TV Listings plugin, one channel not populated in guide

[Wakalaka]

Any idea why channel 70, E!, isn't populated? I can see the data when I go to zap2it.com TV Listings for Comcast Cable in zip code 97124. The same problem exists for guide while watching Live TV.

[fla]

Probably a different problem in your case but you can always try what this post post says on the zap2it web site.

[roy]

My E listings are gone also (w/ Comcast). I haven't checked yet but I bet they changed the name. This happened to A&E a while ago (AETV ?).

edit: Yup, looks like it's changed from 'ETV' to 'E'.

[Wakalaka]

I'm using XMLTV, looked in I-xmltv\.xmltv\tv_grab_na_dd.conf (which gets written when you first run UpdateEPG.bat).
channel: 70 ETVP
On labs.zap2it.com, it's now called EP.

Solution: delete your .xmltv directory so tv_grab_na_dd.conf gets recreated.

[roy]

Actually, I-xmltv tells you exactly what to do. Nice!

[Wakalaka]

I had an experience last night with a channel not being populated in my TV Listings (plugin used from main menu) and TV Guide (during Live TV). Channel 70, E!, didn't have guide data. I got help on how to solve that, which ended up being the channel name on labs.zap2it.com changed from ETVP to EP. This process exposed several problems, and I'm not sure who owns each problem, GB-PVR or plugin author.

• Pretty sure this is XMLTV tool issue. If channel name changes, this should be automatically handled. Imagine an ignorant user trying to fix this problem. I'm using XMLTV, and found that it stores channel data in .xmltv\tv_grab_na_dd.conf. By deleting this file and running UpdateEPG.bat, I got channel 70 E! populated in both TV Listings and TV Guide.
  
  It should download channel data each time to a temp copy, and compare names for matching channel numbers, so it can realize that 70 changed from ETVP to EP. Maybe have an option to force name changes instead of warning the user of a name change was found, do you want to accept the change?
  

[alibert]

Hi,

This process exposed several problems, and I'm not sure who owns each problem, GB-PVR or plugin author.

your problem seems to be related to your epg data - the tv listings plugin just displays the channels and their programmes as they're read out from the database.

-alibert