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Manually Injecting Custom EPG Data into NPVR

Manually Injecting Custom EPG Data into NPVR
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2018-10-29, 12:55 PM
One issue I'm hoping this will help other NPVR users.

Is there a way to inject a customized EPG data file into NPVR?

Often times EPG data downloaded ends up scrambling and assigning the shows to the wrong channel. So I end up clearing the EPG data constantly to fix it.

I think a better option might be to create your own EPG data and inject it manually and avoid using the EPG Auto Update and keeping it permanently disabled.

How would one create their own EPG data similar to the Zap2it TV style produces or one that NPVR understands?

Can NVPR support a ASCII text type of injection standard so it can be modified by the user before injection using Notepad or even EDIT.COM?

Since the EPG data also describes the name of the TV show I'd like to add the Channel Station Prefix manually in front of the TV show name so it's more clear of the source channel of the recording rather than just the TV show title and time marker.

Since I know what shows are statically occurring and never changing can NVPR prevent auto updates of specifics time slots from getting overwritten or replaced when using EPG Auto Update?

Examples are some Morning News which remains constant day to day the same hours so I don't see the need for EPG data to overwrite these time slots as sometimes it can't find the show and remains blank or mistakingly mixes up the channel lineup.
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2018-10-29, 01:25 PM
I have used Schedules Direct for years and cannot recall one instance of scrambled data or NextPVR assigning the wrong channel. It has been recommended to.you b before and is well worth your two dollars a month

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2018-10-29, 03:09 PM
DVRMultiStreamer Wrote:Is there a way to inject a customized EPG data file into NPVR?
You can certainly do that with xmltv. It's just a text file, and you get to edit it anyway you want before the listings are imported into NextPVR.

Quote:Often times EPG data downloaded ends up scrambling and assigning the shows to the wrong channel. So I end up clearing the EPG data constantly to fix it.
I assume you mean this is some problem with whatever you're using to download your EPG, since I've never seen any reports of this problem?

Quote:I think a better option might be to create your own EPG data and inject it manually and avoid using the EPG Auto Update and keeping it permanently disabled.

How would one create their own EPG data similar to the Zap2it TV style produces or one that NPVR understands?
As mentioned, you can do this with xmltv - it just has to follow the xmltv standard described here http://wiki.xmltv.org/index.php/XMLTVFormat
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