Having issue with Automatic EPG updates on 3.1.1

[Zeb]

@jhr1948
I was wondering earlier if you were getting any useful EPG data via DVB/ATSC. (There are reasons why we Americans are all using XMLTV.) Setting EPG Source to None for those 2 channels should solve your problem completely. The worrisome part of this thread is what it means for our friends overseas who get all of their EPG data via DVB. It seems to me that NDigitalHost is somehow becoming orphaned.

[sub]

Are you guys able to reproduce this at will? ie, if you set the EPG update time to a couple of minutes into the future, then restart the recording service, and left it for a few minutes so that it does the EPG update, do you find yourself left in this state? This is exactly what I tried, but I'm not seeing the problem.

[gEd]

Well it does it every single morning at 05:10 when it updates the EPG. In my case, it is related to downloading the EPG OTA for the radio channels.

[sub]

Are you able to reproduce it manually the way I describe above? I'm basically trying to confirm the steps I have to do to reproduce the problem, so I can see it happen here (without having to wait 24 hours). If I cant reproduce it, but you guys can, then I'll need to give you an update with more logging in the problem area.

[Reddwarf]

I'v avioded it by using dvbguide.exe to collect the epg data to an xml-file.

[gEd]

I'm trying to repro. first attempt didn't work.

[jhr1948]

hey sub
finally got home from work and was able to adjust epg update for minutes later and I can't recreate the problem. this is weird. I haven't touched any other settings (other than updated imagegrablite). Not sure what to say. I'll change the update time to another few minutes and see if i get an issue.

[mvallevand]

I'm not sure if it is related by I have an HDHR which I use for testing from VM's and yesterday I did an OTA EPG update (man, 1 min per channel is slooow) and then shutdown the VM. Later on I went to use the SiliconDust viewer to check a signal and tried to use the device and the tuner said it was locked by the VM server's IP.

Martin

[gEd]

I suspect restarting the recording service (after changing the EPG update time) is preventing the error from reproducing.

[Lao Pan]

@Lao
Do u have something set to record when your epg updates? My computer is always on and i have epg update set at 3am. Nothing is set to record until the evenings. Just trying to understand how unticking update during live tv would fix it.

Just realized the first 2 days when I had the problem Computer was on but we had just finished watching Live TV 5 mins before the update at 05:15 hrs to go to work.
These last 2 days when all is OK the Computer has woken for the update.
And also had the 3 patches installed.