Regularly losing channel<>guide matching

[champ]

I've been using Media Centre since the very early days, built my own HTPC ~15 years ago, and generally it does what I want.

Recently the over-the-air EPG in my region (north-west UK - I'm actually on the Isle of Man) got even worse, so I looked for options and found EPG123. Tried it for a couple of months, seemed to work ok, so I bought a subscription. But...

...every week or so, it seems to lose all the subscriptions/mapping I've set up! It's obvious when it happens because most of the channels in the Media Center programme guide disappear. When I run EPG123 client to investigate, I see that most of the mappings have gone. I've attached before and after screenshots of the EPG123 client, and screenshots of the log from the most recent run which seems to show the missing channels being removed from the lineup (also - why can't I attach the actual log/txt file to this post?)

I've looked at all the EPG123 docs and can't find anything that would explain this issue, so all help very gratefully received.

[technodevotee]

Could it be that the station IDs your tuner actually receives don't tie up with the ones in the listings you are using?

I added listings from the extended lineup and all the stations I mapped to it disappeared.

If I select the ones from the Freesat listing, they stay active.

I wonder if you might be better off using the Freeview lineup?

[garyan2]

Not sure what is going on. Either station IDs are changing, or maybe WMC background scanning of your tuners is changing the merged channel and breaking the mapping. I would recommend for starters to delete your current scheduled task and disable the 'Automatch' feature... doesn't do you any good anyway with the lineup you selected to download. If it still happens, then we can try something else.

[garyan2]

Also of note, if you update to the latest (prefer 1.8.2.5, but 1.8.2.2 should be fine), it may give a little more detail in the log file for station adds and removals.

[champ]

I would recommend for starters to delete your current scheduled task and disable the 'Automatch' feature...

Have done both

If it still happens, then we can try something else.

As I said, it only happens around ~once a week (on average), so I'll monitor, and update this thread

Thanks

[champ]

As I said, it only happens around ~once a week (on average), so I'll monitor, and update this thread

11 days later, the problem has not re-occurred, so that looks like a fix

Many thanks