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[Guest AaronSoup]

Does anyone know of a free and relatively comprehensive TV guide that I could put onto the PDA & Sync once weekly or whateh onto my MDA Compact???

While you're here, are SD Plus cards compatible with MDA Compact

[Guest chucky.egg]

Count me in for the TV guide if you find one.

As for SD... I've got a 1Gb mini-SD in my M500. If I was going to buy another one I'd get a micro-SD for future proofing.

[Guest AaronSoup]

Radio Times do one for £15 a year... but i'm cheap.

[Guest ian_b]

I've recently been playing around with writing a PPC app. I'd written an XMLTV viewer for windoze, and ported it to the PPC. The guy who wrote the actual XMLTV Radio Times Grabber gave me some webspace.

If you'd like to try it feel free.

It's UK only, and uses the Radio Times xml data downloaded using the Radio Times XMLTV Grabber.

Grabber: http://www.birtles.org.uk/xmltv/

PPC Viewer: http://xmltvview.birtles.org.uk/epgviewer.html

A couple of screenshots of the PPC viewer...

Any feedback and suggestions are welcome.

Oh, and it's free... :o

[Guest TigerNet]

...there's also an AvantGo channel that does this, but only three channels are free I found out!!!

Cheers

Nick

[Guest jim.mason]

I've recently been playing around with writing a PPC app. I'd written an XMLTV viewer for windoze, and ported it to the PPC. The guy who wrote the actual XMLTV Radio Times Grabber gave me some webspace.

If you'd like to try it feel free.

It's UK only, and uses the Radio Times xml data downloaded using the Radio Times XMLTV Grabber.

Grabber: http://www.birtles.org.uk/xmltv/

PPC Viewer: http://xmltvview.birtles.org.uk/epgviewer.html

A couple of screenshots of the PPC viewer...

Any feedback and suggestions are welcome.

Oh, and it's free...  :o

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Downloaded all the necessary files, but when I load up the ppc viewer it either hangs when loading the data file (have left it for 45mins) or I get an error message saying "Make sure that you have installed both the .NET Compact Framework and the SQL CE database engine. XMLTV Viewer cannot continue and must now close"

During the installation of the viewer after it had installed the Microsoft SQLCE 2.0 it told me that the programme may not display properly as it was for a previous version.

I have a Qtek S110 if it helps.

Cheers

Jim

[Guest ian_b]

Downloaded all the necessary files, but when I load up the ppc viewer it either hangs when loading the data file (have left it for 45mins) or I get an error message saying "Make sure that you have installed both the .NET Compact Framework and the SQL CE database engine.  XMLTV Viewer cannot continue and must now close"

During the installation of the viewer after it had installed the Microsoft SQLCE 2.0 it told me that the programme may not display properly as it was for a previous version.

I have a Qtek S110 if it helps

Did you use version 2.20 of the radio times grabber and change its ini file to specify windows-1252 encoding?

The SQL CE installation displays that message on 2003SE PPCs - it doesn't affect anything though, you can ignore it.

I've used it on an Orange M500, which is basically the same as your Qtek, and it works fine. The import takes about 4 minutes for a 14 channel/14 day file.

Can you uninstall and reinstall it, and also check on the version and encoding that the grabber uses.

Thanks for the feedback.

[Guest jim.mason]

Did you use version 2.20 of the radio times grabber and change its ini file to specify windows-1252 encoding?

The SQL CE installation displays that message on 2003SE PPCs - it doesn't affect anything though, you can ignore it.

I've used it on an Orange M500, which is basically the same as your Qtek, and it works fine. The import takes about 4 minutes for a 14 channel/14 day file.

Can you uninstall and reinstall it, and also check on the version and encoding that the grabber uses.

Thanks for the feedback.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Ian

Downloaded 2.20 of the grabber and changed the encoding as per your original post.

Have uninstalled all items and will re install to see if it works.

EDIT: - Reinstalled, but downloaded version 1.0 SP3 of the compact framework. Everything works fine now. One other thing I did was to reduce the number of channels as well so could be either of those that fixed the problem. Had 76 but reduced to 46.

Cheers

Jim

Edited September 16, 2005 by jim.mason

[Guest ian_b]

76 channels is pushing it a bit... :( :o The most I've tried it with is 40.

I didn't deliberately only make it run with any particular service pack, so I'm not sure if SP3 was the cause. Maybe it was the high number of channels causing low memory or resources.

But at least it's working for you now.

Hope you find it useful.

[Guest chucky.egg]

On balance my preference is to have a "stand alone" solution (I don't really want to have to grab the guides on my PC and export them to my PPC) so I've gone back to using RSS

It's not as pretty, but it works well and without using a PC (although you'll need an RSS Feed Reader, obviously)

http://www.modaco.com/index.php?showtopic=202869