epg on 800hd fix

[dctyper]

ok guys and girls, lets put are heads together. the epg isnt great on cable (im using gemini image at the mo) and others are having an issue too. so, why is it that the epg works great on my 500c but not my 800hdc?

is it something to do with the channel pvr_epg

to my understanding. some satellite channels send the epg down and if you want an update you just switch to that channel. am i right?

is this what pvr_epg is?

doing some reading on another forum and they talk about a 7 day epg and a file called epgfilter.xml . what is this?

i really want to get this sorted and im sure you guys do to.

any input people?

[bhoywonder1967]

Awritey mate,

I think that the lack of epg on our 800c's is down to lack of image support. The images are mainly meant for European Sat users, not UK cable.

Another problem is the UK cable epg stream doesn't conform to the standard stream spec (I'm sure I read that somewhere).

The reason we have excellent epg on dbox2, dm500, 600 etc is that these boxes and their software (neutrino, enigma1) has been around for years and the UK coders have had a long time to tinker with them. Whereas the dm800 and enigma2 haven't been around all that long.

Give it time and I'm sure the coders will sort us out, they always do.

[dctyper]

have you heard of weekepg or crossepg? have you tried any plugins?

[bhoywonder1967]

Yeah mate, I've been using EPG Refresh. It's ok, but still takes longer than I'd like to populate, it'll do for now though.

[dctyper]

ive got rid of epgrefresh, for some reason it kept on changing my channels??

[Bonesy]

ive got rid of epgrefresh, for some reason it kept on changing my channels??

Yea, noticed than on my image also.

[bhoywonder1967]

ive got rid of epgrefresh, for some reason it kept on changing my channels??

I thought I was loosing my mind at first!

You need to go into the settings and tell it not to update while the box is in use. It switches to each channel to pull the epg data, so I've set mine to only update between 2am-6am, it wakes up from standby and then goes back to standy when it's done.

[sossybaby]

i've got a dm7025 with gemini 4.40 and its exactly the same. no matter which image i use.
here's a reply i got from osborne82 who works for the cli team iirc.

the enigma2 images out have not been patched for ukcable epg so u wont ever get a decent epg on it no matter what image u use
time to patch your own images
well first you woul have to look at the diff for enigma1 (it should be in dev section ) make some sense of it then open up enigma 2 and see how to apply. The problem will be that enigma1 sources are c++ and enigma2 is python and as theres not much call for e2 cable not many teams will want to look at this problem
its doable though

cheers

osborne82

after reading through all threads about enigma 2 epg i downgraded to gemini 3.20 and got full uk cable epg but lost now and next.
so, maybe its possible for a tech guru (osborne82 where are you) to edit 4.40 with files from 3.20 to get a complete uk cable epg.
regards.

[Bonesy]

i've got a dm7025 with gemini 4.40 and its exactly the same. no matter which image i use.
here's a reply i got from osborne82 who works for the cli team iirc.

the enigma2 images out have not been patched for ukcable epg so u wont ever get a decent epg on it no matter what image u use
time to patch your own images
well first you woul have to look at the diff for enigma1 (it should be in dev section ) make some sense of it then open up enigma 2 and see how to apply. The problem will be that enigma1 sources are c++ and enigma2 is python and as theres not much call for e2 cable not many teams will want to look at this problem
its doable though

cheers

osborne82

after reading through all threads about enigma 2 epg i downgraded to gemini 3.20 and got full uk cable epg but lost now and next.
so, maybe its possible for a tech guru (osborne82 where are you) to edit 4.40 with files from 3.20 to get a complete uk cable epg.
regards.

good information here, guys where are the dev people?:)

[dctyper]

I thought I was loosing my mind at first!

You need to go into the settings and tell it not to update while the box is in use. It switches to each channel to pull the epg data, so I've set mine to only update between 2am-6am, it wakes up from standby and then goes back to standy when it's done.

yeh, i was playing the xbox when i noticed the lcd change a few times, i thought it was my controller lol

[AllyB]

lack of epg for cable, could this be why i cant get my timer record to work properly on the dm800c? just keep getting timer sanity error channel not in service list. is it because its a sat service list??

[dctyper]

could be, although for some reason i have a full epg now??? strange

[AllyB]

id like a one that loads a weeks worth then u can plan, course this wud be handy only if i can get the damn timer rec to work :( also media player is coming up blank when i click a file to play.

