Programme guide

What is on now and next on each channel, and the TV guide on the boxes, come from XMLTV files: the EPG sources under Live TV > EPG sources.

Mintrix and Ministra each import the guide from the same sources:

	For	Reads
Mintrix	Its own apps, Mintrix's MAG app among them	Plain XML, gzip (.gz), xz (.xz) and zip files
Ministra	Its portal	Plain XML and gzip (.gz) only

xz files and Ministra's portal

An .xz source fills Mintrix's guide but not Ministra's: boxes on Ministra's portal then show no programmes. For them, use sources that offer plain XML or .gz.

How programmes find their channel

• By the channel's EPG id (its xmltv_id, under the channel's settings). A source's id prefix is put before the file's ids first.
• A source's languages pick the title and description where a file has several.
• Where two sources give the same channel, the first source's guide is shown.

A channel with an EPG id that no source has gets no programmes. The source list shows how many channels and programmes each source brought.

When it runs

• Both imports run on the same interval, set under Settings > EPG. An unchanged file is not read again.
• A failing source keeps the programmes it brought, and shows why it failed.
• Programmes are kept for the days set under Settings > EPG, then removed.

Settings > EPG shows when each import last ran and when the next is due.

Kept in step with Ministra

EPG sources are synced both ways, like channels: saved in Mintrix they go to Ministra first.