## Setup

The setup process contains three steps:
Signup for a Schedules Direct Account
Create lineups
Enter your Schedules Direct account information into MacProgramGuide.
Signing up for Schedules Direct.
Schedules Direct is a Web Service that provides television schedules and program information for US and Canadian zipcodes. The cost and policies of the Schedules Direct service can be found at www.schedulesdirect.org
To sign up for the Schedules Direct go to signup
Enter the required information, as shown here:
After completing the form and agreeing to the Subscriber Agreement and Terms of Service remember to indicate your using MacProgramGuide. Remember the email and password values entered on the form you will need to enter these later into MacProgramGuide.
Click the continue button to create the account.
Once you have completed your registration you will define a lineup. This is where you define the channels that you’d like MacProgramGuide to receive data for. The first step is enter your zipcode and select the lineup:
Once a lineup is selected, then you select the channels in the lineup:
Once this is complete, your done with the Schedule Direct portion of the setup.
Launch MacProgramGuide, if this is the first time it has been run after the license agreement, you will be presented with a dialog to enter the Schedules Direct username and password. Alternately, you may enter the Schedules Direct username and password in the preferences window.