New XMLTV Import Tool

[johnw]

Thanks Stéphane. That did the trick. All it wanted was a properties file to look at.

John

[StephaneM]

Originally Posted by Doubletop

I see it is downloading what appears to be 197Mb of .net 3.5 which may explain the 'hang'

From my tests it should not hang, though it's true that the whole .Net 3.5 installation process is not very good for letting you know the progression of the installation/download (Usually the .Net 3.5 installation should take from 5 to 15 min).

Regards,
Stéphane.

[jaminben]

I posted in the UK thread a few days ago about a problem I'm having with missing film data and I'm still stuck as to what the problem could be so I thought I'd try here as well.

For some reason I'm missing the year data for every film. I always did have this data up until a week ago but I havent changed anything for it to stop working. I have since updated to the latest version of the importer and I'm still having the same issue.

I'm running Windows Server 2003 with the latest beta of Sage, fully updated Java & stvxmltv version 3.0 with DG2XML guide data.

Original post -

I dont know what I've done but when I look at my movies (TV Guide) I dont have any year info. The films all display the name of the film and then () and thats it.

So all films on TV look like "Timberjack ()"

Anyone got any ideas on how to get back the info which should be in-between the ().

I've attached a screen shot which may explain it a bit better.


Any help would be greatly appriciated.

Cheers

[StephaneM]

Hi,

Originally Posted by jaminben

For some reason I'm missing the year data for every film. I always did have this data up until a week ago but I havent changed anything for it to stop working.

Send me your XMLTV file zipped at lmgestion@hotmail.com and I'll take a look at it.

Regards,
Stéphane.

[jaminben]

Originally Posted by StephaneM

Hi,

Send me your XMLTV file zipped at lmgestion@hotmail.com and I'll take a look at it.

Regards,
Stéphane.

Problem solved

Many thanks Stephane, using the grabber from the link you provided sorted it out.

[jamesdisco]

Hi Stephane

I've been using your importer for a couple of weeks now and want to upgrade to the automatic updating version. My question is i run sage on a headless WHS so no one is logged in most of the time. Will the importer still run automatically.

UK guys does digiguide need to have a user logged in to run also as i'm using this as my XMLTV source

Thanks

James

[jaminben]

Originally Posted by jamesdisco

Hi Stephane

I've been using your importer for a couple of weeks now and want to upgrade to the automatic updating version. My question is i run sage on a headless WHS so no one is logged in most of the time. Will the importer still run automatically.

UK guys does digiguide need to have a user logged in to run also as i'm using this as my XMLTV source

Thanks

James

I run mine on a headless 2003 server and mine updated fine using digiguide and the importer, however since upgrading to version 3 of the importer it doesnt work anymore. I'm guessing I need to change a setting to get it to work properly again but I just havent had the time recently.

So the answer is yes it will work and no you dont need to be logged in for it to work.

[StephaneM]

Hi James,

Originally Posted by jamesdisco

I've been using your importer for a couple of weeks now and want to upgrade to the automatic updating version. My question is i run sage on a headless WHS so no one is logged in most of the time. Will the importer still run automatically.

Yes it should work. The Importer GUI creates a windows scheduled task, you just have to edit this scheduled task (in Control Panel) with the username / password of the account that should run the Importer (usually an admin account). This way the task will be able to run with no user logged in (otherwise when no username/password are defined for the task it runs with the security context of the logged in user)

Regards,
Stéphane.

[StephaneM]

Originally Posted by jaminben

however since upgrading to version 3 of the importer it doesnt work anymore. I'm guessing I need to change a setting to get it to work properly again but I just havent had the time recently.

The version 3 has certainly recreated the scheduled task (as the process name / path is not the same) and as such it has reverted to a task that will run only when a user is logged in, so you'll have to edit the scheduled task with a username / password for it to run without a logged in user.

Regards,
Stéphane.

