New user question re scheduling a news download

Greggywocky · 11-01-2010, 01:09 PM

Hi

Whatever time I set this for (eg: Every day at 17.00), nothing happens. Obviously I have Calibre running at the time. It works when I click Download Now, however.

Does anyone have any idea why it's not downloading automatically?

Thanks

Greggywocky · 11-01-2010, 01:59 PM

I have just reinstalled and still have the problem. Is this a known issue then?

Thanks!

kovidgoyal · 11-01-2010, 02:54 PM

Did you save the schedule (i.e. does the scheduled news source show up in the scheduled category in green on the left of the fetch news dialog?)

Greggywocky · 11-01-2010, 03:17 PM

Hi Kovid

Yes, as far as I can tell everything seems normal. It's on the left, in the green 'Scheduled' category at the top of the list. When I select it, over on the right, 'Schedule for download' is ticked, and I've set it for the top option 'Every day at 06.00'. The lower option is unselected, greyed out, and says 7.0 days.

If I click Download Now, it works, so it isn't a connection issue. It failed to work at 06.00 this morning, and I have adjusted times to test it, but nothing happens at all. Running version 0.7.26. I uninstalled and reinstalled it, but the problem persists.

As I say, I can click Download Now to start it, so it's hardly a massive problem I suppose!

Thanks

kovidgoyal · 11-01-2010, 03:22 PM

Hmm you may be able to get more debug output if you run calibre from a command prompt as

calibre-debug -g

then schedule the download for 5 minutes from now and wait and see if any error messages are printed out in 5 minutes in the command prompt.

Greggywocky · 11-01-2010, 03:26 PM

Ok. Thanks, I'll give that a try.

I should add that in my processes I have calibre.exe and two instances of calibre-parallel.exe running, though I only have the main Calibre window open. Don't know if that's normal or not!

kovidgoyal · 11-01-2010, 03:27 PM

that's fine calibre-parallel are the worker processes

Greggywocky · 11-01-2010, 04:01 PM

How odd! Absolutely nothing happens when the schedule time arrives. Are there perhaps other processes/services within Windows that the scheduler relies on that may be switched off? I'm running XP SP2. I've noticed I can't synchronize the time with time.windows.com or nist.gov, because of an unspecified error.

Once again, it works perfectly if I do it manually!

Thanks

kovidgoyal · 11-01-2010, 04:02 PM

No the scheduler is fully internal. Is the time/timezone on your system correct?

Greggywocky · 11-01-2010, 04:12 PM

Yes, it's all correct

kovidgoyal · 11-01-2010, 04:14 PM

Run the following in the command prompt and check that the date/time printed out are correct

calibre-debug -c "from calibre.utils.date import now; print now()"

Greggywocky · 11-01-2010, 04:20 PM

Yep.

2010-11-01 20:19:07.006000+00:00

kovidgoyal · 11-01-2010, 04:24 PM

Then I'm at a loss for what it could be, sorry.

Greggywocky · 11-01-2010, 04:32 PM

No probs - thanks for your help. As I said, having to click Download Now each morning instead isn't really a huge problem!

Greggywocky · 11-01-2010, 05:08 PM

Well, I just removed the scheduled jobs, reinstalled, and now it works!

Once again, thanks for your help.

11-01-2010, 01:09 PM	#1
Greggywocky Member Posts: 14 Karma: 10 Join Date: Oct 2010 Device: Kindle	New user question re scheduling a news download Hi Whatever time I set this for (eg: Every day at 17.00), nothing happens. Obviously I have Calibre running at the time. It works when I click Download Now, however. Does anyone have any idea why it's not downloading automatically? Thanks

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11-01-2010, 01:59 PM	#2
Greggywocky Member Posts: 14 Karma: 10 Join Date: Oct 2010 Device: Kindle	I have just reinstalled and still have the problem. Is this a known issue then? Thanks!

11-01-2010, 02:54 PM	#3
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 43,851 Karma: 22666666 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	Did you save the schedule (i.e. does the scheduled news source show up in the scheduled category in green on the left of the fetch news dialog?)

11-01-2010, 03:17 PM	#4
Greggywocky Member Posts: 14 Karma: 10 Join Date: Oct 2010 Device: Kindle	Hi Kovid Yes, as far as I can tell everything seems normal. It's on the left, in the green 'Scheduled' category at the top of the list. When I select it, over on the right, 'Schedule for download' is ticked, and I've set it for the top option 'Every day at 06.00'. The lower option is unselected, greyed out, and says 7.0 days. If I click Download Now, it works, so it isn't a connection issue. It failed to work at 06.00 this morning, and I have adjusted times to test it, but nothing happens at all. Running version 0.7.26. I uninstalled and reinstalled it, but the problem persists. As I say, I can click Download Now to start it, so it's hardly a massive problem I suppose! Thanks

11-01-2010, 03:22 PM	#5
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 43,851 Karma: 22666666 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	Hmm you may be able to get more debug output if you run calibre from a command prompt as calibre-debug -g then schedule the download for 5 minutes from now and wait and see if any error messages are printed out in 5 minutes in the command prompt.

11-01-2010, 03:26 PM	#6
Greggywocky Member Posts: 14 Karma: 10 Join Date: Oct 2010 Device: Kindle	Ok. Thanks, I'll give that a try. I should add that in my processes I have calibre.exe and two instances of calibre-parallel.exe running, though I only have the main Calibre window open. Don't know if that's normal or not!

11-01-2010, 03:27 PM	#7
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 43,851 Karma: 22666666 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	that's fine calibre-parallel are the worker processes

11-01-2010, 04:01 PM	#8
Greggywocky Member Posts: 14 Karma: 10 Join Date: Oct 2010 Device: Kindle	How odd! Absolutely nothing happens when the schedule time arrives. Are there perhaps other processes/services within Windows that the scheduler relies on that may be switched off? I'm running XP SP2. I've noticed I can't synchronize the time with time.windows.com or nist.gov, because of an unspecified error. Once again, it works perfectly if I do it manually! Thanks

11-01-2010, 04:02 PM	#9
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 43,851 Karma: 22666666 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	No the scheduler is fully internal. Is the time/timezone on your system correct?

11-01-2010, 04:12 PM	#10
Greggywocky Member Posts: 14 Karma: 10 Join Date: Oct 2010 Device: Kindle	Yes, it's all correct

11-01-2010, 04:14 PM	#11
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 43,851 Karma: 22666666 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	Run the following in the command prompt and check that the date/time printed out are correct calibre-debug -c "from calibre.utils.date import now; print now()"

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11-01-2010, 04:20 PM	#12
Greggywocky Member Posts: 14 Karma: 10 Join Date: Oct 2010 Device: Kindle	Yep. 2010-11-01 20:19:07.006000+00:00

11-01-2010, 04:24 PM	#13
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 43,851 Karma: 22666666 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	Then I'm at a loss for what it could be, sorry.

11-01-2010, 04:32 PM	#14
Greggywocky Member Posts: 14 Karma: 10 Join Date: Oct 2010 Device: Kindle	No probs - thanks for your help. As I said, having to click Download Now each morning instead isn't really a huge problem!

11-01-2010, 05:08 PM	#15
Greggywocky Member Posts: 14 Karma: 10 Join Date: Oct 2010 Device: Kindle	Well, I just removed the scheduled jobs, reinstalled, and now it works! Once again, thanks for your help.