Does Cross EPG have a cli settings file

[Rob van der Does]

So you say that after a bouquet update via DBEDIT the box crashes, unless a Cross-EPG download hass taken place. Correct?

If so, the problem is in the reload of the settings on the box. That's one of the disadvantages of DBEDIT: it doesn't do this job properly.
Two solutions:
1- Stop E2 before the settings upload (init 4), and restart when done (init 3);
2- Use DramSet instead; that has the option to stop E2 --> upload settings --> restart E2
and DreamSet is a very good and userfriendly settingseditor.

Background:
E2 has (at least) the present bouquet list in memory, and a reload command doesn't always work (in fact that's a hack around this problem). If however E2 is dead on arrival of the settings, it does of course have no memory at all, so it will wake up with all fresh settings.

[sledge121]

I actually have an update script running on my friends boxes with a cron every night that checks on the server (using wget) for a file called bouquets.tgz, if I have uploaded the file to web root then the boxes download it and decompress the contents into /etc/enigma2 thus copying over the existing bouquets or as in my case adding to the existing bouquets as the MrMister bouquet filenames had changed, if the file downloads and the files are copied the script reloads the box and the plan was that hopefully all would be good and the end user wouldnt know any different, however the box does not display channels or epg data untill an epg download then all is good. My aim was to have minimal maintainence as the only task I need to perform is uploading a single updated compressed file to the server.
I tried using the same filenames last night but I wasnt 100% accurate, I'm in the middle of another test now where I have named all the bouquet files in the update to exactly the same existing names and also matching the content of the files ie if one of my updated bouquet files is movies and named 12345.tv then it will be updating the existing movies file of the same name, I have just ran my update script on a friends box but he cant tell me if all is good yet cos he is off to the bookies, will update you in due course.

Thanks
Sledge.

[Rob van der Does]

That will give the same result, simply because a 'reload' command isn't any good. If you do as I suggested (stop E2 before any upload and restart when done), all will be fine.

[sledge121]

Rob

You were right, same result, I wanted to see it for myself anyway. Right the next test is as you suggest above with init 4 before the copy over then init 3 after, does this method mean my bouquet filenames can change or is it best practice to keep them the same.
I will build the init's into my update script.

Thanks
Sledge.

[Rob van der Does]

You can change whatever you want, but make sure to delete all old files first, just like a settings editor does..

[sledge121]

Will leaving old bouquet files that are not referenced in bouquet.tv or bouquet.radio cause any issues.

[Rob van der Does]

Be advised that if the box is up again, and the channel that was set as startup service has been changed, the box will show a black screen. Opening the channellist (and if you want assign a new service as start up service) and choosing a channel cures this.
I say this, as a box showing a black screen after booting can be confusing.

[Rob van der Does]

Will leaving old bouquet files that are not referenced in bouquet.tv or bouquet.radio cause any issues.

Not sure about that, but why would you want to do that?

[Rob van der Does]

Probably needles to say, but the 'init 4' will stop (or better: interrupt) any recording that's going on.

[sledge121]

enigma2_crash_1349896053.log

The same thing happens even when I build the init's into the script, I know the init's are working cos the screen goes off when I run it, I have uploaded the crashlog, it seems to be epg calling EpgSelection.py when it crashes, same again after a crossepg download the problem goes away.

[Rob van der Does]

Sorry, I'm out of ideas.

[sledge121]

Thanks for looking into it rob, Does anybody else update their boxes using scp file transfer instead of dbedit, I would like your feedback, I have never used dbedit, does anybody have any experience of using it, do you need to run epg update after sending files over, I presumes dbedit is a glorified file transfer app that is essentially doing the same as I am with scp.

Thanks
Sledge.

[Rob van der Does]

Yes, I also FTP files.
Yes, DBE does also use FTP.
No, EPG-import has nothing to do with this.

[sledge121]

I'm not far away from a solution to this, if I use dbedit I can send whatever bouquet I like and the problem doesn't happen, if I

init 4
scp the files accross
init 3

Then I get the issue, I noticed when using dbedit I dont have any loss of picture but the bouquet list is refreshed so it must be doing something other than an init 4, copy, init 3, the last message dbedit says in the right hand window is 'sending reload commands' I believe this is key to making it work, if I can find out exactly what commands dbedit is running at the end of the file transfer I can build it into my scp script and I will be laughing, and I can share the script out.

The script
It check for the existance of a satellites.xml and bouquets.tgx on my server, if they exist it wgets them, it copies the satellites file to /etc/enigma2 + /etc/tuxbox then it decomresses the tgz file and copies the contents to /etc/enigma2, if the files are not there it does nothing, I have also built in init 4 and init 3 to stop and restart E2, the script sits on my friends receivers and runs as cron every morning at 04:30, my aim is for very low maintenance of my friends boxes as I only need to upload a new satelllite and bouquet file to my server and the receivers do the rest.

Thanks
Sledge

[Rob van der Does]

Never copy any file to etc/tuxbox as then you're overwriting system-files (that in turn will be overwritten by an image update).
User-files are in etc/enigma2.

If you use Dreamset you can personalise all commands. Including the init sequence (see screenie).