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I'm experiencing this issue too.
can't scrape my TV shows for now which is a little annoying.
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I have just got home and tried once again, with yet another failure!! I did wonder if there was any way to manually 'point xbmc in the right direction' if thats the right way to put it lol.
Xbmc seems like the best media server around, seems a shame to lose it as its not scraping properly
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Same problem here, movies adding fine but TV shows "could not download information: unable to connect to remote server" server down? Was working fine until now.
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2013-03-08, 20:35
(This post was last modified: 2013-03-08, 20:35 by Vimes.)
I am not sure what is going on with the none updating of the TV series etc but I have just installed 1.3 RC of Media Portal to test that and it uses (AFAIK) the same source for its TV series information when using the TV series plugin and that has scraped fine.
XBMC still is not scraping TV series though for me at the moment and it has been patchy all week.
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Seeing the "unable to connect to remote server" as well.
Sad face on my face.
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If www. is included in the Host header for API requests you get a 503 error, just using thetvdb.com works fine.
If you alter the hostnames used by the scraper to exclude www. then it works again.
I was going to attach a modified tvdb.xml from addons/metadata.tvdb.com dir which works for me but can't see a way. It's 287 lines long so I won't paste it into a code block unless it's the only option.
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The file is placed here:
C:\Users\{your username}\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\addons\metadata.tvdb.com
I tried changing all references to www. but still doesn't add my shows.. perhaps I made a mistake.
:-(
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Didn't work for me. Changed all I could but still I can see the debug log referring to www.
Perhaps I'm looking in the wrong place..