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bump.... it just happend again.... i updated to latest git master... and suddenly some of the channels just don't get any epg data/update anymore... mostly channels with "HD" in their name.

This was working fine for about 2 weeks without any changes to the configuration.

Is there a way i can debug and dig into this deeper ?

Bump... it gets more worse after a few days.... i'm not asking to solve my problem... but at least some information where i could look for possible causes ?

Thanks

Not what you want to hear, but I seem to have this as well - I've been running on my old epgdb file since I upgraded to master (3.3.461~g0fd2aaf-dirty), so I didn't notice immediately that it seemingly wasn't being updated any more. But now I've noticed that some channels (including SD ones) seem to end at midnight tonight.

I switched on OpenTV - Sky UK and within a few minutes I had another 30,000 entries in my EPG. So it does look like some of the OTA feeds aren't working properly (in my case, I had Freesat UK, Freeview UK and EIT all enabled).

I don't think that there have been any significant commits since this git version, but I'll look backwards in the history if I get a chance, see if anything has changed in the EIT code.

Prof Yaffle wrote:

Not what you want to hear, but I seem to have this as well - I've been running on my old epgdb file since I upgraded to master (3.3.461~g0fd2aaf-dirty), so I didn't notice immediately that it seemingly wasn't being updated any more. But now I've noticed that some channels (including SD ones) seem to end at midnight tonight.

I switched on OpenTV - Sky UK and within a few minutes I had another 30,000 entries in my EPG. So it does look like some of the OTA feeds aren't working properly (in my case, I had Freesat UK, Freeview UK and EIT all enabled).

I don't think that there have been any significant commits since this git version, but I'll look backwards in the history if I get a chance, see if anything has changed in the EIT code.

Well... i'm actualy glad... that i'm not the only one ! I've lost EPG information for almost all Channels by now (HD and SD Channels)... only a few Channels still receive OTA EIT EPG.

Interestingly... I tried to apply xmltv feeds to those channels with missing OTA EPG.... but even then... no EPG information (i don't know if xmltv information ever worked though!)

I'm currently on: 3.3.465~g79c134f

I'm up to over 65,000 events now - from 12,000 before I switched OpenTV on - so there's clearly something wrong.

If you've never used XMLTV, remember that you need to configure it before it works, and it then does take some time to get all of the events. Don't give up hope just yet...!

All I can immediately suggest is that you move back through the code, looking for changes to epggrab, pull that code version and compile it, and see if the problem goes away. At least that would nail it down to a particular commit. From your timing ("it was working about two weeks ago" about 26 days ago - so maybe 40 days back, so perhaps very early January onwards?), there are only three commits that claim to touch EPG or EIT, so that'd be a place to start. Either that or a binary split: try 01/01 and see if it works, then split the date to (say) three weeks after that, and go from there to see what's likely.

The other thought (which I'll check for myself) is to make sure that any relevant muxes/services which may carry the EPG have been found, and add them manually if not.