For The Record - The rule-based scheduling suite (5 Viewers)

[visteon]

Tried to install on remote XP system.
With the latest installer I do not get the choice to only install the management console. The install fails because it cannot connect to the database.

Ooops did not spot the sepatate link on the first page to download only the management console.

 

[dvdfreak]

Now for some reason on my system there is a delay of about 2 minutes before I can get an Internet connection. After this delay I get a balloon saying wireless networks are detected.
Once I had net access the management console opened without the connect message.

Okay, so to summarize, it's working after a clean install, just as long as your network is up and running?

TvServer.log:
11/23/2007 6:00:23 PM [Information][TvScheduler]: Starting service.
11/23/2007 6:00:23 PM [Information][TvScheduler]: Starting WCF service hosts.
11/23/2007 6:00:23 PM [Information][TvScheduler]: Starting XMLTV import thread.
11/23/2007 6:00:23 PM [Information][XMLTV Import]: Thread started.
11/23/2007 6:00:23 PM [Information][XMLTV Import]: Deleting old guide programs.

Okay, thanks StaticMan and Shaftstick, you are both having the same problem judging from the logs.

Unfortunately this is extremely puzzling since the call to DeleteOldPrograms() is inside of a try/catch, and errors that are caught should be logged. This is starting to look more and more like a database problem. Are you both running MySQL or SQL Express?

There's really no errros in eventvwr.exe? Also not under a different group or name?

Is there a "TvScheduler service started." entry in the event log? If not, someone, something is kicking the TvScheduler service out again, and I really really wonder why... What changed... since this has been running just fine before.

 

[StaticMan]

I'm running SQL Express, Windows XP SP2 machine.

Here's everything in Event Viewer after installing and attempting to run version 11/23:

Install:
Reservation for namespace identified by URL prefix http://+:49941/TvScheduler/ was successfully deleted.
Reservation for namespace identified by URL prefix http://+:49941/TvScheduler/ was successfully added.
The TV Scheduler service was successfully sent a start control.
The TV Scheduler service entered the stopped state.

Tried to restart service:
The TV Scheduler service was successfully sent a start control.
The TV Scheduler service entered the stopped state.

On Windows restart:
The TV Scheduler service hung on starting.
The TV Scheduler service entered the stopped state.

Tried to restart service:
The TV Scheduler service was successfully sent a start control.
The TV Scheduler service entered the stopped state.

 

[dvdfreak]

I'm running SQL Express, Windows XP SP2 machine.

Here's everything in Event Viewer after installing and attempting to run version 11/23:

I just did a clean install on an XP SP2 machine with the 11/23 version (I downloaded the one from the forum to make sure). And everything worked fine.

Install:
Reservation for namespace identified by URL prefix http://+:49941/TvScheduler/ was successfully deleted.
Reservation for namespace identified by URL prefix http://+:49941/TvScheduler/ was successfully added.
The TV Scheduler service was successfully sent a start control.
The TV Scheduler service entered the stopped state.

Tried to restart service:
The TV Scheduler service was successfully sent a start control.
The TV Scheduler service entered the stopped state.

On Windows restart:
The TV Scheduler service hung on starting.
The TV Scheduler service entered the stopped state.

Tried to restart service:
The TV Scheduler service was successfully sent a start control.
The TV Scheduler service entered the stopped state.

What I don't understand is there is no "TvScheduler service started." event in even viewer. So that means the process never reaches the end of the OnStart() method. Yet the XMLTV import thread is started correctly (shown in the log). I'll try to add more logging to see if we can get yet closer to the problem...

 

[Midget]

• Removed "Save" and "Cancel" buttons from modal panels, and moved them to the menu on the left.

I like it

Could you put the version number also in the zip files ?

 

[dvdfreak]

What I don't understand is there is no "TvScheduler service started." event in even viewer. So that means the process never reaches the end of the OnStart() method. Yet the XMLTV import thread is started correctly (shown in the log). I'll try to add more logging to see if we can get yet closer to the problem...

I just tried with sabotaging the database connection, to see if that could explain the symptoms, but here is what I got:

25/11/2007 9:17:25 [Information][TvScheduler]: Starting service.
25/11/2007 9:17:25 [Information][TvScheduler]: Starting WCF service hosts.
25/11/2007 9:17:25 [Information][TvScheduler]: Starting XMLTV import thread.
25/11/2007 9:17:25 [Information][TvScheduler]: Service started.
25/11/2007 9:17:25 [Information][XMLTV Import]: Thread started.
25/11/2007 9:17:25 [Information][XMLTV Import]: Deleting old guide programs.
25/11/2007 9:17:26 [Error][XMLTV Import]: An unexpected error occurred

And in the event log there were errors logged as well. So this does not explain the symptoms... Could it be .NET 3.0 or WCF related I wonder...

Is anyone else having the same problem as StaticMan or Shaftstick? Or is this problem isolated to their two machine?

[size=+1]UPDATE ALERT[/size]

I just uploaded a very very minor new beta release for StaticMan and Shaftstick, please try this on your machines. There's a bit more exception handling and I tweaked the logging a bit. I replaced the 23/11 version, so there's no new version shown (MSI date will be 25/11).

 

[StaticMan]

I just tested the updates 11/23 version - no change.
Log files show the same info.

 

[dvdfreak]

Well, this is starting to get really frustrating I just wish I could reproduce this. As I mentioned before, I tried with your exact situation: XP SP2, SQL Express, clean install (no database). Worked like a charm. What is different on your setup and why is this error so invisible...

If you install an older version, does that one work?

 

[wunschkind]

hi dvdfreak,

i would like to test your scheduler. but i´m using the clickfinder plugin with the 0.2.3 MP release and the tvserver. will the clickfinder data be imported automatically or have i to convert something? are there importandt settings for the clickfinder usage?


thank you for your great work and i hope i can give you some feedback next week.


bye and have a nice day



wunschkind

 

[dvdfreak]

i would like to test your scheduler. but i´m using the clickfinder plugin with the 0.2.3 MP release and the tvserver. will the clickfinder data be imported automatically or have i to convert something? are there importandt settings for the clickfinder usage?

You have two options: export the data from ClickFinder in XMLTV format. This will normally give you the best source of data (including episode titles).

Or use the EPG syncing in my TVE3 plugin. Then it will automatically copy over the TVE3 data to TvScheduler. This should be the most automatic option, but you will lose the episode-title information.

I already looked at "patching" the TVE3 ClickFinder plugin to send its data to TvScheduler and that's certainly doable, but a better solution would be a "new" ClickFinder add-on for TvScheduler. Anyone up to the task of writing this? Perhaps the original author (I think it is rtv) would consider doing this?