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Funny you should mention this because I have a Topfield 7100+ and for the very first time yesterday we started the PVR and had no EPG data at all. Restarted it and the EPG came back. I have never seen this before in the 18 months I have been using it + ICE. Could there be ICE website/data problems recently?

Updated app today and seems to work, can view guide, set timers, etc on my HP Touchpad running Android 4.0.3/ICS. Previous version would not start.

Dave, my problem was that I could not get timers to download at all on that new firmware, at least for the few hours I tried. Then the advice from the moderator (jpp) to me on that thread was "The short of it is that it has proven unreliable wrt timers getting through so I am recommending that unless you are experiencing reboot issues, you stick with the Mar 2011 FW" (he was erroneously referring to the 2400 reboot problem and the 2400 Mar 2011 firmware btw, but his point was that the new firmware was unreliable for timers).

Given your advice, I may try the new firmware again. Can you please clarify a couple of points you make. When you say "turn off" the Topfield, do you mean switch it off to normal standby mode, or do you mean fully power it off once per day? Also, what is the "IceTV menu" Do you mean press the red button when I am in the IceTV Guide display, or when in the IceTV configuration screen?

Madeleine, I updated to that Nov 2011 firmware about the day it was released for the 7100+ but had massive problems with ICETV (like nearly everybody else who has tried these latest firmwares on their 2400/2460 and 7100+) so I put the previous (Jan-2010) version back. Read about my experience and the moderators comments at http://www.itopfield.com.au/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3753&title=23-november-2011-firmware.

I have been getting invalid/inconsistent ICE guide data lately. E.g. late yesterday my wife complained that Days of our Lives (don't ask!) on 9 did not record that day and was also not scheduled for today. I checked the ICE guide for today and it had a yellow exclamation. On checking the guide data in my Topfield 7100+ I found Days shown for 2 to 3pm and an invalid entry for the cricket for 2.30 to 3pm on the same channel. Presumably this is why the yellow exclamation was presented. The ICE site guide was correct and only showed Days from 2 to 3pm, no cricket. I disabled ICE, restarted, and checked the FTA guide on my PVR which was now ok. Then enabled ICE again, restarted, and found the ICE data still showing the invalid cricket entry.

Something like this, with different programs but with conflicting start/end times, happened about a week ago also as I described here http://www.itopfield.com.au/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3814&PID=37309&title=now-next-comes-and-goes#37309. Brisbane, Topfield 7100+, Jan 2010 firmware. Looks like an error in the Brisbane ICE data to me?

I'm with Madeleine on this. I really don't think its worth IceTV's effort.

But it takes naf-all effort to put *something* into the TV4ME slots. At the moment we bring up the guide display and get a complete gaping hole for the TV4Me channel which looks like crap. Even a generic message repeated every hour or two would look better and give comfort to the end-user that his guide is at least working.

This once again highlights the obvious difficiency in ICE's implementation, at least on the topfield. End-users should be able to select some channels to use FTA guide data, e.g. here where ICE can not be bothered providing any data.

The really weird thing is that with the 7100+, while I occasionally get a missed download of a series timer, those timers are subsequently fetched. Both firmware are dated 23 November, ..

The latest firmware for the 7100+ from the topfield site is 06-Jan-2011. What firmware are you running?

At this stage, the firmware will only be for the 2400 and the 2460.

I purchased my 7100+ direct from ICETV only 12 months ago. Given that it is essentially the same firmware as the 2400/2460 then I hope you will try to convince Topfield to apply the pending fixes to the 7100+ also.

We have been working with Topfield Korea daily for the last 4 months on a new firmware that will address this issue (and many more). The firmware is currently going through final QA and beta testing and should be available soon.

Thanks for the response Luke. So I will get an updated firmware on my 7100+, as well as the other TMS ICE-capable models (2400 & 2460)?

Example, X-Factor set up as a series recording, initially showed to start at 7:30pm, but then changed to 7:35pm. This then forces the yellow triangle on the guide and it doesn't record. Topfield 2460, and is happening quite often ..

Yes, this is happening more often now. Big Bang last night in Brisbane was changed from 8.30 to 8.35 and no timer was set although I did catch a yellow exclamation on the web site when I checked why it had not started recording on my 7100+. With programs being changed more often now, this is something that needs fixing asap.

GEM is often wrong too.
Like now in Melb. there is some movie (Chocolat) but according to IceTV guide its Megacities documentary.

Same problem in Brisbane. ICE guide accuracy seems to be struggling lately.  :(

Oh no ...  :-\

Dave, your expression still captures heaps of junk which the regular footy viewer is not interested in (and probably misses games they are?). I don't think any text based match expression can capture what I am saying regular footy viewers want. Unfortunately I think it probably needs explicit tagging by ICE with a "pseudo-keyword" for NRL plus representative games. So TFH I guess ..

Would that work for you?

Madeleine, I am not posting here particularly for myself. I am interested in the long term viability of ICETV and make posts like this merely because I think this another example where ICE could do better. I am suggesting to ICE that the vast majority of ICE subscribers who watch RL really only want the NRL games and representative games (SOW, internationals, etc). So personally I think that a simple "rugby league:" keyword tag should catch those games and not all the other rubbish (no Qld/local cup, no footy talk shows, etc) given that this is the "obvious" keyword search to set up for this. Or else ICE should publish a list of special keyword sets for each of the footy (and other sports?) codes at the start of each year and post that out in an email newsletter? I really think the Rugby L, Rugby U, and AFL sport are special cases which ICE should deal better with given they have such relatively enormous following in Oz. I miss a few top RL games per season because I don't bother to keep on top of the tag/titles changes and I bet plenty of others do also. There has to be a better way than the way it works now.

Keyword record for title:"Rugby League".

Sorry, but you must have missed the second paragraph of my post.