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    Default DM500 EPG setup ?

    Anyone got the EPG working long term ? My EPG is only showing up for the next hour. I have set up a share for the EPG cache but it still does not populate.



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    need more info

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    DM500S
    PLi-Iolite-2008
    Fo$tel
    Mounted Windows share via CFIS
    EvoCamd+NewCS

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    Quote Originally Posted by covert View Post
    DM500S
    PLi-Iolite-2008
    Fo$tel
    Mounted Windows share via CFIS
    EvoCamd+NewCS
    You will need to go to an external source - there were several good articles on here about it before the crash - as foxtel only have now and next

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    Well this looks like a start


    [edit]This looks like a better route.


    and this is of interest

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    Some info on it at OCAU

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    ..it would be could if I could edit my above posts......


    It was all a bit convoluted trying to get the xmlguide from tuhs site. Just replace tvguide.pl to xmlguide.pl on the relevant page.

    Now to get the xmltv data into the dreambox...

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    Have a look at EPGCenter @

    I was running the EPG this way for a while until the demo run out on me, Haven't bothered to pay the fee yet.

    EPGcenter may not be the only way to get the XML data in there but it was successful for me.

    Cheers Tri.

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    I have all the pieces I need to make it work now. Just need to mesh it all together. Might have some time tonight. Current roadblock is MV not supporting my share path (media/server1). If I change my setup to use media/hdd it should all fall into place.

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    I have done away with the need for retrieving the xmltv from a local web server.

    Chose MyXMLTV from the input options.

    Running the command..

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    wget -O /media/hdd/mv/myxmltv/tv.xmltv http://username:password@minnie.tuhs.org/tivo-bin/xmlguide.pl
    places i in a directory where MV will pick it up. Just need to put that into a cron job and it will be automated.

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    Strange.. My post #10 was posted AFTER post #11....

    I see my post #10 as a post about doing away with the web server..
    I see my post #11 as a long with explaining how to do it with a web server..

    [edit] I see my old post #11 in post #12 now...

    [edit2]Someone has been playing with the time on the server.

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    OK. I have it all working now. Just need to spend time doing the alias so the chans match up.

    I used MV for the guide. It is included in Pli-Iolite image.

    I download the guide from
    I have selected xmltv as my preferred download format. This will be automated with a cron job on the DM using wget. wget url needs to be in this format...

    Code:
    http://username:password@minnie.tuhs.org/tivo-bin/xmlguide.pl
    My network share had to be /media/hdd since MV would not let me chose /media/server1

    In MV setup my storage dir is /media/hdd/mv

    check /var/tmp/mv.log for error while setting up. Make sure Auto Dirs is unticked once you have them correct.

    My share line in inputs.txt for MV is..
    Code:
    TuhsXmlTv x u f 0 tuhsxml 4 xmlguide .pl http://192.168.0.7/covert/
    192.168.0.7 machine is running a web server. Since the dreambox has a webserver in it I think you could symlink a directory on your networked share to store the file... ?

    Fire the questions away if you are trying the same thing. I might make a guide when I have some time if people are interested in it.

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    write a script to do it all

    Oztivo.sh
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    wget "http://USERNAME:PASSWORD@minnie.tuhs.org/tivo-bin/xmlguide.pl" -O /hdd/mv/myxmltv/tv.xmltv

    change the directory to suit where you want it.

    cron that and it will do it automagically...

    ozcron
    ---------------------------------
    30 3 * * 1,4 /var/bin/Oztivo.sh

    change that to suit what day(s) of the week and what time you want

    this was the second thing I did after getting a DM, 1st was recording some of these should be stickies....

    edit: ps dude are you the guy that pm'ed me before "THE CRASH"???

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    No I think that was me from memory

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    With MV input configuration on the dm500 (pli-iolite) how do I choose /mnt/hdd as this is what my mount is linked to.

    Or is /media/hdd the same thing?

    I can get wget to get the xmltv file for me a dump into my mounted xp share drive. I am manually running through telnet a wget.sh script I created so how do I tell the dreambox to run ozcron.sh automatically? Or do I edit some established script?

    Thanks

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    sorry been sick....

    Ummm i could not get it to work without using /mnt/hdd/ MV seemed to be very specific in what structure it would work with I had help on this from a Austech member we were both trying to get things like this to work @ the same time, both he and I spent hours trying different things and he kindly mentioned that IT HAD to be this structure and sure enough it worked

    this is my setup

    I use Oztivo.sh to grab the data from Oztivo website as xmltv file. ozcron just basically tells the DM to run Oztivo.sh at certain times of the day during the week this then gets run through EPGcentre which does the conversion to .cfe format (Epgcenter is set to automatically convert it at a certain time during the early morning)

    and then I get a few days worth of EPG data


    so if you want to add a cron job to grab the data using a shellscript which will have all the wget command etc in it just

    telnet in (do yourself a fav and grab DCC its easiest to use and has tabs for FTP and Telnet next to each other real handy if you upload files, then need to chmod or execute them)
    to /var/spool/cron/crontabs then type crontab ozcron (or whatever you call your file) to see it added to cron job list type crontab -l and you should see your file added.

    if you modify the ozcron file with different data you need to remove the existing cron job and then re-add it, from memory its crontab -r ?? sorry not 100% sure at the mo' or maybe crontab -d ozcron or something

    just have to make sure cron daemon has been enabled on the DM first..

    its late here, if this does not help I'll gladly do a step by step.

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    top post will try out tonight after work.

    So I still need EPGCenter in the mix...I thought using wget I could eliminate the need for it.

    It seems the dreambox will not accept anything other then cfe which only epgcenter converts to? I was thinking that MV could read the xmltv file wget spits out.

    Thanks again

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    Quote Originally Posted by Plantagenet View Post
    top post will try out tonight after work.

    So I still need EPGCenter in the mix...I thought using wget I could eliminate the need for it.

    It seems the dreambox will not accept anything other then cfe which only epgcenter converts to? I was thinking that MV could read the xmltv file wget spits out.

    Thanks again
    mv can read and convert xml files to cfe files
    I got it to do that once but it left the cfe file lying around in the working directory .. didnt quite finish it off
    I ended up using pli/sqlite/epg plugin for a full dreambox solution
    although I have a 7000 with its own hard drive
    if you have a 500 or 5620 or no hard drive then because your disk storage is elsewhere probably on a windows machine
    then epgcentre running on that windows machine may well be better
    just a question once you get the epog this way - is it available from every dreambox if like multiepg, channel epg, webif epg ?

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