EPG not updating

[BTJustice]

http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php...ings-Guide

[skcamow]

mc2xml worked excellent. I have to play around with automatically running it via updateepg.bat but for now I'm good. I will definitely check out the mc2xml instructions on the link you provided johnsonx42. Thanks for everyone's input!

[jcjefferies]

I changed over some weeks ago to using EPG Collecter for DVB-T EPG. I did have occasional problems with part filled EPG so had started using -updateepgonly several months ago at a later timing instead of the NextPVR built in overnight update. The big advantage for UK users is that it extracts the "Programme ID" and "Series ID" from the data stream as used by Freeview PVRs to record "Series". It dosnt work yet but Sub has added support for it in the next version. So I am looking forward to the next version!!

[skcamow]

While my initial xmltv mapping/"update EPG" worked great, I've not had much success with the updateepg.bat file and as a result, not able to pull additonal EPG data. This is what my batch file looks like:

C:
cd "C:\Users\Public\NPVR\mc2xml"
mc2xml

This is the output when I run it:
C:\Users\Public\NPVR\Scripts>updateepg.bat

C:\Users\Public\NPVR\Scripts>C:

C:\Users\Public\NPVR\Scripts>cd "C:\Users\Public\NPVR\mc2xml"

C:\Users\Public\NPVR\mc2xml>mc2xml
Loading ..... : mc2xml © <mc2xml@gmail.com> (v1.2)
Reminder .... : Unauthorized redistribution prohibited.
Reminder .... : If this software is useful, please donate!
Reading ..... : mc2xml.dat
Downloading . : microsoft.com
Status ...... : No new data available

Note my xmltv.xml file is about 105MB in size. Not sure if that is normal? It's the file that was generated from following the instructions [url=http://mc2xml.hosterbox.net/#npvr][/url] (note I did not do step 2 to create the chl file.)

I also have attached the logs.
Thanks in advance

[johnsonx42]

Code:

2012-07-07 01:01:00.134    [DEBUG][8]    Will process xmltv file: C:\Users\Public\NPVR\xmltv.xml
2012-07-07 01:01:00.149    [DEBUG][8]    Loading XMLTV from: C:\Users\Public\NPVR\xmltv.xml

when you mapped your channels, you pointed NPVR to "C:\Users\Public\NPVR\xmltv.xml", but your updated data is in "C:\Users\Public\NPVR\mc2xml\xmltv.xml" so it just keeps reading the same old data from a week ago.

you can either re-map your channels to the correct file, or add "copy xmltv.xml .." to the end of the updateepg.bat file so that it will put the updated data where NPVR is looking. your updateepg.bat would look like this:

Code:

C:
cd "C:\Users\Public\NPVR\mc2xml"
mc2xml
copy xmltv.xml ..

[OTAjunkie]

Here's what my bat looks like. I created a folder called "EPG" to avoid confusion. Put mc2xml.exe in it and everything relating to it will be there(*.dat,*.chl,*.xml and of course xmltv.xml)
This takes selected channels from three zip codes and combines them to one small file.
I put the "-f" switch in because while you are trying to set this up you want to force the download. You don't need it after you get it going.

Code:

C:
cd "C:\Users\Public\NPVR\EPG"

mc2xml -D Ott.dat -C Ott.chl -a -A -o Ott.xml -f

mc2xml -D RM.dat -C RM.chl -I Ott.xml -a -A -o RM_Ott.xml -f

mc2xml -D Platt.dat -C Platt.chl -I RM_Ott.xml -a -A -o xmltv.xml -f

[skcamow]

Thanks Johnson, you were right. I re-mapped my channels to the correct file and all is now very well.
OTA-thanks for the tips. I will keep this thread handy in case I want to deal with smaller files.

For now I am good!
Thanks again

[johnsonx42]

I'm always right, just ask my wife :eek:

Glad you have it working.

[Reddwarf]

I'm always right, just ask my wife :eek:

Lucky you