FreeXMLTV wont run from Hibernation

jollster101 · **7th June 2006, 10:22 AM**

Hi all

Can anyone shed any light on this rather bizarre problem I have with FreeXMLTV running from Hibernation (or not as it happens)?

It is all installed fine and when I installed it I manually ran the application and it went away, grabbed the data and everything was sweet. It scheduled a task as per the install and I then ran BRP V3, set up the guide in MCE and I was one happy man.

Last night I did some testing and I changed the time of scheduled task to run 5 minutes later. I put the machine into hibernation and waited. 5 minutes later the PC came back to life and I was one happy man, or so I thought. I looked at the scheduled tasks and it showed the task as running but it never executed the actual process. I looked at Task Manager and the FreeXMLTV.exe process wasnt running and the machine just sat there.

I waited and waited but nothing happened.

I decided to kill the task and then run it again using the scheduled task (I didnt hibernate the machine or change anything, I just right clicked on the scheduled task and hit run). Task manager showed the FreeXMLTV.exe app as running and it did its thing. So I let it finish and checked the date / time on the grabbed data and it was relevant to the task just run.

I tested again by changing the time in sched tasks and put the machine into hibernate. Again the machine came out of hibernate, the sched task showed as running but in Task manager nothing was running again.

Does anybody know why this may be happening?? The task is good and the bat file is good as proved during the machine running. It just wont run properly when coming out of hibernation even though the task itself shows as running and does bring the machine out of hibernation.

I am scratching my head with this one.

PS - As an aside, my wireless card takes a couple of seconds when the machine comes out of standby to intialise and confirm its access to my router. Do you think this could be part of the cause?? The task trying to run but the wireless card not finished initialising or would it not make a difference as it would just run and try to access the net a couple of times for the data.

Thanks all

Jollster

impact · **8th June 2006, 09:20 AM**

Some suggestions or ideas....

The bat file you have - was that created via the freexmltv installer or is it something you have created? Sometimes the task does not run if the user is wrongly setup for the task to run...

Start PC checkbox appears to be correctly set....

The user that the task runs as - is this user set to automatically log on? admin rights?

See how you go with that.... for the moment.

jollster101 · **8th June 2006, 09:59 AM**

Thanks for the reply Impact.

The bat file is the one created by the installation. I am not at home now but from memory it is something like

freexmltv verbose HD+ etc etc
c:\windows\ehome\bladerunner etc etc

The Authority to run the task is NTAUTHORITY\SYSTEM as created by the installer. The only other thing would be to try using the HTPC User account which is the one that logs on. The account is an admin on the box and everything logs in straight away, no prompting

As I said, the task starts the PC fine and it comes out of hibernation. Scheduled tasks shows it as running but Task Manger doesnt.

davmatt · **8th June 2006, 03:34 PM**

I have a similar problem, except in my case I'm resuming from S3 standby. FreeXMLTV seems to execute correctly, it's the BladeRunner.exe causes the issue. It executes but doesn't terminate... remains in TaskManager for ever more, until I kill it.

If I manually run the EPG.BAT file or the Sheduled Task it all works??

Are there 'log' files for these two processes that will tell you what they got up to?

Cheers.

jollster101 · **8th June 2006, 04:48 PM**

Sweet, so its not just me. (Well not sweet that you have a problem also

)

I dont even see BRPro starting in Task Manager. I dont get past the FreeXMLTV.exe part as it doesnt seem to fire.

Like you though davmatt, if I run it from within the Scheduled tasks manually it works a treat.

davmatt · **8th June 2006, 08:24 PM**

Jollster, I think I've resolved my issue. Like I said mine was from S3 Standby and not Hybernate, but give this a try:

Within Sheduled Tasks, select the 'Advanted' menu then 'AT Service Account' set the account to be a local administrator account (the one you were running the job manually with).

Also, edit the properties of the FreeXMLTV task and on the 'General' page set it to use the same account.

That's it. !! I've only had the PC come out of Standby once so far... but it worked. I'll set up the job to execute 5 or so times ofer the next 24 hrs and hopefully I'll get 100% success. I'll let you know.

Hope this helps.