New user new install and a few "issues"

[rkircher]

The only listings that matched the mapped channels in your database were:

2011-07-12 10:42:02.593 [DEBUG][5] Loading XMLTV from: C:\Documents and Settings\dick\My Documents\xmltv.xml
2011-07-12 10:42:16.687 [DEBUG][5] channelEventLists.Count=5
2011-07-12 10:42:16.687 [INFO][5] -channel: 'WESH-DT' has 392 listings
2011-07-12 10:42:16.687 [INFO][5] -channel: 'WX Plus' has 499 listings
2011-07-12 10:42:16.687 [INFO][5] -channel: 'WKCF-DT' has 484 listings
2011-07-12 10:42:16.687 [INFO][5] -channel: 'this' has 270 listings
2011-07-12 10:42:16.687 [INFO][5] -channel: 'WOFL-DT' has 482 listings

If there were other channels in the file that you think should have also been pulled into NPVR, then their names have changed in the file since the time they were originally mapped. For these you'll need to double cloick on each channel in Settings->Channels, then reselect the appropriate channel. After remapping, do an update epg.

I am not complaining, but I sure am confused because there are channels that are on the NPVR TV Guide, but not on your list. For example,
6.1 WKMG-DT Local 6 (this is CBS, probably rebroadcast)
6.2 LATV
27.1 WRDQ-HD
27.2 WRDQ-SD
68.1 WBCC-TV (BCC is Brevard Community College broadcasting the PBS channel)
68.2 UCF-TV UCF is University of Central Florida)
68.3 WBCCDT3
68.4 FKN-FC (this one is the Florida Knowledge Network, probably local)

Now that I look at them, I think they are all "local" channels, or least rebroadcast locally. Do you have any informative explanation why these are not on the list that you generated so I can make a little sense out of all this?

[sub]

If you zip and attach your npvr.db3 and your xmltv file, then I'll be able to tell you exactly why these listings aren't being imported. I'm sure its a case of the names having slightly changed in the xmltv, resulting in no matching listing data,

[rkircher]

If you zip and attach your npvr.db3 and your xmltv file, then I'll be able to tell you exactly why these listings aren't being imported. I'm sure its a case of the names having slightly changed in the xmltv, resulting in no matching listing data,

I may have confused you with my non-complaint, or non-problem question in my msg #141. I am getting the show information on the NPVR displayed TV Guide for channels like 27.1 WRDQ-HD. I was just asking (for my own information) why the channels that have TV Guide show details in my NPVR displayed TV Guide were not on your list in your msg #140,

[sub]

I may have confused you with my non-complaint, or non-problem question in my msg #141. I am getting the show information on the NPVR displayed TV Guide for channels like 27.1 WRDQ-HD. I was just asking (for my own information) why the channels that have TV Guide show details in my NPVR displayed TV Guide were not on your list in your msg #140,

It looks like you do have at least one channel using the ATSC broadcast EPG, which could explain listings on other channels.

[rkircher]

My TV Guide eventually shows "No Show Details" for all time slots or just shows program information for a few days depending on the last time I updated by using Settings => Channels and click on the Update EPG button. I looked at the date on the xmltv.xml file and it is days behind. For example, on 2011-08-17 the date on the xmltv.xml file was 2011-08-14. I waited a few days, started the computer again, and on 2011-08-20, the date on the xmltv.xml was still the same (2011-08-14). If I double-clicked on the batch file UpdateEPG.bat located in the ....\Data\NPVR\Scripts directory, then it properly changes directory and runs mc2xml.exe and updates the xmltv.xml file. But, when I go back to the TV Guide, it is not updated (perhaps because NPVR software did not know I ran mc2xml.exe manually and parse out the program data to put it into the TV Guide.

Next, I rebooted the computer. The TV Guide did not update, I am guessing for the same reason. I checked the contents of the xmltv.xml file and found that it was updated from the dates of the shows it contained There was 12-days worth of TV Guide information in it. Finally, I updated by clicking Settings => Channels => Update EPG. That worked and brought the TV Guide up to date. It is my understanding that the batch files like UpdateEPG.bat are run by NPVR when the NPVR software is started. If that is true, why is my TV Guide not being updated?

