HDHRGuide for Windows

[mvallevand]

I don't know why you don't have coreclr.dll and hostfxr.dll installed, it looks like it is trying your old dotnet install first.

Maybe reinstall NextPVR but this time make sure you have a C:\Temp afterwards check c:\temp\install.txt for these lines

2025-01-05 19:45:05.180 [DEBUG][11] coreclr.dll
2025-01-05 19:45:06.699 [DEBUG][11] hostfxr.dll
2025-01-05 19:45:06.703 [DEBUG][11] hostpolicy.dll

Martin

[davide]

I'm almost ashamed to write this but... I didn't have the executable installed but only the zip file. The fact is that the Google search took me directly to this topic and evidently confused me a little. Luckily your suggestion to reinstall the program made me wonder if I wasn't following the correct steps. Now, having a yearly subscription with SiliconDust everything goes like a charm. I will be happy to make a donation very soon because this work is truly worth it.

[mvallevand]

OK that makes more sense. If you aren't using NextPVR you can actually just unzip NPVR.zip and you can point the XMLTV file anywhere. Then again have a look at NextPVR before you uninstall it.

Martin

[mvallevand]

I have updated post #1 to fetch 7 days of guide data for non-subscribers

Note when not using Windows unzip in the NextPVR program folder and from there run

Code:

cp NextPVRServer.runtimeconfig.json HDHRGuide.runtimeconfig.json

Martin

[mvallevand]

That isn't the HDHRGuide linked to post #1 and is not the correct syntax either.

Martin

[nobody]

I have been trying the HDHRGuide-7days version and have an improvement suggestion, add  <new \> and <previously-shown start=\> xml tags.

Change the <date> tag, to <previously-shown start=\> if no date tag as <new \> ?

Code:

<programme start="20250815230000 +0000" stop="20250816000000 +0000" channel="DSC.hdhomerun.com">
    <title>Deadliest Catch</title>
    <sub-title>Abandon All but Hope</sub-title>
    <desc>After a deadly chemical leak forces Jake to abandon ship, Keith races to locate the Titan Explorer crew and save their ailing vessel; with Sig aboard the Time Bandit, Mandy takes the Northwestern's helm for her first-ever solo king crab season.</desc>
    <date>20250806000000 +0000</date>
    <episode-num system="xmltv_ns">20 . 1 .</episode-num>
    <icon src="https://img.hdhomerun.com/titles/C185354ENNUN8.jpg" />
  </programme>

Does the Silicon Dust epg service use any other Nextpvr supported tags that could be added?

[mvallevand]

I am pretty sure <date/> is more common in XMLTV and it is used for movie years. The Silicondust app show doesn't show the data, the paid PVR guide is richer.

Note NextPVR doesn't trust all the xmltv grabbers so even having previously show won't help without a code change.

Martin

[nobody]

Without support for the <previously-shown> tag everything I recorded before I switched is marked as "new" and is set to record again, when I tried the HDHomeRunEPG-to-XmlTv grabber with the <previously-shown> tag that didn't happen, so Nextpvr does support that tag.

HDHomeRunEPG-to-XmlTv example

Code:

<programme channel="823" start="20250817090000 -0400" stop="20250817100000 -0400">
<title lang="en">Deadliest Catch</title>
<desc lang="en">After a deadly chemical leak forces Jake to abandon ship, Keith races to locate the Titan Explorer crew and save their ailing vessel; with Sig aboard the Time Bandit, Mandy takes the Northwestern's helm for her first-ever solo king crab season.</desc>
<icon src="https://img.hdhomerun.com/titles/C185354ENNUN8.jpg" />
<episode-num system="xmltv_ns">20.1.0</episode-num>
<episode-num system="onscreen">S21E02</episode-num>
<previously-shown start="20250806000000" />
<sub-title lang="en">Abandon All but Hope</sub-title>
</programme>

HDHomeRunEPG-to-XmlTv does seem to have an issue of  missing some data (subtitles, episodew numbers etc ..) sometimes, so thats why I tried HDHRGuide.

[mvallevand]

OK I will need some feedback from sub. Remember the date might be old but new to TV or that station.

Martin

[sub]

By default it assumes all listings from xmltv are new, unless it specifically has <previously-shown>. It pretty much has to behave this way to be compatible with the vast majority of xmltv files available in the world, where this info is just not available.

There is a very special case for data that comes from Schedules Direct / zap2it (identified in the xmltv file header), where it can assume all shows are old, unless they have <new> tag. This tag is not used in other xmltv files, and annoyingly is the reverse logic compared to elsewhere in the world.