weekly batch file??

[agidius]

what is the best way to run a batch file once a week?

I make heavy use of the postupdateepg, and I believe I can save some CPU power by running some of that stuff weekly.

[David]

what is the best way to run a batch file once a week?

I make heavy use of the postupdateepg, and I believe I can save some CPU power by running some of that stuff weekly.

There are ways to test the date in a batch file. It wouldn't be too hard to find some code to do so. This way you can still run from postupdateepg.

An easy way out might be to use Windows scheduler to run a batch file weekly that just creates a temporary semiphore file, then test for that in your postupdateepg.bat file. Delete it when you are done processing.

[Ted the Penguin]

or just create a batch file that does what you want done once a week, and schedule that with the windows scheduler.

and temporary semaphore file? qua?

[-Oz-]

i do what Ted the Penguin suggests for daily batch processing of all recorded files.

Just create a .bat file and then have windows scheduler run it.

[Ted the Penguin]

yeah windows scheduler is nice, lets me run nightly backup scripts, and defrag different drives on different days of the week etc. I am probably going to redo them in perl at some point, since its much more extensible.

[David]

or just create a batch file that does what you want done once a week, and schedule that with the windows scheduler.

and temporary semaphore file? qua?

I understand that the postupdateepg.bat file only kicks off when GB-PVR isn't doing anything else, like recording. This way you can avoid doing anything CPU intensive that would potentially impact a recording.

A semaphore file is an "empty" file (no useful content) used for testing tasks. I used them extensively back in the BBS days, before the Internet became popular.

Weekly Windows Scheduler scheduled batch file:

Code:

echo hello > c:\weeklytask.txt

postupdateepg.bat file:

Code:

if not exist c:\weeklytask.txt goto done
copy c:\recordings\*.mpg d:\archive\
del c:\weeklytask.txt
:done

[Ted the Penguin]

yeah , the windows task scheduler will let you look for the machine being "idle" but that only means no mouse or keyboard movement...