MceEpg2XmlTv

[soccerdad]

No the GUI can't find your Cards on the DVR. But it can read you're fortune and baby-sit for you so you can have a nap. (sorry, couldn't resist - it's funny cause that would make for a whole 'nother app: to traverse your network, and poll the device managers of your neighbour's Mac, to find out what you called your cards...) :eek:

LOL and I thought you were magic It does bring up an issue though, are you going to have it make .bat files for each headend? or am I still missing something?

If you don't have a TempDownloader.bat in the GUI folder, then you're using an old version... we're at 0.1.19 right now.

HMM, you move fast, I dl'd 0.1.10 off the wiki just 6 hours ago! I will get the latest.

[zehd]

LOL and I thought you were magic It does bring up an issue though, are you going to have it make .bat files for each headend? or am I still missing something?

If you had your tuners in the same machine, you would not need a batch file. In fact, if you followed the steps about picking your Capture Sources, you'd be done

But the two headend files (we're probably calling it wrong) Its a XMLTV listing file that uses a Headend for a title.... let's call it a HeadEnd File - needs to be copied to your DVR computer...

Once there, you need to open GB-PVR Config, select each of your sources and point the XMLTV plugin to the HeadEnd File....

On the computer that will run the GUI (and utils) you will have to schedeule the download. This may be where you use a batch file. You need to include the word 'auto' after the file spec

Code:

C:\Blah\Blah\MCE2XML_GUI.exe auto

Copy C:\Blah\Blah\*.xml Y:\our\Network\Drive\EPG

Then schedule that batch file to happen before your DVR is set to update it's EPG...

[zehd]

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[soccerdad]

That's cool, I am already having the DVR machine pick the xmltv file off a shared folder on MCE so I know that works. I guess my main question is how do I get the both of the EPGs to update? If I have scheduler execute the gui auto, will it do it for both headend ids, one after another? If so, then all is well. If not, then do I need to have 2 versions, one for each headend? and then schedule each? It would be real cool if the GUI could setup the scheduling for you... I AM NOT trying to seem picky, I am just trying to give you some user feedback that may help a lot of us in the future. Your hard work is VERY much appreciated.

[zehd]

That's cool, I am already having the DVR machine pick the xmltv file off a shared folder on MCE so I know that works. I guess my main question is how do I get the both of the EPGs to update? If I have scheduler execute the gui auto, will it do it for both headend ids, one after another? If so, then all is well. If not, then do I need to have 2 versions, one for each headend? and then schedule each? It would be real cool if the GUI could setup the scheduling for you... I AM NOT trying to seem picky, I am just trying to give you some user feedback that may help a lot of us in the future. Your hard work is VERY much appreciated.

Yes, the gui will work on each item in the list in turn. One execution downloads both headends.

The idea to schedule an event is not a bad one at all, and easy. I would not get fancy. Just use the old NT 'at' commands... Great Idea

[mvallevand]

This one is baffling. The GUI is not a service. It needs the MCE eSched service running to work though. During Operaton (not idle) the GUI starts the Scheduling Service and stops it at the end of operation.

Thats something else you can't do from Vista at the user level

But users may still have the three services set to run in Automatic, and so they would already be up and running. It is my suggestion to set the Sceduling service to Manual and the other two disable.

See above.

Yeah The GUI looks like it's doing something, but it can't be. OK I will be firing of a version that DOES not mess with services. (I know that's not going to work for MCE though)

You can't as far as I can tell. You need to restart the server or the xml export fails in my experience.

In the mean time, double-click the TempDownloader.bat that should be in your GUI Folder...

I'm happy with my batch file, GUI isn't important to me, I just thought I'd help testing.

TempDownloader.bat will fail without systemroot\ehome in the path.

Martin

[zehd]

TempDownloader.bat will fail without systemroot\ehome in the path.

Yes I thank you for testing. I'm only writing the gui for people who want GUIs. I was happy with my batch file too...

whurlston says, and the MCE version shows me, that the downloader will work outside of the ehome folder, without ehome in the path...

If your batch:

Downloader.exe {HeadEnd}

Stop Service
Start Service

Exporter.exe

(which is basically how I have it)

How do you get around starting and stopping the services in Vista?

[mvallevand]

whurlston says, and the MCE version shows me, that the downloader will work outside of the ehome folder, without ehome in the path...

I don't have ehome in my path like he described. At the system level I have
just

%SystemRoot%\system32;%SystemRoot%;%SystemRoot%\System32\Wbem

How do you get around starting and stopping the services in Vista?

I don't. I grumble and complain here and run as administrator.

Martin

[zehd]

I don't have ehome in my path like he described. At the system level I have
just

%SystemRoot%\system32;%SystemRoot%;%SystemRoot%\System32\Wbem



I don't. I grumble and complain here and run as administrator.

Martin

So in theory if you were grumbling and complaining before, you could do the same for the GUI too.. So while in Administrator, what happens with the GUI and the stop/start services?

[whurlston]

So in theory if you were grumbling and complaining before, you could do the same for the GUI too.. So while in Administrator, what happens with the GUI and the stop/start services?

That's the fun with Vista: by default, "Administrators" do not have administrative privileges.