404 Error retrieving guide

I have the same problem

No guide data downloading. 404 error on connection.

There is definitely something wrong. In addition to the 404 errors, I was also getting “database schema has changed” errors on the Plex Server running on Windows 10.

So, just for fun, I installed a CentOS VM, and installed Plex Server on it. I turned on debug logging, and I am only getting 404 errors:

> Feb 28, 2019 15:39:52.530 [0x7fc568fff700] ERROR - EPG: received HTTP response of 404 from request to https://tmsapi.plex.tv/v1.1/lineups/CAN-OTAL3T7Y1/grid?api_key=xxx&endDateTime=2019-03-01T06%3A00Z&imageSize=Ms&imageText=false&startDateTime=2019-03-01T00%3A00Z
> Feb 28, 2019 15:39:52.593 [0x7fc568fff700] ERROR - EPG: received HTTP response of 404 from request to https://tmsapi.plex.tv/v1.1/lineups/CAN-OTAL3T7Y1/grid?api_key=xxx&endDateTime=2019-03-01T06%3A00Z&imageSize=Ms&imageText=false&startDateTime=2019-03-01T00%3A00Z
> Feb 28, 2019 15:39:52.593 [0x7fc568fff700] WARN - EPG[onconnect]: Failed to load EPG.
> Feb 28, 2019 15:39:52.593 [0x7fc568fff700] DEBUG - Database: Shutting down.
> Feb 28, 2019 15:39:52.593 [0x7fc568fff700] DEBUG - Captured session 0.
> Feb 28, 2019 15:39:52.593 [0x7fc568fff700] DEBUG - Captured session 1.
> Feb 28, 2019 15:39:52.593 [0x7fc568fff700] DEBUG - Captured session 2.
> Feb 28, 2019 15:39:52.593 [0x7fc568fff700] DEBUG - Captured session 3.
> Feb 28, 2019 15:39:52.593 [0x7fc568fff700] DEBUG - Captured session 4.
> Feb 28, 2019 15:39:52.605 [0x7fc568fff700] DEBUG - EPG[onconnect]: Total time to load EPG was 1.8 (HTTP details cached 100.0%, CloudFlare grid cached: 100.0%, 3 HTTP errors)

On this instance of Plex Server on the CentOS VM, after running Guide update, it gives me less than 3.5 hours of data. Last run at 15:39 ET, and there is nothing on the Guide after 19:00 ET today.

Has anyone acknowledge this problem yet?

I am also seeing this issue. Running version 1.14.1.5488 on Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS:

Feb 28, 2019 20:46:55.232 [0x7f788b7fd700] ERROR - EPG: received HTTP response of 404 from request to https://tmsapi.plex.tv/v1.1/lineups/USA-OTA30338/grid?api_key=xxx&endDateTime=2019-03-03T00%3A00Z&imageSize=Ms&imageText=false&startDateTime=2019-03-02T18%3A00Z
Feb 28, 2019 20:46:55.358 [0x7f788b7fd700] ERROR - EPG: received HTTP response of 404 from request to https://tmsapi.plex.tv/v1.1/lineups/USA-OTA30338/grid?api_key=xxx&endDateTime=2019-03-03T00%3A00Z&imageSize=Ms&imageText=false&startDateTime=2019-03-02T18%3A00Z
Feb 28, 2019 20:46:55.358 [0x7f788b7fd700] WARN - EPG[onconnect]: Failed to load EPG.

Update:
Almost the same thing.
I was able to pull 11% after I remapped the channels about 5 times and changed to a different vendor(direct-tv). Still only getting about 12 hours of data. who knows if it will update before the 12 hours run out.

Three days later and plex has now acknowledged the issue:

http://status.plex.tv/

Yuck. Back to guide updates exiting at 12% with 404 errors.

