(2012-11-28, 15:30)tedbrock Wrote: Quick questions: Do you have EPG setup and working in MP? What country are you in? EPG's are notoriously (for me anyway) hard to set up in the US. Only WMC works out of the box, because MS paid up front for rights.

(2012-11-28, 17:59)hoopsdavis Wrote: I'm having the same issue, I'm in the US. I have the MP portal setup but I get nothing there either.

I'm not sure if my setup is correct, I moved from Media Center with dvblink and it was hard getting things setup.
But I have my qam channels and I have 3 analog channels where I can access cable but the only way I can change channels is with my cable remote but as tmeitner mentioned I have no channel info.

Any help would be appreciated.

(2012-11-28, 18:13)tedbrock Wrote: There are a number of topics on Media Portal forums about setting them up. I have not gotten it to work myself. I did installed the MP front end to help with diagnosis.

Here is what I know (or think I know)
The Over the air info doesn't work or isn't free. Either way I have not read anywhere how to get the info OTA
The easiest solution as stated by many is schedules direct ($25 a year but they are a non-profit, so I would assume the money goes towards making a better product) http://www.schedulesdirect.org/
mc2xml looks like a lot of work to set up but is free. I am going to try this route since I enjoy making things work (except when they don't work, don't enjoy that) http://mc2xml.hosterbox.net/

I will post updates if I get this to work. I would suggest visiting MP forums, there are a lot of posts on getting EPG's to work in the US and almost none of them will make you feel warm and fuzzy.

(2012-11-28, 18:31)tmeitner Wrote: The EPG is the only real issue that I haven't seen any response to yet. If you're talking about changing channels with your XBMC remote - right now, you have to hit "stop" and then select a new channel. Or, you can bring up the OSD and change channels that way. In the beta announcement, they mentioned that they were working on fixing the channel changing.

(2012-11-28, 18:13)tedbrock Wrote: Interesting - thanks for checking in on that. I'll peruse the MP forums. I find that odd since MythTV worked so well back in the day. But I'll check with SD. I think I've used them in the past. Thanks again for looking into it!

(2012-11-28, 18:43)hoopsdavis Wrote:

(2012-11-28, 18:31)tmeitner Wrote: The EPG is the only real issue that I haven't seen any response to yet. If you're talking about changing channels with your XBMC remote - right now, you have to hit "stop" and then select a new channel. Or, you can bring up the OSD and change channels that way. In the beta announcement, they mentioned that they were working on fixing the channel changing.

I agree, I have not seen much on this either. With dvdblink there was a tool to get the channel info call "Guidetool" it worked great.
The setup with dvdlink and MP are similar.

(2012-11-28, 18:13)tedbrock Wrote: Interesting - thanks for checking in on that. I'll peruse the MP forums. I find that odd since MythTV worked so well back in the day. But I'll check with SD. I think I've used them in the past. Thanks again for looking into it!

I've also had issues with xbmc crashing when trying to bring up the channel guide using the MCremote. I think that's more related to the skin I'm using. Trying to bring up the guide I often hit the directional key but that often attempts to change the channel up or down.
This has been on tough project, good thing I work from home.

Going to see what I find in the MP forums, I'll use this thread for info updates if I find anything.