PostUpdateEPG.bat was held up

[KingArgyle]

Sub,

Something to look into as a maintenance fix at some point. If an XMLTV datasource is empty (i.e. because the grabber was down or some other unknown reason why the xmltv file would be empty), GBPVR outputs a dialog box that has to be responded too before PostUpdateEPG.bat will run. Ideally, this information should go into the GBPVRRecodingService.exe.log file instead of to a screen dialog box which has to be responded to manually.

Typically, GBPVR for me is running pretty much forgotten unless something doesn't look right in the recording schedule. The only way I detected this was by actually going to the machine that GBPVR runs on and seeing the hung dialog box.

[sub]

What does the dialog box say?

[KingArgyle]

Something like XML file source had no root element. When I checked the xml fle that should have been processed it was 0K in length. The UpdateEPG.BAT file did run as the log shows, and then GBPVR tried to process the file 3 minutes later. The here is the relevant portion of the log file is here:

Code:

9/21/2005 3:03:14 AM.656    INFO    [15]    Running UpdateEPG.bat
9/21/2005 3:06:18 AM.375    INFO    [15]    Auto-Updating EPG
9/21/2005 11:59:00 AM.578    INFO    [23]    Found new programme requiring recording: The West Wing

When I responded to the dialog box the following output was in the log file:

Code:

9/21/2005 7:06:52 PM.031    ERROR    [15]    XMLTV: error reading xml: The root element is missing.
9/21/2005 7:06:52 PM.093    VERBOSE    [15]    EPGUpdate storeChannels()
9/21/2005 7:06:52 PM.109    VERBOSE    [15]    getValue cached value: /settings/EPGProcessingMode : NORMAL
9/21/2005 7:06:52 PM.109    VERBOSE    [15]    getValue cached value: /settings/EPGProcessingMode : NORMAL
9/21/2005 7:06:58 PM.234    VERBOSE    [15]    RecordingFactory.loadSchedule()
9/21/2005 7:06:58 PM.234    VERBOSE    [15]    getValue cached value: /settings/AutoRemoveMissingRecordings : true
9/21/2005 7:06:58 PM.234    VERBOSE    [15]    RecordingFactory.loadSchedule()
9/21/2005 7:06:58 PM.234    VERBOSE    [15]    getValue cached value: /settings/AutoRemoveMissingRecordings : true
9/21/2005 7:06:58 PM.250    INFO    [15]    Running PostUpdateEPG.bat

It just seems that the dialog box shouldn't display if the update is happening from the recording service instead of the Config or the Tray app.

[sub]

I can see one thing that may have generated a message box, so I've removed this for the next build.