Utility: DirMon2

[Jere_Jones]

I've been able to duplicate this. It seems that SA is shutting down as soon as it is run. I'm investigating.

Jere

[briands]

Count me among those who are building a queue but aren't processing. Validation checked out.

I started looking at the SA configuration and it lookes as if it reinstalled too. Is that part of the Dirmon installation?

[stanger89]

Jere,

Looks good. Two questions:

1) Does Dirmon really need to put the user/pass in the ini file?
1a) If so, does it have to be plain text?

2) Doesn't seem to do anything

[Global]
Polling Time = 60
Available Resources = 100

[Service]
Start Automatically = 1
Run as Local System = 0
Run as User = 1
User Name = deleted to protect the guilty
User Password = :D

[Job Description 1]
Name = ShowAnalyzer
Processor = C:/Program Files/Dragon Global/ShowAnalyzer/ShowAnalyzer.exe
Command Line Options = 
Must Exist 1 = mpg
Must Exist Logic = OR
Must Exist 2 = 
Must And Or Must Not Exist Logic = AND
Must Not Exist 1 = txt
Must Not Exist Logic = OR
Must Not Exist 2 = 
Directory 1 = //thunderbird/SageTV
Processee Extension 1 = txt
Processee Extension 2 = log
Processee Extension 3 = ccyes
Processee Extension 4 = ccno
Processee Extension 5 = vprj
Processee Extension 6 = wme
Processee Extension 7 = vls
Resources Needed = 100
Timeout Enabled = 0
Timeout = -1
Priority Boost Due To Job Description = 0
Priority Boost Due To Age = 1
Priority Boost Due To Name = 0
Process Subdirectories = 0
Wait Until File Is Finished = 0
Wait Until Drive Is Idle = 0
Hide Console = 1
Blackout Enabled = 0
Blackout Start Time = 0
Blackout End Time = 0

[Jere_Jones]

Originally Posted by briands

Count me among those who are building a queue but aren't processing. Validation checked out.

I started looking at the SA configuration and it lookes as if it reinstalled too. Is that part of the Dirmon installation?

Thanks for the hint! Best I can figure, uninstalling DirMon deletes the Dragon Global registry branch. That means ShowAnalyzer can't find it's dll or registration information.

Reinstalling SA and reentering the registration data fixes it.

Jere

[Jere_Jones]

Originally Posted by stanger89

1) Does Dirmon really need to put the user/pass in the ini file?

Yes

Originally Posted by stanger89

1a) If so, does it have to be plain text?

No. As a matter of fact, I have the means in place to encypt them. I'm just waiting on Intel to send me some stuff and then I'll be able to start encrypting it. I was only planning on encrypting the password, but I can easily encrypt the username if you think it is important.

Originally Posted by stanger89

2) Doesn't seem to do anything

See my previous post.

Jere

[stanger89]

Originally Posted by Jere_Jones

Yes

No. As a matter of fact, I have the means in place to encypt them. I'm just waiting on Intel to send me some stuff and then I'll be able to start encrypting it. I was only planning on encrypting the password, but I can easily encrypt the username if you think it is important.

Don't really care about the user.

See my previous post.

I'm not even getting a queue for some reason.

-edit

Nevermind I got it. Had the wrong stuff in target extensions.

Just curious, do you have to stop/start the service for changes to catch?

Oh, and I've got 4 instances of SA running now using about 10% of my Gig-E and half of both my cores

[Jere_Jones]

Stanger,

Remove your showanalyzer job and recreate it according to the first post in this thread. Things have changed from the original DirMon.

Jere

[sleonard]

I'm not even getting any jobs queued much less active and processing. Everything looks setup correctly.

[Jere_Jones]

Originally Posted by sleonard

I'm not even getting any jobs queued much less active and processing. Everything looks setup correctly.

Care to post your dirmon2.ini?

Jere

[sleonard]

I finally figured it out. Worked on it off an on unsuccessfully since last night and 3 minutes after posting for help I changed the where from D:/SageTV to //Sageserver/SageTV and got jobs queued. (The clue that was staring me in the face was the forward slashes. Apparently Dirmon 2 doesn't do local paths since it doesn't use backslashes?

Once I got jobs queued, I reinstalled/reregistered SA and the jobs started processing after about 2 more minutes.

[Jere_Jones]

Originally Posted by sleonard

Apparently Dirmon 2 doesn't do local paths since it doesn't use backslashes?

Can you explain what you mean by local paths?

Jere

[Wheemer]

How can I have SA's task tray icon show up?

Currently it seems to be working, although I get no SA interaction, it seems to be hidden.

[jlabrue]

Originally Posted by Wheemer

How can I have SA's task tray icon show up?

Currently it seems to be working, although I get no SA interaction, it seems to be hidden.

I wouldn't mind that as well. Nice to be able to check if possible. Don't you love all this "advice" right after you release an update

Also, reinstalling ShowAnalyzer corrected my problem with the queue not processing. It is working fine now

[Jere_Jones]

Originally Posted by Wheemer

How can I have SA's task tray icon show up?

Currently it seems to be working, although I get no SA interaction, it seems to be hidden.

To make this happen, DirMon has to run as LocalSystem. Then you need to go into the Service manager and check the "Allow service to interact with the desktop".

A "feature" of not allowing it to interact with the desktop is that it can never steal the focus like it used to.

Jere

[Jere_Jones]

Originally Posted by stanger89

Just curious, do you have to stop/start the service for changes to catch?

Yes. You need to save them first since the service looks at whatever settings are saved to disk.

Originally Posted by stanger89

Oh, and I've got 4 instances of SA running now using about 10% of my Gig-E and half of both my cores

Is a good thing?

Jere

[stanger89]

Yup

[ajuhawk]

Just wanted to say thanks! Got it all set up and seems to be working great. Multiple processing is a big plus.

[folly12345]

Jere -
FWIW on the building a queue and not processing- I did not uninstall the old dirmon, just stopped it. I then installed and config'd dirmon2, sa would not start. I re-installed sa and it is up and running fine after the re-install.

This is a nice update to dirmon, thanks.

-Jeff

[snipeman]

Thanks for updating this great program. I'll install it tonight!

Andy

[AWS]

I was wondering if it would be possible to have DM2 look to process files at the top and bottom of every hour instead of every X seconds. Still keep the option to process files every X seconds OR automatically look for new files 31 minutes after the hour and 1:01 after the previous hour. For 99.9% of my shows, they are all in increments of 30 minutes. So why spend resources looking for new shows between 3 minutes after the hour to 28 minutes, then again between 33 and 57?

Know what I mean?

Great work on SA, DM and DM2!

AWS