Famous last words
The same issue as before with the database not responding. It might be a pain but uninstalling, then deleting all the files in Program Files\DvrOnTime, then reinstalling will give you a clean copy of the database, of course you will need to set up all your recordings again.Famous last words
This morning it appear to have gone into a crash/restart loop around 9am recording only 4-20kb before crashing with no obvious error messages.
Fortunately all the events we were interested in had already recorded OK.
The service is now failing to restart (too many failures?) but it is running successfully in a command window
Many thanks - I will look forward to the new version
C:\Users\User>"C:\Program Files\DvrOnTime\DvrOnTime.exe"
Services running in interactive mode.
Starting DvrOnTimeService...
21:25:47.847 Information: DvrOnTime service version 1.0.5.2025 is starting...
21:25:48.623 Information: EPG update starting due to service starting...
21:25:48.631 Information: New thread created for EPGCollection, threadId 04
21:25:48.659 Information: SimpleHTTPServer has started
Unhandled Exception: System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
at DvrOnTime.DvrOnTimeService.StartEpgCollectorThread()
at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.RunInternal(ExecutionContext executionContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state, Boolean preserveSyncCtx)
at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.Run(ExecutionContext executionContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state, Boolean preserveSyncCtx)
at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.Run(ExecutionContext executionContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state)
at System.Threading.ThreadHelper.ThreadStart()
21:25:48.727 Debug : HdHomeRun command executed: discover
21:25:52.336 Debug : HdHomeRun command executed: 1251F06B get /sys/features
C:\Users\User>Okay I think I know the issue you are having. It is because no channels are tuned and this had caused the code to fall over when run in a Command box. If you start the service normally and tune the channels it should be fine, and once some channels are tuned it will work from a command prompt as well. I will fix the bug that causes it to fail when run in a command box interactively.
Unfortunately the service doesn't stay up so I cant access the web-if to do the tuning
Is there anything in the Windows event log for DvrOnTime, may be something under application logs that gives an indication.
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Log Name: Application
Source: .NET Runtime
Date: 11/02/2022 17:22:27
Event ID: 1026
Task Category: None
Level: Error
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer: MymsMan-Hp-PC
Description:
Application: DvrOnTime.exe
Framework Version: v4.0.30319
Description: The process was terminated due to an unhandled exception.
Exception Info: System.NullReferenceException
at DvrOnTime.DvrOnTimeService.StartEpgCollectorThread()
at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.RunInternal(System.Threading.ExecutionContext, System.Threading.ContextCallback, System.Object, Boolean)
at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.Run(System.Threading.ExecutionContext, System.Threading.ContextCallback, System.Object, Boolean)
at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.Run(System.Threading.ExecutionContext, System.Threading.ContextCallback, System.Object)
at System.Threading.ThreadHelper.ThreadStart()
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
<System>
<Provider Name=".NET Runtime" />
<EventID Qualifiers="0">1026</EventID>
<Version>0</Version>
<Level>2</Level>
<Task>0</Task>
<Opcode>0</Opcode>
<Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2022-02-11T17:22:27.1884764Z" />
<EventRecordID>243608</EventRecordID>
<Correlation />
<Execution ProcessID="0" ThreadID="0" />
<Channel>Application</Channel>
<Computer>MymsMan-Hp-PC</Computer>
<Security />
</System>
<EventData>
<Data>Application: DvrOnTime.exe
Framework Version: v4.0.30319
Description: The process was terminated due to an unhandled exception.
Exception Info: System.NullReferenceException
at DvrOnTime.DvrOnTimeService.StartEpgCollectorThread()
at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.RunInternal(System.Threading.ExecutionContext, System.Threading.ContextCallback, System.Object, Boolean)
at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.Run(System.Threading.ExecutionContext, System.Threading.ContextCallback, System.Object, Boolean)
at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.Run(System.Threading.ExecutionContext, System.Threading.ContextCallback, System.Object)
at System.Threading.ThreadHelper.ThreadStart()
</Data>
</EventData>
</Event>Log Name: Application
Source: Application Error
Date: 11/02/2022 17:22:28
Event ID: 1000
Task Category: (100)
Level: Error
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer: MymsMan-Hp-PC
Description:
Faulting application name: DvrOnTime.exe, version: 1.0.6.2026, time stamp: 0xfe42e2ba
Faulting module name: unknown, version: 0.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x00000000
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x00007ffbfbc075bc
Faulting process ID: 0x3f84
Faulting application start time: 0x01d81f6bf00b3b1b
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files\DvrOnTime\DvrOnTime.exe
Faulting module path: unknown
Report ID: 5b444c94-dea9-4a66-88d8-300d9730fcb1
Faulting package full name:
Faulting package-relative application ID:
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
<System>
<Provider Name="Application Error" />
<EventID Qualifiers="0">1000</EventID>
<Version>0</Version>
<Level>2</Level>
<Task>100</Task>
<Opcode>0</Opcode>
<Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2022-02-11T17:22:28.1333177Z" />
<EventRecordID>243609</EventRecordID>
<Correlation />
<Execution ProcessID="0" ThreadID="0" />
<Channel>Application</Channel>
<Computer>MymsMan-Hp-PC</Computer>
<Security />
</System>
<EventData>
<Data>DvrOnTime.exe</Data>
<Data>1.0.6.2026</Data>
<Data>fe42e2ba</Data>
<Data>unknown</Data>
<Data>0.0.0.0</Data>
<Data>00000000</Data>
<Data>c0000005</Data>
<Data>00007ffbfbc075bc</Data>
<Data>3f84</Data>
<Data>01d81f6bf00b3b1b</Data>
<Data>C:\Program Files\DvrOnTime\DvrOnTime.exe</Data>
<Data>unknown</Data>
<Data>5b444c94-dea9-4a66-88d8-300d9730fcb1</Data>
<Data>
</Data>
<Data>
</Data>
</EventData>
</Event>I've no idea what the problem might be, I simply can't rectify it. If you look in the Old versions folder on the drive link I've added a zip file called debug. If you can download that, unblock it in file properties, then extract the DvrOnTime.Exe file. Make sure the DvrOnTime service is stopped, then copy this exe over the existing one in c:\program files\Dvrontime. I've added some error handling to this EXE where I think it is going wrong to capture some more information. If it appears to start up okay or not, check the Windows event log again and it should have written some better error info, if you can post that here it might help pinpoint where the problems is.
SUCCESS Glad you got it working, although its odd it was falling over with no channels as I've tested installing a clean database with no channels many times, although that's computers and software for you!Just had a brainwave - Problems were occurring when installing to an empty folder when it had no channels in the default database.
So I thought what happened if I put my old database backups (which I had saved) back into the dvrontime folder and tried installing again!
Another advantage is that it will test out the database optimisation!
On version 1.0.3 your database will be lost on uninstalling the old version and putting on the new version, this means you would need to retune and re-add scheduled recordings. You can however manually take a back up of the database then restore it afterwards to avoid that inconvenience, and future updates will then keep your database automatically. In the Installing the software.pdf the first section explains how to take a copy and restore the database.