TVTV service not working - Page 3

LostInSpace · #41 12-16-2005, 07:16 AM

try V4.1 out today...
I'll try it this evening.

LostInSpace · #42 12-16-2005, 04:40 PM

YESSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!
It's seems to be working for me... I have all the channels I need for the moment. I'll have to check further but it looks good.
Thanks Sage.
Ferdinand

Roedel · #43 12-16-2005, 04:40 PM

yes, 4.1.3 imports now the epg data with the correct time. i changed the timezone to the correct value before i made the upgrade.
after it, i had to reestablish the tvtv "credentials" and then... yes... all data are correct.
one thing is now solved, others are pending.

-Noeggi

tomboyzzz · #44 12-17-2005, 07:33 AM

not in my case. not all analog spanish channels are into the list of tvtv when sagetv download it....

i can't watch 3 channels....

LostInSpace · #45 12-20-2005, 12:28 PM

Are those channels available @ TVTV?
All mines are ok (french, dutch, holland,...)

tomboyzzz · #46 12-20-2005, 04:24 PM

but not spanish channels....

LostInSpace · #47 12-22-2005, 09:48 AM

seems the Sage is not recording my favorites any more. Does anyone have the same problem???
Thanks

Ferdinand

nielm · #48 12-22-2005, 10:17 AM

I have not yet switched over to tvtv, but it could be that the tvtv show names have slightly different capitalization / punctuation from the old xmltv show names... this would mean that the favorite title would not match the show title...

eg the following would not match each other...
Buffy, the Vampire Slayer.
Buffy, the Vampire Slayer
Buffy the vampire slayer.
Buffy, The Vampire Slayer

Opus4 · #49 12-22-2005, 10:48 AM

BTW: favs should be case insensitive now, but punctuation still matters.

Are the favs actually airing? I know I have very few favs set to record simply because there isn't much new on lately.

- Andy

Sten3danny · #50 12-22-2005, 02:59 PM

I have the same problem with favorites not being recorded. In my case, they are recognized as favorites, but just not scheduled to record.

I can't figure out why...

marneb17 · #51 12-23-2005, 07:05 AM

Aloha,
some of my favs don't record either.
But I know why and have submitted a support request.
The first problem is that SageTV does not read the episode titles. See the first screenshot.

The worse problem is that on certain channels ("Pro 7" and "Kabel 1" for me) every episode of a show has the same description. It's the description of the show that first aired after I switched from XMLTV to TVTV. So sageTV has no episode title to differentiate the episodes and since all of the descriptions are the same, it "thinks" all of them are the same.
See the second screenshot.

As mentioned this only happens on certain channels. Others work fine.
Maybe you could check, if you have the same problem.

Marneb

nielm · #52 12-24-2005, 04:03 AM

From your screenshots, I guess that Sage or TVTV is generating incorrect Show IDs (the EP490100000).

A show ID beginning wth EP is for an individual episode and Sage will remember whether you have already recorded or watched that episode and never record it again.

It may be that the entire series is using the same EPxxx show ID, which means that Sage will record one episode and no others. (If the series has no episode info, it should use the generic SHxxxxx showID). Check the detailed info for each show to confirm this.

A workaround would be to use viewing history to clear the watched status on shows like this (via webserve / malore menus / favorite manager).

IF you want to keep each episode, clear watched and edit the show info in the webserver (it will generate a new Show ID).

and of course report this to sage...

(/me is holding off upgrading to TVTV until I am back from holidays!)

Sten3danny · #53 12-26-2005, 04:04 AM

It's exactly like you say, Nielm. The ones that aren't recording all have the same EPxxxx ID.

As far as I can tell, the problem is only on one channel for me, so I'll just set manual recordings for the coming two weeks or something.

It would be nice if it was fixed though...

marneb17 · #54 12-26-2005, 10:57 AM

Aloha,
i hope you had a nice x-mas.

The TVTV service apperently has a problem with some channels.
As nielm wrote all those episodes have have an showID that starts with EP, which is OK, since they should all have individual descriptions. But the all have the format of: EPxxxxx000000 while the other showIDs are counting upwards in one of the last digits every episode.

I saw this on the following channels, but not with all shows. Maybe somebody else with the TVTV listing can confirm this:
Sat1 (J.A.G.)
Pro7 (Simpsons)
Kabel1 (Friends, King of Queens, Star Trek Voyager, J.A.G., Emergency Room)
RTL2 (Full House)
(I don't watch all of these shows, but I saw that they all suffer from the same problem... but there are more.)

on the other hand "VOX" is a channel with many shows, but I haven't seen this problem there.
But as I wrote, not all shows on the mentioned channels have this problem. I am not sure wether it is really a channel problem or rather a problem with certain shows, that happen to air on those channels. Maybe the problem is, with back to back episodes, since all the shows that have this problem are aired back to back at least sometimes??

Marneb

DIBU · #55 12-29-2005, 02:50 AM

hi,

i have now switch to tvtv, and all my shows in the upcoming list are lost. is the intelligent recording not working?

when i search the shows over category..i see that many categorys are empty
just wonder...

when i mark in tvtv-webinterface a show as record, the show is marked as sending, but after a epg-update in sage the show is not in the upcomming recording list. bad bad bad

cu
dibu

marneb17 · #56 12-29-2005, 04:15 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DIBU

when i mark in tvtv-webinterface a show as record, the show is marked as sending, but after a epg-update in sage the show is not in the upcomming recording list. bad bad bad

cu
dibu

I don't think they adverticed that the web-interface would work with sageTV, but I could be wrong on this.
Since the channel-sorting on the TVTV site doesn't have any effect on Sage, I would have been quite suprised if this had.

While this feature might be cool, I pretty much have this working with the supperb web-server plugin.

Concerning the IR. Many categories are called different now. Most are better actually. But since the IR-routine tries to record those genres that you have watched it will not find any, if the catagories have changed names. Maybe from "Action" to "Action-Serie" or something. Wait for a week and watch the shows you like, and IR will start to record what you like.

Marneb

tomboyzzz · #57 12-30-2005, 03:52 AM

the worse thing is that tvtv seems to don't care about our mails praying a solution. They always says: "sagetv is the newest addition on our list of devices and we're working around the best integration" but i think they're not working on it. I can't download most important data of my local channels, webinterface doesn't work. nothing. We could send a mail together as tvtv customers demanding a solution. !!!!

nielm · #58 01-06-2006, 08:28 AM

marneb17, Sten3danny: did you guys report this to SageTV (via the bug reporting email, not via the forums)

Regarding IR: One of the things that IR uses is the channel ID. The channels from TVTV will appear as 'new' channels to IR and will not inherity the 'scoring' from the XMLTV channels.