2018-08-25, 07:48
@Primeval
Just an update for you as I have made some progress. I decided to dump my computer of Kodi and performed a deep scraping to find any remnants. I was going to actually reinstall W10 but decided I would do that as a last resort. Anyway, I reinstalled a fresh copy of Kodi 17.6 32bit on my W10 64bit box. Next I extracted the xmltv data from the .gz file and also extracted the m3u data from its file. Next I loaded in the xml file first from the local drive and ran with that only. It worked! So now I knew that the xml file is good. I also checked it beforehand using an online source you mentioned in one of your posts. This told me it was good so that is why I proceeded to just load it in and try it. So figuring that the xml file was good I next used the Url source function and named the location of the xml.gz file and it too worked flawlessly. I enabled the "look for .gz files" and "convert & to &".
Next going to the optional tab, I enabled the authentication and provided my UN and PW. I tried using the m3u playlist subscriptions, no joy. Import addons.ini as a url and file, no joy. I also tried the channel mappings import mapping.ini section for my m3u file, no joy. Next I enabled the import m3u and as both a url and file but no joy on that as well. So, although I do have an EPG guide popping up, I do not have channel numbers, or group control. I am pretty sure it has something to do with the m3u file because TVGF works fine with only the XML file activated. So, what do you think it could be? I am calling it a day and try again tomorrow. Thanks for any help you can give me. Cheers mate!
Just an update for you as I have made some progress. I decided to dump my computer of Kodi and performed a deep scraping to find any remnants. I was going to actually reinstall W10 but decided I would do that as a last resort. Anyway, I reinstalled a fresh copy of Kodi 17.6 32bit on my W10 64bit box. Next I extracted the xmltv data from the .gz file and also extracted the m3u data from its file. Next I loaded in the xml file first from the local drive and ran with that only. It worked! So now I knew that the xml file is good. I also checked it beforehand using an online source you mentioned in one of your posts. This told me it was good so that is why I proceeded to just load it in and try it. So figuring that the xml file was good I next used the Url source function and named the location of the xml.gz file and it too worked flawlessly. I enabled the "look for .gz files" and "convert & to &".
Next going to the optional tab, I enabled the authentication and provided my UN and PW. I tried using the m3u playlist subscriptions, no joy. Import addons.ini as a url and file, no joy. I also tried the channel mappings import mapping.ini section for my m3u file, no joy. Next I enabled the import m3u and as both a url and file but no joy on that as well. So, although I do have an EPG guide popping up, I do not have channel numbers, or group control. I am pretty sure it has something to do with the m3u file because TVGF works fine with only the XML file activated. So, what do you think it could be? I am calling it a day and try again tomorrow. Thanks for any help you can give me. Cheers mate!