11:00 PM Guide Slot "Unavailable"

[jbanacek]

I am using xmltv to download program data and then importing. The guides seem pretty complete and relatively accurate, however the 11:00 PM time slot reads "Unavailable". I scrolled through the next 5 or 6 days and it seems to be confined to the 11:00 PM to Midnight slot.

One thing I did notice was that after the Daylight Savings Time change, my guide was off an hour. I went into the Importer Configuration Tool and switched my Timesone Offset from +6 to +5 and now the guide is accurate. I didnt recall noticing whether or not the guide had previously been blank in that 11 PM slot, but my hunch is that if it had been I would have noticed it. I was curious if changing the offset had something to do with it, so I switched the time offset back to +6. The guide was once again off by an hour, but the 11 pm slot remained empty. Any ideas as to why that 11 PM slot shows unavailable on all stations? Thanks in advance for any help.

Jake

[JornGH]

Have you tried examining the XMLTV file to see if the shows are there?

[peter]

You could try using the xmltv program to process your xml file a bit more before importing it into BTV. What I mean is, in your batch file that runs daily/ weekly (I assume you have automated your listings download/import) is do this;

xmltv tv_sort listings.xml --output=btvlistings.xml

where listings.xml is your current output of xmltv download process & btvlistings.xml is the file you will import into btv.

As far as I understand it, the tv_sort option checks that all programs have valid end times (and if they don't creates end times that are equal to the start time of the following program)

[jnaranjo]

I've seen this myself and was quite unhappy with the XMLTV importer. I then used another program(i think it's called tvguide) which parses the xml file and graphically displays the information and voila! it would have all the information so I think the above suggestion may help you or you could look for the program I used above to check the file and make sure it has all the information you need.
Hope this helps!
-JN

[jbanacek]

Yes I have been using a batch file. So I took your advice and ran tv_sort once and it seemed to add a few of the 11PM listings so I ran it again and it seemed to add a few more. Finally I ran teh following batch file and next time I loaded the gude all the listings were complete.
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pushd d:\xmltv

if exist started.at goto already_running
time /t >started.at
date /t >>started.at

del us.xml
xmltv tv_grab_na --days 3 >us.xml
if ERRORLEVEL 2 goto no_data_downloaded

xmltv tv_sort us.xml --output=us.xml

xmltv tv_sort us.xml --output=us.xml

xmltv tv_sort us.xml --output=us.xml

xmltv tv_sort us.xml --output=us.xml

"D:\Program Files\SnapStream Media\PVS XML Import\ImportXMLTV.exe"

:no_data_downloaded
del started.at

:already_running
popd
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Seems odd to me that I had to run the tv_sort command multiple times, but it did do the trick. The syntax and sequence may not be just right, but it did work, so what the heck. Thanks for your help guys.

Jake