White'.&nbsp; This was a bit of a red-herring.&nbsp; I reverted to xmltv-0.5.42a and this actually explained a lot more.- xmltv-0.5.42a revealed to me part of the issue I was seeing about my timezone (Central US -0600) reading as -0500.&nbsp; We're on Daylight savings time, so it's trying to help me out by stating the time as -0500.&nbsp; I finally understood what was happing b/c I noticed the offset notes which stated: &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; -0500 Eastern&nbsp; Standard or Central Daylight&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; -0600 Central&nbsp; Standard or Mountain Daylight&nbsp;:shock: Guess I'd looked at it so many times that I never saw what was wrong.So, the upside:&nbsp; I've got valid EPG data&nbsp; <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big Grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /> .&nbsp; The downside(s):&nbsp; It took way more effort than one would hope for a component that's so key to having a working PVR and each spring &amp; fall I have to readjust my offset values from -0500 to -0600 depending upon the time of year&nbsp; <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite3" alt=":(" title="Frown&nbsp; &nbsp; :(" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":(" />&nbsp; (couldn't this be updated to work more like Windows auto-adustment?)Hopefully this helps someone else.BOSCO, your notes about the time entry for the Program Guide Setup fields ('Compensate time zone with:') actually did help clarify things for me.&nbsp; I was putting in the correct offset &amp; thought had a formatting issue when you used -XX XX.&nbsp; Turns out this wasn't a major problem since it went back to -5 0 when I hit ok.&nbsp; Thanks for the assist!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DocGolden, post: 54690, member: 19960"] OK - I finally got it figured out... As an aside, someone ought to document these issues & put them in the wiki (Television setup has nothing created). For someone new to MP, this is an absolutely dreadful process that will scare off those who have no programming/debugging experience... I found some interesting things: - it seems that there's some strange bug in xmltv-0.5.43. It kept reporting errors about expecting a bit instead of 'Black & White'. This was a bit of a red-herring. I reverted to xmltv-0.5.42a and this actually explained a lot more. - xmltv-0.5.42a revealed to me part of the issue I was seeing about my timezone (Central US -0600) reading as -0500. We're on Daylight savings time, so it's trying to help me out by stating the time as -0500. I finally understood what was happing b/c I noticed the offset notes which stated: -0500 Eastern Standard or Central Daylight -0600 Central Standard or Mountain Daylight :shock: Guess I'd looked at it so many times that I never saw what was wrong. So, the upside: I've got valid EPG data :D . The downside(s): It took way more effort than one would hope for a component that's so key to having a working PVR and each spring & fall I have to readjust my offset values from -0500 to -0600 depending upon the time of year :( (couldn't this be updated to work more like Windows auto-adustment?) Hopefully this helps someone else. BOSCO, your notes about the time entry for the Program Guide Setup fields ('Compensate time zone with:') actually did help clarify things for me. I was putting in the correct offset & thought had a formatting issue when you used -XX XX. Turns out this wasn't a major problem since it went back to -5 0 when I hit ok. Thanks for the assist! [/QUOTE]

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