Network Recorder Experience

[epelic]

Do you have a space after the ".bat" in the ini file? Also if you are running win7 or vista make sure that uac didn't impact you install of the batch file

Martin

There is no space after the ".bat" in the ini file. Based upon your question I wasn't sure if there was supposed to be, or not so I tryed both ... which made no difference.

I am running Windows XP SP3. Sorry I didn't mention that earlier.

Thanks.

[mvallevand]

SageChanger looks cool, I'm going to give it a try. I'm lucky my 4250hd doesn't turn off except after a power outage, but its a good safety. Have you tried to telnet to sgr to test it?

Martin

[epelic]

SageChanger looks cool, I'm going to give it a try. I'm lucky my 4250hd doesn't turn off except after a power outage, but its a good safety. Have you tried to telnet to sgr to test it?

Martin

I am not sure how to do this. I assume I would issue the MS-DOS command "telnet 6969" ... 6969 being the SGR port number, but then what?

[mvallevand]

I tried SageChannel and it worked ok for me. Have you tried adding .exe the the file in the ini file just in case something else is being opened

for telnet it is

telnet ip 6969
then

SWITCH #

to see if tuning to channel # is working

Martin

[epelic]

I tried SageChannel and it worked ok for me. Have you tried adding .exe the the file in the ini file just in case something else is being opened

for telnet it is

telnet ip 6969
then

SWITCH #

to see if tuning to channel # is working

Martin

I tried adding the ".exe". No effect.

Telnet command response:

SWITCH 111 8:58:18 PM
Running: C:\Program Files\Sage\ChangeChannel.bat 111

so it does launch the program with the channel number ... 111 in this case. But it does not change the channel.

I tried a couple of other things ... most importantly, I put a "pause" in the batch file. I could then tell that the batch file is in fact being executed, because a very quick MS-DOS window appears ... much to quick to read, since it just flashes. Then I tried routing the output to an output text file. Executing the batch file manually does route the output info, but no output from executing the batch file through SGR.

Quite a mystery to me as to what is going (or not going) on.

[mvallevand]

If you put a pause in it should wait for the any key. It always flashes a cmd window for me that's not the pause

Martin

[epelic]

If you put a pause in it should wait for the any key. It always flashes a cmd window for me that's not the pause

Martin

Interesting. Although I added a "pause", it did not actually pause. Maybe for some reason SageChannel fails when executed from SGR ... memory, etc.? I don't know. I have to give it up for tonight, now. Tomorrow I can try channel.exe and the associated batch file, once Mike provides it. I don't see how that will change anything to be honest, but since I can't seem to understand what is happening with SageChannel ... maybe it will make a difference.

Martin ... thanks so much for the help!

[mvallevand]

As I wrote I called sagechannel.exe from sgr via a batch file with no issue

Good luck, I'm happy to help.

Martin

[mikeh49]

Here is the text from my channel changer batch file:

Code:

echo off
echo %date% %time%   %1 >> channel.log
"C:\Program Files\Timmmoore\MCE 2005 STB Controller\channelw.exe" -n 2e3ea1feff711300 %1

The filename is channel.bat and it logs each channel change to channel.log. I had this logging for initial setup, and never removed it.

SGraphRecorer ini is attached. Extension changed to txt for forum rules.

channelw.exe is the non-interactive version of timmmoore's firewire channel changer. I use this with a Motorola STB.

[epelic]

Here is the text from my channel changer batch file:

Code:

echo off
echo %date% %time%   %1 >> channel.log
"C:\Program Files\Timmmoore\MCE 2005 STB Controller\channelw.exe" -n 2e3ea1feff711300 %1

The filename is channel.bat and it logs each channel change to channel.log. I had this logging for initial setup, and never removed it.

SGraphRecorer ini is attached. Extension changed to txt for forum rules.

channelw.exe is the non-interactive version of timmmoore's firewire channel changer. I use this with a Motorola STB.

Thanks, Mike. I have now concluded that there is something with my system (configuration, etc.) that is preventing SGR from executing a program/batch file. I don't know what it is, but I have tried a vast number of things. Basically, Windows (XP) is terminating the MS-DOS (comand) from executing a program. I changed the batch file to only contain "pause" and the invoked session still fails. Unless I can figure out the cause, I will be unable to automate the channel change ... which for me would really diminish the value of NextPVR, since I can manually record without NextPVR.

I don't know how long or if I can figure this out. But ... thanks for your help.