pluto.tv.E seems broken, any help fixing it

jhr1948 wrote:

Ubuntu 20.04LTS
Mono 6.10.0.104
WG 3.1.0
About a day or two ago, he pluto.tv.E guide isn't pulling EPG anymore. Attaching the Log. Any help would be appreciated.

Update: So PlutoTV ini is working, however, it might need a little adjustment. Looks like its grabbing from 12am UTC to about 1pm UTC at the moment. I can run it every hour and it seems to be the set grab right up to that same time. I'll see what happens after the next few hours, but definitely needs some adjusting.

mat8861 wrote:

Pluto works fine...you need vpn / proxy to US and probably new channel list.For time difference are you sure ? time is UTC

Hey Mat8861, ya its running, thats why i posted a reply to explain the changed behavior.  Its not updating past 12:30 pm (UTC).   Heres what it looks like when i run it, no new shows are being added and i hadn't run it in about 2 or 3 hours. 
 
I'm attaching a grab i just did, which would be about 8pm (UTC), but you can see that around 12:30pm (UTC) is the last show added
 
I'm in the US so no VPN needed by the way.

mat8861 wrote:

Pluto works fine...you need vpn / proxy to US and probably new channel list.For time difference are you sure ? time is UTC

Hey Mat8861, once again sorry for mixing the posts. 
 
I did update the Plutotv ini, but as i mentioned in the other post it has some odd behaviors.  On all channels, it grabs the first show starting at about 1:30am (UTC) the stops grabbing about 13:00 (UTC) skips about 10 hours then starts grabbing at 22:00 (UTC) then stops grabbing at 13:00 UTC.  It does this for the 3rd day as well.
Here's a snippet of the where there is a about 10 hour break between the programs
I thought it was just me, however, i opened up the Pluto created xml you uploaded to show me its working and your xml is doing the same thing. I'm uploading your xml here since i crossed posts.

mat8861 wrote:

Pluto works fine...you need vpn / proxy to US and probably new channel list.For time difference are you sure ? time is UTC

Mat8861, did you happened to see the post where showed the hours of missing info everyday?

mat8861 wrote:

yes was fixed yesterday, see siteini.pack

Yes! works awesome. One question, Fox Sports had this message:
 
( 70/244 ) PLUTO.TV.E -- chan. (xmltv_id=FOX Sports) -- mode Incremental
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Unable to update channel FOX Sports
Generic syntax exception:
message:
Current culture: en-GB
time parsing error : String was not recognized as a valid DateTime.
nextstartdatetime time scrubbed :
computer date/time format: 03/08/2020 07:38:34
Existing guide data restored!
 
 
Any clue what's happening? 

mat8861 wrote:

will check...i checked only tv kids....thinking the rest was ok....another D-

Not a problem Mat

Just because i want to get a grip of how this works, i'd love to know what solution you find.

I found a website that seems pretty straight forward and not complicated like Pluto, bein, or Timeline, so hoping to get some time to try it out

Thanks again for all the help

mat8861 wrote:

Uploaded now.The solution is eliminate weird charachters that have influence in showsplit, aka | which is used by the wg++ to separate shows, so if there is a character that interfere with split ...it mess up everything !!
Very rare to see though, mainly on American siteini, more in details on sport channels to separate team matches.

That did it my friend! And although i don't know what you do to fix the solution you mentioned, i actually understood what you were talking about. LOL
 
Thanks again for your help. Hoping to try my first site today or tomorrow. It's this site:https://sportsmax.tv/index.php/pr-schedule
 
It looks a bit easier than others when looking at the site with developer tools

mat8861 wrote:

Uploaded now.The solution is eliminate weird charachters that have influence in showsplit, aka | which is used by the wg++ to separate shows, so if there is a character that interfere with split ...it mess up everything !!
Very rare to see though, mainly on American siteini, more in details on sport channels to separate team matches.

Hey Mat8861
PlutoTV.ini is doing a funky DateTime thing again
 
( 1/245 ) PLUTO.TV.E -- chan. (xmltv_id=Pluto TV Kids) -- mode Incremental
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Unable to update channel Pluto TV Kids
Generic syntax exception:
message:
Current culture: en-GB
time parsing error : String was not recognized as a valid DateTime.
nextstartdatetime time scrubbed :
computer date/time format: 19/08/2020 09:15:55
Existing guide data restored!

mat8861 wrote:

think this site is maxdays=3 or they update after 3 days....to be sure run only 3 days

Yup, that did it. Lowered the days to 3 (2 in WG config) and grabbing correctly. Thanks!

mat8861 wrote:

think this site is maxdays=3 or they update after 3 days....to be sure run only 3 days

Update: all channels worked fine except 2 channels still had that error.
 
