Re: Win7 Batch Glitch

So configure works but the grab didn't? Try again? Maybe just one day?

Configure does a normal grab asking for 30 seconds of data. No reason it
would work but a grab fail?
On Mar 14, 2015 3:22 PM, "Bob Portnell" <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 3/14/2015 9:58 AM, Robert Eden wrote:
> > On 3/14/2015 11:06 AM, Bob Portnell wrote:
> >> Hello, all. I hope you can show me the way around my problem.
> >>
> >> Background:
> >> I downloaded and set up XMLTV.exe on a USB thumbdrive connected to my
> >> Win7 64-bit machine at work. All went well; tv_grab_na_dd and tv_sort
> >> and tv_grep worked perfectly.
> >>
> >> When I bring the thumbdrive home, though, and connected it to my Win7
> >> 32-bit machine, tv_grab_na_dd fails, thus:
> >> "cannot mkdir%MSYSDIR%\home\SYSTEM/.xmltv: No such file or directory at
> >> /<E:\XMLTV\xmltv.exe>XMLTV/Config_file.pm line 24."
> > Interesting... I'll look into replicating/fixing it.
> >
> > Two suggested solutions.
> >
> > set HOME=c:\path\to\a\directory\you\can\write\to\for\the\config\file
> > xmltv tv_grab_na_dd  --configure
> >
> > or maybe
> > xmltv tv_grab_na_nd
> > --config-file=c:\path\to\a\directory\you\can\write\to\tv_grab_na_dd.conf
> >
> > Also notice the "share" directory mentioned when it starts up and make
> > sure you can write there
> >
> > If not,
> > xmltv tv_grab_na_dd --share=c:\path\to\a\directory\you\can\write\to\xmltv
> >
> >
> > Robert
> >
> >
> >
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> Hi, Robert! Thank you. Facepalm to me ... of course if the default
> doesn't want to cooperate, I should use the provided manual overrides.
>
> So, I created C:/XMLTVsettings, with a share and an .xmltv folder in
> each. Ran the grabber in configure mode with those paths specified. All
> went with normal expectations.
>
> But then when I tried a grab thus:
>
> xmltv.exe tv_grab_na_dd --days 7 --share=C:\XMLTVsettings\share
> --config=C:\XMLTVsettings\.xmltv\tv_grab_na_dd.conf --output
> listings-raw.xml
>
>
> It DID find the config file ... or at least didn't error out as it was
> doing. But it did give me
>
> Use of uninitialized value $_[0] in print at IO/Handle.pm line 420
> ERROR: got empty result from SOAP call at (snip) tv_grab_na_dd line 773
>
> So, either something in my config came back blank, or the server's down?
>
> Still head-scratching,
> Bob P.
>
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