[ET10x00] CrossEPG

[IAmATeaf]

I’ve always used crossepg for my sky channels but with the recent update to 5.3 I can’t find it. I have looked through every menu option. Can anybody help please?

 

[twol]

Either use EPG-refresh which is the installed plugin (Google for why this now used in Vix) or download Crossepg from the feeds

 

[abu baniaz]

it is no longer pre-installed, you have to install it. it is listed under system plugins

 

[IAmATeaf]

Cheers, I did actually look at the 5.3 release thread and found the link to Abus’ guide for EPGRefresh.

 

[IAmATeaf]

I did a search for reasons why but couldn’t find anything, mind posting a link so I can have a read?

 

[abu baniaz]

There are a few bugs. they don't affect those using 28.2 only.

People now have 5 ways of obtaining EPG for Sky.

I am not a fan of EPG refresh. You get locked up if it runs while you are doing an update. I schedule recordings and delete them.

Bit poor having to use a plugin for a fake recording timer.

 

[IAmATeaf]

Trying epg refresh, if it works then I’ll leave it. With crossepg the biggest issue I had was having to periodically delete the database files as they’d just keep on growing.

 

[abu baniaz]

That is one of the bugs

See this thread
https://www.world-of-satellite.com/...fresh-plugin-to-obtain-the-epg-off-the-stream

and this
https://www.world-of-satellite.com/showthread.php?61751-OpenTV-EPG

 

[IAmATeaf]

I think I need with epg refresh, some days it’s fine others half the stuff is missing. I’ve set it up using the guide that Abu was kind enough to produce. Strange thing is if I do a manual refresh it seems to work.

Any hints or tips on what settings I need to get the guid for both sky and virgin cable working?

Where for example is the number of days to download, I used to have 7 days worth, now with a refresh I get 24 hours only.

 

[abu baniaz]

Where for example is the number of days to download, I used to have 7 days worth, now with a refresh I get 24 hours only.

Virgin or Sky?

If Virgin, are you zapping to a frequency/transponder that has the 5 days EPG?

 

[spanner123]

I found epg-refresh to be rubbish, went back to crossepg and it's fine.

 

[IAmATeaf]

Virgin or Sky?

If Virgin, are you zapping to a frequency/transponder that has the 5 days EPG?

I suppose I never really thought about it, had 7 days with crossepg and assumed that ego refresh did the same.

Found another thread with the same 1 day problem so I will try another channel to see if I can get 5 days worth.

 

[bbbuk]

Just checked mine and I get 7 days EPG with refresh. However, on one of those days some EPG is missing from some channels. This is just for 28.2.

On the channels with no EPG, the EPG contains (in synopsis) the phrase "d prison plane. OTT"

Update: This was setup using published guide.

 

[abu baniaz]

For Virgin, I found selecting a service on the frequency ABM uses works better.

I must stress, EPG refresh is just a channel selector/zapper

 

[bbbuk]

I think I need with epg refresh, some days it’s fine others half the stuff is missing.

Enable the option to delete EPG cache within EPGRefresh.

I've been playing with settings and found this option has so far provided EPG without things missing but this is on just 28.2.

I don't know how it would work if you have EPGRefresh obtain EPG for both 28.2 and Cable if it clears EPG first!

I like to think it would clear EPG cache first and then proceed to obtain EPG for both sources if both are setup. However, it could treat both sources as two different runs and clear EPG cache before each one. If that make sense!

 

[Joe_90]

EPGRefresh is just a channel zapper (as abu wrote in post #14). So, unless you have it configured to tune to both the SKY and the cable/terrestrial sources for EPG, then you may be left with no data for the the cable channels if you set the option to purge the EPG first. I have been using EPGRefresh and the built-in EPG reader for SKY since the facility became available. I also found issues where it was leaving gaps so I opted to use the purge EPG option and that resolved the problem. However, that left my terrestrial EPG unpopulated so I had to add a second zap in order to fill out those channels ( or just tune manually and the built-in EIT reader populated the terrestrial EPG section). In the end, I found the whole thing so fiddly I have gone back to CrossEPG which doesn't seem to leave gaps in the SKY EPG and works nicely alongside the Freesat and terrestrial data.

 

[abu baniaz]

Is anyone able to say what services are having the gaps? Not easy to fix something that is an unknown

 

[bbbuk]

I didn't think it was the exact same services.

Could it be corrupt EPG? Does EPGRefresh save current EPG first before then getting EPG from channel data? I ask because obviously flushing EPG helps I've found but if you require EPG from multiple sources, corruption appears again, from what I've read.

 

[abu baniaz]

I don't use EPG refresh to obtain EPG so can't comment.

EPG marked as corrupt will not be loaded.

 

[bbbuk]

I don't use EPG refresh to obtain EPG so can't comment.

EPG marked as corrupt will not be loaded.

I've had a quick glance at epgrefresh code EPGRefresh.py) and couldn't see anything obvious (to me) that checks for corruption. However, I can see the code for flushing.