Need some help with a batch file for epg updates.

[JP23]

Hi,

I'm using XMLTV GUI to download epg data early every morning. I find that when I've left uTorrent running overnight XMLTV doesn't seem to connect well to the radio times website, and I often get only partial epg data.

What I would like to do is write a batch file that would do the following:

Check if uTorrent is running
If it is, stop it.
Grab epg data.
If uTorrent was running, restart it.

I'm not sure if this is even possible, let alone how to do it.
Any ideas?

[JonnyCam]

http://forums.techguy.org/software-devel...check.html

You could write a text file to your c: drive if utorrent was running, and then check for its existence after the EPG download, and if found, start utorrent

(something like "IF EXIST C:\TORRENT.TXT C:\PRO...\UTORRENT.EXE"

You can use taskkill.exe (from MS website) to kill utorrent.

[JP23]

Thanks, that link was very helpful. I used the PV.exe tool mentioned there to produce a text file with a list of all running processes.

Hopefully this will be of some use to someone who needs to do something similar. This batch file looks for uTorrent.exe, and if it's there stops it, downloads epg listings and then starts it again.
If uTorrent.exe isn't running it just downloads epg listings.
In either case it pings google to check the internet connection is up before attempting to download anything.

START pv.exe

pv>C:\processes.txt

FIND "uTorrent.exe" c:\processes.txt

IF ERRORLEVEL 1 GOTO EPG

TASKKILL /F /IM uTorrent.exe

ping http://www.google.com
IF ERRORLEVEL 1 goto END

C:\XMLTVG~1\XmltvGUI.exe /grab /d14

START C:\"Program Files"\uTorrent\uTorrent.exe

GOTO END

:EPG

ping http://www.google.com
IF ERRORLEVEL 1 goto END

C:\XMLTVG~1\XmltvGUI.exe /grab /d14

:END

[dennit]

TASKKILL /F /IM uTorrent.exe

I've used taskkill in a few batch files, but utorrent is so disk intensive I would have been at least a bit concerned to force it down that way. Have you had any problems with utorrent while running this batch file?

[JonnyCam]

Yeah, I had thought about that before, but because I don't run torrents on mjy PVR, I didn't really look at it.

I know on the other PC - if it shutsdown in the middle of working, then when you restart it checks all of the data before continuing.

Is there a commandline option to close utorrent? That would be a lot better.

[JP23]

I've used taskkill in a few batch files, but utorrent is so disk intensive I would have been at least a bit concerned to force it down that way. Have you had any problems with utorrent while running this batch file?

I haven't been using it for long enough to tell, but not so far. I take your point though.
I managed to find this http://www.beyondlogic.org/solutions/pro...ssutil.htm, which has an option to 'gracefully' close apps by sending a WM_CLOSE message rather than killing them outright, so I'm using that now instead of taskkill.

[gEd]

you could try tuning utorrent to use less global connections by lowering the upload speed in the speed guide. this may prevent it from overloading your pc or router.