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Re: Recorded TV (+ TV Guide) empty on first 2 attempts at ac
Posted: Mon Jul 01, 2013 10:14 pm
by c128
Just upgraded to Mediaportal 1.4, using the public beta patch zip for the Argus TV client plugin.
I thought all was well.
However, Mediaportal 1.4 seems to have done away with the restart on resume option, so that workaround for the issue in this thread is no longer valid... I'm back to long waits on an empty screen when trying to access the Recorded TV list.
Re: Recorded TV (+ TV Guide) empty on first 2 attempts at ac
Posted: Tue Jul 09, 2013 8:51 am
by c128
Is no one else suffering from this with Mediaportal 1.4 and Argus?
I'm not sure why the "restart Mediaportal on resume" functionality was removed from Mediaportal 1.4, but it had become my standard workaround for not being able to access the Argus EPG or Recorded TV after wake. I've tried the remaining options that delay the start of Mediaportal by a configurable amount of seconds, but they don't seem to have any effect at all - at the moment I'm having to restart Mediaportal manually on wake in order to get it reliably working with Argus. It looks like some folk have had joy setting up a task that's triggered on wake to run the
restart.vbs script, that still sits within Mediaportal, but it doesn't seem to work for me on Windows 8:
http://forum.team-mediaportal.com/threa ... 308/page-3
In the end...I guess the restarting option was only really a workaround for what's a Mediaportal / Argus TV bug or on oddity on specific systems. I think glenn had an inkling as to why this was happening as he suggested the restart workaround originally.
If this isn't so niche that it's only impacting a small number of people, is there anything I can do to help look into it?
Re: Recorded TV (+ TV Guide) empty on first 2 attempts at ac
Posted: Sat Jul 27, 2013 12:09 pm
by c128
Is there anyone currently maintaining the Mediaportal plugin that can shed some light on this and/or give some pointers so I can look into it myself?
I'm getting very little traction on the Mediaportal side in terms of suggesting that "Restart on resume" is resurrected. There seems, to me, no technical reason for it to not return, but the attitude seems to be that it will not return as the reason it was originally introduced has now been fixed (despite the fact that people quite successfully used it for other reasons
):
http://forum.team-mediaportal.com/threa ... st-1015576
Re: Recorded TV (+ TV Guide) empty on first 2 attempts at ac
Posted: Tue Aug 13, 2013 1:01 am
by cala
c128 wrote:Is there anyone currently maintaining the Mediaportal plugin that can shed some light on this and/or give some pointers so I can look into it myself?
I can't comment on changes to Mediaportal, however you can work around the failure of your scheduled task by wrapping the 'restart.vbs' script in a '.bat' file.
Create a new file (restartMediaPortal.bat) with notepad or similar, and in it place the text:
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cd <Directory in which the restart.vbs script resides>
.\restart.vbs
You can then modify the scheduled task to run your new 'restartMediaPortal.bat' file instead of the 'restart.vbs' script.
Re: Recorded TV (+ TV Guide) empty on first 2 attempts at ac
Posted: Tue Aug 13, 2013 7:53 pm
by c128
Hadn't thought of that. However, it still doesn't run:
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Log Name: Microsoft-Windows-TaskScheduler/Operational
Source: Microsoft-Windows-TaskScheduler
Date: 13/08/2013 6:50:56 PM
Event ID: 203
Task Category: Action failed to start
Level: Error
Keywords:
User: SYSTEM
Computer: htpc
Description:
Task Scheduler failed to launch action "C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\cmd.exe" in instance "{a4db889c-f9a1-4358-a95f-0375a32072c9}" of task "\Restart Mediaportal". Additional Data: Error Value: 2147942667.
Fails when running the batch file directly or, as above, running it via cmd.exe.
To me, it seems like some oddity with Windows 8 and permissions, but I don't know what...
Re: Recorded TV (+ TV Guide) empty on first 2 attempts at ac
Posted: Tue Aug 13, 2013 11:34 pm
by cala
It does seem odd. I was also unable to execute the restart.vbs directly and calling it via a bat file fixed it for me (Windows 8 64 bit).
Maybe a long shot, but if you have the path to the executable quoted in your task definition you could try removing the quotes as per:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1361 ... 2147942667
Re: Recorded TV (+ TV Guide) empty on first 2 attempts at ac
Posted: Tue Aug 13, 2013 11:56 pm
by c128
Hurrah! Finally having it working - workaround returned.
Using a batch file wrapper actually worked, but it turned out the remaining issue was a having a "Start in" entry (unnecessarily now, seeing as the batch file changes directory) in the task definition for the location of restart.vbs that was...quoted! Quite bizarre that the main call to the batch file needs to be quoted for the spaces in the install whilst the other entries don't but, there you go.