Introduction

TV Movie ClickFinder is a reliable and feature rich application supplying you with EPG data for german TV channels. The ClickFinder Plugin maps this data to your MediaPortal TV channels.

Requirements

• MediaPortal and the TV server are installed.
• A constant Internet connection to receive EPG updates.

Installation of TV Movie ClickFinder

Download the latest version of TV Movie ClickFinder from the http://www.ewe-software.de/download.html#tvmovieclickfinder and start the installation by running setup.exe.

On Windows 7 OS, don't install Tv Movie Clickfinder in your ProgramFiles folder, that causes UAC problems. For example, install the software under C:\TvMovie\.

The free version of TV Movie ClickFinder gives you 8 TV channels. The premium version (12,99€ / year) has amongst others the following advantages:

• up to 170 TV channels
• full EPG data for the next two weeks

Configuration of TV Movie ClickFinder

• If you decided to go for the premium version you have to activate your account.
  • Open Datei/Freischalten, click Weiter, Benutzerkonto nutzen and enter your username and password.
  • Under Datei/Einstellungen/Senderauswahl you can now extend the list of TV channels to your needs.
• To get your first EPG entries just click on Datei/TV-Datenupdate.
• To make the application update your EPG data continuously and in the background configure it under Datei/Einstellungen/TV-Update as follows:

Make sure that the TV Timer application is set to start with Windows (this is the default setting). Otherwise you won't get further EPG updates.

Plugin Configuration for TV-Server

Note: This section applies to you if you did install the TV server along with MediaPortal.

• Enter the TV Server Management Console.
• Navigate to the plugins section and activate the TV Movie ClickFinder plugin:

• Enter the plugin configuration and activate Enable import from TV Movie database.

• You can configure some settings in the Import options

• In the Map channels tab you can now map the TV Movie channels to your MediaPortal channels.
• To do so click on the left list a MediaPortal channel and perform a double click on the according channel in the right list. The result should look like this:

• After having mapped all of your channels switch back to the Settings tab and click Import now.
• Configuration is now finished, (re)start MediaPortal and enjoy.

Known Problems / Troubleshooting

• None so far.

Author(s)

rtv

Discussion / Support

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