Autoupdate EPG Not Working

[BillW]

I can see from the log it's running UpdateEPG.bat. As you said your file isn't being xmltv file isn't being updated, so it's whatever you're running in that isn't doing it's thing.

I can't see an obvious reason why those commands in the batch file might be failing, but some other user may have some ideas.

As I mentioned above, when I go to Settings/Channels/Update EPG it works. Is that approach also using the Recording Service like automatic updates?

The problem is either that TVGUIDE is not being rewritten or not saved.

Thanks for your help and patience.

Bill

[sub]

As I mentioned above, when I go to Settings/Channels/Update EPG it works. Is that approach also using the Recording Service like automatic updates?

It's the exact same code run, but there is two differences to be aware of:
1) it runs as 'localsystem' account, instead of your regular user account (which is where file/directory permissions have tripped up some users before)
2) it starts with default startup directory, like c:\windows\system32, which is why you need to be careful to use explicit paths etc.

The problem is either that TVGUIDE is not being rewritten or not saved.

Sure, but it's not NextPVR that writes to that file. All NextPVR does is run your UpdateEPG.bat, and you take of the rest. In this case, zap2xml.exe doesn't seem to writing to the file for some reason, like it doesn't have permissions to that directory or something, or cant overwrite TVGUIDE.xml because of it's permissions.

[BrettB]

Sure, but it's not NextPVR that writes to that file. All NextPVR does is run your UpdateEPG.bat, and you take of the rest. In this case, zap2xml.exe doesn't seem to writing to the file for some reason, like it doesn't have permissions to that directory or something, or cant overwrite TVGUIDE.xml because of it's permissions.

Stab in the dark here: Maybe a firewall or UAC problem because of the difference in Windows user account???

[BrettB]

This is the batch file in the NVR/Scripts folder. As indicated in the logs, it found the correct files.

C:
cd C:\Multimedia\mc2xml
*************mc2xml.exe -d 168 -o TVGUIDE.xml -s -4
zap2xml -u "EMAIL" -p "PASSWORD" -d 8 -o TVGUIDE.xml

From the log file, it looks like it took about 5 minutes for the batch file to complete. So it doesn't appear that the zap2xml command (or something else) is just failing immediately. You don't specify the path on the output file ("-o TVGUIDE.xml"), so I would think that it should be in the C:\Multimedia\mc2xml directory. You might try adding output redirection to a file for the zap2xml command (" > zap2xml.log" or similar) and see if zap2xml is getting some error when it tries to actually write the file.

[Handy.Man]

Here is an example

Code:

cd /d "C:\Users\Public\NPVR\EPG"
.\zap2xml.exe -u Some1@somewhere.com -p some1password -S 1 -D -I -d 14 -n 2 -i "icons" -l "en" -e -o zapit.xml 1> UpdateEPG.log 2>&1

This will create C:\Users\Public\NPVR\EPG\UpdateEPG.log when it start and append standard output as well as standard error to the log.

[BillW]

I had been out of town for 3 days. When I returned I found that the update was being performed successfully and has repeated on the following day. Although I had not made any changes, I guess the problem fixed itself. Thanks for the help.