Channel Logo Tool V3

[MichaelColey]

After I tell Channel Logo Tool the location of my config file, I get the following error:

Code:

Data Source cannot be empty. Use :memory: to open an in-memory database.

If it makes a difference, I have a few things different than a standard installation. These seem like the most relevant differences:

1) My installation directory is "c:\Program Files\gbpvr".
2) My database is located at "\\PVR\gbpvr\gbpvr.db3".

[systemshark]

After I tell Channel Logo Tool the location of my config file, I get the following error:

Code:

Data Source cannot be empty. Use :memory: to open an in-memory database.

If it makes a difference, I have a few things different than a standard installation. These seem like the most relevant differences:

1) My installation directory is "c:\Program Files\gbpvr".
2) My database is located at "\\PVR\gbpvr\gbpvr.db3".

Hi, I think your the first to attempt to locate the database via a network drive, I'd not added any support for the networked drive.... I'll have a look into the problem...

Are you attempting to run CLT on in a client server setup ?

Out of interest which version are you using ? 3.5 Beta or 3.4 Final Release

[MichaelColey]

I'm running GB-PVR in a client/server mode, but am running CLT on the server. The main machine is "PVR" on the network. The HVR-1600 is on that machine, all processing happens on that machine, and the living room TV is hooked up to that machine. I (currently) have two client PCs running and will add other clients and MVPs in the future. When I configured client/server, the documentation was scattered around and inconsistent, and it looked like I had to have the everything be consistent on all machines. Rather than mapping to drives and trying to keep them all the same, I figured it was easier to just use network references. On the PVR, "\\PVR\gbpvr\gbpvr.db3" is really "C:\gbpvr\gbpvr.db3". From the sounds of your question, I'm thinking I might be able to change \\PVR to C: for everything on the server and leave the clients pointing to \\PVR??? I'll have to try that.

I'm using version 3.5.

[MichaelColey]

I changed my server to use c: instead of \\pvr, but I'm still getting the same error. I've attached my config.xml, if that helps.

What is CLT using in config and/or the database?

[systemshark]

Michael,

I've reproduced your error, It generated when the GBPVR.DB3 is not in the directory so It's not able to open it.

This is a bit odd, as CLT is designed to use the config setting that GBPVR using to locate the database so assuming it's opened config.xml everything should work from here on.

Did CLT find config.xml ?

Basically the system looks at the config.xml to see

1. which database type you are using - SQLite or Access
2. The path to the database AKA C:\program files\denvz\gbpvr

If you PM me the config.xml and gbpvr.db3, I'll test it here.

[MichaelColey]

I don't see an option for attachments with PM. Also, gbpvr.db3 is pretty big (8MB).

How would I know if it found config.xml? I browsed to it and selected it, so I'm assuming it did. I tried selecting a random other file and got a different error message (about invalid formats), so it looks like it's selecting fine.

I tried temporarily copying my config.xml to the directory where gbpvr.db3 is and choosing that config.xml, but I got the same error.

[systemshark]

Hi.

Here is what is happening :-

CLT has opened the matching window,
CLT has looked for config.xml in the default folder (C:\program files\devnz\gbpvr)
CLT is not located the file and it has asked your to browse to the folder containing config.xml which I think on your machine is C:\program files\gbpvr
CLT has read the config.xml down to the database source entry.

(mine is : <DatabaseConnectionString>Data Source=".\gbpvr.db3";Version=3;New=True;</DatabaseConnectionString>)

CLT has resolved the path based on config.xml and looked into this directory and not located gbpvr.db3.

therefore can you let me know :-

1) entry in config.xml against <DatabaseConnectionString>
2) the real path to GBPVR.DB3

We are getting closer.....

[MichaelColey]

FWIW, you should be able to get the installed GBPVR directory somewhere. I know it's in the registry, and several other GBPVR tools and plugins I've used find it automatically.

My DatabaseConnectionString is:

<DatabaseConnectionString>Data Source="c:\gbpvr\gbpvr.db3";Version=3;New=True;</DatabaseConnectionString>

Perhaps you're trying to prepend something to the path?

[systemshark]

Right fixed it, thanks for spotting this bug, I'd not handled the exact path reference correctly, anyway it's been fixed now....

try this version :

http://www.systemshark.com/CLTSetup3.7_beta2.zip

[MichaelColey]

That fixed it! Thanks!