Please excuse my ignorance (and pc stupidity) but it now works because I have just selected waiatarua - Auckland. I didn't try it previously because I thought it was west Akl, ooops sorry.
Thanks to everyone that helped, you have made my month.
I've just done that, and media portal epg worked. However, I closed it down and reopened it (a little while later) and one or two of these channels text changed to Russian or something (weird characters)
The biggest concern tho is that WMC no longer has its epg data. I thought it might just need running again. Ran the collector, completed OK. But no change in WMC. I restarted the pc but still no change.
I ran the log collector anyway, and the one for WMC said it had failed. I ran the one for Media Portal and it completed ok.
After the reboot Media Portal had not changed at all (still foreign language), but the weird thing is WMC had a fully loaded /working EPG. As it's working, I'm too scared to change anything else lol.
My next task is to get WMC to wake up, record, and then go back to sleep. The issue I'm having tho is that the PC would wake up every five minutes from sleep or hibernation to do something. I removed the following from waking the computer (as per google search):
Bios settings Mouse Keyboard Network adapter Pretty much everything in Windows task scheduler I ran cmd, and the only two items allowed to wake pc are my hp ir usb receiver, and wireless keyboard.
The only thing that stopped the pc waking up was to disable 'wake up from sleep to do tasks' in the advanced power options. But now I'm guessing that WMC cant wake up if this isnt enabled.
Anyone have any ideas? Or should I be moving this to a different topic?
@33coupe The reason you're having problems with MediaPortal is that MediaPortal's EPG grabber (which is enabled in your setup) is overwriting the EPG Collector data that you're pulling in with the XMLTV plugin. To fix, simply disable the MediaPortal EPG grabber as follows:
Open TV Server Configuration.
Go to the "DVB EPG" section.
Untick the 2 "enabled" checkboxes.
Now to get rid of the garbled EPG:
Go to the "manual control" section.
Click "refresh DVB EPG" (this will clear out all the EPG).
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