WTV file renaming, moving and Comm skipping

So if I read your post properly you want the below. Is that correct?

A– Your script to run on your WHS that moves files to from your HTPC.

B– After step A finishes have SA launched on your HTPC pointing at your WHS share?

If that is correct I have two suggestions:

1- Don’t run your initial script to move files from your WHS. Have it run on HTPC. That could be step #1 of your Scheduled Task and step #2 could be either Andy’s or my script.

2- Keep it as is and use my script on your HTPC but pointing at your WHS share. You can add a step to your Scheduled Task from step A that triggers a Scheduled Task on your HTPC (there is a command line for it: SCHTASKS /Run /S HTPC /U <user> /P <password> /I /TN “Run ShowAnalyzer”)

If either of sound right to you I can modify my script to let you specify a path rather than use the default “Recorded TV” path

This thing is not letting me re-post.. flagging me as spam and then saying too many repeated posts…

What I need is a stand alone script that will run from the HTPC and scan the folder on the server along with the subfolders. I could not tell if your original script would scan subfolders. from this code:

FOR %%I IN (*.wtv) DO IF NOT EXIST “%%~nI.xml” IF NOT EXIST “%%~nI.log” (

ECHO %%~nI>>%~n0.log

“%__ProgamFiles%Dragon GlobalShowAnalyzerSuiteShowAnalyzer.exe” “%%~fI”

)

I don’t mind hard coding the server path as long as each shows sub folder is scanned. (Screen shot attached). You will also notice that the xml files are on the server in their own folder. these locations work for watching and auto-skipping, just not auto scanning.

Thanks again. 

here’s the Screen shot

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[quote=Muddytoy]

After doing this. I noticed that the automatic file/directory watching no longer works for commercial skipping. [/quote]

What about it doesn’t work?

Recent versions of the DTB FW will examine files in watch directories for missing commercial span definitions (edl or xml depending on config). If they are missing it will queue up the files for processing. I know of at least one user who does something similar to what you’re attempting that stops the FW service before moving files then starts it again afterwards.

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Andy,

Thanks for jumping in on this. If I understand you, my simplest way is to stop the FW service at 1 AM, move the files at 2 AM, and then restart the FW service at 3 AM and all should be well.

I feel like such a noob for having to ask (but I am at work and don’t have time now to search), but how do you schedule a task to start then stop a service? I assume it can be done from withing the task scheduler?

Thank you much.

[quote=babgvant]

Incorporate the service start/stop in your script.

“net stop dtbfwservice”

copy files

“net start dtbfwservice”

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Andy,

Thanks for the command line. I will have to write a separate script to start and stop, my move script actually runs from the server and pulls from two separate HTPC’s. That’s not a problem. What is another issue is that the FW service is not running under windows services. It IS listed, set to automatically run, but not actually running… very odd. I will do a reinstall later to see if that clears up.

I took some time to poke around and found the WTV-Renamer script from one of the posts listed above. After my head stopped spinning, I was able to see that it doesn’t use the “Toub.dll” to extract show and episode names for comparison. If you look at my renaming script you will see that I am using Steve’s DLL to extract the names and dates for the new file names. Am I working with stone tools while everyone else has iron? Since I can’t figure out how WTV-Renamer is extracting the info, (for now) I will keep using what works.

Most of that is a side note. I will follow up after the reinstall and testing to see if I’m good to go.

My hat’s off to you guys for being so helpful and well versed in this stuff.

[quote=babgvant]

Once you get to a certain point with building Goldberg machines switching over to DTB profiles/actions is usually the most effective way to get things done. There’s very little that it can’t do, but as you note the learning curve can be a bit prohibitive.

If you outline all of the steps in your workflow concisely I can help create a profile for you.

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LMAO.. I had to Google “Goldberg Machines”. Wiki says:

A Rube Goldberg machine, contraption, invention, device, or apparatus is a deliberately over-engineered or overdone machine that performs a very simple task in a very complex fashion, usually including a chain reaction. The expression is named after American cartoonist and inventor Rube Goldberg (1883-1970)

Sad that he dies the same year I was born… Anyway. I’ll followup soon.