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I believe luna's got a post on Pg 9 of this forum that shows how to manually add HDhomerun channels to the Settings2.xml.
That's the only way I could get it to work. Didn't have your issues, but that's the recommended method.
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2013-07-12, 04:24
(This post was last modified: 2013-07-12, 05:00 by blobdole.)
Update:
I've added my local library along with live channels into PTV and everything is working great. Only having a few issues.
1 - When opening PTV, on startup the XML file reads each live channel, taking about 1-2 seconds per channel. Having 15 live channels makes getting into PTV take a bit of time, nothing crazy but a slight annoyance.
2 - I was watching PTV this morning, live channels were displaying all correct info and time.. Shut down computer, then I come back and open PTV up at night, now all my live channels are showing programing info from this morning, like morning news and stuff, even though the time is right (10:30 PM), it's showing info from this morning. I also found that by closing and opening PTV when this happens, it fixes the issue and displays the correct info, but this fix isn't really realistic for replacing the cable box.
3 - The obvious EPG timeline issue that everyone is having. Sometimes I will open PTV to find that the guide is saying shows are starting in 10 min, when they are are already started. Although sometimes PTV opens without a hiccup and shows correct information. Not sure what is causing the 10+ min time jump in the EPG.
4 - Live channels show all correct naming in the EPG like "ABC News", but after changing channels, the bar at the bottom pops up and reads the name of what's playing. In local media that has been scraped, it shows correct info and description. But on live channels, instead of showing the same info/formatting that displayed on the EPG, it shows the name like this "ABC News//01x01//no desc |". I would be happy with it just saying the exact same thing the EPG says, even if it wont show a description, just for the sake of being more clean/professional looking.
Overall this was a pretty confusing process setting this up, but totally worth it. Even in its current state this plugin is absolutely amazing and revolutionary to the cable cutting experience. Bye bye cable bill.
But I do have one question .. Do I have to update the xmltv file manually a week/month from now when all the channels are showing different programing? Or does this happen automatically?
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2013-07-12, 19:12
(This post was last modified: 2013-07-12, 19:15 by blobdole.)
OK got it working with task manager each time the computer wakes from s3 it will update.
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^^ could use event ghost if you find that people leave the device on instead of putting it to sleep.
I just run a cron job essentially pulling an XMLTv file every other day.
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I've been anxiously waiting for a beta/stable release of this, hope your EPG fix works Lunatixz. I have all these strm files that can't be used in playlists and PTV was a great way of using these, and watching something new.