For The Record - The rule-based scheduling suite (14 Viewers)

[vertiger]

I have a quick question for german users:

How valuable would you find it to have a ClickFinder TV Movie importer add-on for TV Scheduler?

I was thinking about an executable version of rtv's TVE3 plugin that would import all guide data into TV Scheduler. You could then schedule this executable to run after your tvmovie data is updated.

I'm getting EPG data from clickfinder, dvb-epg and xmltv. An importer for the clickfinder is not needed because the data is imported to the scheduler via TVE3 sync plugin. I only use the sync plugin and it works fine for all epg data.

 

[dvdfreak]

I'm getting EPG data from clickfinder, dvb-epg and xmltv. An importer for the clickfinder is not needed because the data is imported to the scheduler via TVE3 sync plugin. I only use the sync plugin and it works fine for all epg data.

OK, but don't you loose a lot of information this way? No actors for example, no episode titles,... ?

 

[vertiger]

I'm getting EPG data from clickfinder, dvb-epg and xmltv. An importer for the clickfinder is not needed because the data is imported to the scheduler via TVE3 sync plugin. I only use the sync plugin and it works fine for all epg data.

OK, but don't you loose a lot of information this way? No actors for example, no episode titles,... ?

Episode titles are there, almot all information are put in the description field (actors, year, audio, ...).

i had a look in the clickfinder db and the information were provided this way (except for year, regie and country) - anyway the scheduler has all informartion MP also has.

 

[BKCH]

hi dvdfreak - woohoo works perfectly!!!

Man - I am seriously impressed - this is really slick - well done!!!

One follow up question: I don't do the timezone offset in my tvguide.xml - I use the TV Server offset adjustment - any chance of adding a similar offset into the scheduler console??

Once again - wow - really cool work!

 

[dvdfreak]

hi dvdfreak - woohoo works perfectly!!!

Aha cool, so your problems are fixed?

Man - I am seriously impressed - this is really slick - well done!!!

Thank you

One follow up question: I don't do the timezone offset in my tvguide.xml - I use the TV Server offset adjustment - any chance of adding a similar offset into the scheduler console??

TV Scheduler will automatically adjust the times to your local timezone as long as the XMLTV guide contains the correct times (no matter in what timezone). But I guess your XMLTV file is slightly broken then? I'll see what I can do about adding an optional offset...

 

[BKCH]

Hi again

In my tvguide.xml I don't have the correct times - I just have GMT - then I use the offset to correct. (An offset would be useful for me but maybe not others (?) - I can probably work around).

I'm now onto setting up the web interface and getting an error in the installer - the message I get is "The installer was interrupted before TV Scheduler Web Access could be installed. You ned to restart the installer to try again." and the eventviewer shows:

"Product: TV Scheduler Web Access -- Installation failed.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp."

Any ideas???

BTW to get the mgmt console working I had to use it on another machine and connect to the server via the network - I'm assuming the crash I was getting was something to do with the terminal services connection - perhaps I should run ICA instead of RDP!!!!

 

[ddj147]

I'm now onto setting up the web interface and getting an error in the installer - the message I get is "The installer was interrupted before TV Scheduler Web Access could be installed. You ned to restart the installer to try again." and the eventviewer shows:

"Product: TV Scheduler Web Access -- Installation failed.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp."

When I tried out TV Scheduler recently, I received the exact same errors as BKCH. I found that the TV Scheduler Management Console worked perfectly well on the primary display of my HTPC, but when I connected using RDP it threw an error the same as described before.

Also, when I tried to install the Web Access I received the same error mentioned above.

I'd love for you guys to work this out so I can go back to trying MediaPortal TV server again ! It all became a bit too hard so I gave up as I had no way of accessing the TV Scheduler remotely. Web Access didn't work, TV Management Console through RDP didn't work and I was also receiving an error when trying to use the TV Management Console on a remote client - maybe I hadn't configured it correctly.

I look forward to hearing a resolution !

Let me know if you need any additional logs to those provided by others...

 

[dvdfreak]

When I tried out TV Scheduler recently, I received the exact same errors as BKCH. I found that the TV Scheduler Management Console worked perfectly well on the primary display of my HTPC, but when I connected using RDP it threw an error the same as described before.

I can't really figure out why you would want to use remote desktop when TV Scheduler is specifically designed to be used from a remote client What can be easier than running the management console on any client machine you wish?

Also, when I tried to install the Web Access I received the same error mentioned above.

Web Access requires a good IIS setup, so I guess that is its weak point since IIS is not "easy stuff". First IIS needs to be set up correctly on your server, then you need to make sure it's also correctly set up for the .NET Framework ("aspnet_regiis -i" may be needed). And then the Ajax extensions need to be properly installed too.

Once all that is in place, and you have preferably tested IIS to run fine without Web Access installed, then the setup should run just fine.

Now, all that being said, I can see if I can figure out what it is that is making the console crash on remote desktop connections... Looks like it is graphics-related somehow, remote desktop connections use a funky driver I guess.

 

[hirscho]

Hi dvdfreak

That was the trick. I had to start "aspnet_regiis -i" under "C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727" and the installation went pretty fine. Maybe you could put this under your guide on the first side?


Fantastic job. I am really looking forward for the next release!

 

[dvdfreak]

Good idea, I just added this to the setup instructions on the first page.