EPG toasted

wagner · #1 11-20-2003, 11:32 AM

i've had sage running for a few months with no epg problems. but now my epg shows "bad airing" in every channel and timeslot and all of my recordings show as "invalid airing" i tried the epg refresh techniques suggested here with no luck. my internet connection is solid. i have reinstalled sage and java. i live in houston and use time warner cable which is supported by zap to it.

attaching my properties file in case that helps...

can somebody help?

jman · #2 11-21-2003, 09:49 AM

i've seen that too, but only with one show so far. i'm pretty sure the show was recorded normally w/ epg data, but at a later date it somehow got corrupted.

wagner · #3 11-21-2003, 10:23 AM

it's all of my recordings. and 95% of the epg--i have a few channels reporting correctly, but only in a few time slots.

i have tried a clean install, and all sorts of techniques to force an epg update.

mlbdude · #4 11-21-2003, 12:01 PM

Does a clean install me you delete all of your Frey directory before installing again?

wagner · #5 11-21-2003, 12:11 PM

yep, uninstalled it, then deleted the frey directory, then re-installed and ran setup.

mlbdude · #6 11-21-2003, 12:13 PM

Post your setup information and maybe we can get someone to try it to verify that it is an EPG provider problem. I have not done it for awhile, Zip, Cable provider etc. information.

wagner · #7 11-21-2003, 12:51 PM

zip: 77008
provider: time warner
package: expanded basic digital cable

wagner · #8 11-21-2003, 07:22 PM

after a day or so, another clean install and the epg is back up. not sure what was going on. thanks for the help, jman and mlbdude.

stanger89 · #9 11-21-2003, 10:40 PM

Since nobody else has mentioned this, all of the "\u0000"s at the beginning of the file are a little suspicious. Those definitely aren't supposed to be there, at least I've never seen them or that many of them.

wagner · #10 11-24-2003, 08:42 PM

ok. definitely something wrong with the epg for my zip. i moved my pvr card to another machine, did a fresh install of sage. and same problems. although zaptoit.com seems to have things right for my zip...

cmalinowski · #11 12-09-2003, 08:54 PM

Has anyone else had this happen to them? I was running the trial just fine. Then I purchased the actual product, and everything says "bad airing". This is a real bummer...

Can't get my client to work either, but that is a different subject. One problem at a time.

I do like my sage, but that may only go so far...

dkardatzke · #12 12-10-2003, 08:52 AM

When did the change to "bad airing" information happen? Is it happening for everyday, or with just a few channels. When did you first notice it?

cmalinowski · #13 12-10-2003, 04:38 PM

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Originally posted by dkardatzke
When did the change to "bad airing" information happen?

I first noticed it when I purchased the sageTV and entered the key code. That doesn't mean that it couldn't have been happening the couple of days before that as I wasn't able to devote much time to using it.

Quote:

Is it happening for everyday, or with just a few channels. When did you first notice it?

Every day. I would say that 80-90% of the guide's info says "bad airing" but there are some things that have normal info populated. I have done the "change a channel in the preferences" thing to get the guide to update, but that had no effect.

Thanks,
Chris

PS: 21228 comcast cable straight to tuner card.

stanger89 · #14 12-16-2003, 02:47 PM

Now I've got it too (12/16/03 2:45). Everything in the "Live
TV" Guide is "Bad Airing" except the stuff that's No Data after about 12/30. All my recorded shows are "INVALID AIRING" also.

It happened sometime in the past hour I'd say. I watched a show over lunch (about 1:00) and all was fine. I played with the properties file so the library would import VOBs, and attempted to connect with a SageClient trial from my laptop. I didn't really check the guide in there so I can't say exactly when it happened.

Anybody got any ideas?

stanger89 · #15 12-16-2003, 02:48 PM

Oh, 50014 Mediacom cable via RF in.

stanger89 · #16 12-16-2003, 08:03 PM

I just deleted my souce and re-added it. Everything looked good, my channel lineup showed up and all but now everthing in the guide says "NO DATA" except for a few things that were marked as "Don't Like" those still say "Bad Airing"

Anyway off to delete the Sage dir and reinstall.

stanger89 · #17 12-16-2003, 08:21 PM

Well I nuked the SageTV dir and reinstalled and the guide is now properly populated. Just to try, I put the new wiz.* and sage.pro* in a safe place and restored the old one I saved and lo and behold...... everything was hosed again.

Anyway I'm trying to attach the bad wiz.*, hopefully they'll help.

stanger89 · #18 12-16-2003, 08:26 PM

Guess the forum didn't want to take a 3Mb file, not a surprise really. Oh well, I was looking for a reason to re-format my drive to 64k clusters.

mlbdude · #19 12-17-2003, 05:58 AM

This happened to me once a long time ago. Same resolution on my part. Hold on to those old wiz.x files. We need to make sure Jeff gets them. This is a pretty major bug that is hard to detect.

stanger89 · #20 12-17-2003, 09:20 AM

Yeah, I filled out a support request to make sure there's a record of this. I plan to get at least the bad wiz.* to him somehow.

On the up side the EPG is much faster now. Previously when I went into the Recording Schedule and marked something as Watched or Don't Like it would take 30s-1m for the show to dissapear, now it goes away instantly.

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