

I can force Schedules direct to do a full guide update, manually stop and restart the TV Service, and the TV guide gives the proper listings. I go to the Schedules Direct plugin, and have it download the details for those 6 channels, and then do the proper TV combinations and everything seems fine. There are 6 main channels I watch (between channel numbers 600-617). Starting from the beginning, I do a channel scan in the normal way (TV servers, pick my card, scan in Digital Cable, map channels to other cards), then delete the channels I don't pay for. I'm running WHS 2011 and have a HD Homerun Prime Cable Card. Restart TV Server again to trigger SD to start grabbing EPG.I'm experiencing a problem with Schedules Direct that I didn't have in MP 1.7, but I changed a few things when I updated to MP 1.8 a few months ago.

"force guide update on next TvService startup": I would tick this so that you get the EPG data coming in as soon as you're ready.ĩ. Do not add numbers to the channel names when you rename them - it is literally *just* the callsign that you need. "channel name format": the naming requirement in step 4 has absolutely no relationship to this setting. This option is mainly useful for people with analog cable channels. If you name the channels as specified in step 4 then you shouldn't have a problem with getting the guide data linked up correctly. "allow EPG channel mapping by channel number only": I would ensure that is unticked too, at least for a start. Ticking that may create channels that you can't receive which then makes it tricky to get the guide information for those channels. "automatically add new digital cable/satellite channels": I would untick that since it will be simplest to scan the channels in with your tuner. On the "advanced options" tab the most important settings (in my opinion) are: Expand the plugins node to get to the Schedules Direct configuration.Ĩ. Navigate to the plugins section, enable the Schedules Direct plugin.Ħ.

WXABC) in the SchedulesDirect lineup *exactly*.5. Rename all your channels to match the callsign (eg. You can restart TV Server in the manual control section of TV Server configuration.Ĥ. The install instructions are in the Readme file.

Create an account and set up a line-up on their website ().Ģ. I followed the instructions below and I get no data available in my tv guide.ġ. I have a tv server setup with my tuner card.