[jaminben]

Originally Posted by StephaneM

The version 3 has certainly recreated the scheduled task (as the process name / path is not the same) and as such it has reverted to a task that will run only when a user is logged in, so you'll have to edit the scheduled task with a username / password for it to run without a logged in user.

Regards,
Stéphane.

Thanks for the tip Stephane
Added the user Admin & password to the scheduled task, just have to wait until 5.00am tomorrow to see it works ok. I have faith it will as it always worked before.

Very nice importer and well worth a donation IMO.

Cheers



Ben

[HKme]

Hi Stéphane,

I just installed the latest version (was previously using 2.8) and noticed that it doesn't seem to support the "/silent" command-line option anymore. Has this been removed or has the syntax changed? I run the importer from a scheduled batch file.

Thanks.

[StephaneM]

Originally Posted by HKme

I just installed the latest version (was previously using 2.8) and noticed that it doesn't seem to support the "/silent" command-line option anymore. Has this been removed or has the syntax changed? I run the importer from a scheduled batch file.

The "/silent" argument still works, however in version 3.0 there is a dedicated process for the import (different from the GUI) : C:\Program Files\LM Gestion\XMLTV Importer for SageTV\Import.exe, this is the one you have to use with the /silent argument.

Regards,
Stéphane.

[thborchert]

Just installed 3.0 and it crashes on start-up with an exception error. Any help?

[StephaneM]

Originally Posted by thborchert

Just installed 3.0 and it crashes on start-up with an exception error. Any help?

Do you receive a specific error message, or is something logged in the Windows Event Viewer about the crash?

Regards,
Stéphane.

[thborchert]

My mistake, and a stupid one: I gave the wrong Sage directory.

It works now, although my second line-up got lost in the upgrade process. Interface looks much nicer and is much easier to work. Thanks!

[Gabriel]

Stephane, the update to v. 3 has correctly unified the cloned channels in the new single lineup, but all the time offsets now show as "0"!! Fortunately, the channels are, nevertheless, still being imported with the original time offsets...

[Gabriel]

Originally Posted by Gabriel

Stephane, the update to v. 3 has correctly unified the cloned channels in the new single lineup, but all the time offsets now show as "0"!! Fortunately, the channels are, nevertheless, still being imported with the original time offsets...

I spoke too soon. I am positive the offsets were correct for several days (updates) but now they are truly "0". I lost them. Well, I will enter them manually copying them from the old clone_channels.xml, not a big deal, but perhaps you can tell me how to avoid this happening again? Thanks!

[StephaneM]

Originally Posted by Gabriel

I spoke too soon. I am positive the offsets were correct for several days (updates) but now they are truly "0". I lost them. Well, I will enter them manually copying them from the old clone_channels.xml, not a big deal, but perhaps you can tell me how to avoid this happening again? Thanks!

I'm not sure what happens. I just made the test. Installed 2.8, created an additional channel with a +1 time offset. Installed 3.0 and the installer get the lineup correctly with the +1 offset.

What are the values you are using for time offset?

Do the time offsets get saved now when you edit your lineup, save it, and open it again?

Regards,
Stéphane.

[Gabriel]

What are the values you are using for time offset?

Several: 1, -1, 2, -2 and even 0.5

Do the time offsets get saved now when you edit your lineup, save it, and open it again?

Yes, they do. I did not check them before because the upgrade went smoothly and I have to assume the offsets were correctly imported, because everything worked fine.
I am trying to remember what I was doing that may have cleared all of them. I fooled with the Add new Channel button (the one on the left) and added 3 blank new channels, then deleted them. Then I used the right button and added the new channel from one of the XMLTV files. Only then did I notice the Offset column, but it must have been at some point then that the offsets were cleared, because that same morning the channels were imported correctly.

By the way, excellent work on this new version, thank you!

[StephaneM]

Originally Posted by Gabriel

I am trying to remember what I was doing that may have cleared all of them

I found the reason: the "Cancel" button is clearing out the Time Offset colum, I will fix it for 3.2 release.

Regards,
Stéphane.