USING MC2XML TO MAKE YOUR OWN EPG - tuturial with open discussion

[expatter]

How do you get Microsoft listings? I heard that they are using Rovi now. I'm looking to add some channels to my guide but I don't want to use Schedules Direct because you're only allowed a certain number of "lineup changes" per day and I don't want to add a lineup just for local Miami channels for instance.

Yes, they are using Rovi. So that's a paid service like SD but it does have a free 30 day trial.

Maybe a better initial way is to try the zap2xml utility found on the mc2xml site. It's free and does pretty much what the mc2xml does. It uses data from zap2it by zip code.

OR you could also make a donation to the dev at awardspace and my understanding is that he will write your info to the program so you can get the MS stuff. If I remember right, that's what we did in the befinning. Some member paid $15 for Psyc0n's donation and he got the modified mc2xml with his credentials hard coded in and used that for the pulls.

Meh, try out the zap2xml or I can easily run the Miami stuff for you.

Here's a week's worth or Miami locals to use while you mull it over:

<a href=http://www.filedropper.com/viper><img src=http://www.filedropper.com/download_button.png width=127 height=145 border=0/></a><br /><div style=font-size:9px;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;width:127px;font-color:#44a854;> <a href=http://www.filedropper.com >online backup</a></div>

I just ran this pull.

Who are you getting your UK data from? I was able to use some of your channel IDs. Thanks! Your guide looks good. There were some blank channel listings for UK and I'll look at it again tomorrow but one channel had an extra empty space in the name (prob the same in .ren file) so I bet that's one channel sorted. 5 Star, 5 USA and RTE ONE I know were blank. C-Span2 & 3 also nul. It was nice to see the Canadian channels with data. But today I hid every one of those channels because the majority don't work. I can watch Canada stuff on my TV with Bell minimal service anyway.

Cheers

[ilan]

OR you could also make a donation to the dev at awardspace and my understanding is that he will write your info to the program so you can get the MS stuff. If I remember right, that's what we did in the befinning. Some member paid $15 for Psyc0n's donation and he got the modified mc2xml with his credentials hard coded in and used that for the pulls.

A CAD$20 donation gets the credentials for ROVI from Awardspace. I use it for some of the locals.

[xman0980]

http://s000.tinyupload.com/index.php...44125151098794
I can't get this download link to work. Says file invalid

[martin934]

http://s000.tinyupload.com/index.php...44125151098794
I hope you enjoyed those drinks! Viper's guide is still giving me some trouble. I can't get that tinyupload link to work. I'm getting a file ID error. I'm not sure what happened with the viper guide. I even tried the raw.githubusercontent direct link, as I also had some redirect problems with the ninja guide, still no dice for me. I run kodi on a windows 7 HTPC. Is the tinyupload link working for you expatter?

[expatter]

http://s000.tinyupload.com/index.php...44125151098794
I hope you enjoyed those drinks! Viper's guide is still giving me some trouble. I can't get that tinyupload link to work. I'm getting a file ID error. I'm not sure what happened with the viper guide. I even tried the raw.githubusercontent direct link, as I also had some redirect problems with the ninja guide, still no dice for me. I run kodi on a windows 7 HTPC. Is the tinyupload link working for you expatter?

Sorry, I guess I didn't quite finish the upload...operator error!

Take Two:

http://s000.tinyupload.com/index.php?file_id=65591704645007194955

As far as Viper's file goes, I used to manually download the guide.xml from github and store it locally. You can open the xml in your browser and do a 'file save as' and then select where to save the download in your box.

[expatter]

http://s000.tinyupload.com/index.php...44125151098794
I can't get this download link to work. Says file invalid

Reuploaded. See #115

[martin934]

http://s000.tinyupload.com/index.php?file_id=65591704645007194955

Thanks Expatter. It works like a charm. I did try a local download of Viper's. Still didn't work. Maybe his scripts are due to renew today. Time will tell. Hopefully I'll have some time to finish my own soon. Thanks for your help. You know, the whole give a man a fish vs teach a man to fish thing.

[expatter]

http://s000.tinyupload.com/index.php?file_id=65591704645007194955

Thanks Expatter. It works like a charm. I did try a local download of Viper's. Still didn't work. Maybe his scripts are due to renew today. Time will tell. Hopefully I'll have some time to finish my own soon. Thanks for your help. You know, the whole give a man a fish vs teach a man to fish thing.

It looks like the latest one from Viper starts with today's date.

[martin934]

Yep. Viper is working for me now.

[xman0980]

I cant get anything from Rovi
Connecting .. : rovicorp.com
,,Forbidden ... : Invalid keys? Excess requests per second? Bad template?

I made an account, and got my keys from the Entitlement section, but still nothing. Copy and pasted multiple times.