Daily Scheduled EPG Update Doesn't Happen

[dennit]

Compare that field to the Recording Pading fields. At least on my computer, there is a distinct difference between these fields and the EPG UPdate field.

Can you change the time in that field? It didn't look grayed out to me either, but I see the different color background you are referring to. I'll take a look at mine. The reason I'm posting is that I'm encountering some oddity in automatic EPG that I haven't tracked down.

Basically, my UpdateEPG.bat file feeds data to a server for my TiVos (as well as GBPVR). The TiVo complains when it begins to run out of data.

Complaints start at about 6 days of data left. I've seen complaints about twice in the last 2-3 months, so I assume my UpdateEPG.bat is usually running. The last time I tracked it back it seemed to be a failure of UpdateEPG.bat to run. It would take multiple misses in a row to trigger the TiVo warnings, and I've never seen any problem in GBPVR, except that the last time I was down to 6 days in the TiVos, I checked and the GBPVR guide was also down to 6 days.

My procedure for identifying the problem has always been to do each step manually, not just run UpdateEPG.bat, as until recently I thought some middle step had failed (there is lots of complex processing built into and run after UpdateEPG.bat)

At this point I don't really know what is going on, but this thread seems relevant to my issue. Can you recommend the best way to verify whether it has run each night for the last 2 weeks or so, or if not, which days were missed?

[LewE]

Its not a disabled field, its just that you cant type in it. You can use the up/down buttons to cycle through the possible options.

Thanks for the clarification and for eliminating that red herring.

[sub]

Ok, and is that via the 'Schedules Direct' epg source, or the 'XMLTV' epg source?

[sub]

hmmm. Whats in your UpdateEPG.bat? It looks like its running that but it never completes.

[LewE]

This is the UpdateEPG.bat

[COLOR="Red"]cd c:\programs\epg\xmltv\xmltv.exe
call c:\programs\EPG\XMLTV\XMLTV.EXE\xmltv-run.bat


rem ********************************
rem UltraXMLTV Manager is installed below this line. All other items before this point should be remmed out...
"C:\Programs\EPG\UltraXMLTV_Enhancer\UltraXMLTV_Man.exe" -auto

cd "\program files\devnz\gbpvr\"[/COLOR]



and this is the PostUpdateEPG.bat

[COLOR="Red"]rem *****>>> this is postupdateepg.bat

rem cd \programs\EPG\XMLTV\XMLTV.EXE
rem XmltvExtras.exe xmltv.xml

cd "\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr"
if exist recording-dump.3 del recording-dump.3
if exist recording-dump.2 ren recording-dump.2 recording-dump.3
if exist recording-dump.1 ren recording-dump.1 recording-dump.2
if exist recording-dump.xml copy recording-dump.xml recording-dump.1

[/COLOR]

[sub]

I'm pretty sure one of those utilities run in your updateepg.bat is not completing.

[LewE]

At this point I don't really know what is going on, but this thread seems relevant to my issue. Can you recommend the best way to verify whether it has run each night for the last 2 weeks or so, or if not, which days were missed?

Besides, the tedious method of looking to see how many days of listings you have, you could look in the GBPVR directory and see if the recording-dump.xml file was created. I believe that it and the recording-dump.xml.bak files are updated when the EPG is updated.

I came to this point because the recording-dump.xml file wasn't being created and I was in a situation where I needed it to recover my listings.

[LewE]

I'm pretty sure one of those utilities run in your updateepg.bat is not completing.

If I request Update EPG in the System screen on PVRX2, the guide gets updated and the postEPG batch file runs. I assume that these same bat files get run if the update is requested from the SYstem screen.

The xmltv-run.bat file contains the following:

[COLOR="Red"]xmltv tv_grab_na_dd --days 14 --output xmltv.xml
c:\Programs\epg\UltraXMLTV_Enhancer\UltraXMLTV_Enhancer.exe c:\programs\epg\xmltv\xmltv.exe\xmltv.xml[/COLOR]

If you want, I will rem out the Ultraxmltv_Man command in the UpdateEPG.bat file and see what happens tonight.

[dennit]

The xmltv-run.bat file contains the following:

[COLOR="Red"]xmltv tv_grab_na_dd --days 14 --output xmltv.xml
c:\Programs\epg\UltraXMLTV_Enhancer\UltraXMLTV_Enhancer.exe c:\programs\epg\xmltv\xmltv.exe\xmltv.xml[/COLOR]

For background, I'm also using UltraXMLTV_Enhancer in my UpdateEPG.

[HtV]

Do you have a C:\program files dir and a C:\programs dir, if not you have to make the right changes in your updateepg.bat.
You have to check if the path's are right.
You also have to make sure that the "cd" you use will work. you can only cd to a dir or path that starts from the dir where you are.
E.g. When you are in : C:\users\john\downloads you cannot do:
cd c:\programs\xmltv\whatever.
You have to go back to C:\ first with cd\

I hope this makes any sense?:confused:

Hans