Same channels are added to channel list with every reload

[h00ch]

Since installing the latest version of GBPVR (from scratch since update didn't work for me), my list of channels gets duplicated every time I update with Zap2It. I get 75 channels in my area. Every day my channel list grows by 75 channels. I currently have 300 channels in my list. The original 75 in numerical order, then 3 more sets of the same 75 channels but in no order at all. Any ideas what's happening here? Do I need to re-install GBPVR?

[sub]

Can you zip and attach your logs so I can take a look?

[GoodGuys]

I had this kind of thing happen to me (i.e. seeing all channels duplicating themselves) too.
However, in my case, this only happened once - i.e. I have about 45 channels on some capture source, and something bad I did (see below) caused them to appear twice. They did not appear 3 or 4 times, though.
This happened when the XMLTV file suddenly had a few extra TAB character in front (and after) the channel display name compared to the previous run, like this:

Code:

<channel id="1.tv2day.co.il">        
    <display-name>            YES 1        </display-name>        
</channel>

In the previous run it was like this:

Code:

<channel id="1.tv2day.co.il">        
<display-name>YES 1</display-name>        
</channel>

Then all channels suddenly appeared again in the capture source's channel list.

How did I do this to myself? Simple. I wrote a Python script that splits programm titles into show-name and episode number better than my grabber. Only I used Python's pretty-xml output option, which added these extra TABs. Reverting to simple XML output from the Python script fixed it, but I had to manually go and delete these channels.

The net result was the fact that in the TV Guide I simply saw 2 sets of channels.

I don't know if this is related at all, though.

Sub - does GBPVR not strip leading and trailing whitespace? The script I mention also did this to the show names, descriptions, etc. The TV Guide appeared to be empty at first glance because it mostly showed the TABs and clipped the show name before it could display any visible characters...

GGF

[Jim_]

I’ve only run into this one time and haven’t looked into it very far, so this is just a guess and could be way off…
I had the same problem when re-using the same exact xmltv file two days in a row. And I use a utility that verifies the channel lineup header has not changed in any way.

It appears that if 97.7 (in an automatic update only) ever receives data from zap2it that contains listing information from the previous day, or uses yesterdays xmltv file, it can add channels to the bottom of the existing lineup.
This may end up being a nasty bug that most people will run into eventually.

Try this.
Add a few pending recordings.
Go into GBPVR config and empty your EPG source, then click ok until you exit config with an empty EPG.
Open the GBPVR app and look at your TV Guide, all the channels (now empty)will be there, but are they still in the proper order?
I'll do a little more testing when I get a chance.

[Jim_]

I’ve only run into this one time and haven’t looked into it very far, so this is just a guess and could be way off…

I was way off in part, so.... My Bad. :o
I did a little more testing and found that I had unknowingly left duplicate channels in config, after testing various ways that an epg update could fail.

If duplicate unused channels are listed in config, epg updates can be very problematic under various conditions, including using yesterdays valid xmltv file.
After the duplicate channels were removed from the config channel list, I had no problems updating the epg using an outdated file.

So, if you ever have a duplicate channel problem.
Open gbpvr config and remove them from your channel list or you could have problems in the future, for no apparent reason.

[Jim_]

Sub, I’ve noticed some undocumented commands floating around the board like “GBPVR –removeallgenre” is there one for removing all channels (or all unreferenced) from the db?

TIA!
Jim

[Jim_]

Sub, I’ve noticed some undocumented commands floating around the board like “GBPVR –removeallgenre” is there one for removing all channels (or all unreferenced) from the db?

TIA!
Jim

bump

[sub]

Sub, I’ve noticed some undocumented commands floating around the board like “GBPVR –removeallgenre” is there one for removing all channels (or all unreferenced) from the db?

TIA!
Jim

No there isnt.

[h00ch]

Sorry I didn't reply sooner... I bought a new 250GB HD for my PVR PC so I re-installed Windows and started from scratch. I'm not having the duplicate entries problem anymore. I think it may have started after installing the channel logo tool, but I'm not sure about the timing of the problem starting...