kinda quiet around here
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although this is the kodi section, this is actually the best place to inform us about EPG issues regardless of device. ill look into it wacoachrusso
Just thought I'd report/verify that on 2 MAG254's on Portal 2 and one MAG254 on Portal 4 there is still no EPG/Guide data for most channels. Thanks psycon for checking into this, and for your/your teams' continued efforts to provide EPG/Guide services at all, and hopefully it will be corrected soon. Much appreciated!
Thanks. It was working a few weeks great....came back into town today, and some work, but majority out. Appreciate ya
I finally got the guide to work on my OTT TV box with Kodi16.1. I was wondering if there was a channel guide that I could print out to have a better idea of where to go. The latest epg that downloaded today has 971 channels, and channels 417 to 962 are in other languages, so are totally useless, is there any way to delete them?
Psycon, I still have to every day around 8pm, delete my database (epg11.db) and restart to get the UK channels.
Just FYI. I don't complain about it because I just figured this was something I had to do.
Is this true or am I missing something?
Could this be fixed if instead of 2:49am for me that my update happened at 7pm??
Just FYI. I don't complain about it because I just figured this was something I had to do.
Is this true or am I missing something?
Could this be fixed if instead of 2:49am for me that my update happened at 7pm??
Good question. Looking forward to the response. Primarily because my auto update doesn't work and if it did, the update time should be set just before the UK channels runs out of data.
You can go into the epg updater settings (xml file) in the userdata/addondata directory and change the time to whatever you would like for your rig. You could also turn off the update feature and just download the file from github yourself.
For a while, I was having to delete the epg11.db as well but have since found that all I have to do when this happens is to clear data in the kodi settings for live tv...under tv > guide > clear data. It works for me every time and I don't have to restart kodi.
Also, you can edit the stalker epg updater settings.xml file with any editor and change the time to what works for you.
Kodi has a built in channel manager that you can use to edit the channels you want or don't want. You can enter it in 2 ways: under Kodi settings > live tv > general > channel manager; or from within the pvr itself. To do the latter, go to channel listings and bring up the context menu (menu button, 'c' or right click, depending on your hardware). Then the tedious effort of going down the list of channels and deselecting those channels you want to 'hide' from the right column (un-tic 'active' and also do the same for 'activate guide' to speed load time a bit, then click on 'ok' to save.
Be Warned: the first time you opt to clear data in the Kodi Settings > Live TV, clear data... you will lose all your work (20-ish minutes). So don't do that!
Hope that helps.
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08 JUN 2016
Issue: The EPG/Guide is fading out/missing info all over the place again, just like it did 8 days ago back on 30 MAY 2026
I hope psycon can take another look into why it's gone M.I.A. yet again.
Thanks!
MAG 254, r14, 50Mbps Dn/10Mbps Up, Hard Wired Portal 2
Issue: The EPG/Guide is fading out/missing info all over the place again, just like it did 8 days ago back on 30 MAY 2026
I hope psycon can take another look into why it's gone M.I.A. yet again.
Thanks!
MAG 254, r14, 50Mbps Dn/10Mbps Up, Hard Wired Portal 2
Thanks psycon...today, on the live US channels, it's gone almost entirely now, so i guess it's something fairly significant. Good luck with getting it resolved, and as always, thanks to you/the epg.ninja team for your ongoing efforts to provide us with EPG/Guide services at all, on all platforms.