Scheduled Zap2It EPG update failing

[doug1971]

My daily EPG update appears to be failing every day. I'm running 98.8b, and have converted the DB. I was pulling 12 days of data, but dropped that to 7 now and it's still failing. Here's a snippet from my GBPVRRecordingService.exe.log file:

10/4/2006 7:37:50 AM.671 VERBOSE [10] zap2it: Your subscription will expire: 2006-12-31T19:59:03Z
10/4/2006 7:37:51 AM.984 VERBOSE [10] Error updating EPG Source (Millennium): System.Xml.XmlException: Unexpected XML declaration. The XML declaration must be the first node in the document, and no white space characters are allowed to appear before it. Line 489051, position 3.
at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.Throw(Exception e)
at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.Throw(String res, String arg)
at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.ParsePI(BufferBuilder piInDtdStringBuilder)
at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.ParseElementContent()
at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.Read()
at System.Xml.XmlTextReader.Read()
at GBPVR.Backend.Common.Zap2itEpgReader.x7174d5399cba81ee(IEpgUpdateProgressCallback x421ce789b9741187, DateTime xdc88f59e43b65f7f, DateTime x33db96d2cea26583)
at GBPVR.Backend.Common.Zap2itEpgReader.LoadChannels(IEpgUpdateProgressCallback callback)
at GBPVR.RecordingService.xa9e17cce0eee6a7a.x52e8ddd0b9bc8c68()
10/4/2006 7:37:51 AM.984 VERBOSE [10] Skipping EmptyEPG, since not all EPG updates were successful...
10/4/2006 7:37:51 AM.984 VERBOSE [10] handling any season recordings

Thanks.

Doug

[sub]

It looks like there is some garbage on line 489051, position 3, of the data returned from zap2it. If you set <SaveZap2itXML>true</SaveZap2itXML> in config.xml, then do the EPG update again. It'll save the zap2it response to c:\zap2it.xml.

I have to say though, that is a ridiculous number of lines - nearly half a million. How many channels do you have in your zap2it lineup, and are you sure you really need them all? If there is channels you dont watch, remove them from your channel lineup.

[doug1971]

Good point. I checked my "checked" channels, and suprisingly, all of my 90 or so channels (on basic cable) were selected. I pared it down to about 45 and will try again. Will follow-up with results. Thanks.

Doug

[doug1971]

After reducing the number of channels and updating at 4:00 (EDT), the problem seems to have disappeared. Thanks Sub!

Doug