Star Rating Information for movies does not appear to picked up for SDEPG json file

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Download SD epg using the beta pluging
2. View upcoming movies grouped by Star Ratings

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Expect to see a list of movies grouped by Star ratings "****", "***+", etc.
Instead all I see is one category <unknown>

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
Beta 18 of SDEPG plugin on Windows 8 x64.

Please provide any additional information below.
The upcoming movies grouped by Star Ratings view works fine with the standard 
SageTV epg.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by gerald.b...@gmail.com on 2 Jan 2013 at 9:55

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Clearly a bug; I don't ever load the data into wiz.bin.

Not sure if I'll be able to get  this into beta 19, but beta 20 for sure.

Original comment by de...@battams.ca on 2 Jan 2013 at 10:21

• Changed state: Accepted
• Added labels: Plugin-sdepg, OpSys-All, Milestone-NextRelease, Component-Logic

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This issue was closed by revision c871b47b9a75.

Original comment by de...@battams.ca on 2 Jan 2013 at 11:42

• Changed state: Fixed

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This fix is a best effort based on the limited API docs available from Sage for 
actually loading this data into wiz.bin.  Please update this ticket after beta 
19 is released and let me know if it's actually working.

I've also emailed Sage support in hopes that they'll actually tell me how to do 
it, but I'm not holding my breath on getting a response to such a query at this 
point.

Original comment by de...@battams.ca on 2 Jan 2013 at 11:46

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FYI: Beta 19 did not fix Star Ratings. I checked and can't find much 
documentation on this either. As best I can tell Show.Misc is an array of 
strings and the Star Rating is the first sting in the array. I did determine 
that I can manually set the start rating by adding it (eg ***) to the Misc 
field in the web interface for BMT so I know that it is possible to add Star 
Ratings to wiz.bin. Unfortunately, I didn't see any information to determine 
how BMT accomplishes this either.

Original comment by gerald.b...@gmail.com on 6 Jan 2013 at 12:59

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Can you check your sdepg.log file and ensure there were no errors with your 
first EPG update after installing beta 19?  I found another bug in sdjson api 
that can cause issues.

As a matter of fact, let's just eliminate that possibility.  Please delete your 
sdjson.epg file in \plugins\sdepg\ and force an EPG update.  Check the 
sdepg.log file and ensure no errors were reported by the grabber run nor the 
EPG load by sdepg.  After that's done and there were no errors, check your EPG 
for future movie airings and see if the star ratings show up.  They appear to 
be showing up for me in the web ui.  Although I could just be storing the value 
in the wrong spot such that it shows up in the web ui, but it's not being 
recognized as the star rating by other things.

Sage support still hasn't responded to my request and I doubt they will so 
we're going to have to try to figure out where we need to stuff this info on 
our own. :)

Original comment by de...@battams.ca on 6 Jan 2013 at 4:16

• Changed state: Returned

Attachments:

• stars.png

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Either there was a problem with the initial epg download or I didn't wait long 
enough for the epg update to make it though the system before checking after 
installing beta 19 since the Star ratings are now present in my epg.

Original comment by gerald.b...@gmail.com on 6 Jan 2013 at 5:43

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Perfect. :)

Original comment by de...@battams.ca on 6 Jan 2013 at 9:59

• Changed state: Verified