stuartf 6 Report post Posted February 27, 2018 Hi, I have been getting no updates for several UK channels for the past week including BBC Four (all variants). I have cleared and reloaded the schedule. For these channels I just get "To be announced" Anyone else seeing this? Stuart Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rpineau 6 Report post Posted February 27, 2018 I see the same thing and not just for UK channel. The EPG is empty after 3 days out. So much for the promise of 2 weeks of guide... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
OldGoat 17 Report post Posted March 22, 2018 Problem still exists for me in spite of bitching at GeniaTech multiple times about it. I also find that the DVB system seems to be broken also with some channels just blank. If I wasn't so happy with my Netstream 4Sat, I'd ditch EyeTV. Think I'll start looking for an alternative but other than the Gracenote being rubbish it does everything I want. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JasonH 0 Report post Posted March 24, 2018 Still happening to me with UK channels like ITV ITV3 ITV2 Challenge Film4. I find that I have to clear the EPG Guide Data, delete the EPG database file in the EYETV folder, then fetch the new data from the servers. It's a real pain to do this about once a week. My account is up for renewal in June and I'm unsure if I should renew. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
stuartf 6 Report post Posted March 24, 2018 The problem with missing schedules is still happening after yesterdays update to EyeTV There is nothing showing after next Friday for me. I used to use xmltv for my listings which was flawless and free. Unfortunately the Radio Times feed was switched off a couple of years ago and I have failed to get the xmltv coder to work with the replacement (mostly my lack of patience) Also the DVB feed has been broken for a while too, so no option at the moment that this appalling Gracenote service Stuart Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rpineau 6 Report post Posted March 24, 2018 try this : http://www.xmltv.co.uk/feeds I will not renew my guide subscription and I'm already moving to this. I have a script in my cron table that wget this file and use EyeTV to open it. bye bye Gracenote (and probably soon bye bye EyeTV seeing how things are going with the HDHomerun...). 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
stuartf 6 Report post Posted March 24, 2018 25 minutes ago, rpineau said: try this : http://www.xmltv.co.uk/feeds I will not renew my guide subscription and I'm already moving to this. I have a script in my cron table that wget this file and use EyeTV to open it. Thank you. I was aware of this site and didn't realise I could simply use the feed directly without transformation Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
OldGoat 17 Report post Posted March 25, 2018 16 hours ago, rpineau said: try this : http://www.xmltv.co.uk/feeds I will not renew my guide subscription and I'm already moving to this. I have a script in my cron table that wget this file and use EyeTV to open it. bye bye Gracenote (and probably soon bye bye EyeTV seeing how things are going with the HDHomerun...). Hi, Would you mind sharing your script and how to implement it? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JasonH 0 Report post Posted March 25, 2018 After I though that I had got it back working, the very next update from Gracenote has left gaping holes in my EPG again. Had enough. Switched back to DVB to see how I get on. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
stuartf 6 Report post Posted March 25, 2018 3 minutes ago, JasonH said: After I though that I had got it back working, the very next update from Gracenote has left gaping holes in my EPG again. Had enough. Switched back to DVB to see how I get on. Please keep us posted on your experience with DVB. When I tried it a few weeks ago I only got a few hours of updates. In the past I woudl get 7-8 days after a few hours Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rpineau 6 Report post Posted March 25, 2018 Here is my script, it's saved as xmltv_refresh.sh. You will need to change the path to wherever your EyeTV is and also wherever you put the script. Mine is in a xmltv diretory in my home directory : #!/bin/bash cd ~/xmltv wget -q http://www.xmltv.co.uk/feed/6582 -O uk.xml # load xml EPG in EyeTV /usr/bin/open -a /Applications/Video/EyeTV.app ~/xmltv/uk.xml I't s called from my crontab every night at midnight : PATH=/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/opt/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/ SHELL=/bin/bash 00 00 * * * $HOME/xmltv/xmltv_refresh.sh >/dev/null 2>&1 Rodolphe Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rpineau 6 Report post Posted March 25, 2018 apparently www.xmltv.co.uk is down today. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
OldGoat 17 Report post Posted March 26, 2018 13 hours ago, rpineau said: Here is my script, it's saved as xmltv_refresh.sh. You will need to change the path to wherever your EyeTV is and also wherever you put the script. Mine is in a xmltv diretory in my home directory : #!/bin/bash cd ~/xmltv wget -q http://www.xmltv.co.uk/feed/6582 -O uk.xml # load xml EPG in EyeTV /usr/bin/open -a /Applications/Video/EyeTV.app ~/xmltv/uk.xml I't s called from my crontab every night at midnight : PATH=/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/opt/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/ SHELL=/bin/bash 00 00 * * * $HOME/xmltv/xmltv_refresh.sh >/dev/null 2>&1 Rodolphe Rodolphe, Thanks a bunch! Have things working manually using 'curl' instead of 'wget' as 'wget' not native on OS X. xmldv.co.uk running now. Going to look at implementing using Apple Script. Will publish when working. Cheers, Old Goat Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
OldGoat 17 Report post Posted March 26, 2018 How many ways can you skin a cat? Well here's 2 more besides cron daemon: https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/MacOSX/Conceptual/BPSystemStartup/Chapters/CreatingLaunchdJobs.html https://superuser.com/questions/1253244/run-applescript-at-a-specific-second (Uses Calendar app to run AppleScript every day) I'm favouring launcd as I already have some at startup & shutdown. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rpineau 6 Report post Posted March 27, 2018 Sorry I forgot that wget is not there by default (I have MacPorts installed). Curl works perfectly indeed to get the data. Regards, Rodolphe Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
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