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Title: Xbmp 2.4 And Tv Guide Feature
Post by: shaftastic on June 17, 2003, 02:24:00 PM

Has anyone tryed the tv guide feature in xbmp 2.4? it seemed like a bit of work to setup and I wanted to know if it was any good before I tried it.

Title: Xbmp 2.4 And Tv Guide Feature
Post by: Jse on June 17, 2003, 03:14:00 PM

its kewl if you dont have a tv guide but i only ended up using it for like a week

Title: Xbmp 2.4 And Tv Guide Feature
Post by: dink on June 17, 2003, 03:17:00 PM

I have.
It works just like the tutorial says.
I just not sure if I want to keep updating the channel list every few days.  When I have the onscreen channel guide alread via my cable TV provider.
TV Guide

Title: Xbmp 2.4 And Tv Guide Feature
Post by: flattspott on June 17, 2003, 06:23:00 PM

Yeah, if you already have a tv guide channel type thing on your tv then it's not really worth the time setting up as you'll have get the new listing every week.

Title: Xbmp 2.4 And Tv Guide Feature
Post by: shaftastic on June 17, 2003, 09:32:00 PM

I thought it updated itself, thats really a pain that you have to update it weekly. I have a tv guide chanle and the website bookmared anyway I gues I won't do it now.

Title: Xbmp 2.4 And Tv Guide Feature
Post by: flattspott on June 17, 2003, 09:55:00 PM

Don't get me wrong, it is a cool feature. Plus you can get movie info from IMDb.

Actually now that I think about it isn't too time consuming after you configure it. Thats the long part. I have 900 channels but only wanted to see about 300 of them. And you have to type No for each on you don't want. After that it's shouldn't be too terrible to update.

Title: Xbmp 2.4 And Tv Guide Feature
Post by: w m z on June 18, 2003, 01:33:00 AM

QUOTE (HumanClay @ Jun 18 2003, 06:24 AM)

It updates itself if you configure it to.

How is this done?

Thank you for any help.

Title: Xbmp 2.4 And Tv Guide Feature
Post by: Jse on June 18, 2003, 04:21:00 AM

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The following steps are for those who want to make updating the listing.xml as simple as possible. In the xmltv folder create a file called update.bat.txt Copy and past this into it: xmltv.exe tv_grab_** > listing.xml if exist listing.xml ftp -s:ftpscript.txt !!OBSERVE!! ** is your region//country !!Observe!! Save it and delete the .txt part of it so it now is called update.bat Creat a new text file called ftpscript.txt Copy and past this into it: open 192.168.0.3 xbox xbox cd F://Apps//XBMP//tvguide ascii send listing.xml bye MAKE SURE THE IP IS POINTING TO YOUR XBOX AND THAT LOGIN//PASS//PATH IS RIGHT!!!!! In Winxp remove the : after the partion letter if it wont work. Save it and dubble click the update.bat and it will get the neweset listings and ftp it over to the xbox automaticly! Default is 10 days listings, but doing it once a week is easy to remeber. You could also do xmltv tv_grab_sn --days 3 and get 3 days..