Mar 01, 2019 21:56:37.768 [0x7f1bb27fc700] Debug — Activity: updated activity 55938a95-ff2b-49ee-8253-a26591540f17 - completed 12% - Refreshing guide data
Mar 01, 2019 21:56:37.801 [0x7f1bb27fc700] Error — EPG: received HTTP response of 404 from request to https://tmsapi.plex.tv/v1.1/lineups/USA-OTA98077/grid?api_key=xxx&endDateTime=2019-03-04T00%3A00Z&imageSize=Ms&imageText=false&startDateTime=2019-03-03T18%3A00Z
Mar 01, 2019 21:56:37.837 [0x7f1bb27fc700] Error — EPG: received HTTP response of 404 from request to https://tmsapi.plex.tv/v1.1/lineups/USA-OTA98077/grid?api_key=xxx&endDateTime=2019-03-04T00%3A00Z&imageSize=Ms&imageText=false&startDateTime=2019-03-03T18%3A00Z
Mar 01, 2019 21:56:37.870 [0x7f1bb27fc700] Error — EPG: received HTTP response of 404 from request to https://tmsapi.plex.tv/v1.1/lineups/USA-OTA98077/grid?api_key=xxx&endDateTime=2019-03-04T00%3A00Z&imageSize=Ms&imageText=false&startDateTime=2019-03-03T18%3A00Z
Mar 01, 2019 21:56:37.870 [0x7f1bb27fc700] Warning — EPG[onconnect]: Failed to load EPG.
Mar 01, 2019 21:56:37.870 [0x7f1bb27fc700] Debug — Database: Shutting down.

same here 12% then fail.
http://status.plex.tv/incidents/fkf1mcss449r
This says the issue has been resolved, yet it has not.
http://status.plex.tv
This says, “Partial Outage”

Isn’t this embarrassing as I try to prove we can dump satellite by cutting the cord and move to something such as Plex. Even more embarrassing is how long this appears to have been a problem before it was noticed and moved to “Oh, crap” mode. I’ve seen it argued before here that Plex is a “small company” with fewer resources, blah blah blah. I mean, how small are you to have missed something this obvious for, what, 8 days? Maybe more? ;/

Still not fixed for me. Get up to 4% followed by “EPG[onconnect]: Failed to load EPG.”. Same result on both my freenas and shieldtv Plex server installs.

Not fixed for me either, Been going on for at least a week…

When it’s fixed this will probably be updated: http://status.plex.tv/

Same here VonBrick, I did the same think about 2 weeks ago. My wife is a bit pissed at me now…can’t say I blame her:(

No longer getting 404 errors but guide update fails with SQL Lite errors:

I’m glad I saw this now. I have been having the same issue for a while now (to the point where I had to ditch Plex and get a cable box to keep the wife happy). I thought maybe it was just my setup so I tried to troubleshoot the issue for a while.

