Script to delay NPVRtray running

[hansol123]

My PC has been suffering from intermittent NPVR tray issues, almost 50% of the time after reboot the tray is grey and the program does not detect my two tuners even after installing the patched NShared.dll.

The problem appears to be due to NPVRtray.exe running  too quickly during the boot process.

My amateur solution is as follows :-

1. Disable or remove the NPVRtray.exe entry from the Windows 10 startup group. 

2. Go to C:\Users\"your pc name"\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup

(To directly access this folder, open Run, type shell: startup and hit Enter).

3. Create a new text file and name it StartupOrder.bat

4.Edit the file and type in the following text.

@ECHO OFF

TIMEOUT /T 2
REM Total Delay = boot time plus 2 seconds
START "" "C:\Program Files\NextPVR5\NPVRTray.EXE"

Reboot PC to test.

Maurice

[JavaWiz]

Here is a batch script that (in a loop) waits several seconds for the recording service to start, then launches (if started).  Make sure your location of NPvrTray.exe is accurate.

Code:

@Echo off
GoTo :BEGIN
=============================================================================
Checks if NextPVR service is running, then launches NextPVR Tray
=============================================================================
:BEGIN
    Set NextPVR_SVC="NextPVR Service"
    Set NextPVR_TRAY="C:\Program Files\NPVRv5\NPvrTray.exe"
    Set DELAY=ping -n 1 -w 500 bozo
    Set CNT=0

    if not exist %NextPVR_TRAY% (
        Echo NPvrTray executable NOT found.  Please update script.
        Echo %NextPVR_TRAY%
        GoTo :ENDJOB
    )

:CHK_SVC
    echo delay...
    %DELAY% 2>&1 > NUL
    echo check svc...
    @Echo on
    sc query %NextPVR_SVC% | FindStr "RUNNING" > NUL
    @Echo off
    If %ERRORLEVEL% EQU 0 (
        Start "" %NextPVR_TRAY%
        Echo NextPVR Tray launched.
        GoTo :ENDJOB
    )
    Set /A CNT = CNT + 1
    if %CNT% LEQ 5 GoTo :CHK_SVC
    Echo Sorry, %NextPVR_SVC% Not running and wait time out...

:ENDJOB
    echo.

[hansol123]

Thanks
I am receiving an error when posting from desktop see below.

   


I am obviously doing something wrong.

Regards

Maurice

[Graham]

Thanks
I am receiving an error when posting from desktop see below.

Did you get this running the script from javawiz?  He is also batchwiz ... the script is a batch file and should be saved as blah.bat or blah.cmd.

[mvallevand]

I suspect the real solution is just to wait for sub to fix the tray app properly.

Martin

[hansol123]

Thanks very much.

It is now running as a batch file.

I was trying to run it with a Java extension.

It would be useful if this script was built into the next release.

Thanks again.

Maurice