Scheduled EPG Update - TV Guide not always updating from XMLTV

[Reddwarf]

Do you guys possibly have the xmltv file in a directory that the NextPVR.exe (running as the logged in user) can access, but isnt accessible from NRecord.exe (running as a service under a different user account)? ie, like in your user directory?

Now THAT is quite possible! In XP everything about access was easy, eighter you had access or not, but in W7 there are all shades of access. I'll try to copy the xmltv file to a location where if definitly can be read by Nrecord and see what happends.

[sub]

Looking at the code, I'm wondering if its related to channels with more than one capture source associated with it. Do you guys have it happening on channels that are set up on only one device?

[Reddwarf]

Looking at the code, I'm wondering if its related to channels with more than one capture source associated with it. Do you guys have it happening on channels that are set up on only one device?

Definitly yes, I have only one analog capturecard in each computer and the analog channels are not merged with other channels.

Edit: But it could be more than one reason for the problem.

[sub]

Definitly yes, I have only one analog capturecard in each computer and the analog channels are not merged with other channels.

Did you checkout my other suggestion about the directory?

[sub]

I've added some more logging for the next build which should help me track down what is happening.

[johnsonx42]

Do you guys possibly have the xmltv file in a directory that the NextPVR.exe (running as the logged in user) can access, but isnt accessible from NRecord.exe (running as a service under a different user account)? ie, like in your user directory?

I have mine in the directory C:\users\public\npvr\epg. Shouldn't that be fine? Nrecord.exe can access everything else there.

I have the same basic problem as everyone else here, my EPG shows "No Show Details" every morning, and all the pending recordings are gone.

[Graham_Shepherd]

Do you guys possibly have the xmltv file in a directory that the NextPVR.exe (running as the logged in user) can access, but isnt accessible from NRecord.exe (running as a service under a different user account)? ie, like in your user directory?

Although clearly a possible cause I don't think this is the problem, I'm using XP so access rights are not too much of an issue. In any event the XMLTV file is not in a user directory but in a sub-directory of my c: windows-programs-npvr folder.

[Graham_Shepherd]

Definitly yes, I have only one analog capturecard in each computer and the analog channels are not merged with other channels.

Edit: But it could be more than one reason for the problem.

Sorry Sub... I do not have any single device channels so cannot say whether this is an issue. I have 2 DVB-T devices which update EPG via DVB and these are ok, plus 4 DVB-S devices which update EPG via XMLTV which are the problem.

Hope this helps and is not going round in circles - the extra logging facility will surely help solve the problem in the next build.

ps: None of my channels are merged between EPG sources &/or device types.

[sub]

For whatever reason, I dont seem to have this problem here on either of my machine running NPVR, so I'm going to need more info to find the cause.

If you do a manual 'update epg', check the tv guide to confirm you have listings, then set the automated epg update hour to the current hour, close NPVR, then restart the 'NPVR Recording Service' (which will start updating the EPG about 20 seconds later), then wait a few minutes start NPVR and view the tv guide - has th problem occurred? If so, can we try the same steps, but instead of restarting 'NPVR Recording Service', manually run "NRecord.exe RUN" from a command prompt, and see if it happens then?

[Graham_Shepherd]

For whatever reason, I dont seem to have this problem here on either of my machine running NPVR, so I'm going to need more info to find the cause.

If you do a manual 'update epg', check the tv guide to confirm you have listings, then set the automated epg update hour to the current hour, close NPVR, then restart the 'NPVR Recording Service' (which will start updating the EPG about 20 seconds later), then wait a few minutes start NPVR and view the tv guide - has th problem occurred? If so, can we try the same steps, but instead of restarting 'NPVR Recording Service', manually run "NRecord.exe RUN" from a command prompt, and see if it happens then?

Thanks for your speedy guidance - sorry to be dim, but how best to restart the 'NPVR Recording Service'?