[GiGaBlue QUAD+ PLUS] Regular freeze after scheduled EPG Refresh, no CrashLog, debug log confusing

[smallfrak]

Doesn't solve your issue directly, but why don't you try epgimport, rather than crossepg and see what happens?

Well, it is EPGERFRESH rather than CROSSEPG that causes the problem. Probably some quirks while zapping the channels. Certainly I tried EPGIMPORT which is much quicker than zapping through all channels and it does not occupy a tuner for that.

Unfortunately the quality of the data read by EPGIMPORT rather limited with the standard German and Austrian channels. In addition the time code is often off by a few minutes and normal zapping reads the channel EPG in addition to the already read entries from EPGIMPORT. This leads to overlapping duplicates. I could decide to not update from the channel EPG which in turn leaves me with some channels entirely without EPG, since they are missing in the EPGIMPORT data.

Even the author of EPGIMPORT states that it is not suitable for providers that have good quality EPG in the channel, as most European channels do.

So yes I did try this before and it was not really usable. However, it did not hang my box. If the data quality would be better, I would happily dump the channel EPG along with EPGREFRESH in favor of EPGIMPORT, even though I prefer things that can do their duty without relying to some voluntary service on the internet.

 

[divil_a_bit]

@smallfrak - I also own a GB QUad+ and had similar issues. "Random" crashes and hangs. I thought I could see a pattern and then a crash/hang would occur and I couldn't explain it.
Every other day the box hung sometime during the night.
Like you I tired lots of things (delete epg.dat ... etc) but no joy.

I actually own 2 GB Quad+ boxes. One is bullet proof, the other was crashing/hanging a lot.
So I took an image backup from the working box and put it on the other box ... that was a week ago. Since then I haven't had a single crash/hang.

So my suggestion - wipe the box and start again. install from fresh and setup the Quad+ again.

 

[abu baniaz]

For testing purposes, can you set normal record timers. You can delete them later. Might be easier to put them in a folder.

 

[smallfrak]

So my suggestion - wipe the box and start again. install from fresh and setup the Quad+ again.

I did a complete image restore without settings restore from the downloaded 5.0.0.13 version two weeks ago and I did configure everything new. I came here because this didn't solve the problems.

For testing purposes, can you set normal record timers. You can delete them later. Might be easier to put them in a folder.

I have scheduled regular record timers. Some during use, some during standby. I don't remember any problems with them. Since I fixed the output frequency to 50Hz I had no crashes when I zap through the channels either - usually from within the multi EPG timeline, as I had before any now and then.

I have configured EPGREFRESH to use "pseudo recording" and I tried whether PIP (visible or hidden) would make a difference - it does not. I could try to let it zap the visible channel. I'm not quite sure what this means, as the box is in standby during that time, it even has to be or the EPGREFRESH would not start by itself. So even "visible" is still "in the background without waking the TV".

I tell you tomorrow.

 

[smallfrak]

I tell you tomorrow.

It did NOT hang yesterday and it did not hang today. Instead the EPGREFRESH was finished correctly. Does this trigger some new ideas other than the obvious "leave it that way"?