Cliff Watson EPG add-on for MyHD, FusionHDTV, and HD Homerun - Page 5

If you're not sure what you're doing, I don't recommend doing your edits in the ch_maps.txt file itself. You might be better off to delete that file and start over with your mapping.

Could you save your channel list in MyHD and send it to me please?

Are you sure you are running the latest MYHD drivers & App?

I did see what appears to be some DT channels, but they don't make sense. For example:

This entry appears twice as the same channel, which (hopefully) CW_EPG does not allow you to do....

WSBDT,80,80,1,1,2,1
WTBSDT,80,80,1,1,2,1

Also, a possible bug that was pointed out that you can try. In MyHD, are the channels named or are they blank? If blank, try filling in a couple and see what happens.

AND NOW FOR THE BIGGIE.... I can not tell from your photo, but are you in "Favorite" mode???? If so, that may explain it cause none of those channels in the file you sent are marked as favorites and thus would not show up in tht mode. You would need to be on Input 2 to see them.

If none of this works, send the .mcl fiile!

Nah I'm pretty comfortable editing things like this, spent a lot of time in the Linux world so this is nothing new. Just new to the this. Running the newest version with the latest drivers.

On the DT channels. Yes the EPG allowed me to assign them that way. The reason I did that is because in MyHD it lumps pretty much all my ATSC channels on one channel with the rest being on the sub channels. It starts with channel D80 with ABC, then the other stations like CBS and Fox are on 80.1, 80.2 and so on. I thought I could stuff them on 80 since that is how MyHD has it it set up and in the EPG software I didn't see a way to list them as a sub channel. Since the EOG software can't handle NTSC stations yet I guess I could assign them to the regular channels fo my area. Like ABCDT as channel 3, FOXDT as channel 4 and so on correct?

I do not have my channels named in MyHD. I rarely use it since it's hooked up to my tiney 17 CRT but will be getting my 50'' Sony next week so I'll set them up in anticipation for that. I will try that tomorrow though and also send you my .mcl file.

I am not running in favorites mode either as I do not have any channels listed in favorites in MyHD.

Since 1.66 I have seen many problems with the channel lists.

My NTSC channels appear to not be allowed in the channel list. This may be a result of turning full timeshifting on.

Clearing full timeshifting, favorate mode and virtual channel mode and then doing an auto scan produces only the first x-1 digitials and not the additional sub digital channels.

Turning virtual channel mode on still does make the digital sub channels appear.

I must reload an old channel list to get the digital subchannels.

This problem must be seen by lots of people and discussed on another list where we should perhaps move this discussion in the unlikely case it has not been discussed already.

Timeshifting does not work with Analog channels, so when you turn on full time timeshift, the analogs won't appear in the list. This is expected behavior with full time timeshift and analog channels. This is in the documentation, and should probably be added to the META-FAQ if it isn't there already.

Sub channels are only seen in virtual channel mode, so it is acting as designed there too. If you want the sub-channels, turn virtual channels on and do a rescan.

I am not sure what you mean by this must be seen by lots of people... It has been seen by lots of people, when the Read the MANUAL.

You are correct in the fact that this is off topic & should be moved to a seperate thread.

I brought this up in the MyHDAuto thread, and I seem to recall that hdtvincr indicated that he did give preference to HD channels?

Or am I dreaming? Must be, I can't find it now.

And if not...maybe that's a good idea, if you can detect it (maybe preference to the lowest subchannel number, as it seems the HD channel is usual subchannel 1).

Although both PBS channels in LA that have HD do have it on the lowest sub-channel, I think I've heard of cases where that's not the case. I'd hate to rely on it, although that would certainly be better than nothing.

I don't believe that there is any way to determine for sure from the Zap2It listings whether a sub-channel is HD or not. There is a flag for individual programs but many PBS programs are what they call "widescreen" that fill the HD screen but are apparently lower resolution and do not carry the HD flag in the listings. These are still much better than SD (where they're usually letterboxed) but there's probably no way to identify them as such from the listing.

I think that the only sure way is to have a manually set user flag as part of the channel lineup.

Will "New to Me" do the job when both occur in the same time slot and and the LB SD one comes first in the Zap2It listings?

Where did that fancy looking guide that 405480 posted an image of come from? When I click guide on MyHD, it sure doesn't look anything like that....

Also, I heard some people mentioning about not recording repeats... is that currently capable or is that part of the New to Me feature to come?

Sorry if I missed the post...

Russ

Ahh, was getting the New To Me and New Only in the watch list confused. Got that figured out.

As for the Guide... I'm not using the MyHD remote, but I took at look at the guide by clicking the little guide icon on the right MyHD App and it gave me this instead..

Sorry if I'm just way out there...

Russ

You are right, I do not have VC enabled so I will give that a shot.

