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[BigMoose]

Thanks - I've not explicitly applied the patch. I clicked on the option to see if there were any updates which it didn't think there were... I'll give this a go. The other thing I've noticed is that the machine wont go to sleep now that digiguide is running. Is that normal?

[b00sfuk]

The other thing I've noticed is that the machine wont go to sleep now that digiguide is running. Is that normal?

Very unlikely related, never had any problem with sleep on my Digiguide PCs.

[BigMoose]

Which is weird as it slept fine until I installed it. Not done anything else to the machine... but good to know it should work!

[BigMoose]

Very unlikely related, never had any problem with sleep on my Digiguide PCs.

So right you are. I've quit digiguide, no sleep, quit npvr, no sleep... Hmm, so win7 has taken it on itself not to sleep any more and I have no idea why. All I've done since it worked fine was install digiguide and the dg2xml thing. Is there any way of finding out why the sodding thing wont sleep?

On the digiguide side I am still getting a mess in my EPG. I have installed the XMLTVGUI update listed above and when I run it manually I normally get around 38Mb of data file. Sometimes it fails to run at all though with log in errors. Not sure why it would be inconsistent though.

However when I then press the update EPG button in npvr it loads a seemingly random number of channels of data but no more leaving an 8Mb data file. Some of the ones it does load have overlapping data. For some reason the other day it loaded UTV and ITV Meridian data into the ITV Meridian channel (I could see some UTV local prog to tell it was UTV it merged).

Does the update EPG button cause it to run the updateEPG.bat file thus kick off another xmltvgui grab? In which case I assume this is failing. If all it is doing is loading the existing xml data file then I have no idea what is going on. Either way I cant for the life of me work out why it's not working.

Edit: just dawned on me I might be being a potential idiot. Do the channel numbers make any difference? I have numbered the channels in my own strange order, with the BBC/ITV regions of my choice near the beginning but have loads of alternatives tuned into higher numbers. When selecting the channels in digiguide loads of them have 101/103 etc with them but i've not bothered removing it as it didn't seem to matter in that I could map any xmltv channel to any tuned in channel and number it what I like in npvr. Do I need to remove all channel numbering from digiguide? Or should it make no difference that it thinks half of them are 101/103? (and in fact none of them are numbered 101/103 in npvr).

[steeb]

Hiya BigMoose,

can't answer the stuff about sleep hopefully someone else can jump in there!

Trying to work out what could be wrong with DigiGuide set up.

Not sure of the bahaviour when you updateEPG i.e. if it is calling the .bat. Perhaps temporarily remove the .bat from the equation while troubleshooting?

If the channel numbers means you have different channels with the same number then I think this would cause a major problem. Do some channels have identical numbers or are they all numbered with unique numbers?

steeb

[BigMoose]

Good idea re removing the bat - I will do that to keep it out of the equation.

I have everything uniquely numbered within npvr - in that I have done the scan and numbered all my channels as I choose. I had this working with XMLTVGUI and the RT grabber. So then I changed to the digiguide grabber and I knew that the XMLTV channels would be named differently, so went in and remapped them after creating a new xml dat file. However I completely ignored the channel numbers that Digiguide gave them assuming that since I wasn't using them it made no difference. So in Digiguide I have several numbered 101/103 (etc) that I have mapped to channels in the 9xx range in npvr (might not be 9xx, cant remember! Wherever my spare regions are). But they are all unique as far as npvr is concerned.

I notice there is an option to remove the channel numbers in Digiguide, might that make a difference?

[steeb]

Good idea re removing the bat - I will do that to keep it out of the equation.

I have everything uniquely numbered within npvr - in that I have done the scan and numbered all my channels as I choose. I had this working with XMLTVGUI and the RT grabber. So then I changed to the digiguide grabber and I knew that the XMLTV channels would be named differently, so went in and remapped them after creating a new xml dat file. However I completely ignored the channel numbers that Digiguide gave them assuming that since I wasn't using them it made no difference. So in Digiguide I have several numbered 101/103 (etc) that I have mapped to channels in the 9xx range in npvr (might not be 9xx, cant remember! Wherever my spare regions are). But they are all unique as far as npvr is concerned.

