Automated MediaLibrary imports (daily), testing required (1 Viewer)

[morpheus_xx]

Until now shares where only imported directly after creation and on demand of user. We have plans to improve the behavior (see also http://mantis.team-mediaportal.com/view.php?id=4402).

The first part is now done:
MP2's TaskScheduler service is now able to wakeup the computer correctly and to refresh all shares automatically! The new development is placed in branch https://github.com/MediaPortal/MediaPortal-2/tree/FEAT_ImporterSchedule.

I've introduced a setting that defines the "hours of day", when a new share-refresh should be executed (default now is: 2.0, means daily 2:00 o'clock) (see https://github.com/MediaPortal/MediaPortal-2/compare/4b051297bf32^...b8f63cd9867f#L5R46)

What's not yet done:
In future (after release of Alpha 2) there will be FileSystemWatchers that will notify MP2 about changes in underlying file systems.

@Testers: Please give this build a test run! http://tinyurl.com/p3xzv8b. When installed, it will schedule share refreshes daily on 2 o'clock (AM). I would need to know if this feature is working correctly, does it wake your system up? Are shares up-to-date?

In server's logfile you will find something like (on suspend):

[2013-05-26 18:39:55,057] [29827 ] [PwrEvtHnd] [DEBUG] - PowerEventHandler received Suspend
[2013-05-26 18:39:55,063] [29833 ] [AMQ 'TaskScheduler'] [DEBUG] - TaskScheduler: Schedule next wake up: 05/26/2013 18:41:00 (in 1 minutes)

and on resume:

[2013-05-26 18:41:58,507] [153277 ] [WaitTimer] [DEBUG] - TaskScheduler: Wake up
[2013-05-26 18:42:02,612] [157382 ] [31 ] [DEBUG] - UPnPServer: Initializing IP endpoint 'fe80::c47d:9d5a:a38e:7704'
[2013-05-26 18:41:58,639] [153409 ] [Thread21 ] [DEBUG] - TaskScheduler: ProcessTask: Task: f87152be-6869-4de8-8ecd-11453d8d329c, Owner: ImporterWorker, Occurrence: Repeat, Type: time-based: D:-1-H:18-M:41, LastRun: 01.01.0001 00:00:00, NextRun: 26.05.2013 18:41:00, Expires: 31.12.9999 23:59:59, Wakeup: True, Force: True
[2013-05-26 18:41:59,398] [154168 ] [PwrEvtHnd] [DEBUG] - PowerEventHandler received ResumeAutomatic
[2013-05-26 18:42:11,389] [166160 ] [PwrEvtHnd] [DEBUG] - PowerEventHandler received ResumeSuspend

and finally new import task should appear:

[2013-05-26 18:42:15,810] [170581 ] [Importer ] [INFO ] - ImporterWorker: Starting import job 'ImportJob '{e88e64a8-0233-4fdf-ba27-0b44c6a39ae9}:///C:/Users/Morpheus/Music''

@Developers should investigate the scheduling features of the https://github.com/MediaPortal/Medi...al.Common/TaskScheduler/ITaskScheduler.cs#L28 interface and its implementation.


Testing feedback is very much needed! This feature should be included in upcoming Alpha 2! So please give it a try

Thanks,
Morpheus

 

[tourettes]

"Shutts the task scheduler down." <-- typo

 

[Lehmden]

Hi.
Are the changes fixing 4378 included in this build?

 

[morpheus_xx]

Yes they are included. Only few already merged commits from dev are missing. But it should be ready for testing this single feature.

 

[Lehmden]

Hi.
I'm trying it two days now. The reimport starts at 2:00 AM as planed. If the wakeup is working I can't say atm as my Server did not jet went to sleep properly so most of the time it's up and running at 2:00 AM with or without MP2 server action... But implementing a WOL command before start of reimport is highly recommended as lots of people did not run their NAS 24/7 especially in the middle of the night... So most of the time the Import did not work properly as my NAS is asleep... I will try tonite letting NAS awake the whole night just to test the import- function, but that has to be a test only szenario.

 

[Lehmden]

Hi.
Now I've tried it with NAS running whole night. It works as expected.

BTW how can I remove Media Items from DB? Delete them from File system and do a reimport did not remove them from DB...
As example:

The first of the two S05E12 episodes was the raw, uncut TV Recording (.ts). In meantime I've cut and recoded it to a proper MKV. Now I've got both in DB also only one is available... Do I need to modify the SQLite DB (I'm using SQLite plugin for DB) with something like SQLiteExpert or is there a way inside MP2 do manually delete some entries?

 

[morpheus_xx]

BTW how can I remove Media Items from DB? Delete them from File system and do a reimport did not remove them from DB...

The importer does this "usually", so we need to investigate further! I will take a look