Plugin: Schedules Direct EPG (not for v9)

[Tiki]

Originally Posted by Dave Beddows

So i tried that and I still hanging on the "Object Database Backup is Initializing" for over an hour without any wiz files in the directory. Hard to turn on debug if it won't start. Going to use uninstall to remove any trace of sage and try fresh install next unless you have a better idea. I am assuming I can copy my old wiz file in afterwards and it will convert it for me.

Someone in another thread just posted a similar problem. They determined that in their case there was an old copy of lucene.jar that was screwing things up. You might try checking the jars folder and removing any copies of lucene.jar that are there before running the installer.

[Dave Beddows]

Sorry I am delayed in responses. I'm a utility worker and am doing 12 hr shifts 7 days to deal with storm issues. Sage has picked a bad time to crash for me.

I have now completely wipped the c drive clean. I moved anything FREY or SAGE onto a backup drive. I have just installed a brand new licensed windows 7 32bit. Went 32 because of video cards.

I have to make a choice tomorrow to insall SAGE 7, repalce the wiz and property files from my backup then do a SAGE 9 upgrade
OR
Install sage 9, replace the wiz with my backed up wiz and hope it converts it.

I am not concerned about retaining themes and com skip. I can install and config them manually. What I want to keep is:
- Previously watched info
- Favorites
- The ability for it look at my recording & DVD image directories and make the content accessable as it did in vs 7.


It would be nice if thevs 9 comskip would recognizze the exsisting comskip stuff in my sage recordngs directory. It should if I use the sane plugins.


My gut is to install vs 9, repalce the wiz and hope for the best

[Fuzzy]

Yes, your best bet is to simply install sagetv 9 from scratch, and go through the setup completely, adding your sources, and recording/import folders, then shut it down, a drop your backed up wiz.bin in there. Sage will take a while to upgrade it, but once it does, it will then scan and reconnect the info in the database to the new file locations.

[Dave Beddows]

Done that and my favorites etc are back. Probably wouldn't be a good idea to move properties file across I'm guessing. Was thinking about it so I wouldn't have to remap all my channels manually and reconfigure all my malore menus.

Still don't have a working guide yet. I see the channels but they are all "No Data". Sent a private email to Narflex in the hopes he can take my Sage registration key and find out why. I have 2 days before my trial Schedules Direct expires. From reading the forums I don't wnat to install schedules direct if my Sage license still entitles me to EPG.

Thank you for all your help to get me this far. Been doing the Sage think for 12 years and I am too attached to give it up

Dave

[EnterNoEscape]

Originally Posted by Dave Beddows

Still don't have a working guide yet. I see the channels but they are all "No Data". Sent a private email to Narflex in the hopes he can take my Sage registration key and find out why. I have 2 days before my trial Schedules Direct expires. From reading the forums I don't wnat to install schedules direct if my Sage license still entitles me to EPG.
Dave

Schedules Direct is now available as a beta core feature. You don't need to install the a plugin anymore to use this as a guide data source. All you need to do is upgrade to the latest version of SageTV v9. The only real advantage you will get since you already have a license key for SageTV is 21-23 days worth of guide data instead about 14.

[Dave Beddows]

I've been trying that but it won't accept my username and password when I try to access it through Sage. I did the procedure in the command prompt and can see my 2 scheldules if I run the info command but I can't get sage to get it.

[EnterNoEscape]

Originally Posted by Dave Beddows

I've been trying that but it won't accept my username and password when I try to access it through Sage. I did the procedure in the command prompt and can see my 2 scheldules if I run the info command but I can't get sage to get it.

There aren't any command line procedures for the integrated version or anything in the web interface. Did you check the wiki? If you're having trouble entering your username and password in the UI, make sure if number-text entry is enabled that the intended characters are being entered.

[Dave Beddows]

Go figure, Found another posting in the forum saying you can't have a password starting with a number. I changed my password to all letters and it worked. Now I waiting to see if the guide populates.

[Fuzzy]

to be clear, you CAN have a password with a number, it's just the entry in sage is 'hard' to do with numbers - you have to remember how to enter them via the d-pad entry.

[Dave Beddows]

I'm going to start a new thread regarding my current upgrade problems. Thank you for the help you all gave under this thread.
Dave

[tvmaster2]

Originally Posted by Slugger

Latest builds of the plugin only work with Sage v9.

the very start of the thread mentioned you needed an extra license (?) if you had two tuners with independent lineups. Is that still the case, or have things changed now that v.7 is on the way out. With the EPG finally coming to an end, It's time to adopt SD, but I'm confused about the number of tuners I have, and if it's going to require TWO, paid subscriptions per year.
That would be problematic.
Thanks

[Fuzzy]

Originally Posted by tvmaster2

the very start of the thread mentioned you needed an extra license (?) if you had two tuners with independent lineups. Is that still the case, or have things changed now that v.7 is on the way out. With the EPG finally coming to an end, It's time to adopt SD, but I'm confused about the number of tuners I have, and if it's going to require TWO, paid subscriptions per year.
That would be problematic.
Thanks

I don't think anything said you needed more than once SD license. The origin of this thread was regarding a plugin made by slugger, that had limited free capability (one lineup), but supporting more than one was a paid feature (to compensate slugger for his time). That is all focused around slugger's plugin, which frankly, no one should be using anymore - SageTV v9 has schedules direct capability built directly in - and a single schedules direct subscription should be all you require to support more lineups than most would need.

[tvmaster2]

Originally Posted by Fuzzy

I don't think anything said you needed more than once SD license. The origin of this thread was regarding a plugin made by slugger, that had limited free capability (one lineup), but supporting more than one was a paid feature (to compensate slugger for his time). That is all focused around slugger's plugin, which frankly, no one should be using anymore - SageTV v9 has schedules direct capability built directly in - and a single schedules direct subscription should be all you require to support more lineups than most would need.

