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[greynolds]

Just a heads up to anyone using the free Microsoft Rovi guide data option in MC:

1) Microsoft's Rovi feed is broken again and for most people that means that guide data expires on 4/13/2016 until they get it fixed.

2) In addition to that, most program data for NBC is showing as "paid programming".  This means that scheduled recordings for Chicago Med, Chicago Fire, Chicago PD, Grimm, Law & Order SVU, and any other NBC programming you watch won't get recorded until Microsoft fixes their feed.

This is getting to be annoying as this just happened a few weeks ago.  I'm thinking it's probably time to pay for a PercData account.

[DeaneG]

Percdata has been working great for me, worth the small fee for no-hassle reliability.
Free stuff has to end sometime.

[CountryBumkin]

The Schedules Direct subscription is a little better than PercData because it has a JSON component, so if your going to pay for a subscription I'd go with SD.

However, Schedules Direst is Not supposed to be used with a commercial product like JRiver. The SD program doesn't know the difference and nether does the JRiver program, but if you tell SD your a JRiver user they won't let you subscribe.

[greynolds]

The Schedules Direct subscription is a little better than PercData because it has a JSON component, so if your going to pay for a subscription I'd go with SD.

However, Schedules Direst is Not supposed to be used with a commercial product like JRiver. The SD program doesn't know the difference and nether does the JRiver program, but if you tell SD your a JRiver user they won't let you subscribe.

CB, what are the differences?  I switched over to PercData a few weeks ago and it has been working great, but it looks like season/episode numbers aren't available - are those available in the SD JSON feed?  Am I correct in recalling that PercData is supposed to be providing a JSON feed at some point?

[Yaobing]

JSON feed contains more info.  I started trying to support JSON for PercData, only to find out PercData does not support JSON.

[CountryBumkin]

CB, what are the differences?  I switched over to PercData a few weeks ago and it has been working great, but it looks like season/episode numbers aren't available - are those available in the SD JSON feed?  Am I correct in recalling that PercData is supposed to be providing a JSON feed at some point?

 - for me the important thing is that the SD JSON data gives me the Season "Number" and the other data sources only provide the Season "Year".
I'm not sure what the other data differences are.

[greynolds]

- for me the important thing is that the SD JSON data gives me the Season "Number" and the other data sources only provide the Season "Year".
I'm not sure what the other data differences are.

So I'm looking into switching from PercData to the SD JSON source so I can get season and episode #'s again (it turns out that I have a SD subscription through 2021 thanks to having worked on an app that uses it a while back).  Am I correct in assuming that I should select the MC2XML option in MC and choose the SD JSON option when the MC2XML configuration opens up?  I've tried doing that running my standalone copy of MC2XML (version 1.5, I donated to get the version that includes the new Rovi feed).  I selected "schedules direct json" as the service, entered my SD username and password, entered my zip code, left the country code set to US, and hit ok (no options checked) and see the following in the command window:

Connecting .. : schedulesdirect.org
Error: Did not receive User-Agent in header.  See https://github.com/SchedulesDirect/JSON-Service/wiki/API-20141201#tasks-your-client-must-perform

No mc2xml.dat file gets created and no xmltv.xml file gets created (obviously because it isn't getting to the point of downloading the data).

Before I clear my EPG data in MC, I want to make sure that MC2XML is going to get the data correctly.

If I choose the regular SD option in MC2XML and enter my same username and password (no zip code is requested - is it using the lineups I created on the SD site?), it downloads the data just fine and I end up with the mc2xml.dat and xmltv.xml files as expected.

I did a bit more reading on the MC2XML site and it sounds like I need to set an environment variable (USERAGENT) to my email address before running MC2XML.  But it also mentions something about some complications in downloading multiple lineups and using multiple dat files - is this something MC will take care of for me?  I need an OTA lineup and a digital cable lineup.