Muddytoy

[Muddytoy]

It sounds like the TV is very sensitive to power fluctuations. I use a UPS in all my setups as they seem to stabilize power and it also lets me have time to shut down in a PF. I hate waiting for the raid 5 to rebuild (on one of my systems) due to an improper shut down.

All of the previous suggestions should be taken to heart. Overloading a single circuit (depending on the house and when built) could kill you or someone you love.

Good luck.

[Muddytoy]

Reinstall of toolbox and SA did not reset the programs to default settings. I do not know what I changed that is killing the auto file watching. Stopping and restarting the services is still not forcing SA to search the watched folder. I think I need to run a variation of Michael’s script. Will try to work on it over the weekend.

I’m almost ready to set up a bot to DL my favorite shows, but that is a whole other can of worms.

[Muddytoy]

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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.

[Muddytoy]

[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.

[Muddytoy]

[quote=babgvant]

[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.

[Muddytoy]

here’s the Screen shot

[Muddytoy]

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. 

[Muddytoy]

Michael,

Thank you for such a prompt reply. I think you understand my intent well enough. I appreciate the suggestions and offer to edit your own script.

When I get some more time, I will delve into your script and/or Andy’s. Since my rename and move script is working fine, all I need to do is schedule a task on the HTPC to force SA to run. It should be simple, I just need to glean info from how you and others have attacked the task (always more than one way to skin the proverbial cat on the computer).

Thanks again.

[Muddytoy]

Michael,

During a search for trying to schedule showanalyzer to run (basically force it to run, because the directory watch is not working properly), I found this article and another one (http://www.missingremote.com/forums/how-do-i-schedule-showanalyzer-process-directory)

I looked at your code for the attached file. I have some basic Batch file experience but for things I do now, I try to use Powershell. Do you know what the Powershell equivalent would be to your batch file?

What I want to do is tack on the forcing of showanalyzer to scan a program after I copy the WTV file over to my server. I don’t really want to hijack this tread so I will start another one with my full setup and current quandaries. http://www.missingremote.com/forums/wtv-file-renaming-moving-and-comm-skipping

 

Thanks.

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