I stand corrected. An add-on Sage license. There are more than one, dead thread back there, so it's good to clarify. Good news then, a single paid, SD subscription would support many tuners and independent lineups.

[jusjoken]

Originally Posted by tvmaster2

I stand corrected. An add-on Sage license. There are more than one, dead thread back there, so it's good to clarify. Good news then, a single paid, SD subscription would support many tuners and independent lineups.

SD FAQ states max 4 lineups per account.

http://www.schedulesdirect.org/faq

k

[Slugger]

Originally Posted by tvmaster2

the very start of the thread mentioned you needed an extra license (?) if you had two tuners with independent lineups. Is that still the case, or have things changed now that v.7 is on the way out. With the EPG finally coming to an end, It's time to adopt SD, but I'm confused about the number of tuners I have, and if it's going to require TWO, paid subscriptions per year.
That would be problematic.
Thanks

Originally Posted by Fuzzy

I don't think anything said you needed more than once SD license. The origin of this thread was regarding a plugin made by slugger, that had limited free capability (one lineup), but supporting more than one was a paid feature (to compensate slugger for his time). That is all focused around slugger's plugin, which frankly, no one should be using anymore - SageTV v9 has schedules direct capability built directly in - and a single schedules direct subscription should be all you require to support more lineups than most would need.

fwiw, the plugin license was stripped out many years ago now anyway. The plugin is fully unlocked, with no restrictions whatsoever. I mention this in case a Sage v7 user in need of epg after Jul 1 comes across this discussion.

[tvmaster2]

Originally Posted by Slugger

fwiw, the plugin license was stripped out many years ago now anyway. The plugin is fully unlocked, with no restrictions whatsoever. I mention this in case a Sage v7 user in need of epg after Jul 1 comes across this discussion.

like me....lol. Hopefully I'll be on v.9 by then...

but it's good to know the v.7 plugin is still there...

[rdefino]

I see a problem today that some channels are missing from the sagetv guide. Channel 837 AETVHD recorded last night with the correct channel and show info. But today the channel is gone from the guide. When checking to add the channel in the setup videos sources the channel is there, but there is no description of what channel it is. It's just the number.
So I deleted the epg file and kicked off a refresh. It created just a 2Mb file compared to the 25mb that was there.


did something change last night?

thanks for any help.

here is the log:

2017-04-11 11:40:43,833 INFO [Plugin]: EPG refresh started for Comcast Georgetown - Digital Haverhill (Cable)
2017-04-11 11:40:43,833 INFO [Plugin]: EPG refresh forced by user!
2017-04-11 11:40:45,747 INFO [ProgramGenerator]: Processed show generators in 0ms
2017-04-11 11:40:45,758 WARN [EpgDownloader]: Skipped local cache backup; it doesn't exist! [plugins\sdepg\sdjson.epg]
2017-04-11 11:40:45,761 INFO [EpgDownloader]: Requesting 77 channels
2017-04-11 11:40:45,761 INFO [EpgDownloader]: --force-download flag inserted via user refresh request!
2017-04-11 11:40:45,761 INFO [EpgDownloader]: JVM options: [-Xmx512m, -Dsdjson.fs.capture="C:\Program Files (x86)\SageTV\SageTV\plugins\sdepg\capture\grabber", -Dsdjson.capture.json-errors, -Dsdjson.capture.encode-errors, -Dsdjson.capture.http, -Dsdjson.capture.http.content]
2017-04-11 11:40:45,761 INFO [EpgDownloader]: [C:\Program Files (x86)\SageTV\SageTV\plugins\sdepg\tools\grabber\bin\sdjson-grabber.bat, --username, rdefino, --password, *****, --user-agent, sagetv-sdepg/0.0.8.1 (Windows 7 x86 6.1), --max-threads, 200, --url, https://json.schedulesdirect.org, --grabber-log-level, INFO, grab, --target, C:\Program Files (x86)\SageTV\SageTV\plugins\sdepg\sdjson.epg, --max-prog-chunk, 5000, --max-sched-chunk, 250, --stations, C:\Program Files (x86)\SageTV\SageTV\plugins\sdepg\stations.txt, --force-download]
2017-04-11 11:40:56,982 INFO [EPGImportPluginSchedulesDirect]: Performed EPG download in 11235ms
2017-04-11 11:40:57,529 INFO [ChannelGenerator]: Processed channel generators in 0ms
2017-04-11 11:40:57,529 INFO [EPGImportPluginSchedulesDirect]: Performed channel processing in 547ms
2017-04-11 11:40:58,596 INFO [EPGImportPluginSchedulesDirect]: Performed lineup map configuration in 1067ms
2017-04-11 11:40:59,667 WARN [SageProgram]: Unhandled credit type encountered: VISUAL_EFFECTS
2017-04-11 11:40:59,910 INFO [EPGImportPluginSchedulesDirect]: Performed EPG data load in 1314ms
2017-04-11 11:40:59,911 INFO [AiringGenerator]: Processed airing generators in 0ms
2017-04-11 11:40:59,912 INFO [SeriesInfoLoader]: Generated series info entries for 0 objects in 0ms!

[rkulagow]

I've forced a refresh of lineups on the server; if you're still seeing an issue with lineups not having the correct number of channels, please open a ticket at the Schedules Direct website.

[rdefino]

Originally Posted by rkulagow

I've forced a refresh of lineups on the server; if you're still seeing an issue with lineups not having the correct number of channels, please open a ticket at the Schedules Direct website.

Thank you

[rdefino]

I'm still seeing the issue, so I opened a ticket with SD. Hopefully they can figure it out.

thanks