There are many different ways to populate your EPG (via internet data and data received by your TV tuner).The best method depends on your TV Card, region, Service Provider and the quality of data available. Having a reliable EPG makes your TV experience more like a commercial set top box (e.g. The Electronic Program Guide (EPG) is one of the most important parts of the MediaPortal 2 TV system. I may not bring the most skills but with six Vista Media Centres still rolling along, an EPG solution for the long term is near and dear to my heart and wallet.How to get EPG (Electronic Program Guide) data for your TV Guide in MediaPortal 2 Methods Feel free to contact me if you need someone to be cannon fodder to test potential solutions. I'm great at following instructions and reporting results. Volunteering that backwater computer as a guinea pig to be thrashed repeatedly for the cause. I would be happy to sign on for any effort to make this work. Since my programming skills are worth about $0.05 (or less) per hour this was more a "shot in the dark" than a pioneering effort by a trailblazer. I was hoping that this was potentially solid ground and a long term solution.įortunately/unfortunately Microsoft (Rovi) data unexpectedly returned to spoil that party. Vista end of life update support a couple of months out means I'm scrambling to keep the boat from sinking. What did I have to lose?īased on reports that Play Ready installation means that it is using the equivalent of Win7/Win8 guide data. I was becoming desperate enough to try just about anything to keep TiVoPrincess happy. Trying a "hailmary" as Microsoft provided data was basically expiring in a few hours. still have generic program descriptions for the Disney Channel. I mostly saw it with Disney Channel and PBS secondary channels. earlier there was a large problem with generic program descriptions and wrong times. Just going by some of the programs we record, there is some improvement in data quality. If only there were a way we could replace that MS/Rovi junk with something more accurate and reliable. These types of issues are starting to get old. Then in the guide, Once you list a Movie, the picture/cover art is 95% of the time wrong and a totally different image that the movie listed. A few odd ball shows are not showing as New episodes, so it's not recording them. They are showed in the "Scheduled recordings" listing as 2 recordings (only NEW episodes are set for this). For example on Discovery channel (any channel with east/west shows, discovery, TLC, HGTV, etc), new shows, for example, show up at 8PM, media center will record it with no errors but, it comes on the west coast feed at 11pm, it will record that one as well. Vista ain't dead yet, and we deserve ongoing support for "Project Longhorn" as promised.ĭavidinCT wrote:Over the last few months, recording duplicates started happing. WAF has always hovered around 7.5/10 but without guide data it will be a 0/10 in about a minute once General Hospital does not get recorded. Suppose that I'm going to be trying other things in a hurry if the drought of guide data goes more than a day or two. TiVoPrincess still prefers the Vista menus, once they are stripped down using MC Menu Mender over every option I have been able to present to her. Previous incidents would indicate that Microsoft only responds to issues once the public is alerting the media. Microsoft will be hearing from me on each installation that is no longer receiving data. Additionally distressing is the lack of guide data beyond 7PM Eastern time 07FEB2017. This might explain the database not recording if the data indicates not a new episode.Īpparently Rovi has the correct data but for unknown reasons it is not getting delivered to WMC. OTOH Vista Media Centre has only general series information instead of episode specific data. I'm comparing Rovi data on my long suffering TiVo Series3, and it is normal Rovi data, with specific episode information that I am familiar with.
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