Mar 02, 2019 12:20:28.438 [7808] DEBUG - HTTP requesting PUT https://plex.tv/api/servers/e9fad3391b7edd7051d400c6e5d7404672f949a3/connectivity?X-Plex-Token=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx&asyncIdentifier=7581bb87-5b20-4838-b72e-855d2433c017
Mar 02, 2019 12:20:28.438 [7012] DEBUG - Completed: [192.168.1.118:56322] 200 PUT /myplex/refreshReachability (33 live) TLS GZIP 6147ms 274 bytes (pipelined: 1)
Mar 02, 2019 12:20:28.666 [15356] DEBUG - EPG[onconnect]: Step 4/56 (2019-03-03T12:00Z) (network: 3.8 sec, database: 10.5 sec total: 11.5 sec)
Mar 02, 2019 12:20:28.666 [15356] DEBUG - Activity: updated activity 108d7261-8b36-4be6-8d8c-22908e20841d - completed 7% - Refreshing guide data
Mar 02, 2019 12:20:28.666 [15356] DEBUG - Activity: updated activity 108d7261-8b36-4be6-8d8c-22908e20841d - completed 7% - Refreshing guide data
Mar 02, 2019 12:20:28.743 [15356] ERROR - EPG: received HTTP response of 404 from request to https://tmsapi.plex.tv/v1.1/lineups/USA-MN53371-X/grid?api_key=xxx&endDateTime=2019-03-04T00%3A00Z&imageSize=Ms&imageText=false&startDateTime=2019-03-03T18%3A00Z
Mar 02, 2019 12:20:28.825 [15356] ERROR - EPG: received HTTP response of 404 from request to https://tmsapi.plex.tv/v1.1/lineups/USA-MN53371-X/grid?api_key=xxx&endDateTime=2019-03-04T00%3A00Z&imageSize=Ms&imageText=false&startDateTime=2019-03-03T18%3A00Z
Mar 02, 2019 12:20:28.864 [7012] VERBOSE - Auth: We found auth token (xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx), enabling token-based authentication.
Mar 02, 2019 12:20:28.865 [7012] VERBOSE - Auth: Came in with the master token, authorization succeeded.
Mar 02, 2019 12:20:28.866 [12016] DEBUG - Request: [54.171.49.143:39904 (WAN)] GET /identity (34 live) TLS Signed-in Token (Sparky2211)
Mar 02, 2019 12:20:28.866 [12016] VERBOSE -  * Host => xx-xx-xx-xx.b403a3f8045a472cb12e1805a7632f44.plex.direct:32400
Mar 02, 2019 12:20:28.867 [12016] VERBOSE -  * Accept => */*
Mar 02, 2019 12:20:28.867 [12016] VERBOSE -  * User-Agent => Typhoeus - https://github.com/typhoeus/typhoeus
Mar 02, 2019 12:20:28.868 [12016] VERBOSE -  * X-Plex-Token => xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Mar 02, 2019 12:20:28.868 [12016] VERBOSE - It took 0.0 sec to serialize a list with 0 elements.
Mar 02, 2019 12:20:28.871 [7012] DEBUG - Completed: [54.171.49.143:39904] 200 GET /identity (34 live) TLS 5ms 385 bytes (pipelined: 1)
Mar 02, 2019 12:20:28.941 [15356] ERROR - EPG: received HTTP response of 404 from request to https://tmsapi.plex.tv/v1.1/lineups/USA-MN53371-X/grid?api_key=xxx&endDateTime=2019-03-04T00%3A00Z&imageSize=Ms&imageText=false&startDateTime=2019-03-03T18%3A00Z
Mar 02, 2019 12:20:28.941 [15356] WARN - EPG[onconnect]: Failed to load EPG.
Mar 02, 2019 12:20:28.941 [15356] DEBUG - Database: Shutting down.
Mar 02, 2019 12:20:28.941 [15356] DEBUG - Captured session 0.
Mar 02, 2019 12:20:28.941 [15356] DEBUG - Captured session 1.
Mar 02, 2019 12:20:28.942 [15356] DEBUG - Captured session 2.
Mar 02, 2019 12:20:28.942 [15356] DEBUG - Captured session 3.
Mar 02, 2019 12:20:28.942 [15356] DEBUG - Captured session 4.
Mar 02, 2019 12:20:28.960 [15356] DEBUG - EPG[onconnect]: Total time to load EPG was 11.8 (HTTP details cached 100.0%, CloudFlare grid cached: 100.0%, 3 HTTP errors)

The channel line up is failing now. Here’s the call flow and where the activity fails.

