EPG scan and Filescan for Scrambleflag issues

[pinthenet]

I switched to SmartEPG_TMS last week and it is running very well on my 2401CI, except for 2 strange effects after power on and with the daily EPG scan.
FW is SRP-2401CiPlus_22130-2012Aug27, SmartEPG is 3.2

1: Filescan for Scrambleflag
this seems to run every time SmartEPG starts and can take up to 20 minutes to complete. During this time I can only watch the current channel and the system & SmartEPG interfaces are blocked. In the attached log the effect can be seen at 2012-09-12 03:57:35 (20 mins) and at 2012-09-12 09:36:58 (7 minutes).

Is there a way to control or suppress this scan? Does it need to run at every start?

2: EPG sequence
I have the scan start set to 0400 with 'switch off after scan'. The timer list shows 03:59 as start time.
In the attached log the box starts at 03:56, it starts to do some checks then does nothing until I switched the box off around 07:10. A couple of minutes later it switched itself back on, performed the EPG scan, then shutdown (there was no 'filescan' during this sequence). At 09:35 I switched the box on to check the log.

I assume I have conflicting settings somewhere?

I initially installed SmartEPG V2.9c using TapToDate, then manually updated to 3.1d, before a final TapToDate update to 3.2. Initially I set the scan start to 0600 (I think) with end time of 09:00. I notice that V3.x still seems to have an end time in the ini file, but not in the GUI. I modfied the ScanEndSlot in the ini file to 0600 (value 12?) in case that was causing a problem. I modified the start to 0400.

I also attached my ini file in case there's a clue there.
The log file is reduced to last night and this morning - the full log goes back to 4/9 when I did the initial install of 2.9c.

Thanks in advance
John

[pinthenet]

I managed to solve issue1 - the filescan. I have a filesystem mounted from another linux machine that runs tgdbuilder once a day to get English EPGs. I used a mount point that contained 100s of video files. I now remounted just the EPG folder and the scan finishes within a second I think RebuildNAV was scanning this too?

Maybe this affects the EPG scan too - can't wait for tomorrow

[Twilight]

try to use the api scan.
and look if the channel you want to use (channel list point 1 in settings) are set to scan.

twilight

[pinthenet]

try to use the api scan.

I have that set

and look if the channel you want to use (channel list point 1 in settings) are set to scan.

I have that too but the first channel is SF1 HD and I set it to Multichannel EPG based on the comment in the manual:

The "Scan multichannel EPG" option is only useful for some Swiss users.

I'll switch to normal scan for tonight

Thanks for the tips
John

[Twilight]

i am not so familiar with the specials für swiss customers....sorry.
but must have a reason why the scan doesn't start

twilight

[pinthenet]

This morning all looked good, the machine had shut down (or never started). I'll check the log this evening to confirm that the EPG scan ran

[Twilight]

sounds good

twilight

[pinthenet]

The problem was of my own making it seems
EPG scan worked fine so all issues solved

Thanks for your tips twilight

[Twilight]

fine...no problem, your wellcome

twilight