DVR EPG Update Fails

Thank you @darcilicious! At least we know it is systemic.

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I noticed since last night that when I press the button to select channel I get the unable to load channel mapping error. I get this on 2 Plex servers that I have. In the Plex server log Im seeing this: EPG[onconnect]: Failed to load EPG. Seems that either its bad Gracenote data or the servers that serve up the EPG data are having issues

I am getting EPG update failures again.

Logs with postal code redacted.

May 18, 2019 13:50:51.934 [0x7f2a6710a700] DEBUG - EPG[onconnect]: Step 29/56 (2019-05-25T12:00Z) (network: 141.8 sec, database: 18.5 sec total: 154.9 sec)
May 18, 2019 13:50:51.934 [0x7f2a6710a700] DEBUG - Activity: updated activity 26df3217-d2fa-4336-966b-a68ef9075849 - completed 51% - Refreshing guide data
May 18, 2019 13:50:52.126 [0x7f2a6710a700] ERROR - EPG: received HTTP response of 404 from request to https://tmsapi.plex.tv/v1.1/lineups/CAN-OTAXXXXXX/grid?api_key=xxx&endDateTime=2019-05-26T00%3A00Z&imageSize=Ms&imageText=false&startDateTime=2019-05-25T18%3A00Z
May 18, 2019 13:50:52.477 [0x7f2a6710a700] ERROR - EPG: received HTTP response of 404 from request to https://tmsapi.plex.tv/v1.1/lineups/CAN-OTAXXXXXX/grid?api_key=xxx&endDateTime=2019-05-26T00%3A00Z&imageSize=Ms&imageText=false&startDateTime=2019-05-25T18%3A00Z
May 18, 2019 13:50:52.675 [0x7f2a6710a700] ERROR - EPG: received HTTP response of 404 from request to https://tmsapi.plex.tv/v1.1/lineups/CAN-OTAXXXXXX/grid?api_key=xxx&endDateTime=2019-05-26T00%3A00Z&imageSize=Ms&imageText=false&startDateTime=2019-05-25T18%3A00Z
May 18, 2019 13:50:52.675 [0x7f2a6710a700] WARN - EPG[onconnect]: Failed to load EPG.
May 18, 2019 13:50:52.675 [0x7f2a6710a700] DEBUG - Database: Shutting down.
May 18, 2019 13:50:52.675 [0x7f2a6710a700] DEBUG - Captured session 0.
May 18, 2019 13:50:52.675 [0x7f2a6710a700] DEBUG - Captured session 1.
May 18, 2019 13:50:52.675 [0x7f2a6710a700] DEBUG - Captured session 2.
May 18, 2019 13:50:52.675 [0x7f2a6710a700] DEBUG - Captured session 3.
May 18, 2019 13:50:52.675 [0x7f2a6710a700] DEBUG - Captured session 4.
May 18, 2019 13:50:52.791 [0x7f2a6710a700] DEBUG - EPG[onconnect]: Total time to load EPG was 155.7 (HTTP details cached 99.9%, CloudFlare grid cached: 0.0%, 17 HTTP errors)

I don’t see an outage reported at https://status.plex.tv/.

Is anyone else getting errors?

I am having EPG updating issues now!!!

I am also not able to add 2nd Tuner to DVR setup. Getting the ā€œError communicating with providerā€ error as show in post by osbornm on Feb 28.

Please get this fixed ASAP!!!

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Things have gotten worse. Before I was able to partially update the EPG. Now it fails at 0%.

In the logs there is

May 18, 2019 22:29:53.333 [0x7f59820e3700] DEBUG - EPG[onconnect]: Failed to retrieve channel data
May 18, 2019 22:29:53.333 [0x7f59820e3700] DEBUG - EPG[onconnect]: failed to retrieve channel information during guide refresh
May 18, 2019 22:29:53.333 [0x7f59820e3700] WARN - EPG[onconnect]: Failed to load EPG.

I’ve tried to see if there is some local CDN issues by switching the VPN to different regions, but the results are the same.

Funny, Plex seems to think Gracenote is working:

I’m in exactly the same boat and near enough no guide data at all. All ā€˜To Be Announced’ and can’t even force a refresh it seems.

Same issue here, looks like the Gracenote EPG is not operational (despite the status page saying it is)

Same here. No guide data. Initializing fails at 0%. Log shows same message: EPG[onconnect]: Failed to load EPG.
Tried deleting DVR and reconfiguring. Did not help.
Tried updating to a newer release 1.15.6.1079-78232c603 which I found despite the console saying I had the latest version installed already. Did not help either.

In the same boat here, EPG has basically failed, looks like Gracenotes is down?

is there an alternative for UK TV?

Edit:

Just found http://www.xmltv.co.uk/feeds

seems to work OK…

Edit 2:

Spoke too soon, channel line-up is laughable, looks like there’s a XML format issue.

I’m trying to setup Live TV and can’t get pass the Guide setup. Issue is probably related to this one.

Resolved. Is working again now!

Confirmed, working again. Shame I missed the BTCC racing because the dvr couldnt record today!

Yup, although mines gone back to ā€œlive TV & DVRā€ on the menu (under recordings) instead of Guide and is back to the old grid not listing by channel?

Clues anyone?

EPG guide updated for me yesterday, 05/19/2019.

I was then able to add my 2nd network Tuner to DVR setup.

today Im seeing the following error when trying to update EPG data.

Jun 06, 2019 09:08:41.631 [4548] ERROR - EPG: received HTTP response of 404 from request to https://tmsapi.plex.tv/v1.1/lineups/USA-IN66549-X/grid?api_key=xxx&endDateTime=2019-06-07T00%3A00Z&imageSize=Ms&imageText=false&startDateTime=2019-06-06T18%3A00Z

I only have a few hours of guide data and what data I do have I see dates instead of season/episode numbers.

I see that we are all having issues since Feb of this year and yet no one from Plex support has chimed in or even acknowledged that they know this is a problem. I really wish they had a different support model.

I finally switched to using Zap2XML on ALL my Plex servers. Haven’t had an update failure since. The Plex guide is just unreliable. I’d rather use the Plex guide, but not if I can’t be sure it will get current listings.

Oh look the EPG service has died again, there’s a surprise.

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