Sky EPG Seems to Have Disappeared?

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JimmyH

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#171924 5-May-2015 19:01

I have a non-MySky box. The EPG has been unpopulated since Sunday, which is making booking/recording programmes that are on at night for later watching (using hard drive DVD recorder) a bit of a challenge.

Is anyone else experiencing this and, if so, are the MySkys affected as well?

Wizzid

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#1298576 5-May-2015 19:14

MySky+ behaves as usual.

wingbat45

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#1298608 5-May-2015 19:56

Set the decoder to channel 028 for about half an hour and it will download, Channel 28 has the data your looking for.

mysky+ and mysky HDi have dedicated tuners to download this sort of thing (and your on demand ppv)

get sky out, I see this quite often.

Edit:
removed a pasted but and corrected a little something

bda

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#1298630 5-May-2015 20:46

If your using a 3rd party STB channel 28 means nothing.
What is channel 28 and what transponder is it on?

wingbat45

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#1298647 5-May-2015 21:10

bda: If your using a 3rd party STB channel 28 means nothing.
What is channel 28 and what transponder is it on?

I am asuming its a digital box, else this topic should really be in the freeview section

ch28 Stream 3
NZ13L 12515 H if that helps

JimmyH

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#1298652 5-May-2015 21:24

Correct, it's a Sky STB (Motorola)

However, the EPG data seems to have all reappeared now. Murphy's Law I guess - problem appears and lasts three days, then within two hours of posting a question about it it goes away.

wingbat45

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#1298657 5-May-2015 21:32

JimmyH: Correct, it's a Sky STB (Motorola)

However, the EPG data seems to have all reappeared now. Murphy's Law I guess - problem appears and lasts three days, then within two hours of posting a question about it it goes away.

If you watch a lot ov 1,2,3 the guide does not download correctly stick it on a channel about 4 and you should be good, 000 and 028 are the home channels.

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JimmyH

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#1298661 5-May-2015 21:36

I virtually never watch 1,2,3,4 or Prime (less than 2 hours a month I'm guessing), and record them off the antenna not the Sky box when I do. Constant shouty ad breaks are just too annoying.

Mostly the Sky box is either on a movie channel or Soho.

bda

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#1299384 6-May-2015 20:03

wingbat45:
bda: If your using a 3rd party STB channel 28 means nothing.
What is channel 28 and what transponder is it on?

I am asuming its a digital box, else this topic should really be in the freeview section

ch28 Stream 3
NZ13L 12515 H if that helps

Thanks

SepticSceptic

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#1299695 7-May-2015 09:42

Saw the same issue on our lunchroom skybox on Wednesday - quite a few channels were showing "Listings Temporarily Unavailable". I seem to recall the FTA channels were OK, it was the Sky-only channels that were affected (SOHO, Comedy, etc)

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#1299753 7-May-2015 11:10

SepticSceptic: Saw the same issue on our lunchroom skybox on Wednesday - quite a few channels were showing "Listings Temporarily Unavailable". I seem to recall the FTA channels were OK, it was the Sky-only channels that were affected (SOHO, Comedy, etc)

When I had an non mysky one all the listings disappeared around 12pm, or 1pm depending on daylight saving. They then came back channel by channel over about a half hour period.

So if you're in the lunch room around that time, I think it's the way they update the listings, delete the whole lot, and then reload them.

DickDastardly

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#1302702 12-May-2015 12:51

Is the Sky EPG disappearance, actually just the result of the roll out of the new Sky EPG with On Demand Content, Sky have been promising us....?

Come on Sky - either launch the new EPG or not....yes its gone very quiet from you....or are more preoccupied with fending off the Netflix/Lightbox revenue assault....!

I don't want no sugar in it - thank you very much

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wingbat45

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#1302943 12-May-2015 16:25

DickDastardly: Is the Sky EPG disappearance, actually just the result of the roll out of the new Sky EPG with On Demand Content, Sky have been promising us....?

Come on Sky - either launch the new EPG or not....yes its gone very quiet from you....or are more preoccupied with fending off the Netflix/Lightbox revenue assault....!

Quiet usually means working...