EPG Problem?

[Firetoad]

I looked around but hadn't seen anything covering the specific problem I am having this evening (it is very likely that my gbpvr search-fu is poor). I am running the latest edition of GBPVR and have an EPG subscription with SchedulesDirect. I noticed that some of my channel listing was incorrect because my SchedulesDirect lineup was not accurate. I fixed the SchedulesDirect lineup, dumped my existing EPG, existing GBPVR Channel Listing and redownloaded the Schedules Direct lineup. After doing this, I found that my Channel Listing in the Config program was spot on and read exactly as my subscribed Dish Network channels are. However, when I open up the TV guide, I find that the channels and programming schedule is not even close to my SchedulesDirect lineup or the Channel Listing in the Config program. When I say not even close, I seriously mean that the call letters and show schedule is way off in left field.

Does anyone have an idea of what is going on? I would think that it is a EPG data problem, but if that is the case, how was the Channel Listing in the Config program correctly populated? Any ideas?

[Firetoad]

To add further to this, I noticed that although the TV Guide is not even close and the channel numbers are wrong, the call stations/program information is correct. Also, whenever I choose one of the wrong channel numbers, the IR blaster changes the set top box to the correct channel according the call sign/program guide (but not the channel number). Here is an example:

-In the Config app, the channel listing shows channel 172 as DISN (Disney)
-In the TV Guide in GBPVR (using Community Skin), channel 172 does not show up at all. But, channel 285 in the TV Guide shows as DISN. When I select channel 285 to watch from the TV Guide, the set-top box tunes to channel 172 (the actual DISN channel). If I channel up or down it moves to the next channel on the TV Guide, but not necessarily the next actual numerically as seen by the set-top box.

I am personally at a loss here. It may be something very simple, but I haven't figured it out yet. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

[Firetoad]

I pulled the raw EPG data and all seems just fine there. So, it appears to be somewhere in GBPVR. Here are some snippets to illustrate what the EPG data shows for the example above:



<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE tv SYSTEM "xmltv.dtd">

<tv source-info-url="http://www.schedulesdirect.org/" source-info-name="Schedules Direct" generator-info-name="XMLTV/$Id: tv_grab_na_dd.in,v 1.76 2009/07/28 04:47:22 rmeden Exp $" generator-info-url="http://www.xmltv.org/">
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<channel id="I10171.labs.zap2it.com">
<display-name>172 DISN</display-name>
<display-name>172 DISN DISH609:-</display-name>
<display-name>172</display-name>
<display-name>DISN</display-name>
<display-name>Disney Channel</display-name>
<display-name>Satellite</display-name>
</channel>
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<channel id="I51348.labs.zap2it.com">
<display-name>285 PREV5</display-name>
<display-name>285 PREV5 DISH609:-</display-name>
<display-name>285</display-name>
<display-name>PREV5</display-name>
<display-name>Preview5</display-name>
<display-name>Cablecast</display-name>
</channel>
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<programme start="20100213003000 -0600" stop="20100213010000 -0600" channel="I10171.labs.zap2it.com">
<title lang="en">Kim Possible</title>
<sub-title lang="en">Grande Size Me</sub-title>
<desc lang="en">Ron's Bueno Nacho diet has a nasty side effect.</desc>
<credits>
<director>Chris Bailey</director>
<actor>Christy Carlson Romano</actor>
<actor>Will Friedle</actor>
<actor>Gary Cole</actor>
<actor>Jean Smart</actor>
<actor>Shaun Fleming</actor>
<actor>Tahj Mowry</actor>
<actor>Nancy Cartwright</actor>
<actor>Kirsten Storms</actor>
</credits>
<date>20070303</date>
<category lang="en">Children</category>
<category lang="en">Animated</category>
<category lang="en">Action</category>
<category lang="en">Adventure</category>
<category lang="en">Comedy</category>
<category lang="en">Series</category>
<episode-num system="dd_progid">EP00508607.0092</episode-num>
<episode-num system="onscreen">407</episode-num>
<audio>
<stereo>stereo</stereo>
</audio>
<previously-shown start="20070303000000" />
<subtitles type="teletext" />
<rating system="VCHIP">
<value>TV-G</value>
</rating>
</programme>
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<programme start="20100213010000 -0600" stop="20100213050000 -0600" channel="I51348.labs.zap2it.com">
<title lang="en">Preview5</title>
<category lang="en">Special</category>
<category lang="en">Entertainment</category>
<category lang="en">Special</category>
<episode-num system="dd_progid">SH00850596.0000</episode-num>
<previously-shown />
</programme>

[sub]

I'd start again from an empty database. ie, delete the gbpvr.db3 file, then run the config app and setup the capture source from scratch.

(back up the gbpvr.db3 file beforehand if you want the ability to go back to the old database after this experiement)

[Firetoad]

That did the trick sub! Thank you very much! As I thought, the solution would be simple.

BTW, PP donation on the way! Thanks for such a great product!