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Empty Webif EPG

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SunnysideUK

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This morning my Humax4 Webif EPG is empty of data. The EPG from the TV remote is fine,
I changed my favourites to none, same
I tried fix-flash packages, same.
Naturally rebooted.

I can search within the EPG OK.
My Schedules look OK.

Any ideas on a fix?
 
prpr said:
ls -lR /mnt/hd1
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On last look, parts of the EPG has returned after many minutes but parts are empty and some channels missing.
On this boot now it looks ok
Code: 
humax4# ls -lR /mnt/hd1
/mnt/hd1:
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root          4096 Feb 11 10:40 dvbepg
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root       4751360 Feb 11 11:03 epg.db
drwx------    2 root     root          4096 Nov 12  2021 lost+found

/mnt/hd1/dvbepg:
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root       3898044 Feb 11 10:40 epg.dat

/mnt/hd1/lost+found:
humax4#
 
SunnysideUK said:
On last look, parts of the EPG has returned after many minutes but parts are empty and some channels missing.
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Database rebuilds only happen every 15 minutes. If you want to force a rebuild, you have to stop and start the epg service and wait a minute for it to complete.
I've got something better in the works that will update whenever a change is detected in the data the Humax software caches.
Just out of interest, what does diag epgrange report?
 
prpr said:
I've got something better in the works that will update whenever a change is detected in the data the Humax software caches.
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That will help schedchk since it can only detect changes that actually appear in the database
 
prpr said:
Is the epg service running?
Post the output of ls -lR /mnt/hd1
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Yes both times.
This boot this pm and the EPG is empty again.
{edit @18:35: some 2 hours later still empty. Stopped EPG service, started EPG service {note: no notice pops-up on start)}.
Code: 
humax4# ls -lR /mnt/hd1
/mnt/hd1:
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root          4096 Feb 11 14:35 dvbepg
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root       4829184 Feb 11 15:45 epg.db
drwx------    2 root     root          4096 Nov 12  2021 lost+found

/mnt/hd1/dvbepg:
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root       3988552 Feb 11 14:35 epg.dat

/mnt/hd1/lost+found:
humax4#
 
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prpr said:
idiag epgrange
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Code: 
humax4# diag epgrange
Running: epgrange
Tue Sep 17 00:35:00 BST 2024
Tue Feb 18 22:00:00 GMT 2025
humax4#
Although I didn't mention it, I had previously stopped and restarted the EPG service via the GUI Service Management. I'm sure I waited over 10mins, refreshing the EPG page.
 
Does the epg.db file exist right after boot? Is something deleting it?
Obviously both the files exist with content and contemporary timestamps, so there is some data in them. Do the timestamps continue to update (they don't if you're playing a recording)?
What's changed since it worked? I can't help feeling there is something you aren't telling us, but I don't know what.
Anyway, the epg.dat file needs a periodic cleanout to get rid of old data, as the Humax software is hopeless at it. You can do it 'cleanly' from the maintenance mode menu or uncleanly by just deleting the file and immediately rebooting and hoping.
 
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