Missing EPG entries

[Heuer]

I am using latest version of NPVR with a dual TBS DVB-S2 card which has been running satisfactorily until I updated too .04. I am now seeing gaps appearing in the EPG and even after I manually run an EPG update some channels return but others become blank:


After running a manual update:


I have tried emptying the EPG and manually running it again which does usually fill the listings but they then start to disappear over time. I also get small square boxes at either end of some listings (see Film 4 'Maze runner' for aan example). Logs attached.

Thanks for any help.

  logs-20200512-1728.zip (Size: 1.38 MB / Downloads: 4)

[sub]

Maybe try this updated NShared.dll:

https://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.ph...#pid539936

[Heuer]

Yes, thank you, that appears to fix things.

I still have the small squares before and after the program name for the first couple of hours of the EPG but entries after that are OK.

[sub]

For the small squares, if you wanted to use the evaluation version of TSCapture (https://tscapture.com) to capture a 1 minute full transport stream of that channel, and put the file somewhere like onedrive or dropbox, and let me know the download link, then I'll check it out.

[mvallevand]

Yes there are a lot of these "\u0086Maze Runner\u0087" for various shows which seem to be highlight characters.

Martin

[sub]

Yeah, could be something like that.

Heuer, if you can supply either that full transport stream, or your npvr.db, I should be able to fix it.

[sub]

Actually, you could see if this updated NShared.dll fixes it. You'll need to do an Empty EPG followed by an Update EPG.

[Heuer]

Yes, that fixed it. Many thanks!

[Heuer]

This has come back to haunt me! Yesterday morning there were blanks against some channels (I only have 12) but I found if I ran a manual update they would be filled in apart from BBC 1 which came back after a second manual update. With a full week of EPG I was confident everything was OK until last night at just past 9 PM when I found the EPG had no listings prior to 10 PM (thus one program failed to record). I decided to run a manual scan which brought everything up to date but scattered through the rest of the EPG were instances of "no information available". I left it like that and this morning after the scheduled EPG update at 2:44 AM the EPG was back to normal.

I have Emby running an EPG update at 4 AM and 8 PM but I can't think the plugin would destroy the NPVR EPG. Logs attached but happy to provide a copy of my database or run TSCapture if that helps. I have tried emptying the EPG, restarting the NPVR server and rebooting the PC.


  logs-20200516-1149.zip (Size: 788.51 KB / Downloads: 2)

[sub]

You could try increasing <EPGScanSeconds> in the config.xml to see if it helps with gaps.