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Okay, fell at the first hurdle on this.

Can't grab anything from BLEB, how do I set up the channels? I tried to copy channels.lua and change it, but no go, there's a userchannels.txt but can't get that to work. Should there be data in the UK_Bleb folder?

Updated today but not being served, too many timeouts...

While I haven't given up on the RT feed yet, it seems that some parts of BLEB.ORG feed are better (episode numbers etc.). Is it possible to get feed from both RT and BLEB and combine them? I'd need to use the same channel ids as the RT feed as this is what SageTV understands. Would the combining of ...

The data now hasn't been updated since 29/03...maybe they haven't yet automated the updates?

Alan, if you do have any email dialogue with them, can you ask where the episode numbers have gone? I liked them... Thanks!

I wouldn't expect reliability for a while...

Yay!

Aaaagh! Great news, looks like it will be restored, but we need some ideas on the scale of "as soon as we can". Will it be within the 10 days we have left in our EPGs, or will it be 3 months?

I realise we don't want to bug them too much though...

Certainly doesn't help much!

http://xmltv.radiotimes.com/ just shows a completely empty folder. I even tried logging in (the site now asks for a username/password) but still can't see any xmltv data.

The whole website is still a complete mess, I'm surprised you see any of it working.

You'd think they would test changes before putting them live. Jokers...

Thanks as ever!

melearp wrote:most importantly what's plan B???

PANIC!

Let's hope it's temporary. Some parts are available, others giving JSP errors, but there was also a EPG link from the main page pointing to http://www.radiotimes.com/content/features/epg/ - no idea what that's all about.

Fingers crossed...

The RT website went down earlier today for a revamp, and I am now getting a 404 Error for every channel's DAT file. Is anyone else seeing this? This only started this evening, at midday it worked. Log below: 22:21:53 - Starting pass 1 of grabber UK_RT 22:21:53 - Please note that all data downloaded ...