I notice there is an option to remove the channel numbers in Digiguide, might that make a difference?

Hmm let's start removing everything possible from the equation!

I am not sure but have a suspicion that if there are identical channel numbers for different channels in your DigiGuide set up then this will cause a major problem.

I have never tried removing the channel numbers in DigiGuide but there is also the option in DigiGuide to change all of the channel numbers to suit your set up. I actually had this working in GB-PVR so that once I had set the channel numbers in DigiGuide as per my GB-PVR numbering set up when I first updated my EPG GB-PVR recognised them and I didn't have to do any manual channel numbering. I haven't yet tried this with NextPVR but i do have the automatic channel numbering working with the RT data in NextPVR (it is pretty cool to import this and not have to set manually, anyway I digress )

Even though you have given unique numbers within NextPVR they may not have unique numbers within the xml data which could be why a wobbly is being thrown....

I think you need to address the channel numbering issue in DigiGuide 1st. (Tip there is a way you can test your set up with just a few channels if you would like to know).

What, if any, post-processors are you using in XMLTVGUI when you import the DigiGuide Data?

steeb

[BigMoose]

Thanks for your very useful and prompt feedback. I definitely think addressing the numbers in digiguide is the way to go. I completely forgot until after posting the above that they even had channel numbers which I chose to ignore!! The really annoying thing is I did get it to work once, which made me forget about the channel nos! Although I always had some overlapping data...

Numbering them the same as I have them numbered in npvr seems the most sensible approach. I'll remove all the regions from digiguide and set to "none" for EPG in npvr and get the most important channels working first I think then add more as I can be bothered and remember how I've numbered them.

Do you have an easier way to test a small number than removing them from digiguide and setting to no EPG in npvr??

I was running the uk_digi post processor purely to see what it did (the link didn't help explain) but turned that off in case it was making things worse (but it hasn't changed anything) and also the one that adds ep numbers and Film: etc (forget what it's called).

[steeb]

Thanks for your very useful and prompt feedback. I definitely think addressing the numbers in digiguide is the way to go. I completely forgot until after posting the above that they even had channel numbers which I chose to ignore!! The really annoying thing is I did get it to work once, which made me forget about the channel nos! Although I always had some overlapping data...

Numbering them the same as I have them numbered in npvr seems the most sensible approach. I'll remove all the regions from digiguide and set to "none" for EPG in npvr and get the most important channels working first I think then add more as I can be bothered and remember how I've numbered them.

Do you have an easier way to test a small number than removing them from digiguide and setting to no EPG in npvr??

I was running the uk_digi post processor purely to see what it did (the link didn't help explain) but turned that off in case it was making things worse (but it hasn't changed anything) and also the one that adds ep numbers and Film: etc (forget what it's called).

Hiya BigMoose,

yeh for now I would remove all options that could be causing trouble, confusing the issue. Bypass UpdateEPG.bat and don't for now use any post-processing in XMLTVGUI, just a straight grab.

There is a way you can have multiple set ups in DigiGuide which is great for test purposes.

Needs a bit of rummaging about.......

Let me know if you can be bothered to go this route, only takes about 10 mins to get right.

steeb

[BigMoose]

Numbering channels in Digiguide the same as I have them in npvr and removing the updateEPG.bat, manually running XMLTVGUI and then updating the EPG in npvr seems to work! The wife wanted to watch telly so I haven't 100% confirmed that my updateEPG.bat is still causing problems. I think numbering the channels in digiguide has solved my overlapping guide info. But not sure the updateEPG.bat is working propperly. I have proved that clicking "update EPG" does call the batch file though. Can anyone who uses digiguide via XMLTVGUI and the updateEPG.bat please post their updateEPG.bat file in case I've done something stupid?