Is there a log where we can monitor EPG updates and errors?

[bigbill]

I'm looking for a way to find missing EPG data instead of finding it when a show doesn't record like I do now. Just seeing the note about code changes made today to the EPG service I started thinking about this issue again. How do I monitor it. If there is a log I can send it to Splunk and configure a dashboard to keep track of it. Or write a script looking for keywords and send a text etc.

Ideas? It would be nice if it just showed like other system messages on the top of the screen. Thanks, Bill

[Fuzzy]

EPG events are logged in the sagetv debug log sagetv_0.txt, along with a ton of other things.

[Mark57]

Lots of possibilities. See my post
http://forums.sagetv.com/forums/show...0&postcount=41

as a starting place to build from. I'm using UNIX utils inside Windows 7. Once you have the live tail results working you can pipe them into a grep search for the specific things you're looking for. You can pipe and append all of that into another file which you can monitor the same way creating a dashboard of sorts. With these tools, only your imagination is the limit.

[graywolf]

If you have the Web Interface, you can do EPG Search for no data

That will show.

If you have SJQ, I have the following which runs to check:

def CHECK_FAVS = false
def CHECK_CHANS = true
def POST_SYS_MSG = true // If false, just dump the output to stdout
def POST_INFO_MSG = true // If true, post Info msg so you know the script ran. POST_SYS_MSG must be true for this to have any effect
def DaysToCheck = 7    
def now = System.currentTimeMillis()
def output = new StringBuilder()

if(CHECK_FAVS)
    FavoriteAPI.GetFavorites().each {
        if(Database.FilterByRange(FavoriteAPI.GetFavoriteAirings(it), 'GetAiringStartTime', now, Long.MAX_VALUE, true).size() == 0) {
            if(!output.length())
                output.append('The following favourites have no upcoming airings:\n\n')
            output.append("${FavoriteAPI.GetFavoriteDescription(it)}\n")
        }
    }

if(CHECK_CHANS) {
    def preambleWritten = false
    def chans = new HashSet<String>()
    Database.SearchSelectedExactFields('No Data', true, true, false, false, false, false, false, false, false, false, 'T').each {
        def start = AiringAPI.GetAiringStartTime(it)
        if(start > now && start <= now + (86400000L * DaysToCheck) ) {
            def name = AiringAPI.GetAiringChannelName(it)
            def ChannelNumber = AiringAPI.GetAiringChannelNumber(it)
                        if(chans.add(name)) {
                if(!preambleWritten) {
                    output.append("\nThe following channels are missing data within the next $DaysToCheck Days:\n")
                    preambleWritten = true
                }
                output.append("$ChannelNumber - $name\n")
                
            }
        }
    }
}

if(output.length() && !POST_SYS_MSG) {
    println output
} else {
    if(output.length()) {
       SystemMessageAPI.PostSystemMessage(1204, 3, output.toString(), null)
    } else {
       if ( POST_INFO_MSG ) {
          output.append("\nNo channels are missing data within the next $DaysToCheck Days:\n")
          SystemMessageAPI.PostSystemMessage(1204, 1, output.toString(), null)
       }
    }
}

[bigbill]

Originally Posted by Fuzzy

EPG events are logged in the sagetv debug log sagetv_0.txt, along with a ton of other things.

Excellent, just imported that file to be read by my Splunk indexer... Now to figure out what to alert on.. Should be interesting as the EPG seems to be working correctly. Anyone know what string to look for when it fails?