Manual PID

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Spider24

10 posts

Wannabe Geek

#75334 17-Jan-2011 01:20

Is there a way to set the PID manually? My setup was working ok for a week, it missed one update the other day, but it's now stopped working. I've noticed that every time it didn't work, the PID was 0x100. When it does work, it's 0x3EA. In New Zealand, using MHEG5

EPG collector.ini

[GENERAL]
Output=C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents\WinTV\TVGuide.xml
Tuner=1,2
Timeouts=10,300,5
Language=eng
EITPid=4864
Option=USESAFEDISEQC,REPEATDISEQC

[DVBT]
TuningFile=New Zealand.Kapiti - Ngarara.xml
ScanningFrequency=666000,8,MHEG5

[SCANLIST]
Scanned=8746,27,1200,-1,TV ONE
Scanned=8746,27,1201,-1,TV2
Scanned=8746,27,1202,-1,TVNZ 6
Scanned=8746,27,1203,-1,TVNZ 7
Scanned=8746,29,1302,-1,TV3 PLUS1
Scanned=8746,29,1300,-1,TV3
Scanned=8746,29,1301,-1,C4
Scanned=8746,29,1303,-1,C42
Scanned=8746,33,1400,-1,Maori Television
Scanned=8746,33,1401,-1,Parliament TV
Scanned=8746,33,1402,-1,Trackside
Scanned=8746,33,1403,-1,ChineseTV
Scanned=8746,33,1404,-1,PRIME
Scanned=8746,33,1405,-1,TV33
Scanned=8746,33,1406,-1,Freeview | HD
Scanned=8746,33,1408,-1,tvCentral
Scanned=8746,33,2001,-1,Radio NZ Concert
Scanned=8746,33,2000,-1,Radio NZ National
Scanned=8746,33,2002,-1,BaseFM

smegger

6 posts

Wannabe Geek

#428537 18-Jan-2011 18:11

I'm also in Kapiti and using a similar setup. Today I realised that there were no EPG entries from the 13th January and I'd been using EPGcollector succesfully since day1.
Using the GUI I did a "Find" and on Freq 666 there was an entry EIT Not Found - Scheduled Programs. I tried freqs 730 and 762 the EIT showed no problems, so I tried 730 and the EPG was collected OK. When the problem was occuring EPGcollector was timing out with an Error Processing message.
I don't understand whats what but it would seem that TVNZ has changed something.
Sorry to not have answered your question, but it might explain why you have got a problem.

Spider24

10 posts

Wannabe Geek

#428639 18-Jan-2011 22:44

Funny thing, last night I changed to 762000 and got it working. I was going to post an update today 8). Any chance you can have a look through your epgcollector.log and see if your PID changed to 0x100 when it stopped working?

smegger

6 posts

Wannabe Geek

#428767 19-Jan-2011 11:33

I have a task to collect EPG at 0515am each day, originally using frequency 666 (TVNZ).
On the 13th January the log entry was "EPG delivery system is MHEG5 on frequency 666000 PID 0x3EA"
On the 14th January, the start of my problem, the log entry was "EPG delivery system is MHEG5 on frequency 666000 PID 0x100"

When I use the "Find" facility in the EPG Centre for frequency 666 it finds 3 MHEG5 PIDs 0x48B, 0x3EA and 0x100

I've only just started using EPG Centre and EPGcollector Ver3, it was this problem that prompted me to update from ver2, but that didn't rectify the problem.

Spider24

10 posts

Wannabe Geek

#429382 20-Jan-2011 22:30

I've using version 3, only had it going for a week or two. I figured that it wasn't anything that I did, since it was working ok up until then. I guess it's something at TVNZ's end.

SJB

2945 posts

Uber Geek
Inactive user

#429763 22-Jan-2011 09:18

Version 3 with Fixpack 3 fixes this problem.

Spider24

10 posts

Wannabe Geek

#433464 31-Jan-2011 22:47

smegger: I'm also in Kapiti and using a similar setup. Today I realised that there were no EPG entries from the 13th January and I'd been using EPGcollector succesfully since day1.
Using the GUI I did a "Find" and on Freq 666 there was an entry EIT Not Found - Scheduled Programs. I tried freqs 730 and 762 the EIT showed no problems, so I tried 730 and the EPG was collected OK. When the problem was occuring EPGcollector was timing out with an Error Processing message.
I don't understand whats what but it would seem that TVNZ has changed something.
Sorry to not have answered your question, but it might explain why you have got a problem.

Went to record the Beverly Hillbillies on TVCentral, ended up recording that Chinese channel TV33. The EPG has TVCentral with all the program listings, but the station has the same programs showing as TV33, are you getting the same thing? Might as well hide TVCentral if it's the same as TV33...