 
( 23/258 ) PLUTO.TV.E -- chan. (xmltv_id=Pluto TV Action) -- mode Incremental
iiicccccccccccccnnnnnnnnnnnnnn
Unable to update channel Pluto TV Action
Generic syntax exception:
message:
Current culture: en-GB
time parsing error : String was not recognized as a valid DateTime.
nextstartdatetime time scrubbed :
computer date/time format: 19/08/2020 10:59:15
Existing guide data restored!
( 23/258 ) PLUTO.TV.E -- chan. (xmltv_id=CNET) -- mode Incremental
 
 
 
( 33/258 ) PLUTO.TV.E -- chan. (xmltv_id=Pluto TV Horror) -- mode Incremental
iii..ggggccccccccnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn
Unable to update channel Pluto TV Horror
Generic syntax exception:
message:
Current culture: en-GB
time parsing error : String was not recognized as a valid DateTime.
nextstartdatetime time scrubbed :
computer date/time format: 19/08/2020 10:59:56
Existing guide data restored!

mat8861 wrote:

think this site is maxdays=3 or they update after 3 days....to be sure run only 3 days

Ok, getting weird behavior.  I reduced it to 2 days (from 3) and still get this behavior.  Show Title/Description is very off from the actual channel at various spots of the XMLTV. I'm using v.5 (from yesterday 08/19)
Heres an example of the end of "American Gladiators" channel listings and beginning of "Baywatch" channel listings
(I'm also uploading the Log in case that helps)
 
<programme start="20200821233000 +0000" stop="20200822000000 +0000" channel="American Gladiators">
<title lang="en">The Addams Family</title>
<desc lang="en">A recording company's platter of Lurch's gravelly voice brings a screaming mob of teenage fans to the Addams house. To calm the crowd, Lurch seats himself at the harpsichord and rewards his fans with a song to end all songs.</desc>
<category lang="en">Classics</category>
<category lang="en">Classic Comedies</category>
<icon src="https://webgrabplus.com/%3Ca%20href%3D"https://images.pluto.tv/episodes/5d7ffa8df3cdcd162e7fd9a1/poster.jpg?w=694&amp;h=1000&amp;fm=jpg&amp;q=75&amp;fit=fill&amp;fill=blur">https://images.pluto.tv/episodes/5d7ffa8df3cdcd162e7fd9a1/poster.jpg?w=6..." />
<rating>
<value>TV-G</value>
</rating>
</programme>
<programme start="20200822000000 +0000" stop="20200822003000 +0000" channel="American Gladiators">
<title lang="en">The Addams Family</title>
<desc lang="en">Taken in by a psychologist's pronouncement that the only happily married couples are those who fight members of the Addams household devise schemes to start a battle between Gomez (John Astin) and Morticia (Carolyn Jones).</desc>
<category lang="en">Classics</category>
<category lang="en">Classic Comedies</category>
<icon src="https://webgrabplus.com/%3Ca%20href%3D"https://images.pluto.tv/episodes/5d7ffa8df3cdcd162e7fd994/poster.jpg?w=694&amp;h=1000&amp;fm=jpg&amp;q=75&amp;fit=fill&amp;fill=blur">https://images.pluto.tv/episodes/5d7ffa8df3cdcd162e7fd994/poster.jpg?w=6..." />
<rating>
<value>TV-G</value>
</rating>
</programme>
<programme start="20200821000000 +0000" stop="20200820233107 +0000" channel="Baywatch">
<title lang="en">The Addams Family</title>
<desc lang="en">Fester is so smitten upon receipt of a photo of his love, a bearded carnival lady, that he borrows stamp money to mail her a proposal. Morticia dons a beard and poses as the mother to convince Fester that he will have to work to support a wife.</desc>
<category lang="en">Classics</category>
<category lang="en">Classic Comedies</category>
<icon src="https://webgrabplus.com/%3Ca%20href%3D"https://images.pluto.tv/episodes/5d7ffa74f3cdcd162e7fd64d/poster.jpg?w=694&amp;h=1000&amp;fm=jpg&amp;q=75&amp;fit=fill&amp;fill=blur">https://images.pluto.tv/episodes/5d7ffa74f3cdcd162e7fd64d/poster.jpg?w=6..." />
<rating>
<value>TV-G</value>
</rating>
</programme>
<programme start="20200821003107 +0000" stop="20200821013107 +0000" channel="Baywatch">
<title lang="en">Baywatch</title>
<desc lang="en">Mitch is still mourning Tracy’s death, so Hobie seeks help from a radio show to help Mitch recover. Caroline resuscitates a man with AIDS, which puts a strain on her relationship with Logan. And CJ enters a ballroom dancing competition.</desc>
<category lang="en">Action &amp; Adventure</category>
<category lang="en">Adventures</category>
<icon src="https://webgrabplus.com/%3Ca%20href%3D"https://images.pluto.tv/assets/images/default/vod.poster-default.jpg?w=694&amp;h=1000&amp;fm=jpg&amp;q=75&amp;fit=fill&amp;fill=blur">https://images.pluto.tv/assets/images/default/vod.poster-default.jpg?w=6..." />
<rating>
<value>TV-PG</value>
</rating>
</programme>

mat8861 wrote:

there was an error so was changed to @Revision 5 - [20/08/2020]

Got it, thanks