**UPDATE** So i've been watching this thread for a while since i couldnt get the epg to show up on kodi...and if you read back some post you can see that i got some great help and suggestions...well like i said i didnt want to start a fresh install of kodi since that was going to be the plan this weekend. Well i resolved my problem and im not sure if this is what did it since i did tried a lot of things but this last step might have been the key, i read some older post and one suggestions was to pull the settings.xml from the stalker add-on, well i pulled the settings.xml file from the stalker-nfps addon and changed the timeout connection from 1 to 60, i left it at that and when i woke up this morning the epg was all populated, like i said i did tried many things with no luck and this last step might have fixed my problem, i am not sure if this will work for others with epg issues but i hope it helps for anyone else that has tried everything in this thread, it's a good thing to keep reading, trying and not giving up! thanks for all the help fellas'