No not twice just in the right order, as you mentioned above is very minor thing just for neatness.
Yeah, I would like the ability to drag and drop the order.
The biggest problem Iām having at the moment is missing posters for tv shows. IceTV comes with a lot of placeholder posters, which suck. Iām certain the previous Gracenotes guide had the correct posters for a lot shows which now have these placeholders posters. These werenāt always in the correct aspect ratio however they were a lot better than nothing. Iām not really sure whether this was just the case of Plexās enhanced guide feature or whether the previous guide just had better data. Iām thinking about the possibly of writing a post processing script to improve this however Iām just not sure how to get the best results. Can I improve the guide so the Plex enhanced guide feature is able to fetch some of these posters? Or is it a case of manually scraping these posters and adding it to the data. If anyone has any information on this, it would be greatly appreciated.
The guys at Ice TV are pretty helpful IceTV Forum - Index
One of things we are seeing come up regularly is that in regional areas there are commonly a couple of channels that have the same LCN, while normally this is not a problem Plex will ignore any channels with a duplicate LCN.
The good news is there an easy fix for this, on the Guide Settings tab in the My Account menu on the IceTV website you can modify the list of channels that is downloaded by Plex, or limit which LCNās are sent for each channel, if you change these settings and click on Save then just refresh the guide within Plex you should see the updated channel list immediately.
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http://au.freepg.tv/Register.aspx?
use this copy past in DVR setup
If anyone is having issues not being able to delete their current DVR to then readd tuners and use new xml feeds, I had to disable my tuners (in device manager) just to get Plex to let me remove the current tuners.
Took ages to work out, but just thought Iād share this win.
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Thanks. Going to use it.
Hi all
I have spent a fair while setting up EPG Collector that scans the OTA DVBT signal for all upcoming shows encoded within. I personally prefer this to a service, it seems more likely to be accurate. It is on sourceforge and the creator sure has some understanding and skill to make such a freeware configurable piece of software. The main thing is the initial what do I do feeling. So in a nutshell you run one program to setup and test your ini file until happy then there is another that you setup in task scheduler to run once per day roughly. You can just use this .ini file if in Perth, otherwise change the frequencies in the tuning tab for your state/region. Point the .xml file it makes somewhere you can find and point the PleX to it during DVR setup. The author, Steve Bickell, tweaked with fix pack 12 to address getting it to make Plex friendly episode tags.
See this post to get the version and see some history. Post
This a good guide too but my setup a bit different. Reddit
Here is my .ini, not perfect but does what I need for now. I have the HDHomerun tuner in house.EPG Collector Perth Plex.rar (1.2 KB)
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Thanks for posting this, I saw you thread on EPG collector forums and it really helped me get mine working. Without the plex tag option EPG Collector really wasnāt going to work for me - so well done!
A thousand thank yous!
Iām still having some shows appear as movies, but doubt there is much more we can do to fix that.
There is a URL in one of the posts to a user in NZ that has parsed the data into XMLTV format and made available for free. That is an alternative to iceTV
Hey BigAlzy, Iām having some issues with EPG Collector, mostly around getting it to work with my HD homerun which I see you are using.
I have the latest version of EPG Collector, plus latest fix pack, and the DVB plugin all installed, it just wonāt find my HD Homerun.
Iāve read everything I can find on this and it all points to the program not having network access, Iāve searched on how to give it access and done everything suggested (Windows firewall settings, allowing program access etc) but still cannot get EPG collector to find the tuner.
Any tips you can offer here?
Iāve written a script to scrape freeview australia and create an xmltv file. It requires Perl and a few modules, but should be easy to get up and working. Itās a single perl script.
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Iām running linux and have a crontab to run once a day during the night before Plex does scheduled maintenance, which is when the xmltv data is refreshed by Plex (I think). The command to run it is ./free_epg.pl > freeview.xmltv
Currently hard coded for Melbourne, but will make it more flexible
EDIT: Works with all regions (I think) and the command to run it is. ./free_epg.pl --region=<region name> --file=<xmltv filename>.
ie ./free_epg.pl --region=region_vic_melbourne --file=freeview.xmltv. To see a list of regions, just run ./free_epg.pl
okay, the link was edited above, but surely I can link to GitHub? Search for my username (markcs) in github on how to do this
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Are you using EPG Collector fp12 and I assume you have run Homerun setup from the same PC. Mine just worked. Did you install HomerunHD as administrator when you installed it. When you run the setup program it updates firmware., I am also on the Beta channel with the HomerunHD. If it all works from their software nothing really stopping EPG Collector seeing it. Make sure nothing else is using the tuner. Mine is a dual tuner but single is ok as long as it is available.
Good job markcs! I did try things to scrape freeview before finding EPG Collector but could find nothing. I am curious to try your script but Iām no Perl wizard. I have Windows 10 media server so tried it with Strawberry Perl 64bit. It tried to do something, the interpreter ran a shell and then closed pretty quickly but just saved a zero byte file. I extracted your script to its own folder and typed free_epg.pl > freeview.xmltv.
Have you any thoughts or is it a Windows thing?
I havenāt tried on windows. Did you install the modules?
JSON
DateTime
Data::Dumper (this can probably be removed. I used this for debugging)
If you run the script without piping to a file, you should see the error messages.
Just wanted to add to this. I bought Plex because when Ice TV went bankrupt previously they took 4 years of subscription I had bought. Very disappointed.
I know Iām late to comment but.
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I came across this in Emby forums, I use IceTV so havenāt tried it, but may be another free option.
https://www.matthuisman.nz/2017/07/australia-iptv-epg-files.html
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I realised that I had a hard coded reference in the file to ācurlā which would have bombed out on Windows. This is removed if you want to retry ā¦
Iām going to take a crack at this - didnāt know how to get the EPG out of the HomeRunā¦ and I have a lot of experience with perl ā¦ I also have a few places I can put the xml publicly available for download when I massage it into Plex happy format. Will let you know how I get on, if any one else wants to collaborate on a solution in Aus, Iām happy to get together (online) and nut out a solution.
Michelle
