Reliable way to stop tv service. (1 Viewer)

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After resuming from a sleep state I use a batch file to stop the tv service (NET STOP) then reset my pair of skystar2 cards and restart the tv service, Lately on random occasions the tv service refuses to stop with 'the service could not be stopped' error, Not so bad if I'm at home to restart the system but any unattended recording fails, Is there a more reliable command or method I could use ??.
The only way I could think of was to wake the system and then reboot from a batch file...Not very elegant but I guess it would work.

 

[HomeY]

Did you try using the Service Recovery settings?

For example like this:

 

[Zoidberg77]

Not so bad if I'm at home to restart the system but any unattended recording fails, Is there a more reliable command or method I could use

This happens, if the TVService.exe gets somehow stuck; a forced kill will help: taskkill /F /IM TVservice.exe

I execute the following script after every resume via task planer. It works fine for me in my multiseat environment, although the timeouts could be optimized, but I'm lazy and it does it's job since several months

@echo off
start "" net stop tvservice
timeout /T 3 /nobreak
sc query TvService | find "STOPPED"
if errorlevel 1 goto :waitlonger
goto :starttvs
 
:waitlonger
timeout /T 5 /nobreak
sc query TvService | find "STOPPED"
if errorlevel 1 goto :1stkill
goto :starttvs
 
:1stkill
echo %date% %time% TVService reagiert nicht, neustart>>e:\TVService.log
set KILLCOUNT=1
goto :killtvs
 
:2ndkill
echo %date% %time% TVService reagiert immmer noch nicht, neustart>>e:\TVService.log
set /a KILLCOUNT=%KILLCOUNT%+1
if %KILLCOUNT% == 3 GOTO :crit
 
:killtvs
start "" net stop tvservice
timeout /T 5 /nobreak
taskkill /F /IM TVservice.exe
timeout /T 3 /nobreak
 
:starttvs
start "" net start TVService
timeout /T 5 /nobreak
sc query TvService | find "RUNNING"
if errorlevel 1 goto :restart
goto :end
 
:restart
timeout /T 10 /nobreak
sc query TvService | find "RUNNING"
if errorlevel 1 goto :restart2
goto :end
 
:restart2
start "" net start TVService
timeout /T 10 /nobreak
sc query TvService | find "RUNNING"
if errorlevel 1 goto :2ndkill
goto :end
 
:crit
echo %date% %time% TVService reagiert immmer noch nicht, SYSTEM NEUSTART>>e:\TVService.log
start "" shutdown /r /t 0 /f
 
:end
exit

 

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I'll try both ways and see which way works best on my setup...Many thanks to both of you for the help