Loosing schedules in calendar after restart of homegenie

General Troubleshooting and Support
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Hi,
after a long while on r519 I spent a weekend to update to r525 (more or less a new installation on a Pi 3B). I had to convert a lot of own programs to the new release.

Now there is one problem left --> I’m loosing my schedules in the calendar after a restart of homegenie. The settings for Summer/Wintertime, Weekend, … are there after restart but the time settings are gone. Any thoughts on that?
Would be great to get some help as I have to restart the Pi in the night to get it stable (seems there is a memory leak as the memory consumption is increasing over the day).

I really appreciate your effort in bringing homegenie further after Gene stepped back!!!

PS: I’m currently on your 526 Release, but still get the mentioned problems.

br. Christian

2

Hi, Christian.

Are you using new Scheduler page (/hg/html/index.html#page_configure_schedulerservice) or old one Calendar prorgam?

3

there is an XML file where the schedules should be stored… I’m assuming this isnt getting updated?

Any errors in the log?

4

I have had the same problem while I was using Timetable module.

After moving to the new Scheduler (http://genielabs.github.io/HomeGenie/#/docs/scheduling) - everything works fine.

5

Hi,
no Error in the log, can you tell me which file it is?

thanks Christian

6

schedules.xml or homegenie.log?

7

Hi, Christian.

schedules.xml file is located in HG’s installation folder, Error.log file - inside log folder of HG’s installation directory.

Anyway, there was no logging of errors during write operations to XML files. I have added some logging, so you can try to replace your HomeGenie.exe with this one [HomeGenie.exe (290.5 KB)], try to restart HG and look into logs (look for text UpdateXmlDatabase). As always don’t forget to make a backup.

Also, I have to note that saving of schedules occurs only on a shutdown of HomeGenie, so if you are hard-killing HG process then your changes will not be saved.

8

Ouch… maybe worth adding a API call that facilitates the flushing to disk of the schedules?

9

I agree, but it’s better to this globally when updating
modules/programs/schedules/etc. Now everything is saved during shutdown
process.

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Thanks for the homegenie file!
You are rigjt, there is an Error on Timetable set

2017-06-20 15:23:19.0846 Info WebServiceGateway 192.168.1.1 HTTP POST 200 /api/HomeAutomation.HomeGenie/Timetable/Timetable.Set [OPEN]

System.FormatException: Input string was not in a correct format.
at System.Number.StringToNumber (System.String str, System.Globalization.NumberStyles options, System.Number+NumberBuffer& number, System.Globalization.NumberFormatInfo info, System.Boolean parseDecimal) [0x00057] in <9bc402929dff445999ba28b84751d284>:0
at System.Number.ParseInt32 (System.String s, System.Globalization.NumberStyles style, System.Globalization.NumberFormatInfo info) [0x00015] in <9bc402929dff445999ba28b84751d284>:0
at System.Int32.Parse (System.String s) [0x00007] in <9bc402929dff445999ba28b84751d284>:0
at HomeGenie.Automation.Scripting.ScriptingInstance+c__AnonStorey0.<>m__A (System.Object args) [0x002b5] in <2d0c08e5f058423d8eb3617a5af3809e>:0
at HomeGenie.ProgramDynamicApi.TryApiCall (MIG.MigInterfaceCommand command) [0x000bc] in :0
at HomeGenie.Service.HomeGenieService.migService_ServiceRequestPostProcess (System.Object sender, MIG.ProcessRequestEventArgs args) [0x0007c] in :0
at MIG.MigService.OnPostProcessRequest (System.Object sender, MIG.MigClientRequest request) [0x00019] in <23027418f9174dd68010f21fc4a3aea3>:0
at MIG.MigService.Gateway_PostProcessRequest (System.Object sender, MIG.ProcessRequestEventArgs args) [0x00008] in <23027418f9174dd68010f21fc4a3aea3>:0
at MIG.Gateways.WebServiceGateway.OnPostProcessRequest (MIG.MigClientRequest request) [0x0001f] in <23027418f9174dd68010f21fc4a3aea3>:0
at MIG.Gateways.WebServiceGateway.Worker (System.Object state) [0x00e25] in <23027418f9174dd68010f21fc4a3aea3>:0

sorry, not skilled enough to find the real reason behind “System.FormatException: Input string was not in a correct format.”!

Sorry have to change the previous post!!!

I Changed only one entry in the table and stored it- --> no error. Entry is there.
Restarted the service from management page of homegenie --> Entry gone, no error

Don’t know whats going on???:rage:

br. Christian

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Yes, I think it’s because you are using Timetable program that has been deprecated in v1.1-beta.523 (20/06/2016).
This is the same situation I had some time ago when decided to upgrade my HomeGenie installation. I wrote about it earlier.
Finally, I moved from the old Timetable to the new Scheduler and everything started to work again. But sadly conversion was not streamlined.