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Loading channel list from client takes a very long time - jobe - 2014-05-23

I have upgraded my installation to Gotham final and vnsi server from the new repository (fernetmenta) as well as pvr tools from opdenkamp.
I guess this should be the official repositories.

Everything seems to work fine, except that fetching the channel lists takes very long (about 2 mins.), but it was very fast in beta versions (a few seconds, I took the complete set from Fernetmentas repository).
Anyone else experiencing this problem?
Should I try another version of vnis client/server?
Any hints/keywords I should check in the logs (I already tried to find something in the logs, but had no luck)?

Many things,
Jobe

RE: Loading channel list from client takes a very long time - FernetMenta - 2014-05-23

Make sure that you don't store egp in database. This slows down the process drastically. vdr has its own db for epg.

RE: Loading channel list from client takes a very long time - jobe - 2014-06-18

Thanks for your answer, but I am definitely not storing epg in xbmc database. Fetching epg is fine, but fetching the channel list takes very long since gotham final. Note: I use channel groups in vdr and have set the flag to synchronize channel groups in xbmc.
I did not have time to try a lot of things the past weeks, but I will have a look at the logs within the next days, maybe I can at least narrow things down.

Br
Jobe

RE: Loading channel list from client takes a very long time - jobe - 2014-06-19

Ok, it looks like the problem definitely has to do with the channel groups.
From the log I can see the following for eacht group:

Code:
09:08:11 T:140682811381504   DEBUG: PVR - GetChannelGroupMembers - get group members for group '->02-Sport' from add-on 'VDR-Network-Streaming-Interface (VNSI) Server:10.0.0.4:34890'
09:08:26 T:140682811381504   ERROR: AddOnLog: VDR VNSI Client: ReadResult - request timed out after 15 seconds
09:08:26 T:140682811381504   ERROR: PVR - GetChannelGroupMembers - addon 'VDR-Network-Streaming-Interface (VNSI) Server:10.0.0.4:34890' returned an error: server error
09:08:26 T:140682811381504   ERROR: PVR - GetChannelGroupMembers - cannot get group members from client '1': server error
09:08:26 T:140682811381504    INFO: PVRChannelGroup - RemoveDeletedChannels - deleted TV channel 'Sky Sport News HD' from group '->02-Sport'
[........]
09:08:26 T:140682811381504   DEBUG: CPVRChannelGroup - Persist - persisting channel group '->02-Sport' with 0 channels

So I have 10 channel groups, which are deleted and there is a request time out for each of them (15 sec.). Afterwards I do not have any channel groups any more.Could it be a timing issue? I am starting my vdr through WOL. Maybe things are not ready, or XBMC ist starting up faster now...?
Ok, really looks to be a timing issue. When restarting XBMC, when vdr is already running, everything is fine. So the question is, how long do I need to wait, before starting XBMC? Any ideas for a vdr request?

RE: Loading channel list from client takes a very long time - FernetMenta - 2014-06-19

please post (pastebin) full debug log and syslog

RE: Loading channel list from client takes a very long time - jobe - 2014-06-19

XBMC Log - Part 1
XBMC Log Part 2
sys log

br,
Jobe

RE: Loading channel list from client takes a very long time - FernetMenta - 2014-06-19

vdr seems to hang at the time the issue occurred

Jun 19 10:01:10 [ntpd] peer 86.59.13.46 now valid
Jun 19 10:01:19 [dbus] [system] Failed to activate service 'org.freedesktop.Avahi': timed out
Jun 19 10:01:54 [G2V g2v_init.sh] VDR does not respond - Restarting

can you enable verbose logging for vdr? maybe we can get more info.

RE: Loading channel list from client takes a very long time - zeebee - 2014-06-25

How can you enable verbose logging in vdr? I've searched for a while but couldnt find it. I also have an vdr issue i cannot solve without good logs.

RE: Loading channel list from client takes a very long time - FernetMenta - 2014-06-25

--log=3

http://linuxtv.org/vdrwiki/index.php/VDR_options

RE: Loading channel list from client takes a very long time - zeebee - 2014-06-25

Thanks, tried that but get no error message. System just completly freezes.

RE: Loading channel list from client takes a very long time - FernetMenta - 2014-06-25

you don't get any logs from vdr at all?

RE: Loading channel list from client takes a very long time - zeebee - 2014-06-25

I get status and error logs (e.g. vnsi packet loss or which plugin is loaded), but nothing when the system locks up. I will look again in a few days, since i dont have physical access to my server right now.