No EPG Data in TVHeadend
Added by Pistachio Del Monte over 9 years ago
TVHeadEnd has been working wonderfully for me for a couple months as a backend on a Raspberry Pi 2. Suddenly however, I am no longer receiving EPG data. I am not sure where the issue lies. I am using mc2xml to download the xmltv file for all my channels. Looking at the xml file, I can see that it has all the channel and program data in it. I am also using tv_grab_file to pull that xmltv data into TVHeadEnd. I then mapped all EPG data to the channels I have. After that however, there is no TV listings in the EPG tab. Not sure why it stopped working. It was working just fine and I didn't make any changes and it stopped working.
I tried deleting the epgdb.v2 file (I'm assuming that's the EPG database) and then restarted the tvheadend services. I deleted all the channel files that get created after the xmltv file is read. On the channel mappings tab I can click the dropdown box and select the channel from the xmltv file that correlates with the actual tv channel, so I know it pulled the data from the xmltv file. Not sure what else I can do to test.
The debug info at the bottom when it runs the tv_grab_file shows that it read 125 channels from the xmltv file. But nothing shows up in the EPG tab. I noticed in another forum thread someone had a mistype in the xmltv file that used 'end' instead of 'stop' in the programme parameter, but I checked my xmltv file and that's not the case with mine. It properly uses 'stop'.
Any ideas? Any way I can maybe reset my EPG and start from scratch outside of what I've already tried?
Thanks.
Replies (2)
RE: No EPG Data in TVHeadend - Added by Sean Micklem over 9 years ago
mc2xml stopped working due to a change in providers by Microsoft. See the long thread at http://www.thegreenbutton.tv/forums/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=8903 for details.
To continue to get free listings, you need to switch to zap2xml (http://zap2xml.awardspace.info/). It is a Perl script and therefore requires that Perl be installed on your system.
RE: No EPG Data in TVHeadend - Added by Pistachio Del Monte over 9 years ago
Thanks so much for the headsup. I was thinking about switching to zap2xmp, but I wasn't sure if that was where the issue lied.