(no show details) - UpdateEPG not pulling correct data?

[BrettB]

That said, maybe you've got some firewall software that is blocking access to the zap2it website when run from NextPVR, and it's using old cache files or something like that.

The zap2xml website says:

Code:

To minimize web traffic zap2xml keeps all downloaded files in a cache subdirectory. It deletes old files in this directory based on last access time. (if last access > days + 2)

When you manually run the updateepg.bat file, Windows runs it under your user security settings (default directory, security access, etc.). And if the one line you listed is the entire contents of your updateepg.bat file, you aren't setting/changing a default directory. So it could be that 2 different cache subdirectories are being used or something. I'm not really sure.

Since you are in the US, I'd strongly suggest that you consider switching to SchedulesDirect for your EPG source. Support for it is built-in with NextPVR, it has excellent quality data and support, and at $25/year it is a fairly inexpensive solution. Many NextPVR users are very happy with SD. (And they have a free trial offer as well.)

[ElihuRozen]

The zap2xml website says:

Code:

To minimize web traffic zap2xml keeps all downloaded files in a cache subdirectory. It deletes old files in this directory based on last access time. (if last access > days + 2)

When you manually run the updateepg.bat file, Windows runs it under your user security settings (default directory, security access, etc.). And if the one line you listed is the entire contents of your updateepg.bat file, you aren't setting/changing a default directory. So it could be that 2 different cache subdirectories are being used or something. I'm not really sure.

Since you are in the US, I'd strongly suggest that you consider switching to SchedulesDirect for your EPG source. Support for it is built-in with NextPVR, it has excellent quality data and support, and at $25/year it is a fairly inexpensive solution. Many NextPVR users are very happy with SD. (And they have a free trial offer as well.)

I second the recommendation of SchedulesDirect, but if you don't decide to do that, remember that specifying the full directory when running a command is different than changing to that directory & running the command.

Code:

C:\Users\Public\NPVR\Scripts\zap2xml.exe -o C:\Users\Public\NPVR\Scripts\epg.xml -u REDACTED -p REDACTED -d 15 -D -A "new live" -E "amp apos quot lt gt" –F

is different than

Code:

cd /d C:\Users\Public\NPVR\Scripts\
C:\Users\Public\NPVR\Scripts\zap2xml.exe -o C:\Users\Public\NPVR\Scripts\epg.xml -u REDACTED -p REDACTED -d 15 -D -A "new live" -E "amp apos quot lt gt" –F

[andyjoyb]

Thank you so much for your help everyone. If this happens again, I will be looking into SchedulesDirect more closely. Magically overnight, my schedule populated (I don't know how or why, but I'm not going to question it). For now, I'm going to say this issue is resolved.

Thank you all for your feedback and your assistance.

Sincerely,
AJB