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any idea of the ETA of your how to guide ploempie?

thanks for the great work so far

I would like to recommend that we setup a site offshore with a PHP script doing HTTP 302 temporary redirects to sites that have the XMLTV file hosted. The PHP script would then either sequentially or pseudo-randomly refer each request to a different site. That way intelligence can be added as needed and the site would technically not be serving the file but merely allowing for a "lookup directory".

I'm pretty sure that MCE and the other tools will support the 302 redirect but someone should test it.

In time we can change the PHP script to redirect based on various factors like checking the validity of the mirror, closest mirror, etc.

I am willing to offer my hosting in the US up for this purpose as I have ample capacity available.

What do you guys think?
 

Hey! I'm with you on that one! I've also got hosting I'm willing to offer for a mirror. US based. We should maybe consider Sweden based. They have no laws for this soft of things.

CraigN:

I would like to recommend that we setup a site offshore with a PHP script doing HTTP 302 temporary redirects to sites that have the XMLTV file hosted. The PHP script would then either sequentially or pseudo-randomly refer each request to a different site. That way intelligence can be added as needed and the site would technically not be serving the file but merely allowing for a "lookup directory".

I'm pretty sure that MCE and the other tools will support the 302 redirect but someone should test it.

In time we can change the PHP script to redirect based on various factors like checking the validity of the mirror, closest mirror, etc.

I am willing to offer my hosting in the US up for this purpose as I have ample capacity available.

What do you guys think?
 

I think this is a good idea. If you are willing to set up the script then we could make this work. Only one address to tell MCE to look at then and it keeps the traffic down on all the hosting sites. I am seeing Bozzy tonight and will get an update on how far he is with the files.

What about using bittorrent or p2p type system to retrieve the community maintained xmltv files and compiled files and you simply use a local iis server or pws to host it for your mce. The torrent would ensure relatively anonymous hosting of the various files and if the compiled files are served by a personal web server, the keepkey config file would simply be pointed to your local webserver, which can all be on the same computer as your media centre.

any update on the epg installation guide ploempie and bozzy?

How is the zaepg setup going?

Don't realy want to go the smartguide route as my wife will kill me if she has to resetup her recordings. (A LOT)

I've managed to hack something together in the meantime. I still have zaepg installed.

I downloaded the following:

zaxmltv data

bladerunner 3.5

I also have an iis server at home, it's seperate from my mce, but I'm sure you could do this just as easily with a personal web server.

I set up a virtual directory called epg, so I could browse to http://server/epg

I then changed my keepkey.config file to point to the new location. http://server/epg/GetTVServicesMetaInfo.html

restarted the keepkey service

After installing bladerunner I did the following:

put Channelinfo.xml in C:\Windows\ehome\BladeRunnerPro\QuickGuide

put guide xml file in C:Windows\ehome\BladeRunnerPro\GuideData

Ran bladerunner

copied the resulting bin file to my iis server, location http://server/epg/GuideData/guide.bin

Had a look in C:Windows\ehome\BladeRunnerPro\Native

hacked the following files so that the location was correct in them (check url, location, subpath, basically everything that pointed to native, changed it to epg and everything that pointed to localfile, changed it to the url servername:

GetEPGDataMetaInfo.html

GetTVServicesMetaInfo.html

I copied the contents of C:Windows\ehome\BladeRunnerPro\Native to http://server/epg

I then did a manual guide download on the mce 2005 and although it gave me an error 23, the information is correct. I need to figure out why I get the error, but it's a minor problem.

This post helped me with some of the info:

http://sa-mce.com/forums/p/286/794.aspx

Thanks also to Colin who made this whole process seem so effortless.

If anyone has any insight about the error 23, please let me know how to overcome it?

Found this on The Green Button today and was posted quite recently:

"We are always evaluating the potential to bring new EPG services online, and South Africa was one that we recently pursued.  Unfortunately, we were unable to obtain the rights to collect and distribute EPG data for one of the large broadcasters in this area.  We will continue to keep this region on our radar, and we will attempt to provide information regarding any new EPG regions as they become available.

---

Corey Gouker
TGB Moderator | eHome CSI Team Member | Microsoft MVP - Media Center

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights."

Sounds like no EPG from Microsoft anytime soon...

Shot Ploempie for hosting the new guidedate.zip file

I changed a couple of lines in my old batch script set up that I used before zaepg service came online, and I am back in business.
Would seriously appreciate the Supersport channel info if you can get it.

Thanks again!! 

For info:

auto.bat :

cd \
cd c:\guide
wget.exe http://www.*******.co.za/epg/guidedata.zip
del xmltv.xml
del xmltv.dtd
del channelinfo.xml
"c:\Program Files\IZArc\IZArce.exe" -o C:\GUIDE\guidedata.zip
erase guidedata.old
ren guidedata.zip guidedata.old
echo change the next line to run your favourite EPG importer
cd\
cd c:\windows\ehome\
updateguide.bat

 
updateguide.bat :

copy c:\guide\xmltv.xml c:\windows\ehome\zaxmltv.xml
C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v1.1.4322\CasPol.exe -s off
c:\windows\ehome\quickguide.exe /batch
C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v1.1.4322\CasPol.exe -s on

 Files :

wget.exe : http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/wget/
izarce.exe : IZArc Command Line : http://www.izarc.org/download.html

Just use task scheduler to run auto.bat one a week and you're good to go.
 

 

Sounds cool will want to try this solution, I am running Vista... Where can I get the Guidedata.zip file from?

 

scalci:

Sounds cool will want to try this solution, I am running Vista... Where can I get the Guidedata.zip file from?

 

People, don't you read the posts?

You can get guide data from mceguide.co.za or worthit.co.za.

Regards

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Let rip!

I've managed to use an epg webapp Colin mentioned.

I've used it to automate the collection of the xmltv files and provide it to my mce2005 machine.

 It's taken the hacking out of the workaround I posted before. I also integrated the bat file from crucible to collect the data using wget.

It was a mother to get going (because I'm stupid) but it's working. If there's a need, I'll post details.

Resetting up my guide details sorted out the error 23

Does anyone have a working tvxb ini file that they can make available to me?