what weve been waiting for

[lcrowhurst]

this is what weve been waiting for, legal program guide, bring it on !!

[wayfarer]

Can anyone tell me when we will be able to trial an ICE EPG service for MCE?  

[lcrowhurst]

contact peter at

peter.vogel@icetv.info

he is running a beta program

[Shane]

Found this tool which may do what we want with this data without having to install webguide/smartguide.

The postings start here:
http://www.thegreenbutton.com/community/shwmessage.aspx?ForumID=27&MessageID=89419&TopicPage=1

The latest version I have found so far (QuickGuide2005Beta1WithSource20050131.zip) is here:
http://www.thegreenbutton.com/community/shwmessage.aspx?ForumID=27&MessageID=89419&TopicPage=4

I'm going to give it a go tonight.

Regards,
Shane.

[BJReplay]

Found this tool which may do what we want with this data without having to install webguide/smartguide.

The postings start here:
http://www.thegreenbutton.com/community/shwmessage.aspx?ForumID=27&MessageID=89419&TopicPage=1

The latest version I have found so far (QuickGuide2005Beta1WithSource20050131.zip) is here:
http://www.thegreenbutton.com/community/shwmessage.aspx?ForumID=27&MessageID=89419&TopicPage=4

I'm going to give it a go tonight.

Regards,
Shane.

Shane, QuickGuide will work with the iceTV data, but doesn't map all the categories.  It will probably be a couple of days until I come up with a really robust solution to this, but in the meantime, you can always edit up your own categories.txt so that they all appear in MCE.

BJ

[Shane]

Thanks! I'm pretty damn excited about getting this going... have already altered the categories file a bit to match some of the main categories my wife and I watch... shall see how it goes!

Thanks for the good work!

Regards,
Shane.

[Shane]

Shane, QuickGuide will work with the iceTV data, but doesn't map all the categories.  It will probably be a couple of days until I come up with a really robust solution to this, but in the meantime, you can always edit up your own categories.txt so that they all appear in MCE.

BJ

I've just installed the latest version, and I get no errors at all and the excrypted XML is created, but MCE is not seeing it - I get "No Data Available" coming up next to all of my channels. If I go in to assign guide data to channels, the only option I get is to not display guide data for this channel.

Any ideas?

Regards,
Shane.

[BJReplay]

I've just installed the latest version, and I get no errors at all and the excrypted XML is created, but MCE is not seeing it - I get "No Data Available" coming up next to all of my channels. If I go in to assign guide data to channels, the only option I get is to not display guide data for this channel.

Any ideas?

Regards,
Shane.

Three thoughts - Firstly, did you run the Enable .reg file to enable the Guide in MCE (it sounds like you have, from what you say, but worth asking anyway).

Secondly, have you customised the ChannelInfo.XML file - I've attached mine (customised for Melbourne channels).  If you haven't you've probably ended up with a tiny output file - because QuickGuide skips data in the XMLTV file if there isn't an entry in ChannelInfo (because it doesn't know how to map the data in XMLTV to the internal IDs MCE is expecting).

Finally, sometimes you just need to kill all eh* processes, and go into MCE again - that can be enough to get it working, if not, kill again, run QuickGuide, and try once more, and finally, reboot and try again - but I doubt this will really help.

[Shane]

OK - doh! I had the Channel ID in the ChannelInfo.XML file as the channel description rather than the "number" that signifies the channel ID.

I then had to go into settings and assign guide data to the channels (can't set same guide data to multiple channels though, ie 1 and 10).

The Sydney ChannelInfo.XML file is attached. With the categories file you posted in the other thread, this is pretty awesome... automatic series recording based on the EPG data... very cool (reminds me of the same fuction in Tivo's I've played with when in the US).

Regards,
Shane.

[BJReplay]

Yeah, the documentation of ChannelInfo is rudimentary at best.

[Shane]

BJ,

Wondering if you are getting the same issue as me - When I get to the end of the available guide data (when the guide starts to report "No Data"), Channel Ten and SBS are looping, but not with their own data - Channel 10 for example starts to have Channel Seven data instead of "No Data" like the other channels.

Is this a config issue I have caused, a bug in the iceguide feed or something else?

Thanks,
Shane.

[BJReplay]

At the moment I'm just calling the cgi direct to get the guide, rather than using a grabber, so I haven't seen this.

[Shane]

BJ,

What do you mean by pulling the CGI directly?

Regards,
Shane.

[BJReplay]

BJ,

What do you mean by pulling the CGI directly?

Regards,
Shane.

I've got a build of QuickGuide that retrieves the guide directly (through code), rather than using webget.

However, I've seen the symptoms you mention - so I think it is a bug in the cgi or ice data - though it might also be a bug in QuickGuide.  Looking into it.

I'll let you know when I'm in a position to release a build of QuickGuide that retrieves the data direct from the icetv feed - but it won't be until there are user specific userids and password for the feed - and the ice people say it's ok to do - because otherwise it can be abused.

BJ.