ACTION REQUIRED: SD Updates on 20210724

[garyan2]

All,

SD updated their service to handle images a little differently yesterday. All URLs to images that have been previously cached by epg123 are now invalid and were replaced with new URLs. This means a lot of images in WMC, that you have not already downloaded within WMC, will be missing. To update the links to the new images immediately, you will have to clear your cache and download everything again (Save & Execute). Alternatively, if you do nothing, the links will be updated automatically over the next 30 days by epg123 as part of a refresh routine it performs on every update.

If you are having any issues with the new links, please let me know either here or email support@garyan2.net.

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I cleared the cache and ran the update. It seemed to go fine, but when the client loaded the MXF file it got an error at the very end:

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[7/25/2021 3:38:46 PM]  Beginning epg123 client execution. version 1.6.6.0
...
[7/25/2021 3:45:12 PM] [ INFO] MXF file was created on 7/25/2021 3:36:09 PM
[7/25/2021 3:45:18 PM] [ INFO] Completed EPG123 client execution.
[7/25/2021 3:45:18 PM] [ INFO] EPG123 client execution time was 00:06:31.2530000.
[7/25/2021 3:45:18 PM] [ERROR] Unhandled exception caught from epg123Client.exe. message: MediaCenterStore: Assert. LockedObjectBlock dtor when still locked
   at Microsoft.MediaCenter.Store.StoreDebug.Assert(Boolean f, String msg)
   at Microsoft.MediaCenter.Store.LockedObjectBlock.Finalize()

But other than that it seems fine. The images did not appear in the guide until I exited and restarted the WMC GUI.

[garyan2]

Looks like the exception was thrown after everything was done from the store. EPG123 will close the store right before the "Completed EPG123 client execution." log entry. Looks like something may have still been hanging on to it. All of the entries you posted at the end of the operation should have been at the same timestamp, but you had 6 seconds between the "file created" entry and the "completed" entry. The only thing it is doing at that time is creating the status logo, and closing the store.

Do you see this often? Still running Remote Potato?

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Looking back at the past logs, there is almost always a 1-6 second delay between the "file created" and "completed" entries. Of the 15 or so runs I looked at, there were maybe 3 that had the same timestamp, most others had at least 3 to 5 seconds gap.

None of the earlier logs had the error like in the logs I posted above.

Yes, I am still running the Remote Potato daemon and it hasn't been having any problems (like the ones I had mentioned way back where I would have to restart it occasionally).