Tv guide and channels all wrong

[JPW]

Guess I'll drop back to 96.12 if I still have it on my system. Bummer.

Let us know if that resolved your issue as well. I know it did for me.

[autumnmist]

Just confirming I also have this problem using 97.09. I guess I'll go back to 96.12 or something.

[terrencegf]

I, too, am experiencing this issue with v0.97.09. In an attempt to fix it, I went to my Zap2It account, deleted my lineup, and recreated it from scratch. Then I deleted my config.xml file and my gbpvr.mdb file. I started the config app and readded my two capture sources (from a Hauppauge PVR-500 card) and set up my recordings again. About 2 days later, I got all of the channels duplicated in my channel listing. The interesting thing is that the newly added channels were appended to the original channels in station-alphabetical order, rather than station-numerical order. Every time this happens, I have to go in to the Edit Recording Source dialog and remove the extra channels from the EPG, for both recording sources. Then I have to go to the Channels tab and click Remove Unreferenced Channels.

Since there doesn't appear to be a fix for this problem, it looks like I need to go back to v0.96.12. However, this version is no longer available from the gbpvr.com page. Does anybody know of an archive of old versions? I stupidly deleted my old installer file when I thought that the latest version was working. Thanks in advance!!!

[JeffElkins]

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I'm having the same problem with the .97 series.

Zap2it/US

Jeff

[JeffElkins]

Dropping back 96.12 ddid seem to fix the problem. I'll keep the link to 96.12 up for a while, if it's ok with Sub.

[Zato]

I'm having lots of issues with my TV Guide, using Zap2it (USA) and 97.9, Access DB.

The channels display in alpha order by channel name, often some channels are missing their data. I've also recorded a few shows, like "King of Queens", and when I go to watch it, it's something off the Home and Garden channel. Strange.

Right now I'm looking at my TV Guide through the web admin, and it looks fine. *shrug*

I thought this was a Zap2it problem...

[sub]

Given its only affecting zap2it users, I'm pretty sure some changes in the guides sourced from zap2it has triggered the problem. I've not looked into it yet though, so I dont know what exactly.

[Jim_]

Given its only affecting zap2it users, I'm pretty sure some changes in the guides sourced from zap2it has triggered the problem. I've not looked into it yet though, so I dont know what exactly.

Hi sub, welcome home!

Hey, I’ve “intermittently” watched problems being logged by the latest version of xmltv tv_grab_na_dd also.

I switched back to an older version of xmltv, simply because I didn’t like seeing the messages and my epg was working fine even though I had the messages.
But I loaded the latest version again today to see if I could capture a bad data file for you.
It worked, here are the files, the logs, and the errors can be recreated by using the “Reprocess.bat” included after your download xmltv from the link provided.

Hope this helps, it looks like the problem is in the (included) raw DD download.
<edit> but v96.12 works fine with the same data?<end edit>
Jim

Code:

Timezone is -0500
adding '--share=D:/xmltv/share/xmltv'
using config filename ./.xmltv/tv_grab_na_dd.conf
Fetching from DataDirect:
    dd_data is in 1.dd
    Fetched 1397 k/bytes in 24 seconds
##################################################
loading data: ##################################################
[COLOR="Red"]Writing schedule: #####video element: Argument "\x{43}\x{6f}..." isn't numeric in numeric ne (!=) at /PerlApp/XMLTV.pm line 1651.
video element: expected a Perl boolean like 0 or 1, not 'Color and B & W'
video element: Argument "\x{43}\x{6f}..." isn't numeric in numeric ne (!=) at /PerlApp/XMLTV.pm line 1651.
video element: expected a Perl boolean like 0 or 1, not 'Color and B & W'[/COLOR]
#############################################
MESSAGE FROM DATA DIRECT: Your subscription will expire: 2006-08-16T08:55:40Z
Downloaded 1632 programs in 441 seconds

[sub]

Thanks for the info, but I'm not really sure what it means.

Regardless of EPG source (zap2it plugin, xmltv plugin, DVB plugin etc), GB-PVR builds up a list of channels from that source and the shows associated with each. It then tries to save that data. It does this one channel at a time using the following process:

(1) check if channel already exists with the specified name. If not, then create it
(2) check if the current capture source has a relationship with said channel. If not, then create it
(3) save shows associated with said channel

The only step that could result in an additional channel entry being created is if step 1 fails (ie, name slightly different). This check is done by name, not channel number or any other information.

[Jim_]

I hear ya, I don’t see or understand what problem they are talking about one line “1651” either. I just don’t see anything different in notepad, unless there is an invalid character or something that notepad is not displaying.

Code:

<schedule program='SH4553980000' station='11163' time='2006-06-16T07:30:00Z' duration='PT00H30M' stereo='true'/>
[color=Red]<schedule program='SH0000010000' station='11163' time='2006-06-16T08:00:00Z' duration='PT00H30M' stereo='true'/>[/color]
<schedule program='SH0000010000' station='11163' time='2006-06-16T08:30:00Z' duration='PT00H30M' stereo='true'/>

Anyway, I didn’t know if the raw data was something you could load into GBPVR or not, but thought I’d send it over anyway.
But it is strange because some days it has the message, other times it does not.
Jim