[gezz]

I've got a 7025 with Pli Jade 3 and I've got a 7 day epg working. I used e2_loadepg. It takes it's info from Radiotimes xml source (only option for cable).

It takes some time to setup as you have to match channel names with providers in your configuration file.

[dctyper]

do you have a link? maybe a tut?

[gezz]

What is - Ambrosa Website (http://www.ambrosa.net/index.php/contents/E2.html)

It is pretty much all on this website. I've set up a cron to run it every night. Have a look and feel free to ask me if there is something you are not sure about, but look at it first as it'll take all night to write up what you need to do from start to finish!!!!!!

As I said, it is time consuming (not difficult) to set up your channel list configuration file.

[sossybaby]

any chance of making a back-up of your jade 3 and uploading it.
regards.

[Bonesy]

if someone has already made it then do please share, where here to help eachother.

[gezz]

I don't think a backup will include the files on my cf card (which is where e2_loadepg resides).

Things I did.

1. Made a swap file on my cf card. Don't know if I needed to but did it any way. Sicilian has posted how to do this.

2. Copied e2_loadepg from the website and put it on my cf card.

3. Edited my enigma2.sh file according to the instructions on the website (including adding the LD_PRELOAD bit before /usr/bin/enigma2)

4. Ran e2_loadepg.py within a telnet session.

5. Looked at all the errors regarding providers in the log file.

6. Edited my channel-list.conf file to match the channels with the providers (the time consuming bit)

7. Added a cron job to crontab to start e2_loadepg.py and then restart enigma. I do this overnight. I actually pointed the cron job at a small sh script I wrote. Don't know if I had to do that but did it anyway.

So, like I said, not a five minute job and I suspect the providers vary from region to region so you'll probably have to go through the pain I've been through!!!

[Bonesy]

Perhaps an upload file from your work can cut out some time for others? ;)

[sossybaby]

maybe you could upload two files.
the jade 3 image and your cf card.
regards.

[osborne82]

is there many 800c users on here?, does it warrent looking at the epg side of things for cable?
if theres enough demand im sure we can have a play BUT what els is needed for u e2 users ? maybe little wish list is in order :)

cheers

osborne82

[gezz]

okay. Figured out how to do a backup. It's 28MB. What next.

[Bonesy]

is there many 800c users on here?, does it warrent looking at the epg side of things for cable?
if theres enough demand im sure we can have a play BUT what els is needed for u e2 users ? maybe little wish list is in order :)

cheers

osborne82

Man I so glad glad you say this:)

There is a lot of yus dm800 cable users here and we're all helping eachother. I know there will be a lot more if DK group managed to fix the epg:)

Tell me what you need and I'll give it to you within minutes.
You need full backup..anything just ask and its there.
The only thing its missing is 7days epg working.

[sossybaby]

okay. Figured out how to do a backup. It's 28MB. What next.

if you can upload it to a free file sharing site like file factory that would be great.

@ osborne82.
dont forget the 7025 mate.:burnout:

[loady]

is there many 800c users on here?, does it warrent looking at the epg side of things for cable?
if theres enough demand im sure we can have a play BUT what els is needed for u e2 users ? maybe little wish list is in order :)

cheers

osborne82

Oh yes there are plenty of us !!!...i just think a lot of them are not to concerned about the epg as they have had DM600 boxes and to be honest the recording on those was a bit flaky to say the least, these 800's are a different kettle and they would benefit greatly from a working EPG...if anyone can do it you can matey...and i go with bonesy at this time, i think all that is need at the moment is the working 7 day epg and timer record working with it.

[AllyB]

agreed i would love to get 7 day epg, timer rec and viewing recordings working properly :)

[Bonesy]

is there many 800c users on here?, does it warrent looking at the epg side of things for cable?
if theres enough demand im sure we can have a play BUT what els is needed for u e2 users ? maybe little wish list is in order :)

cheers

osborne82

Any progress on working 7 day epg??

[Scotster]

Been having a go at this tonight. I feel as if I am getting somewhere but for some reason the egp.dat file gets deleted everytime my gui restarts. This leaves me with nothing after its gone through it all.

Any ideas?

[delboy13]

i know this was an old thread i take it a proper fix was never made