Windows Media Center TV Guide Data Fix [WMC OTA EPG]

Data shows up fine in the guide. But searching for any of the shows by title etc, brings up nothing in the search results...

 

Hi this worked a treat, so many thanks to your great guide.
I just wanted to ask a question on if it is possible to get the first aired information on shows over the air grabbing?
Or do i need to subscribe to a certain xml grabber site and if so which ones provide this?
Thanks.

 

Hello, I have registered on this forum, which I found via a web search, specifically to express my appreciation of the very clear and easy to follow guide that you have posted to enable me to obtain UK Freeview HD listings. I have used WMC ever since it first appeared. Each time there is an OS update on my Win10_64 bit setup the first thing that I try is WMC to see if it still works. So far, the work arounds available elsewhere on the web have allowed this to work flawlessly in Windows 10. Like many others, I have never understood why MS "dropped" this class leading product but I am still using other MS products successfully that MS dropped long ago, including "Money" and "Autoroute". Without the efforts and generously given time of people such as yourselves, my computing life would be a lot more mundane. I am too old to learn the skills required to create these solutions myself so like to give credit where it is due and once, again, offer a huge "thank you".

 

my WMC program guide has been functioning perfectly (Crystal Palace transmitter) but when I opened WMC today a pop up notification appeared stating WMC support would be ending in Jan 2020 and the TV channel updates would no longer work. I do have a Plex Pass but have to say that my experiences using Plex as a DVR have been poor, tv recordings suffer from interlacing artifacts, buffering is a continual problem when watching live tv, even doing something simple like changing the channel takes forever. Bottom line is WMC on my Windows 7 PC, even at the end of it's life, it still outperforms Plex DVR across the board. So I'll continue with WMC until it becomes absolutely unusable. I'm so happy to have found this fix for the Windows Media Center TV Guide, I haven't tried it yet because my guide updates are still working but I've bookmarked this thread for when they stop. Thanks for your work, well done!

 

Does this mean even this fix here stops working?

 

Does this work for US based ATSC/Clear QAM? I follow the instructions to set Custom parameters and see DVB cable/ATSC/Clear QAM, select channel with frequency, run the collection but end up with Exit Code 15!

 

What’s the difference between EPG centre and EPG collector? I used EPG centre and right at the beginning, don’t see your Tuning of DVB Terrestial. Instead I have DVB Cable/ATSC/Clear QAM. I selected the channels in ATSC and Clear QAM which has the channels and frequencies but scanning doesn’t give anything but exit code 15!

 

Yes I downloaded v4.3

 

I followed the instructions and got everything to work but I don’t see how to load it on WMC other than 1 selection that says “import to WMC”?
My about Guide shows Rovi as provider?
How do I link the new guide listings from Zap2it over?

 

No I didn’t see the EPG collector channels, only the existing ROVI channels. I did a WMC set up again and guide has disappeared?

 

Here’s the outputs, is this correct?
Looking at it again, I can see that I don't have the same options as the instructions. How do I make the output to WMC?

 

I removed the XML Output and rerun the EPG collector and I can see the same result you showed, except I can see lots of gaps in my results?
My Guide is still showing the existing ROVI guide, no extra channels to edit.