Re: Win7 Batch Glitch

Bob Portnell <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.tv.xmltv.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
G'morning. In the meantime, I started wondering if it was my USB 
deployment that was getting in the way. tl;dr = it wasn't. I put a fresh 
set of files from the SourceForge zip into a fresh folder on my C: 
drive, manually created the .xmltv folder, ran the configure (no 
issues), and then tried the grab. Same error as before from the USB run.

And this morning ... Same error, even on 1 day of listings.

For grins, I re-did the configure, using the same share and config-path 
options I'd set before. It fetched the new channels I'd selected for my 
line-up without blinking.  Run the grab again for 1 day? Same error.

Is there sanity in imagining that this might be a firewall issue? No, 
not really. As you noted, the grab of the channel data in -- configure 
worked fine. So it's getting out and back. No reason the listings call 
shouldn't receive the same courtesy.

So now there's STILL something else different between my home machine 
and my work machine, and now the difference is nigh-invisible. I'm 
stumped. And depressed. All the rest of my post-processing scripts are 
ready to make "personal TV Guides" for my wife and I, finding our 
favorite shows, actors, or just plain words. But they're no good without 
the data. Well, no good from home. I can put it all back on the USB 
stick and do it at work.

Unless we get a better idea. Alas. Still, could be worse. Could be raining.

Thanks, anyway, for the feedback so far! Much appreciated, and I do look 
forward to using XMLTV more ... just not quite the way I'd hoped. :-D

Bob P.
Sparks, NV

On 3/14/2015 10:59 PM, Robert Eden wrote:
>
> 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] 
> <mailto:[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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