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#1 Nixon

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Posted 22 October 2015 - 20:02

On Enigma1 I always used native EPG from Satellite(EIT), I chose the number of days for epg so when I turnon Enigma all epg from all transponders was loaded and that remains updated. All worked very well...

On Engima2 the behavior is different, I need to zap to channel with no epg and after 3 seconds all epgs(3 days) from that transponder is loaded and I always get channels without epg after sometime.

How enigma1 could do it? The team have plans to change this behavior? Depend on xmltv epg's is very annoying...


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Re: How EIT EPG worked on Enigma1? #2 WanWizard

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Posted 22 October 2015 - 21:07

EIT is broadcasted, so it works the same on Enigma1 and Enigma2.

 

Which transponder broadcasts the EPG for a provider differs per provider. Some have an EPG transponder, some broadcast it on all transponders. In all cases, the bitrate is quite low, so it can take a bit of time before it's read.

 

Storage is slightly different. In a PLi Enigma1 image, EPG was stored in a SQLite database, which was persistent data. In Enigma2, EPG is stored in memory which is not persistent. If you properly shutdown or restart Enigma2, the EPG is temporarily stored in a file, which gets read back into memory if Enigma2 starts again.

 

If yu want to make sure your EIT EPG stays loaded, don't cut the power of your box without a proper shutdown, and use the EPG refresh plugin to zap to the EPG transponders at night to refresh your EPG and prevent those gaps...


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Re: How EIT EPG worked on Enigma1? #3 Nixon

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Posted 23 October 2015 - 01:32

Thank you so much WanWizard it was exactly what I was looking for... I used EPGRefresh before but I could'nt understand edit services options =)...





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