Crash at updating EPG via CLI command

[Michaelm]

I have a script to update my TV channels every night at 4:30.
Now since the new version of GBPVR it seems to crash at updating the EPG.
I invoke the updating in the batch file with a CLI command.
Updating the EPG from within config.exe doesn't give a problem.

Any ideas on what could be the problem here ?
Thanks in advance !

[stefan]

Sorry for my ignorance here, but what is a CLI command? Can you describe more exactly how you do this? Post your bat file, perhaps?

[stefan]

Ah... command line, of course =)

[stefan]

Any specific reason as to why not do it the other way around? Ask config to update the EPG at 4:30 every morning? If you need to download xmltv data first, you can create a file called updateepg.bat in your gbpvr program directory. That bat file should call your xmltv grabber and tell it to download data. That bat file will be called by gbpvr before gbpvr tries to update the epg.

[Michaelm]

Well, I found that it's the priorityrecordings.exe that creates the crash.

The reason I don't use the inbuild update EPG routine is because that way my PC doesn't get shut down when it's ready.

Here's the line in my batch file.

Start /LOW /WAIT /I /SEPARATE gbpvr>>Guideget.log 2>&1 -OnlyUpdateEPG

[EDIT] Another thing I noticed is that it tries to CD to C:\\Programm Files\devnz\gbpvr which fails because I have it in C:\\Program Files\Video\GBPVR
Luckily because I CD'ed to C:\\Program Files\Video\GBPVR previous in the batch file the command can be found but it couldn't if I wasn't in the right directory.

[stefan]

Well, I found that it's the priorityrecordings.exe that creates the crash

So - problem solved then?

[Michaelm]

Doesnt it belong to standard GBPVR then ?
How do I get rid of it ?

[EDIT] Well, I found the PostUpdateEPG.bat containing the false CD command and the priorityrecording.exe. I've renamed the file and started the batch file again. It will probably be solved now.
Are there any other NON standard GBPVR files that I should check out now that the new version requires some plugins to be updated before they work ?
Or put in another way, that I can savely delete now because they won't be needed until further notice.

[stefan]

Doesnt it belong to standard GBPVR then?

Nope.

How do I get rid of it ?

Don't quite know. If you don't get an answer here, you should try in the plugins section of the forum.

[Michaelm]

The reason I don't use the inbuild update EPG routine is because that way my PC doesn't get shut down when it's ready.

I was wondering. I now wake up my PC at 4:30 through the taskplanner of windows because my scripts will run then.
I used to have GBPVR set up so it would update the EPG at 5:30.
But my PC didn't get shut down that way. probably because it was allready on when invoking the EPG update.

Now if I were to put my script in the updateepg.bat and cancel the windows taskplanner script will this make sure that my PC gets shut down by itself once GBPVR is finished ?

[stefan]

That's how I do it, and it works. However, Windows power management moves in mysterious ways, so I don't guarantee anything. But it should work. I have set windows power management to hibernate the computer after 15 minutes of inactivity. Let's say that if your computer goes to sleep ok in the day when you have not used gbpvr for a while, then it should also go to sleep OK after updating the EPG.