Live TV EPG - The update you’ve been waiting for

Works “great”… A lot of channels have the “julkaistaan pian”, aka no guide data, just allow us to use OTA for the EPG data, and we wouldn’t have this issue with Plex in those regions where it is published over the air and NO, I don’t want to use xml stupidness for it.

I’m really frustrated with the issue, previous provider did not have this issue.

Server logs have this:

May 21, 2021 00:42:55.844 [0x7eff58ff9700] WARN - HTTP error requesting GET https://epg.provider.plex.tv/lineups?country=FI&postalCode=20540&X-Plex-Api-Token=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (35, SSL connect error) (OpenSSL SSL_connect: Connection reset by peer in connection to epg.provider.plex.tv:443 )
May 21, 2021 00:42:55.845 [0x7eff58ff9700] ERROR - HTTP -35 downloading url https://epg.provider.plex.tv/lineups?country=FI&postalCode=20540&X-Plex-Api-Token=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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Same. Utter joke it really is, I’m so sick of it failing to record my shows.

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I see that from 25th May Sony Movies, Sony Movies Classic, Sony Movies Action and the Sony Channel will be replaced with GREAT! movies, GREAT! movies classic, GREAT! movies action and GREAT! tv.

Is this something we need to report via the form?
I believe the channel numbers will stay the same, this is basically a rebranding. However, these movie channels are ones which have gaps in the middle of movies so I wondered if the name change might impact he handling of this in Plex.

This. I had to rebuild my server recently, and i went in today to add my custom EPG and couldn’t find it. Was beating myself up trying to find it. What gives Plex? Are you guys removing it for good or was this a mistake?

I understand that this is a bug, and that the workaround until this is fixed is to enter a country which isn’t supported by the Plex EPG and this will then give you an option to use XMLTV.

Use USA as a country and put the zip code of 00000 it will then allow you to use your own XML as before

If it is still possible to use the 00000 zip code when no tuner is configured, it is since Plex Web 4.57.4, impossible to use this trick to add an additional Plex EPG when you already use an XMLTV file. You get the following error message:

Unsupported location
This location isn’t covered by Plex DVR guide data. Because you already set up a tuner using Plex DVR guide data, we are unable to offer the option to use a XMLTV guide. Please select a different location.

It is now impossible to have a configuration where you mix XMLTV and plex EPG. And that’s a pity because the Plex EPG is nice but doesn’t cover all my channels and it’s impossible to get them without an XHTML complement. :cry:

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nah…you’re all complaining for what? We did get a very lovely new setup screen.

Seriously, before the fancy screen I had at least 30% of the TV guide. Now I get 0 as in zero, nothing nada…

Luckily I am have been a long time life member and I feel myself valued

FYI: for Brits wanting to record “Anne Boleyn” on C5 next Tue at 21:00, Gracenote shows this as “to be announced”. This is a Gracenote issue as SchedulesDirect is the same.

I have reported this to SchedulesDirect as they always:

  • auto-acknowledge with a ticker number
  • respond to your issue within 5 days
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What country & zip/post-code are you in?

Belgium, 1745

@sa2000 can you help @pverhoye?

Also cannot do this if you already use Plex EPG.

Same issue, Belgium 3000 or whatever zip code/line-up in BE i tried, always results in an empty guide.
Not exactly the update i’ve been waiting for. Before the switch there was at least usable data for most of the channels. Well done Plex

What lineup are you selecting ? I just tried Telenet Digitale and I do see a problem where no schedules are being returned. I will follow this up - but please confirm if it is this lineup

Hi!

Yep, I have the Telenet listing

OK - I opened a new issue with Gracenote as well as getting our ingestion looked into. When did the schedules disappear ?

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Is this still an issue ? The error was to do with the security connection / certificate

A restart may resolve it or it could have been an issue with the backend at the time

Please add the TV Vlaanderen Digitaal line up as well, doesn’t return any EPG data either. Zip code 3000.
thanks

Well, since the big overhaul a couple of months ago I saw that not all listings were there. Some channels had none while others had not all of them. But this happened at the time when one of the Belgian channels changed name (2BE became VTM2 and such) and knowing that Gracenote is a bit slow on the uptake (I work at a company that provides data to Gracenote) I didn’t really worry. And we hardly watch any live TV anyway.
But then since a few days (at least since 1.23.1-4528) I saw that I have no listings at all