Nscripthelper

[HarryH3]

Thanks JavaWiz, I'm not a programmer, so that is way above my pay grade.  All of my batch files were taken from the forums over the years.  I didn't write any of them.    But if I understand correctly, that is a Helper Utility that makes it easier to use a Helper DLL??? 

It seems to be working now, it didn't reboot while a recording was in progress, then it did reboot when the recording stopped.  Yay!

[JavaWiz]

Glad you got it working!!

[hansol123]

Hi

Could you please post some idiot type instructions on how to set this up.

My Hauppauge Freesat card has a habit of not starting and I normally have to manually rebooy my PC to wake it up.

Thanks

Maurice

[Graham]

Could you please post some idiot type instructions on how to set this up.

Does this help ... https://github.com/sub3/NextPVR/wiki/nscripthelper

[HarryH3]

Hi Maurice, cut and paste the following script into a text file. Then save it as C:\Users\Public\NPVR-Data\scripts\PostUpdateEPG.bat (This location assumes a standard installation of Version 5). NPVR will automatically execute the contents of that file right after it updates the EPG every night. Replace the x's in -pin:xxxx with the PIN for your server. The default is -pin:0000. If you have changed your pin and don't remember it, you can change it again from the web interface at Settings -> Access -> Application Access. The script checks to see if there are currently any recordings in progress (Note that "Live TV" is technically a recording, so if a channel is currently being watched, the script will see that as a "recording in progress" and not reboot.) If it does find a that a recording is in progress, then it waits 60 seconds and checks again. When it finds that there is NOT a recording in progress, then it reboots the server.

echo off
REM Reboot if not recording
cd C:"\Program Files\NextPVR"
set NSHelper=dotnet NScriptHelper.dll -isinuse -pin:xxxx

:check
FOR /F "tokens=*" %%i in ('%NSHelper% -isinuse') do SET condition=%%i
echo %condition%
IF %condition% =="NOT RECORDING" goto reboot

:delay
timeout 60
goto check

:reboot
echo "About to reboot"
shutdown /r

[hansol123]

Thanks Harry for your very clear instructions.

Regards

Maurice

[jcole998]

I'm trying to invoke NScriptHelper.dll using dotnet. I've installed the dotnet support from https://dotnet.microsoft.com/download/do...nt/runtime. Version 5.0.3 I think.

I tried the following command  and got an error:

C:\Users\John>dotnet "c:\program files\nextpvr\nscripthelper.dll" -pin:77890 -server:192.168.1.154:8867 -status
Cannot use file stream for [c:\program files\nextpvr\nscripthelper.deps.json]: No such file or directory
[1] Unable to login

I searched the forum for the missing file but found no help.

Where can I find this file?

Thanks.

[mvallevand]

It has never been available but sub has posted that he will make changes for the next release.

In Windows just run the exe.

Martin

[jcole998]

I could not find nscripthelper.exe in the c:\program files\nextpvr folder and can't seem to find it in the forum somewhere. So I tried the V4 version and that failed also.

Is it available somewhere else?

[mvallevand]

Sorry my mistake I am running a prerelease Copy this as NScriptHelper.runtimeconfig.json and it should work from dotnet

Code:

{
  "runtimeOptions": {
    "tfm": "netcoreapp3.1",
    "framework": {
      "name": "Microsoft.NETCore.App",
      "version": "3.1.0"
    }
  }
}

Martin