UpdateEPG confusion

[gazoo]

When is UpdateEPG run? Is it only invoked by manually hitting the EPG update button, or is it run nightly?

I'm suffering from set it and forget it memory loss because I had to redo the EPG from yapi to mc2xml so I can't remember the order of how these things work. Do I run mc2xml from updateepg or scheduler OR do I run the updateepg.bat on the scheduler?

Sorry for being so dense, but it's been nearly a year since I had to do this. Thank you..

[whurlston]

It's run during the nightly scheduled updates.

[dennit]

When is UpdateEPG run? Is it only invoked by manually hitting the EPG update button, or is it run nightly?

I'm suffering from set it and forget it memory loss because I had to redo the EPG from yapi to mc2xml so I can't remember the order of how these things work. Do I run mc2xml from updateepg or scheduler OR do I run the updateepg.bat on the scheduler?

Sorry for being so dense, but it's been nearly a year since I had to do this. Thank you..

The nightly run time is set in config.exe. It runs the updateEPG.bat file, so you want to put your mc2xml commands there.

[zehd]

Your update bat should look like this:

Code:

Grab - blah blah
Enhance - blah blah (optional)

Then GB-PVR will call this batch file, download new listings, and enhance them, before it imports the xmltv file into the EPG

If you are changing listings providers you will probably want to run this batch file

http://gbpvr.com/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Manual/EPG#toc40

This batch frile will update things twice (it's just the way it works) and you should be up and running.

Then GB-PVR will update from tonight onward

If you want to manually call the Update EPG process (including the batch file), then simply right click on the tray icon and click update EPG.

It's possible you may not see things happen because GB-PVR by default will hide the execution of your UpdateEPG.bat But it does run.

[gazoo]

Well it seems like everything is sorted out, including the funky messed up channel numbers. However, the update is still not being called automatically nightly. UpdateEPG.bat is not running nightly as far as I can tell because the xmltv.xml file has not updated since the last time I forced an update. When is the update supposed to run? Is it on the config menu? I can't find it, but I will look again.

Everything looks good though on the tvlistings/tvguide, but my available days are 12 days instead of the usual 13-14 and the file date hasn't updated in 2 days. I could always run mc2xml.exe on a windows scheduler at night, but I wanted to make sure I wasn't missing something first.

[dennit]

UpdateEPG.bat is not running nightly as far as I can tell because the xmltv.xml file has not updated since the last time I forced an update. When is the update supposed to run? Is it on the config menu? I can't find it, but I will look again.

Everything looks good though on the tvlistings/tvguide, but my available days are 12 days instead of the usual 13-14 and the file date hasn't updated in 2 days. I could always run mc2xml.exe on a windows scheduler at night, but I wanted to make sure I wasn't missing something first.

Perhaps these brief comments will help:
1) the time UpdateEPG.bat runs is set in config
2) It might not run if it's named wrong or in the wrong place (should be in gbpvr dir)
3) If you are running other programs in it, they can hang (I'm thinking of enhancers/renamers and "allow to interact with desktop" isues) - check memory or just comment them out to see if that's your problem. Once hung gbpvr won't try to run the batch file again, since the first attempt has not finished. You need a reboot to start again. I've got some log commands in mine to signal start and stop.
4) Odd, but I've been getting my EPG data from the same place you get yours and IIRC, I see 11-12 days, not 13-14.

Good Luck

[gazoo]

I've changed the script from "C:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr\EPG\mc2xml.exe -f"

to

C:
cd\
cd "C:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr\EPG\"
mc2xml.exe -f

Don't think that would make a difference, but I followed what it said in the MC2XML wiki just in case. Let's see if that does it.

I found where it does it in the config and it is set to 2AM.

Like I said before, the xmltv.xml file still shows the same date/time as 2 days ago when I ran it manually. Let's see how it goes tonight. I might get fed up and just run it in a scheduler but it shouldn't have to come to that if everything is working.

[dennit]

I've changed the script

If it ran manually with the previous script, it should have run automatically, or at least started.

I'd suggest adding a couple lines to the start and end of your batch file to show you when the file starts and ends:

echo The UpdateEPG.bat file has started>> log.txt
time /t >>log.txt
date /t >>log.txt

[batch file commands]

echo The UpdateEPG.bat file has ended>> log.txt
time /t >>log.txt
date /t >>log.txt

[gazoo]

I will go ahead and add those, thanks. I think the script wasn't starting before, although I don't see why it wouldn't. When I made the mods (but not th logging yet), the script ran fine. I'll see if runs tonight.

[sub]

If you post the GBPVRRecordingService.exe.log files covering the last couple of days, I'll check if its trying to run the UpdateEPG.bat file.