HDTVINCR, I e-mailed you my MCL file.

I can also probably answer Russ' questiong about the fancy OSD EPG. To me anyways, and you guys can correct me if I'm wrong here, if I run MyHD in full screen mode, AKA the HD button on the remote, I get the fancy look. Now it used to be in the past if I had the OSD EPG up in HD mode and then shrunk the screen the EPG would stay on screen but it doesn't anymore for some reason. No big deal since I don't plan on watching TV on half the screen when I can use the whole screen. I am guessing that Russ is seeing essentialy a Windows type application that's plain Jane looking and doesn't seem to be integrated into the MyHD picture window (kinda hard to describe). I get that too if I run MyHD in anything but HD mode.

And I just saw your post Russ. Yes that is what you will see when you run the guide from the menu versus the remote. When you HD the MyHD window it goes full screen and you lose your little toolbar. That then forces you to use the remote and the fancy EPG would then appear.

Enabled VC and still no luck. But it now appears that my "fancy" OSD has turned from a tolerable green/yellow style to a new purple/yellow/pink so at least I got that going for me

Did the above steps, enabled VC and still no luck. Let me ask you this; when I'm in MyHD and hit the guide button what file is MyHD looking at in order to populate the EPG? Whatever file it is seems to be telling MyHD to start the EPG on Dec30. Can you navigate inside the EPG? I mean if it populated for me with two days of program info could I scroll through to say 4pm tomorrow and see what's coming on ESPN inside the EPG? If so how? Maybe I can scroll my way to the proper day. The guide on the digital connection site is not poulating all the info for me to read through.

Trent,

Of the 137 channels in MyHD, about 66 were NOT analog......

Of the 66 NOT analog, 1 was correctly mapped in the ch_maps.txt file and it another channel assigned to it also.

It appears your local HD channels are located between channels 80-1 thru 80-8 on your cable system. Those are the ones that need to be mapped. Forget all that analog crap for now, and forget all the crap like TV Guide channel forever! Your wasting processing time for the app and bandwidth from Zap2it.

I'm not sure what you've been doing, but you'll be better off to start over. Your ch_maps.txt file should look something like what I've attached (I had to guess on a couple entries).

 

ch_maps.txt 0.234375k . file

I'm just about ready to give up on this, still doesn't work. I really don't know how to explain this to you guys. When I'm in MyHD, looking at the channel guide, after I enabled VC and did a rescan, the DT channels that you had listed in that txt file do not match. My channels, after the scan, go D80-1 then on to D81-1, 82-1 and so on, it doesn't list sub channels on D80 for me. In the MyHD channel list sub channels do not show up for me until channel 97. Then I see D97-1, D97-2, D97-3 and so on. Before I had VC enabled all those channels on D80 were correct. I had D80-1, D80-2 etc.

Thinking out loud here, but I believe that with VC enabled it is quite possible that you will not see the 80-1, 80-2, etc IF your cableco is supplying PSIP for those channels and re-mapping them to their proper "virtual" channels.

All that aside... You need to start from scratch. In MyHD, delete ALL your channel list. Then re-scan with VC enabled. When finished, thumb thru all your channels and make note of those that are'nt analog, especially your locals. (in fact, if it were me, I would scan "Digital" only in MyHD so they don't show up)

Go to Zap2it and redo your channel lineups keeping ONLY what you will use.

Delete the ch_maps.txt file in the CW_EPG. Run CW-EPG and map the channels you noted from above to the respective channel listed in the "EPG DT Channels".


I'm really good at leaving something out, so jump in if you see something Terry.

The PC's time is not the issue or his cw_epg.mdb would be wrong (which I checked).

ok im fixing to jump in on this new epg...here goes

I'll give it another run tomorrow. I'm just going to attempt to get one channel to show up in there. If I can atleast get that then I'll go from there.

Finally, success!

Cleared everything, edited zap2it to show only one channel, ABC-DT, set MyHD channels to have that one channel in the mappings and pretty much the same for CW_EPG. Now it works so I'll slowly add in other channels.

Thanks for sticking with me on this one, I appreciate it.

Feature:
Would it be possible to separate the auto run AND schedule matches in the -auto command line option?

Reason:
I use both Record_This and CW_EPG. Record_This handles scheduling for both my MyHD and Fusion card. I use the CW_EPG for the enhanced guide data. It is also very handy for quickly scheduling a one-off or to quickly check or delete MyHD schedules. What I don't currently use it for is scheduling.

I have it set up to run in a bat using the following switches: -auto -myhdepg -download -wipelog

The problem is that in order to run in auto mode it also wants to schedule, which means I need to REMOVE all of the Watches so that no scheduling is done. While that works, it would be nice to be able to keep my Watches listed.

Cris