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dullestknife
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Is there a way to automatically rename channels?

I load a custom .xml guide into a TV guide, and the program will automaticlaly pull channel logos for me if the names are correct.  For example, I pull the channel Animal Pl, and I'd like to automatically rename it Animal Planet.

mc2xml allows you to create a rename file to automate this process...does webgrab+plus have anything similar?

I have about 40 channels to manually rename every time, so any help would be very appreciated!

janKO
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HI

just open your WebGrab++.config.xml file and for example find this line with animal planet

<channel update="f" site="xyz.com" site_id="xyz" xmltv_id="Animal Pl">Animal Pl</channel>

and change to:

<channel update="f" site="xyz.com" site_id="xyz" xmltv_id="Animal Planet">Animal Planet</channel>

so always change only last part starting with xmltv_id="Animal Planet">Animal Planet</channel>

I hope this will help you :-)

dullestknife
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wonderful!  thank you!

now if I can only figure out how to configure Networks_zap2it.com haha.

pila
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I am doing the same thing as JanKO. The reason is here:

[Error   ] error in channel list of the config file!!
[Error   ]      duplicate xmltv_id value --  -- !!
[Error   ]      in :
[Error   ] <channel update="i" site="siol.net" site_id="discovery" xmltv_id="Discovery Channel">Discovery Channel</channel>
[Error   ] <channel update="i" site="evotv.hr" site_id="111" xmltv_id="Discovery Channel">Discovery Channel Hr</channel>
[Error   ] duplicate xmltv-id entries will mess-up the xmltv output!
[Error   ] ---- correct the channel-list to have unique xmltv-id values ---

As I have no doubt that Blackbear199 is correct in his explanation of intended behaviour, the main program should be fixed to function in accordance to described! If I modify the second xmltv_id instance to be as my own label, then all is well.

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