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yes, I am fairly familiar on how it all works I have never maintained an EPG myself, but acid's EPG is designed and maintained for the m3u playlist I have been referring to. I know some tags may not match with Acid's EPG and the server's EPG, but there would be very few of those, if any. Acid maintains his EPG daily. If he has trouble he will report it. Last time there was an issue it was something to do with SD-JSON images requiring tokens, Effective 2022-10-01 quote from acid... 'As of this moment mc2xml (software I use for EPG) is not working, the whole site is down, linux and windows version of the software are not working, I have no idea if it's due to SD changes or some other issues. I'll keep an eye on it, but for now I won't be able to pull the EPG, I've been on it since yesterday and I'm still at it. Looking for alternatives.' Since then he has reported back and had successful pushed a new update to github and all was working fine again as reported by him. I can be almost sure that the issue is not with acid's EPG. In fact I sponsor him with new devices from time to time over the past 5 or 6 years, on behalf of the community and is partly why he devotes his work to our specific playlist channels. His last new device was a BuzzTV X5 and he also reported to me that he could not get his own EPG working on that X5 device. But does have it working on another un-named device. Sorry about all these posts on your Update thread allaboutbuzz. Perhaps they could be moved into a separate thread ? update: I did get the Server's EPG URL working thru m3u playlist Portal option. But no luck with acid's and still waiting on any confirmation one way or another.

I had acid's EPG working on other devices in the past but I no longer have those devices . They included a dreamlink T3 .. buzztv 4000. The T3 always worked with this EPG URL The 4000 at first did not work with the acid EPG URL, till Buzz team did something and that fixed the issue. That was over a year ago I think. I no longer have the T3 or the 4000 devices, so I can't check the EPG with those. The devices I have now either do not have the epg xml option or have it but it is not working. I just tried on the EZ Media Player as that device does have the option, but acid's EPG does not work there either, and if memory serves me, it did not work in the past either with acid's xml EPG. Acid himself uses this EPG URL (but on some other android device), and he is always updating the community on it's status and last word was it is working fine. I have private contact with him as well and he has not told me otherwise. But I sent out a request for anyone that is using the this EPG and the same server if they could confirm one way or another on any device. Any way, I am waiting for any replies currently. Have not messaged allaboutbuzz yet, till I get conformation. I am somewhat overtired too, it's been a long night at work and a longer morning :eek: While I am waiting I will be testing the server EPG URL on the 4900. Will see what that says

Thnx Emporium This is not a server EPG URL that I use with m3u portal. It is from a 3rd party source (acidjesuz). He supplies a working EPG since a few years now. There is also an EPG URL supplied by the server but I don't use that one, unless I use XC API or MAC connections in which case the server's EPG is automatically used.. With the m3u connection method, I use acid's EPG and that way I can get a more reliable EPG then what my server supplies. https://raw.githubusercontent.com/acidjesuz/epg/master/guide.xml

okay, I will first set it all up again and retry. Then if same results I will send PM But I am off to work for the night, so will be tomorrow. Thnx

it's never worked on the 4900 or the X5 The EPG source is good and works on other devices. I have tried the same EPG URL on another device does populate , but it does not populate on the 4900 or the X5 I did have it working on the 4000 some time ago, and just recently I saw a post in which the poster said it was working on the 4000 but has stopped working since a few weeks now.

V5.0.783 auto loaded onto the 4900 and message was seen onscreen Was hoping to see the EPG URL working with the m3u Server option. Some time ago i had asked about it when I had the 4000 & 4500 models. It was fixed on the 4500 I believe, but I do not remeber which model (4000 or 4500 and I no longer have the devices to check again). The 4900, nor the X5 have it working correctly. This is the option to add a URL for a 3rd party EPG. We can add the Server URL fine the EPG URL fine too, but while viewing LiveTV the EPG never populates. The m3u Server option

showed up on the 4900 w/FW version 20220923 Buzz5 / Android 9 Loaded fine. Updated IPTV version: 5.0.781

updated took a few minutes. Looking good.

