I just recently set up Zap2it as well, the default data pulled fine the first time, but then wouldn’t seem to update after that, so I tried the TVGuide version, and that currently seems to be working really well. Hopefully it continues, but just curious if you tried that option?
You are having issues with baseball games too? The old plex was annoying me at first because it would record the main yankees game and then like 5 versions of it, each time YES broadcast the encore of the game. At first this annoyed me but then I came to love it. Many games go extra inning and even with an extra 90 minutes I wouldnt g et the whole game, or a game would have a huge rain delay or a recording issue. I could then watch an encore version of that game which is cut to always fit the whole game in the time window. I didnt miss a bunch of games bexcuse of this.
The downside is, you cant manually record a game or time/channel. If they have a rain out and a day/night double header the next day, i always have issues.
Now I am worried with the new EPG that not only am I going to miss games but I wonder if its going to record multiple versions still. I dont know if that is plex doing that based on the EPG data or something else…
this is so annoying. They should have given us the option to pay extra to keep gracenote if gracenote was increasing their pricing, at least give us options htan some broken product.
I was on 1.15 with no issues with grancenote and now guide data ends 7/25.
Sad that no plex staff are in this thread helping, what has happened to plex?
Yeah. I think they have more than one “specialist” in the developer team. The Server/DVR guys do their thing and the client app guys do their thing.
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And there will be client specialists within that due to the different environments and languages so, for example, is unlikely that the Apple guy can do Android or Shield (and vice-versa).
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That’s all true, but there’s still the overall question of where Plex put their development $$.
Past experience suggests that the vast majority goes into new features, not reliability.
Why? I’d suggest that it’s because their business model isn’t about making a profit. They don’t need or want to survive because of paying customers.
This is Silicon Valley, home of the Venture Capitalist. Plex is aiming to make money by adding as many new subscribers as possible, and then selling out. As long as their Net New Monthly or Annual Recurring Revenue is increasing, and the overall number of subscribers is increasing, they don’t give diddly-squat about existing customers.
That might change if they could ever work out a viable business model for getting existing customers to expand their subscription by adding paid services - then they’d care about what we thought of them. But their attempts at this have been so weak to date that this is pretty much dead in the water.
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Yeah alas Plex seems to have put their focus elsewhere, it is getting harder and harder to have a viable cord-shaved DVR setup that actually works.
Not sure if they have run into the cash flow issue because of the life-time option for Plex Pass, but their cost cutting method reminds me of classic consultants finding something to cut without understanding that the product will die a slow death because of it.
For now I am recording my games manually, but as you point out the rain-outs and extended innings will not be caught as well as the old system where the re-aired games in their condensed form would be added to the library automatically.
However as a Yankee’s fan you have enough good games so you know 
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I actually went as far as getting a login/password for TVGuide and was going to try and decided it wasn’t worth it at this point. But maybe this weekend.
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I setup accounts for both Zap2it and TVGuide, and tried both. I found that TV Guide was missing more channels than Zap2it. Your mileage will certainly vary.
Good to know. Won’t bother!
Hey guys, I just wanted to jump in quickly and let you all know that the original pinned post re: submitting EPG issues has been appended to include a spreadsheet of issues that we’re currently tracking. In addition to this we’re going to be having daily calls with TiVo’s support team to triage new tickets and track the status of existing tickets, as well as hold weekly sessions to ensure that progress is being made week-over-week. Review the revised posting to learn a little more about the current state of the spreadsheet as it’s constantly evolving.
It’s getting early evening here now, so not much time before i go to watch some tv
I had a quick look at the spreadsheet (will look closer in the morning), does this only have channel issues on it or are the show/episode issues also, i didnt see the later when looking
Thanks
Yeah, just as a quick heads up (as you’ve probably already discovered) TV Guide uses TiVo’s database. The progression of ownership goes something like;
TV Guide > purchased by Macrovision > changes name to Rovi > Rovi purchases TiVo > changes name to TiVo
@cire12 Did you get my message? There’s a lot of streaming only channels that don’t need to be in the EPG!!
Dave
It does not yet have the detailed list of season/episode issues that have been reported. We’re working to see if there is an issue that’s affecting S/E globally or if we’re really going to have to address these on a show-by-show, season-by-season, episode-by-episode basis.
Though it would be great if Plex supported them along with Red Button features at some point in the future 
To @captain_caveman2k’s point we’ve gone back and forth on this one a little bit. Since your tuner won’t find them in the scan it won’t surface them in the guide, but if we can support streaming sources in the future than the lineups will be correct.
Thanks, but I am struggling to filter this by my region (Freeview Meridian/Central OTA Broadcast).
I have filtered as follows (but it doesn’t do anything)
…meanwhile I cannot find any of the "4"and “5” issues (as follows):
…sorry if I am being dumb here.
On Grande cable in TX I have all sorts of shows with missing (sometimes invalid) S/E data including incorrect years for shows.
Nice to see there’s a spreadsheet!
Just to clarify - if a channel is not in the EPG, it gets dropped and would not show at all
And furthermore, most of these channels were already in the Freeview-National United Kingdom OTA Broadcast lineup - which makes the national get a higher score because it matches more channels from the tuner than the regional channels. So to rectify this, step 1 is to make sure regional lineups have same channels as in the national lineup and step 2 will be when we get both scoring the same, then we will need to add a small penalty deduction on the national so that the regional gets defaulted and also we will need to revert the change that added a suffix to the multiple instances of same channel in the national lineup and introduce a plex web and plex media server change that allows the user to pick from the multiple instances of for example channel 1
