It's now three in the morning and I'm giving up with this. Can you please suggest what I'm doing wrong?
I am using BTV 4.6.1 xmltv 5.5.4 (I think- the latest version) and BTV importer 5.4. My system is fairly modern, P4 3.2 1Gb 400Gb sata. Its a pretty clean install of windows xp pro.
I have Net Framework 1.1 (BTV won't run without it) and Net Framework 2.0 installed. I have IIS installed.
I have configured xmltv and downloaded an xml file into C:\xmltv\radiotimesepg.xml
No matter what I do, the importer fails at (and this flashes up too quickly to know the exact words) the stage where the progress bars are going across with:
Import FAILED. the column catagory not (no more space for message)
The BTV log says data load into database tables failed error 17.
I've tried uninstalling BTV, uninstalling Net Frameworks and reinstalling BTV, unistalling IIS, reinstalling Net Framework and BTV etc etc
I have got the guide to show, but empty (no guide data of course). The last time of installation I did suddenly have a populated guide, but only via a browser, not via BTV webadmin.
I now have the sitaution where when I type localhost:8129/guide I see:
Server error in '/' application and reports a 404 error.
This says Net Framework 1.1 is installed
When I click on program guide in webadmin it says that the web site declines to display the page.
Please, any advice as to what I should do now? the alternative, tvtv is useless, but getting the xmltv file to import is so frustrating....
ps I tried to download a donator version but it asks for a username and password, but I can't register or create an account to get a username. how do I do this?
pps thats my old system below..
edit: have now managed to import a listing after various reinstall combinations. still had to install both .NET 1.1 and 2.0. I can see the program guide within BTV, even after a reboot, but I can't see the guide from webadmin. I now get a message that the web page has 'moved or is temporarily unavailable'.
I can't see the program guide by tying
http://localhost/guide in a browser, I still get the 404 error. Do I have to register the web page in IIS with .NET v2.0 to make it work? (I'm not sure about doing that, but I've read it somewhere). Any advice would be welcome.
2nd edit: I had it working! I imported the listings several times and all was ok until I clicked on 'edit catagories' towards the end of the import. I gather this can filter info to better match catagories/genres? Anyway, it has completely ruined things. The import fails again with message 'data import FAILED: the catagory column...'. I tried to reset the catagories back to default (I had only tried to make a catagory of 'Comedy' so removed it) but still it fails every time again.
I've unistalled BTV Importer, I've configured xmltv again, I've reinstalled BTV Importer, but it still fails every time again. Please don't tell me I have to go through a complete uninstall/reinstall AGAIN....