original FW and Buzz5 versions : 202220919 / 5.0,766 Update notice appeared upon start up after update: 20221011 / 5.0.775 it was a couple minutes to update with a reboot to finish. Looking good

added: Lost volume control. Fixed thru Utilities menu Buzz Utilities > Volume Control > Force max volume OFF

updated the X5 today. I did not go to LiveTV and let it update automatically like done with the 4900. With the X5 the update was done manually. It went thru the update loading process fine and asked to be rebooted, which I selected. Everything seemed to go fine, but the Buzz5 App Version showing has not changed. before Update: 20220919 Firmware version 5.0.766 Buzz5 App Version after Update: 20220919 Firmware version 5.0.766 Buzz5 App Version

this 4900 saw the V772 update just a few minutes ago and installed automatically.

thanx I did see you mentioned that already too. I just wanted to report my firmware so it was known why I have not yet reported feedback on new update thnx allaboutbuzz

no feedback to report yet This X5 has the 20220624 firmware

I powered on the X5 here last night and it showed an update available as well. I choose not to install thou. as I wanted to check here first if any announcements were posted about it., but saw nothing except the July 5th, 2022 update thread, which I never did attempt to install. So then I looked in the 'Update' menu and there was no notification showing there of a new update. Current Buzz5 version onboard --> 5.0.727 6/16/2022

the xrs4900 has been unpluged all night. Plugged it back in and powered up and it goes thru the motions fine and lands on the 'Modern' Home Screen. But no RCU function at all. So I did the toothpick thing to get into recovery mode and that worked fine too, but there still in no RCU function , so I can not scroll to the Factory Reset option :eek: In fact now it is stuck in recovery mode at the main recovery menu screen and no way to exit or do anything else... so I will unplug it again and see what happens. The device boots up fine but there is no RCU function at all. I did get into the LiveTV directly after the update install yesterday, but no RCU function since then and not even with other remotes, which all work fine on other Buzz devices. (checked and rechecked that). And no RCU function when in the recovery menu.. Update: after the reboot (by disconnecting power), the Bt-400 RCU nor two other Buzz RCUs would work. So I tried the AR-100 RCU and it now works. It did not work before, but does now. Just finished testing a bunch of RCU functions and this Ar-100 is still functioning fine , while other RCUs are not (re-checked them again to be sure)

no joy... I have powered back on after 25 minutes and still stuck on Home Screen with no RCU function.

rebooted but there seems to be no change The RCU is still not functioning, or box is stuck. Last time I unplugged it for approx 20 minutes. and the RCU functioned fine until I entered that Side-Bar EPG menu I will try that 20 minute thing again now.

Yea, my MAC is in the system. I unplugged the power for awhile and after powering back up, the RCU worked fine again. To be honest I think I had overheated the device as I had a desktop lamp turned on and the hot bulb was only inches away from the device. The device was pretty hot too. \ I didn't think too smartly when I bent that lamp over the top of the device :eek: The device is running cool now BUT I have another snag. As soon as I brought up the sidebar menu (EPG), the box is stuck again on that EPG and the RCU is not functioning again. Going to reboot the power again and check results

well maybe not. Seems I have no control with the RCU After the update , the TV returned to a LiveTV channel I had on before the update and reboot. But I can not change channel or operate any RCU function now after the update. So I rebooted again and now am back on the Home screen but still no RCU function/control. I can not exit Home screen of do anything at all with the RCU Have tried other RCUs and same results. Batteries have been changed. RCU tested on other Buzz device and is working on there

well maybe not. Seems I have no control with the RCU After the update , the TV returned to a LiveTV channel I had on before the update and reboot. But I can not change channel or operate any RCU function now after the update. So I rebooted again and now am back on the Home screen but still no RCU function/control. I can not exit Home screen of do anything at all with the RCU Have tried other RCUs and same results. Batteries have been changed. RCU tested on other Buzz device and is working on there ooops... this post was suppose to be posted in the xrs4900 July 6th update thread :eek: If it could be moved there that would be coll. Sorry guys :eek:

Fired up the xrs4900 today and a new update installed. I must have it set on auto-update as it installed automatically. Update went well. Seems it was just a small one with a couple changes only.

working fine, thnx I had posted on other update thread earlier. I did not see this thread at the time. Sorry about that guys But yea, the volume thing is working fine now with this new update

update received and installed Force Volume Max is now defaulted to OFF Cool beans thnx I will include Firmware version next time if I ever need ... sorry about that

Force Max Volume is defaulted to On Same as the X5 was till last update which fixed it. thnx