TV Guide listings for live offset times are missing now

Channels DVR Server Troubleshooting
#1

I have a few custom channels and some of them are setup with 'tvg-shift' tags or are reading the tv listings for east vs west while in the different time zones. In the past week or so these tv guide listings are now missing for the live 2-3 hour slot differences. If the tv guide is asking for +3 hours the time slot is just always missing/blank for these 3 hours later in the TV guide list. Previously, when I did a full remove/rebuild tv guide update in the past, this 3 hour slot would be immediately empty because the time already passed in the time guide pull, but would remain viewable after that 3 hour passed. But now, the time slot is always empty as if it is constantly pulling an updated listing and removing the time shift difference of live data.

#EXTINF:-1 channel-id="Nickelodeon" tvg-chno="6028" tvc-guide-stationid="59432" tvg-shift="+3",Nickelodeon
chrome://192.168.xx.xx:5589/stream?url=https://tv.youtube.com/watch/-1-V0jhsLv0

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Guide not showing current airing for channel with tvg-shift="+3"
Custom Channel Question
#2

I have one channel using tvg-shift="+3" and it works fine.
Delete and recreate the guide database on the server.
Settings > Live TV & DVR > Guide Data > Maintenance :gear: > Delete and Recreate Database

#3

I deleted the database (which I do every so often anyway). the 3 hour shift always shows empty immediately after a recreate at the first 3 hours but usually fills in as time passes... until I delete the database again. but now, the live now 3 hour gap is always empty as in the pic.

after a few hours, i will see if it is still showing the empty space.

#4

maybe a side question for me to ask is where is there a full listing of all the 'stationid' listings to distinguish from east/west guide data

#5

more detail I can see now...

the guide data is 'sort of' correct. it shows fine except for the data I am importing from a second channelsdvr server that pulls my YouTube TVE data and a custom channel setup.

my setup is a QNAP NAS and it suffers from the (in)famous YouTube blocked by Google sign in fiasco. I have a second ChannelsDVR setup that only reads the YT TVE channels and a few CC4C channels and that is imported into my main setup via a custom channel import. This is because my QNAP setup has issues with these YT TVE and CC4C things.
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http://192.168.xx.xx:8089/devices/ANY/channels.m3u?format=ts
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http://192.168.xx.xx:8089/devices/ANY/guide/xmltv?duration=1209600
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well the data from that import is being time shifted twice it looks like in to the QNAP. that data is offset by an additional 3 hours. items in the original are on time... but the QNAP final guide is off by 3 hours with empty data at live time. 3pm show is showing for 6pm air time on the QNAP final guide.

#6

OK, you hadn't mentioned you were importing the guide data from another Channels DVR Server.
Perhaps one of these updates caused your issue.

I don't have the issue, probably because I'm not importing guide data from another DVR Server.

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#7

AFAIK, there is none. You have to look them up individually, per network call sign.

#8

Did updating to the latest DVR pre-release and a delete and recreate guide database fix it for you?
Did for me Guide not showing current airing for channel with tvg-shift="+3" - #5 by chDVRuser