Guide questions

[whurlston]

1. In Schedules Direct, make sure you have set up both lineups.
   
2. Run "xmltv tv_grab_na_dd --configure" and select your cable lineup.
   
3. Rename the ".xmltv\tv_grab_na_dd.conf" to ".xmltv\cable.conf"
   
4. Run "xmltv tv_grab_na_dd --configure" and select your DirectTV lineup.
   
5. Rename the ".xmltv\tv_grab_na_dd.conf" to ".xmltv\directtv.conf"
   
6. Create a text file called "UpdateEPG.bat" in your GBPVR program folder.
   
7. Insert the following into the batch file (change paths if necessary):
   
   Code:

   @echo off
rem Change the next two lines to the drive and path of your xmltv installation
c:
cd \EPG\xmltv

rem Copy the cable configuration to tv_grab_na_dd and run it
copy /y .xmltv\cable.conf .xmltv\tv_grab_na_dd.conf
xmltv tv_grab_na_dd --days 14 --output cable.xml

rem Copy the DirectTV configuration to tv_grab_na_dd and run it
copy /y .xmltv\directtv.conf .xmltv\tv_grab_na_dd.conf
xmltv tv_grab_na_dd --days 14 --output directtv.xml
8. Run UpdateEPG.bat to test it and make sure that cable.xml and directtv.xml are created in the xmltv install folder.
   
9. Point your cable capture source to "cable.xml"
   
10. Point your DirectTV capture source to "directtv.xml"
    

GBPVR will display all the listings together in the guide but this way you don't need to uncheck all the Direct TV channels on the cable source.

[coppelltx]

Sorry for not being more specific. I am using mc2xml for my guide source. these directions don't seem to apply as written. my current output file in my epg directory is xmltv.xml I do not see any file names .conf
HELP!

[whurlston]

these directions don't seem to apply as written.

Nope, I was going by your first post where you said you were running xmltv.exe

Instructions for mc2xml/GBPVR can be found at http://mc2xml.110mb.com/#gbpvr

See kruglov's post (#2 in the thread) for limiting the channels in the xml output. You still don't need to combine the two files if you are using two separate capture sources for DirectTV and cable though.

[whurlston]

I thought gbpvr only added channels that you had explicitly told it to map (between a tuning request and a guide entry)? So even if the guide (in the config program) listed 100 channels, gbpvr itself might only show the 10 (non-shopping channels) that you decided to map.

That is only on digital capture sources. Since there is no mapping on analog capture sources which is what coppelltx is using, all new channels get enabled automatically.

[coppelltx]

These (http://mc2xml.110mb.com/#gbpvr)directions do not tell how to set up multiple guide sources. I have hvr 1600 with qam, ntsc and a hdpvr giving me 3 sources.

[whurlston]

That, I don't know how to do because I don't use mc2xml. Someone else will have to post how to configure it for multiple lineups.

[kruglovus]

These (http://mc2xml.110mb.com/#gbpvr)directions do not tell how to set up multiple guide sources. I have hvr 1600 with qam, ntsc and a hdpvr giving me 3 sources.

In short, if you need guides for N sources (in your case, coppeltx, N=3), you need to write UpdatePRG.bat so that it runs mc2xml.exe N times and generates N xmltv.xml files, either with different names or in different folders. Then in Config->CaptureSource you point each of your sources to the respective xmltv.xml file.

I have 2 capture sources, and I run mc2xml.exe 2 times, first without parameters (mc2xml.dat, mc2xml.chl, and mx2xml.ren are automatically used when exist) to output into xmltv.xml; and second with parameters to include my custom-named qam-mc2xml.dat, qam-mc2xml.chl, and qam-mx2xml.ren to output into qam-xmltv.xml.

Here is my UpdateEPG.bat one more time:

Code:

C:
cd "C:\Program Files\devnz\GBPVR\EPG"
mc2xml
mc2xml -D qam-mc2xml.dat -o qam-xmltv.xml -R qam-mc2xml.ren -C qam-mc2xml.chl

OR you can create N folders, for example GBPVR\EPG\NTSC, GBPVR\EPG\QAM, GBPVR\EPG\HDPVR, place a copy of mc2xml.exe into each one of them, create your mc2xml.dat, mc2xml.chl, and mx2xml.ren files and your UpdateEPG.bat should look like this:

Code:

C:
cd "C:\Program Files\devnz\GBPVR\EPG\NTSC"
mc2xml
cd "C:\Program Files\devnz\GBPVR\EPG\QAM"
mc2xml
cd "C:\Program Files\devnz\GBPVR\EPG\HDPVR"
mc2xml

This is all assuming you have your GBPVR installed in default path of C:\Program Files\devnz\GBPVR

Run some tests to create your mc2xml.dat, mc2xml.chl, and mx2xml.ren files. Remember, that if mc2xml.exe finds mc2xml.dat, it no longer asks to input Zip code, country, and select channel lineup. Rename/delete it if you need to start over. Also, if mc2xml.exe finds xmltv.xml with current data, it refuses to update it. Use -f parameter (force update), or again rename/delete xmltv.xml.

[coppelltx]

Thanks, this all works. I need help with one more thing. My local channels SD in the TWC ntsc guide are 4,5,7,8,9,11,12,13,26. I get full guide data for these. However I mapped my QAM HD local channels to different channel numbers in the same guide. They are i.e 103 WFAADT is really the same guide data as channel 8. My problem is a few of the HD listings are missing guide data. I would like to do 2 things: 1. somehow copy the guide data from the SD guide info. ie 4,5,7,8,9, etc. to the HD channels where I am missing the guide data. 2. I would like to rename the HD channel #'s to corresponding local HD channel #'s i.e 4.1,5.1.8.1, etc. Can this be done via mc2xml.ren?
Thanks