Is UpdateEPG.bat needed with Schedules Direct?

[4zm4r3d02]

I've been away from NPVR for a while, as I can usually get all my TV shows through alternate means, but I recently dusted off my old USB stick tuner and had it working with NPVR to record OTA shows as a backup. I was using zap2xml for listings, and it was working well until last night, apparently. I couldn't find one of my shows via the usual method, so I went to get the recording from NPVR and it wasn't there. When I looked at pending recordings, the only thing there was a manual recording I had set up, none of the recordings scheduled with the guide were there, and the guide was empty. It said "no show" for every time slot.

I gritted my teeth and renewed my schedules direct account that I had let lapse a few years ago, set up NPVR to use it, and everything seems to be working now. The question I had is do I still need UpdateEPG.bat with schedules direct? I noticed it ran when I pressed the update epg button in NPVR, but it contains commands to use zap2xml to get guide info, so can I just get rid of it, or should I put some kind of commands in there for schedules direct?

[Graham]

If you have setup NextPVR as shown here ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqJ7QiYS3Rk

You don't updateepg.bat

[sub]

Just delete it.

You'd only create a an UpdateEPG.bat if you want to run some custom commands before the EPG update happens. The most common thing people would use it for is running some xmltv grabber utility to update their xmltv file. You don't need to do anything like this with Schedules Direct.

[HarryH3]

I use UpdateEPG.bat just to make certain that my system doesn't perform an EPG update while a recording is in process. Once in a great while my wife will want to record so many things on a single night that she has to record repeats of some shows, in the wee hours of the morning. This script (shamelessly lifted from a post on here a long time ago) waits until her recording ends:

Code:

@ECHO off
REM Update EPG only if not recording

Set DEBUG=FALSE
Set BASEUDIR=c:\Users\Public\NPVR
Set BASEPDIR=c:\Program Files (x86)\NPVR
REM BASEPDIR=c:\Program Files\NPVR

Set LOGFILE="%BASEUDIR%\Logs\EpgCheck.log"
Set NSHELPER="%BASEPDIR%\NScriptHelper.exe"
Set NPVR="%BASEPDIR%\NextPVR.exe"

CALL :LOGMSG
CALL :LOGMSG -----------------------------------------------
CALL :LOGMSG Begin EPG Update process

:VALIDATEENV
    CALL :LOGMSG Validating Environment
    FOR %%i IN ("%BASEUDIR%") DO IF NOT EXIST %%~si\NUL (
        CALL :LOGMSG ABORT: Base user directory does not exist. Check script variable BASEUDIR
        GOTO :ENDJOB
    )
    FOR %%i IN ("%BASEPDIR%") DO IF NOT EXIST %%~si\NUL (
        CALL :LOGMSG ABORT: Base Program directory does not exist. Check script variable BASEPDIR
        GOTO :ENDJOB
    )
    FOR %%i IN (%NSHELPER%) DO IF NOT EXIST %%~si (
        CALL :LOGMSG ABORT: NScriptHelper.exe does not exist. Check script variable NSHELPER
        GOTO :ENDJOB
    )
    FOR %%i IN (%NPVR%) DO IF NOT EXIST %%~si (
        CALL :LOGMSG ABORT: NextPVR.exe does not exist. Check script variable NPVR
        GOTO :ENDJOB
    )
    
    set chknpvr=1
:LOOP
    CALL :LOGMSG Check to see if any recording in progress...
    %NSHELPER% -isInUse >> %LOGFILE%
    %NSHELPER% -isInUse | find "NOT RECORDING"
    set chknpvr=%ERRORLEVEL%
    REM CALL :LOGMSG isInUse returns %chknpvr%
    if %chknpvr% NEQ 0 (
        timeout 300
        GOTO :LOOP
    )
    CALL :LOGMSG No recordings in progress, update the EPG.
    c:
    cd "C:\Users\Public\NPVR\mc2xml"
    mc2xml -d 240
    CALL :LOGMSG EPG Update complete
    GoTo :ENDJOB

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
:LOGMSG
    if "%*". EQU "". (
        echo.
    ) else (
        echo %*
    )
    echo %date% %time% %* >> %LOGFILE%
    Goto :EOF

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
:ENDJOB
    If %DEBUG% EQU TRUE Pause