Ok, just grab the file from
here. Just drop it into your startup folder and it will keep an eye on the registry key for you. The additional information you can get is brilliant.
Also not sure if you guys see the need, but I like to update my guide from within MCE if I've been doing some fiddling (or when the channels screw up due to the MS bug), but since we're loading data externally via the loadxmf tool, the internal MS 'Get Latest Listings' feature won't work.
So I built a MCPL application to do just that. It's fairly basic, just a single button that runs your scheduled task, but it works.
You just need to put the name of your scheduled task in the settings.xml file located in the install directory. i.e if you followed the instructions in
this thread, your settings xml would look like
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<settings>
<taskname>Update IceTV Guide</taskname>
</settings>
I haven't tested it via an extender session, and it's still only an early build (it doesn't give any real feeback that it's doing anything yet) but if people want to use it, it's
here