extra logging

[jimbojones]

Would it be possible, or indeed, is it already possible to include the tuner used for each specific recording in a log file somewhere, am having trouble with a dodgy tuner and i'm not sure which one it is, and it doesn't become evident for a while after the recording starts, making it difficult to catch.

cheers james

[Graham]

Not quite what you want but ... the System plugin will display all in-progress recordings together with the tuner that is doing each recording.

[sub]

The log files already do list which tuner was used for each recording, but it's in with a lot of other info so can sometimes take a bit of an expert eye to find this info.

[johnsonx42]

sub, is the tuner id passed to parallel/postprocessing.bat? %1=filename, %2=channel, %3=recording oid; maybe %4=tuner id? if not, could it in the next release? I've occaisionally wanted to know which tuner something happened on, and I already log from my parallelprocessing.bat lines like "Thu 12/13/2012, 6:30:02.60 - ParallelProcessing.bat invoked on "E:\Kids\Pecola\Pecola_20121213_06300700.ts" recorded from channel 31"

[sub]

I just checked, and it is already passed to the PostProcessing.bat/ParallelProcessing.bat as the fourth parameter.

[johnsonx42]

cool, I'll add that to my script then. I was thinking maybe it had already been added, I probably read about it at the time and then mostly forgot about it.

@Jimbojones:

you could put the following line at the beginning of ParallelProcessing.bat to get a nice log of all recordings:

Code:

echo %date%,%time% - Recording of %1 (id %3) on channel %2 started on tuner %4>> "%~dp0\recordings.log"

That will put the log file in the scripts directory; you can get rid of the %~dp0 and replace it with an absolute path if you want the log somewhere else.

[jimbojones]

Cheers , thats exactly what I was wanting ... just tried it and it works, except was expecting tuner name but got a number instead , 21 for example ?? , I only have two,I guess as long as they retain the same numbers I should be ok.Thanks again

[johnsonx42]

you can ferret out which tuners are which by looking in your NRecord and/or NDigitalHost logs (or look in the database with sqlitespy if you are so inclined). Once you know which numbers correspond to which tuners, you can flesh out my example thusly:

Code:

set Tuner=%4
if %4==21 set Tuner=My capture device name #1
if %4==22 set Tuner=My capture device name #2
echo %date%,%time% - Recording of %1 (id %3) on channel %2 started on tuner %Tuner%>> "%~dp0\recordings.log"

(the initial "set Tuner=%4" just sets the Tuner name equal to the tuner number in case you later add/change tuners and don't update the batch file, else Tuner would be nul in that case; then the next two lines reset the tuner name based on the tuner number passed by NRecord)