Unreliability of IceTV
Unreliability of IceTV
After doing the last firmware update successfully with everything working as planned IceTV let the whole thing down by switching to a terse message that I will have to wait 500 minutes to see any guide - well that only reinforces my earlier post on my misgivings of only allowing IceTV exclusive use of the BW. I rang IceTV and left a message, twice now since I've had the BW and so far no return call or acknowledgement. Give us JustEPG and myxmltv any day. There really has to be a professional way of doing EPG's without undue time constraints. I doubt if I will renew my IceTV subscription when the trial runs out unless there is a major technological improvement in delivery of the service.
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Re: Unreliability of IceTV
I'm not convinced that the IceTV server is necessarily to blame for this, though it's possible. DrPhil posted a workaround and I've confirmed it.netmask wrote:After doing the last firmware update successfully with everything working as planned IceTV let the whole thing down by switching to a terse message that I will have to wait 500 minutes to see any guide - well that only reinforces my earlier post on my misgivings of only allowing IceTV exclusive use of the BW. I rang IceTV and left a message, twice now since I've had the BW and so far no return call or acknowledgement. Give us JustEPG and myxmltv any day. There really has to be a professional way of doing EPG's without undue time constraints. I doubt if I will renew my IceTV subscription when the trial runs out unless there is a major technological improvement in delivery of the service.
Doesn't excuse IceTV not replying to you calls, though.
Peter
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I received a phone message from IceTV that they had reset my timer and I needed to empty the IceTV cache on the BW. I did this and all is back to normal. My thanks to IceTV for acting promptly. I am grateful that someone was on duty on a Sunday to do this.
However this shouldn't be necessary every time a factory reset is required on the BW. If you are going to have a hardware monopolistic EPG system then you need to have a quid pro quo to at least allow the subscriber some control over the system such as being able to download the data to an external source and then upload it quickly after a system change. This may involve a firmware change as well but since there is an exclusive arrangement between BW and IceTV it would be a good modification to circumvent an on-going public relations problem and cost to IceTV having to have human intervention to clear the decks. The same goes for backing up one's timers.
Once again thank you Iceman
However this shouldn't be necessary every time a factory reset is required on the BW. If you are going to have a hardware monopolistic EPG system then you need to have a quid pro quo to at least allow the subscriber some control over the system such as being able to download the data to an external source and then upload it quickly after a system change. This may involve a firmware change as well but since there is an exclusive arrangement between BW and IceTV it would be a good modification to circumvent an on-going public relations problem and cost to IceTV having to have human intervention to clear the decks. The same goes for backing up one's timers.
Once again thank you Iceman
BeyonWiz T3 and V2
LED TV SONY Bravia 75" Local dimming ~ Retired Samsung ES8000 65" ~
Yamaha A1070 amp
Zidoo UHD3000
Qnap TS851-4G
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Windows 11 Professional
Netgear R7000
Chromecast
LED TV SONY Bravia 75" Local dimming ~ Retired Samsung ES8000 65" ~
Yamaha A1070 amp
Zidoo UHD3000
Qnap TS851-4G
Pioneer Bluray BDP-150-K
Windows 11 Professional
Netgear R7000
Chromecast
Similar experience, but now, even though I seem to be past this particular problem I'm still getting data only up to Tuesday.
It said that there was some bad data from the server. Tried clearing the cache, and it mow tells me that its waiting 22 minutes before trying to get data again. Something about request being ignored becoause it's being made too often.
Really, this stuff should just work. I've better things to do than bugger about with it!
Dave.
It said that there was some bad data from the server. Tried clearing the cache, and it mow tells me that its waiting 22 minutes before trying to get data again. Something about request being ignored becoause it's being made too often.
Really, this stuff should just work. I've better things to do than bugger about with it!
Dave.
oops! I only have data to 12 noon ish Monday Sept 24 and I have a message to wait 8 minutes. As I said never happened with DialUp and myxmltv etc. Oh well only 20 more timers to restore by longhand
BeyonWiz T3 and V2
LED TV SONY Bravia 75" Local dimming ~ Retired Samsung ES8000 65" ~
Yamaha A1070 amp
Zidoo UHD3000
Qnap TS851-4G
Pioneer Bluray BDP-150-K
Windows 11 Professional
Netgear R7000
Chromecast
LED TV SONY Bravia 75" Local dimming ~ Retired Samsung ES8000 65" ~
Yamaha A1070 amp
Zidoo UHD3000
Qnap TS851-4G
Pioneer Bluray BDP-150-K
Windows 11 Professional
Netgear R7000
Chromecast
Re: Unreliability of IceTV
Phew - I got it right for onceprl wrote:DrPhil posted a workaround and I've confirmed it.
Holes in the Iceguide info
I have been running my P1 for a couple of weeks now and it's been reasonably OK, the main issue I see is the guide has mysterious gaps. Today I see that there is no data at all for SBS or ABC, it comes good for tomorrow, then it runs out again on Wed. Is this a known issue?
Re: Holes in the Iceguide info
Yep, this is a known issue Peter. Give it some time and you'll probably start noticing that there are times when there's no ICE data at all and you have to manually delete the ICE guide cache etc to stimulate a regrab etc.pvogel wrote:I have been running my P1 for a couple of weeks now and it's been reasonably OK, the main issue I see is the guide has mysterious gaps. Today I see that there is no data at all for SBS or ABC, it comes good for tomorrow, then it runs out again on Wed. Is this a known issue?
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There is work being done on IceTV update problems for the next release from Beyonwiz. See Ian's (IanSav) post here. Item 16.
Peter
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