[sub]

Everytime we've seen these symptoms before it's because the has made a mistake in their UpdateEPG.bat file. The most common mistake is making assumptions about the currect working directory. ie, when run automatically from the recording service, the working directory is different from when you run it manually, so you need to make sure you have the full path to any exectables you're running and any data files you're producing, or include the appropriate "cd c:\some\path" type commands at the beginning of the script.

[rkircher]

Everytime we've seen these symptoms before it's because the has made a mistake in their UpdateEPG.bat file. The most common mistake is making assumptions about the currect working directory. ie, when run automatically from the recording service, the working directory is different from when you run it manually, so you need to make sure you have the full path to any exectables you're running and any data files you're producing, or include the appropriate "cd c:\some\path" type commands at the beginning of the script.

My UpdateEPG.bat file has the appropriate CD command. As I said, my trouble-shooting attempts included running the UpdateEPG.bat manually by double-clicking on it in Explorer in a separate multi-tasked process. It worked fine as I described. Maybe my assumption that the batch files in the Script directory are run when NPVR is started is not correct. Do I have the correct assumption?

I don't leave the computer that has NPVR installed running all the time. The EPG update does happen at the set time if my computer is left on 24-hours each day, but that is not how we used it. I am expecting that the UpdateEPG.bat is run by NPVR when I boot the computer and start NPVR running. That leads to another question: If the EPG update Time in Settings => Misc2 is set for 18:00 hours (6:00 PM), and I start my computer and NPVR at 7:00PM, does NPVR realize that the time was just missed and run the UpdateEPG.bat file anyway to keep the TV Guide current?

[sub]

Maybe my assumption that the batch files in the Script directory are run when NPVR is started is not correct. Do I have the correct assumption?

The UpdateEPG.bat is only run when the EPG is being updated, ie either when you click 'Update EPG' in the Setting->Channels screen, or when the EPG update time happens each night.

I don't leave the computer that has NPVR installed running all the time. The EPG update does happen at the set time if my computer is left on 24-hours each day, but that is not how we used it. I am expecting that the UpdateEPG.bat is run by NPVR when I boot the computer and start NPVR running. That leads to another question: If the EPG update Time in Settings => Misc2 is set for 18:00 hours (6:00 PM), and I start my computer and NPVR at 7:00PM, does NPVR realize that the time was just missed and run the UpdateEPG.bat file anyway to keep the TV Guide current?

No, thats not the case. See above. You can however run "NextPVR.exe -UpdateEPG" if you want nextpvr.exe to update the EPG at startup - I wouldnt want to do that by default because depending on your EPG setup this can take a very long time. Very few people would want that to happen every time the app starts.

[rkircher]

The UpdateEPG.bat is only run when the EPG is being updated, ie either when you click 'Update EPG' in the Setting->Channels screen, or when the EPG update time happens each night.

No, thats not the case. See above. You can however run "NextPVR.exe -UpdateEPG" if you want nextpvr.exe to update the EPG at startup - I wouldnt want to do that by default because depending on your EPG setup this can take a very long time. Very few people would want that to happen every time the app starts.

I start NextPVR.exe when I start the computer by using a Shortcut in the Startup directory. When I add the -UpdateEPG option to pass this argument to NextPVR.exe, Windows chokes and won't accept it. It appears to be confusing the argument I am passing with the name of the program and saying that it does not exist. I'm a Linux user and don't know that much about Windows XP. Could you tell me how to run the command "NextPVR.exe -UpdateEPG" in Windows automatically when I start the computer? BTW, is there a Linux version of NPVR in the future?

[rkircher]

I'm not getting a reply to my Post #149, so it may be that I am barking up the wrong tree or it is not possible to initiate an EPG Update automatically when NextPVR.exe is started. Any ideas to Update the EPG using a command line argument as suggested Post #148 would be greatly appreciated because I still have the problem with no solution.