USING MC2XML TO MAKE YOUR OWN EPG - tuturial with open discussion

[expatter]

I am currently using kodi with PVR Stalker and am trying to use the file you provided. I downloaded the file you posted and un-zipped it, placed it on my kodi box and then went in to pvr stalker addon for kodi and setup the settings to allow this file to be used to provide the guide. I set the Scope to Local Path and put the path to the location where the file is located. Saved everything, cleared the guided data and restarted Kodi. After waiting for about 3 minutes the guided fails to load. Looking in the Kodi Log i get an error AddOnLog Stalker Client LoadEPG: XMLTV Parse Failed and Parse Failed to load XMLTV data. Is there anything I need to do to the file you posted besides unzipping it to get it to work?

Thanks for all the work.

Tim

What type of box are you trying to load it to? Do you have enough internal space & RAM to load the hefty 50 MB file? In KODI settings (TV > Guide ) how many days do you have listed to display?

In order to troubleshoot we need a bit more info for us to try and help you out.

[expatter]

Can the xml file be loaded into Ivue?
NO. That would involve working with the Ivue foks unless you already know how to use your own xml with Ivue. You could try, but for what reason? It works with the pvr already.
i understand the xml but what is the .chi and .ren?
What Ilan said...read the tutorial.

wouldnt the xml file have everything that is needed to the epg?
yes

Again, read the tutorial as it's explained. There is a separate tutorial pinned that says 'no discussion' and perhaps you will find that easier to follow. It has just 5 entries in it.

[ilan]

Ilan~Were you able to get channels from MS with just using the ID and leaving off the numbers?

I ended up choosing the MS display name that only had one "syllable" for mapping. Thus, if MS had four display names: 202 CNN, CNN News, 202 and CNN Newsroom, I chose 202 and entered

202:CNN US

in the REN file.

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Ack, maybe that's not what you meant. I have always used ID's in the CHL file.

[expatter]

I ended up choosing the MS display name that only had one "syllable" for mapping. Thus, if MS had four display names: 202 CNN, CNN News, 202 and CNN Newsroom, I chose 202 and entered

202:CNN US

in the REN file.

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Ack, maybe that's not what you meant. I have always used ID's in the CHL file.

Yeah, I just wondered if you tried just using CNN in .chl and CNN:CNN US in .ren files.
As I posted last night, I got the impression that either of the 3 listed IDs would work.
Again, more than one way to skin that poor kitty.

[ilan]

Yes, I was thinking that the top most display name was the one crucial for mapping, so an entry like 202 CNN threw me for a loop and required my two-step renaming, which (despite its stupidity) actually worked quite well.

[pendlet]

What type of box are you trying to load it to? Do you have enough internal space & RAM to load the hefty 50 MB file? In KODI settings (TV > Guide ) how many days do you have listed to display?

In order to troubleshoot we need a bit more info for us to try and help you out.

Here is more info. I am loading it to a windows 7 computer that i use as my storage for a Raspberry PI 3 that actually runs KODI. Raspberry PI 3 is running LibreELEC v7.0.2 Kernel 4.4.13 with a 16GB sd card. It has 736 MB Ram with 542 available. The file is shared out using a windows SMB share. The drive and file has the proper security settings and is reachable and from the kodi box.

Tim

[pendlet]

I just looked in the TV settings and it was set to display 3 days. I changed it to 8 to see if that would change anything since that's how many days are in the file. No change still does not load the file. In the PVR settings should it be set to cache guide data and if so how long? Default is 24 hours.

[expatter]

I just looked in the TV settings and it was set to display 3 days. I changed it to 8 to see if that would change anything since that's how many days are in the file. No change still does not load the file. In the PVR settings should it be set to cache guide data and if so how long? Default is 24 hours.

I would think a pi doesn't have the power to load that file, sorry. And if it did, I should think you would only want it to display 1 day. From all the posts I have seen in the past, people with pis do have memory load probs sometimes.

[expatter]

I just looked in the TV settings and it was set to display 3 days. I changed it to 8 to see if that would change anything since that's how many days are in the file. No change still does not load the file. In the PVR settings should it be set to cache guide data and if so how long? Default is 24 hours.

If you COULD get it to load I would guess 24 hours. But 542 MB is probably not enough to load the file. My android box has 2 GB and it loads OK on that.

Somebody with a pi or knowledge of them would have to tell you if it could load up a 50 MB file in KODI. I think that's probably asking too much of the pi, but IDK.

[Crunch69]

Expatter should your xmltv.xml file work in kodi TV guide full screen or Ivue?