[robbyyyyyy]

Sorry if this is a noob question, it probably is. But under XBMC's regular LIVE TV I have my channels working perfectly from NextPVR, but PseudoTV Live won't grab them.
Do I have to try to learn how XMLTV works to get the channels in? XMLTV is a bit beyond my expertise. I tried using Media Portal for my Digital OTA stations, but I couldn't figure out the EPG stuff. NextPVR grabs it automatically so I'm sticking with that.

Use mc2xml to grab the XMLTV data. This guide is a little old but the gist of it is still relevant.(i skipped step2) Then it also shows you how to work that with NPVR.
http://mc2xml.hosterbox.net/#npvr

Contrary to the guide there is no command line needed. I literally just copy/pasted the info for the UpdateEPG.bat and then the mc2xml.exe had a GUI interface that I used to input my info. NPVR has a gui to adjust the update interval also.

then also use this guide but instead of using mediaportal, just edit the channels in NPVR
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid...pid1585495

In NPVR you would click on channels, then edit the channel details, change the source to the newly created xmltv file that mc2xml created. Then you match the channel with the channel ID from the xmltv.

The names must match exactly, I also learned that after I renamed the channels 1 time, if i renamed them again, and even edited the XMLTV file that PTVL would not pull the info.

So if it scans and the channel is WCVE-HD make sure that in the XMLTV file that the channel id is also WCVE-HD, mine was initially called 3-WCVWDT. And you only do this for the one channel_id line.

Since the names can be wonky use rabbitears.info to match the channels. If you are using an antennae that is, just match the frequency and and id.

Finally you must point PTVL to the xmltv file in the PTVL settings. Then auto-tune that bitch up.