GBPVRcli - access GB-PVR information from the command line

[Mister Slimm]

If possible, could you add a {DescriptionWithoutLineFeeds} token (or a better name maybe!)

This would simply be the same as the {Description} token but with line feeds / carriage returns replaced with a single space. Or even better might be to have {DescriptionWithoutLineFeeds:<br>} where the characters after the : are used instead of line feeds / carriage returns.

I'm piping the output from gbpvrcli to another commandline program that accepts input on stdin, and the line feeds that occur in the description field are messing up my input :eek:


Thanks,

Martyn

Thanks for suggestion. Here is a quick fix version with a new token called {DescriptionNoWrap}.

Slimm GBPVR beta for v9707+ Direct download link

[martynw]

Thanks for suggestion. Here is a quick fix version with a new token called {DescriptionNoWrap}.

Slimm GBPVR beta for v9707+ Direct download link

Fantastic! Cheers to late night coding

(In case people are curious as to my usage, it's to output gbpvr status over xAP which is a home automation protocol (more info at http://www.xapautomation.org/wiki/index....n_protocol)

I've now got gbpvr status info available to anything that's xAP aware

Would it be possible to add another switch to the utility? This one would be called "/nowshowing" (or similar) and would output records in the same way as the "/pending" or "/inprogress" switches but this time for anything in the EPG that is "on now"?

Martyn

[Mister Slimm]

Would it be possible to add another switch to the utility? This one would be called "/nowshowing" (or similar) and would output records in the same way as the "/pending" or "/inprogress" switches but this time for anything in the EPG that is "on now"?

This is a whole new chunk of code but is something I am looking to implement at some time.

[Rayman]

MisterSlimm -
having a problem with the last release of GBPVRcli -
i can run from command line and get the output for pending / inprogress etc -
however - running from the bat file , in particular Particular from ParallelProcessing.bat - the first invokation is run - ie inprogress, but the pending is not - this is caused by an exception being generated that is causing the bat file to terminate -

seems whatever i run gbpvrcli with - i get the exception - the information requested in the command is output - but obviously the exception prevents multiple commands being invoked-

GBPVRcli has encountered a problem and needs to clode etc
Eventtype is clr20r3

Exception Information
Code 0xe0434f4d Flags 0x00000001
Record 0x0000.. Address 0x000000007c81eb33

Any ideas ?
Rayman

[Mister Slimm]

MisterSlimm -
having a problem with the last release of GBPVRcli -
i can run from command line and get the output for pending / inprogress etc -
however - running from the bat file , in particular Particular from ParallelProcessing.bat - the first invokation is run - ie inprogress, but the pending is not - this is caused by an exception being generated that is causing the bat file to terminate -

seems whatever i run gbpvrcli with - i get the exception - the information requested in the command is output - but obviously the exception prevents multiple commands being invoked-

GBPVRcli has encountered a problem and needs to clode etc
Eventtype is clr20r3

Exception Information
Code 0xe0434f4d Flags 0x00000001
Record 0x0000.. Address 0x000000007c81eb33

Any ideas ?
Rayman

Please could you post the GBPVRcli command lines and, if there is one, the GBPVRcli*.log files.

The above error message is a generic .NET error message that simply says a .NET program has crashed.

As a possible stop-gap, isn't there a flag we can set in a batch file that tells it to not to halt on errors?

[Rayman]

will check - been a while (years) since I delt with the old "dos" bat files -
Will get more debug for you tonight -

Another thought i did have this morning is, I run a couple of plugins that you more than likely
have not tested with:
DboxRecorder - which should be fine i would hope-
and i also am simultaneously using the GBPVRLcd beta - i suspect there may be some potential conflict there -

I'll pop GBPVRLcd out of the way tonight also and try to see if this removes the exception.

Regards
Rayman

[replaytv]

MisterSlimm,

I want to use your gbpvrcli program to create a dummy file c:\recording.dat when the recording in progress, and remove c:\recording.dat if not recording. Is there anyway I can do this? Thanks.


I use this line in my postprocessing.bat, but it always produce the c:\recording.dat with data when recording in progress and empty when no recording.

gbpvrcli.exe /inprogress 1 /message "{Status}\n{Title}\n{SubTitle}\n{EndTime:t}\n{EndTime:HH}\n{EndTime:mm}"> c:\recording.dat

Help please. Thanks.

Dan L.

[Mister Slimm]

MisterSlimm,

I want to use your gbpvrcli program to create a dummy file c:\recording.dat when the recording in progress, and remove c:\recording.dat if not recording. Is there anyway I can do this? Thanks.


I use this line in my postprocessing.bat, but it always produce the c:\recording.dat with data when recording in progress and empty when no recording.

gbpvrcli.exe /inprogress 1 /message "{Status}\n{Title}\n{SubTitle}\n{EndTime:t}\n{EndTime:HH}\n{EndTime:mm}"> c:\recording.dat

Help please. Thanks.

Dan L.

In ParallelProcessing.bat:

Code:

gbpvrcli.exe /inprogress 1 /message "{Status}\n{Title}\n{SubTitle}\n{EndTime:t}\n{EndTime:HH}\n{EndTime:mm}"> c:\recording.dat

In PostProcessing.bat:

Code:

del c:\recording.dat

[Rayman]

Mister Slimm
ok some further information -
removing the GBPVR_LCDSmPlugin.dll from the plugins directory removes the
exception condition -
so definate incompatability between the two -
The above DLL is only active if GBPVR window is up of course - should have realised that one last night -

ok now for more wierdness (dll above removed)
open a "dos" shell - can run the bat file - eg ParallelProcessing.bat - first time
it will print out and run the first gbpvrcli command ok - doesnt execute the second -
subsequent attempts to run the bat file do nothing - no echo of command - nothing.
running manually from command line - ie each command is ok though

closing and opening a new shell - start again.
tried adding errorlevel catches - no change

no errors in GBPVRcli.exe.log.

puzzled - but at least the exception is gone (along with some functionality)

Regards
Rayman

[Mister Slimm]

ok now for more wierdness (dll above removed)
open a "dos" shell - can run the bat file - eg ParallelProcessing.bat - first time
it will print out and run the first gbpvrcli command ok - doesnt execute the second -
subsequent attempts to run the bat file do nothing - no echo of command - nothing.
running manually from command line - ie each command is ok though

Hmmm, I'll get back to you on that! Running GBPVRcli seems to have turned off all ability to run a batch file!