Mar 02, 2019 13:47:49.120 [0x7f1b827fc700] Debug — Activity: registered new activity f6142539-9577-4e97-9599-de1b952b6a4e - Refreshing guide data
Mar 02, 2019 13:47:49.120 [0x7f1b827fc700] Debug — Activity: updated activity f6142539-9577-4e97-9599-de1b952b6a4e - completed 0% - Refreshing guide data
Mar 02, 2019 13:47:49.120 [0x7f1b827fc700] Debug — EPG[onconnect]: Scheduling next refresh for 2019-03-02 17:47:49.
Mar 02, 2019 13:47:49.120 [0x7f1b537fe700] Debug — EPG[onconnect]: starting incremental refresh for lineup lineup://tv.plex.providers.epg.onconnect/USA-OTA98077#Local%20Over%20the%20Air%20Broadcast
Mar 02, 2019 13:47:49.120 [0x7f1b537fe700] Debug — Opening 5 database sessions to library (tv.plex.providers.epg.onconnect:5), SQLite 3.26.0, threadsafe=1
Mar 02, 2019 13:47:49.121 [0x7f1b537fe700] Debug — Installing Library Database from ["/usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Resources/com.plexapp.plugins.library.db"] to ["/var/lib/plexmediaserver/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/Plug-in Support/Databases/tv.plex.providers.epg.onconnect-43c2d195-f89f-45d6-9a5e-7d95e2db984d-loading.db"]
Mar 02, 2019 13:47:49.121 [0x7f1bb3fff700] Debug — Completed: [172.16.1.155:56739] 200 POST /livetv/dvrs/5/reloadGuide (19 live) TLS GZIP 1ms 377 bytes (pipelined: 4)
Mar 02, 2019 13:47:49.125 [0x7f1b537fe700] Debug — Running migrations. (EPG 1)
Mar 02, 2019 13:47:49.125 [0x7f1b537fe700] Debug — Running forward migration 20190130000000.
Mar 02, 2019 13:47:49.125 [0x7f1b537fe700] Debug — Captured session 0.
Mar 02, 2019 13:47:49.125 [0x7f1b537fe700] Debug — Captured session 1.
Mar 02, 2019 13:47:49.126 [0x7f1b537fe700] Debug — Captured session 2.
Mar 02, 2019 13:47:49.126 [0x7f1b537fe700] Debug — Captured session 3.
Mar 02, 2019 13:47:49.126 [0x7f1b537fe700] Debug — Captured session 4.
Mar 02, 2019 13:47:49.229 [0x7f1b537fe700] Debug — Completed forward migration 20190130000000.
Mar 02, 2019 13:47:49.344 [0x7f1b537fe700] Debug — EPG[onconnect]: Failed to retrieve channel data
Mar 02, 2019 13:47:49.344 [0x7f1b537fe700] Debug — EPG[onconnect]: failed to retrieve channel information during guide refresh
Mar 02, 2019 13:47:49.344 [0x7f1b537fe700] Warning — EPG[onconnect]: Failed to load EPG.
Mar 02, 2019 13:47:49.344 [0x7f1b537fe700] Debug — Database: Shutting down.
Mar 02, 2019 13:47:49.344 [0x7f1b537fe700] Debug — Captured session 0.
Mar 02, 2019 13:47:49.344 [0x7f1b537fe700] Debug — Captured session 1.
Mar 02, 2019 13:47:49.344 [0x7f1b537fe700] Debug — Captured session 2.
Mar 02, 2019 13:47:49.344 [0x7f1b537fe700] Debug — Captured session 3.
Mar 02, 2019 13:47:49.344 [0x7f1b537fe700] Debug — Captured session 4.
Mar 02, 2019 13:47:49.379 [0x7f1b537fe700] Debug — EPG[onconnect]: Total time to load EPG was 0.2 (HTTP details cached 0.0%, CloudFlare grid cached: 0.0%, 0 HTTP errors)
Mar 02, 2019 13:47:49.379 [0x7f1b537fe700] Debug — Activity: Ended activity f6142539-9577-4e97-9599-de1b952b6a4e.

Also wanted to note that running new server/player versions. Hopefully this is not a new regression but due to how integration works between tmsapi.plextv and gracenote rest api’s.

Server Version#: 1.15.1.710
Player Version#: 3.89.2

Appreciate whoever the dev is working on this problem! Not an easy thing to solve especially with 3rd party dependencies and waiting for them to assign/debug.

Mar 1, 2019

Program guide unavailable for Live TV/DVR users

Resolved - This incident has been resolved. We will continue to monitor the service.
Mar 1, 06:50 PST

Identified - We’re aware of issues affecting retrieval of program guide data for DVR users. We have contacted our EPG provider and are currently investigating.
Feb 28, 13:40 PST

The above state is not true it still not working for me

Still having problems updating the guide data. It gets to 16% and then stops. It is better than last night but still not working correctly.

I too am still unable to update EPG: