Starting service without nvtray

[tvfiend]

I plan on writing a little batch script that runs minutes before primetime that makes sure everything is set to record, or maybe one already exists?.

I thought of checking to see if nrecord.exe and ndigitalhost.exe are running, if not, execute NPVRServiceControl.exe. This would work ok but it always opens ntray, is there a way to do it without opening ntray?

Can't execute ndigitalhost and nrecord by themselves and there's no help for any of the exe's.

[Graham]

Why do you need this? Should we try and diagnose why recordings are failing (assuming that's the problem) before we start on a "workaround"?

The SC command may be what you are looking for ... http://ss64.com/nt/sc.html

Would a reboot be more effective ... http://ss64.com/nt/shutdown.html

[tvfiend]

It was working fine for about 3 months then in the past week there were 2 days when things didn't record and both times ndigitalhost and nrecord weren't running. Starting npvr services enables recording immediately. Why this happens? I don't know but seems there are others having the same issues. For example:

http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php...rding-time
http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php...rding-Time
http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php...9-Crsshing

No errors are reported except when stopping a manual record I get an exception if nrecord or isn't recording. Rather than try to figure out what's going on at those 2 times I'd rather workaround it which should be a sure thing, I use the same sort of thing already for another program. Come to think of it, I can kill ntray.exe after a few seconds in the batch file.

I'm often using the computer at the time and a reboot would be an unnecessary annoyance.

Here it is if anyone else finds it useful. Just put in a text file and rename to .bat or .cmd and run as an administrator. I schedule it to start 5 minutes before primetime.

Code:

@echo off
tasklist /FI "IMAGENAME eq NRecord.exe" 2>NUL | find /I /N "NRecord.exe">NUL
if "%ERRORLEVEL%"=="1" "C:\Program Files (x86)\NPVR\NPVRServiceControl.exe" start
:: Comment next line with :: if you want the tray icon.
PING 127.0.0.1 -n 5 >nul & taskkill /f /im NTray.exe

[jcjefferies]

As I said in another thread a few days ago a nightly reboot for me eliminated all problems which caused failed recordings.

[liteswap]

Yes, I do this too. Around 0400, my script updates the EPG, backs up new recordings to the server, then reboots. Keeps things fresh.