MceEpg2XmlTv

[mvallevand]

What, there's no "sudo"?

Being in the minority of people who like the added security of Windows Vista this is one option that I sorely miss.

Martin

[zehd]

3. I still haven't found a way to net start/stop ehsched without being an administrator.

Martin

Can't you run a 'cmd.exe' as administrator?

[whurlston]

[Ver]EpgDownloader.exe list

What would be the point of this? I suspect this will work AFTER I have already created my settings in MCE. That means during that process, I have already seen and chosen my listings and saved those settings....

I figured people would be asking how they could find out the headend id for a particular lineup, so I added this to display them. It does not need to be run, it's just a way for you to find the headend id for a particular lineup.

[Ver]EpgDownloader.exe Headend

I imagine that this would initiate a manual download of listings data. So that means I could disable the MCE Scheduler Service too (and have NO MCE services running at all, ever)

Sorry if I'm being dense. Just trying to understand, so I can put into perspective when I write the wiki page...

The scheduler service needs to be running. There is no way to do the download without it. Media Center does not actually perform a download. It schedules a download with BITS and BITS performs the download. This program tells Media Center to go ahead and schedule it to run immediately. But yes, this is the command to initiate the download. MCE does have to be configured before it will work. If the headend id you want is "B40207-" then you would run:
Mce05EpgDownloader.exe B40207-

Ok, I have Vista Ultimate running in a VMWare session. That's all I can spare for now for Vista (don't want it on any of my "real" computers, for now).
Now, the thing is that obviously I don't have a tuner there.
Is there a way to full Vista to start updating the tuner stuff?
or maybe someone can export the relevant registry parts, so I can import them, and re-start the media-center, (and only maybe change the postal code)?

thanks

I'm still working on configuring it programmatically. I'm having some issues with it though. I'll see what I can do about the reg settings later today.

1. Adding a path to c:\windows\ehome solves this problem
Unhandled Exception: System.DllNotFoundException: Unable to load DLL "ehepgdec.dll'

Strange, on Vista I did not have this issue, only MCE05. You can copy the dlls I mentioned for 05 into the same directory as the app and it should solve the problem.

2. The Windows Media Center Scheduler Service needs to be running for the SQL database to be up for VistaEpg2XmlTv

3. I still haven't found a way to net start/stop ehsched without being an administrator.

Yeah, I'm having fun with that too.

[mvallevand]

Can't you run a 'cmd.exe' as administrator?

Sure and unfortunately I have to too much, but that's not the same thing and I want to stay in Vista's security model as much as possible.

Martin.

[zehd]

Sure and unfortunately I have to too much, but that's not the same thing and I want to stay in Vista's security model as much as possible.

Martin.

Such a Puritan! In the Mac/PC commerical, where there's that guy wearing the sunglasses, "Mac has extended a salutation. Do you wish to accept?"

That's you! You're that guy.... He did look like someone from Ottawa...

[zehd]

Whurlston, what are your plans for the next stuff?

I'm thinking of writing a wrapper program that is more GUI than batch file... But it would be written in VB6, and getting lists and values would have a round about way...

As I mentioned in another post, I was going to start nagging you for a GUI. But only in a fun way like:

How many Guitarists does it take to screw in a light bulb?

Two. One to do it, and another to sit back and say, "Yeah, I could do that..."

[whurlston]

Whurlston, what are your plans for the next stuff?

I'm thinking of writing a wrapper program that is more GUI than batch file... But it would be written in VB6, and getting lists and values would have a round about way...

As I mentioned in another post, I was going to start nagging you for a GUI. But only in a fun way like:

How many Guitarists does it take to screw in a light bulb?

Two. One to do it, and another to sit back and say, "Yeah, I could do that..."

LOL. What do you want in the GUI? I actually have a GUI version of the downloader. It just released it as a cli app so it could be used in a batch file. I do plan on writing a GUI that you can use to configure configure everything and it would output the batch file that is needed.

[mvallevand]

The scheduler service needs to be running. There is no way to do the download without it. Media Center does not actually perform a download.

You mentioned strange, I can run the download without the scheduler its the xml export that fails.

Martin

[mvallevand]

How many Guitarists does it take to screw in a light bulb?

Two. One to do it, and another to sit back and say, "Yeah, I could do that..."

You should have written "How many GUItarists .."

Martin

[whurlston]

You mentioned strange, I can run the download without the scheduler its the xml export that fails.

Martin

Really? hmmm... Ok, I'll check into it tonight.