Cant load EPG (Zap2It)

[mattyboy]

My account is fine, and I even opened a second just to confirm it, but I cannot get the programming guide loaded. All I get after it seems to trying to download the guide is this message box (below).
I read that its going to be over soon, but not until September '07.
Any ideas, or alternate methods that are just as simple to use?
Because without the Zap2it service, as far as I can see, GBPVR is useless and won't work. I can't even use the tuning assistant and then watch the channels it finds, it still just tells me that the EPG is not set up.
I'm in Canada BTW so if there is another service that I can use, I'd appriciate hearing about it.
Thanks in advance.

[gangaskan]

you're not the only one everyone is having issues with ZAP2IT

[mattyboy]

Rats, then I guess we are ALL out of luck now!

[sub]

Its only a temporary problem. I'm sure it'll be fixed sometime today.

[Spamdini]

From the Zap2it forums -

Hey. I haven't posted here in a loooooong time...

Thought I would let you guys know that there's been a database problem throughout the weekend on the database used to store user lineup information. You may have been getting this application error:

Code:
Your previously selected lineup is no longer valid and has been automatically deleted.
Please add a lineup!


...which accounts for a specific exception scenario when the application queries the user lineups table. Your lineups have not been deleted; it's just the code is interpreting the exception this way.

You also might have gotten a message telling you to add a lineup, as if you'd never had one on your account. Well, bottom line is: things will be back to normal when the database stuff is fixed, and your lineup info has not been lost.

Things will hopefully be back to normal later today as we switch to a backup and fix issues on the production server.

On an unrelated note, I've been monitoring things in the Myth and XMLTV forums (and others) and hope there's a way for you guys to work everything out with the listings data. I have confidence in you all. Smile

Pretty soon, I won't be around even peripherally. Best of luck to everyone.. it's been good. I'm really impressed with everything the Zap2it Labs community has cooked up. I don't think we ever anticipated all of this. I miss Zap2it Labs. Smile

Good luck. I'll see ya when I see ya.
_________________
- Tom
FORMER! Zap2it Labs forum and customer service manager

[Niskyspy]

Yep, I have the same exact problem. Too bad because I just got gbpvr installed the first time and got WinTV-PVR150 just to use the program and the EPG doesn't work . I guess I'll put in some channels manually just to play around with the program and see how it works.

[sub]

They've said its a temporary database problem and it'll be resolved today, though as the post indicates above, you might need to check your channel lineup at http://labs.zap2it.com if the problem persists.

[Mad Professor]

Same here, I've emptied my EPG and tried to update, only to get an error about it not being configured.

And I'm still using 0.96 of GB-PVR.

LOL




Zap2it is dying, I had trouble renewing the service a few days ago kept running into 403 and 404's all over the site.

I guess it time to start looking for alternative.

[sub]

Its just temporary. It'll be fixed later today.

[Mad Professor]

BBBBBUUUUUTTT, You said that 4 hours ago.

lol.