Channels DVR failed at recording 3 shows at once (got only 2)

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#21

I’ve removed the second pass. Hopefully this can be fixed after the guide changes you mention.

#22

It works for a scenario which I encountered.

  1. Wanted to copy all episodes of a particular show.
  2. The first airing of a new episode was always at 9PM, and also had a replay at 11PM.
  3. Having only 1 Prime (limited tuners), I wanted to record the 11PM replay and not the 9PM new.

Hence I setup the first (primary) rule with the 11PM limit. Then another rule with “always” and no limiter (lower priority).

The first rule sets up the 11PM show in the DVR.
When the 2nd rule seeks all of the series showings, it doesn’t touch the 9PM show as it already has a queued status (due to the rule for 11PM which sets all showings of that exact episode to queued).

#23

BTW, this behavior happens more than just when the show in question starts within a certain time of day range.

As I’ve posted before, sometimes the 3 PM airing of Newshour doesn’t record and the 6 PM airing records. I happened to be home today and caught the 3 PM airing. It was definitely in the guide and definitely aired as I watched it; but it didn’t record and the 6 PM airing is queued.

I had a look in the logs and I can see it was queued and then deleted This behavior is identical to the Face the Nation issue. See log entries below:

2017/03/25 09:56:51 [DVR] Rule ‘PBS NewsHour’ found 1 new airings
2017/03/25 09:56:51 [DVR] queued recording job 1492207170-8

2017/04/02 16:04:30 [DVR] Deleting job with expired serial 1.491149633e+09: 1492207170-8: PBS NewsHour

#24

Do you see any more of these occurrences in your DVR schedule for the next three weeks?

I can send you a test build to try… would be interesting to compare the schedule before/after to see if its able to catch and fix the incorrectly scheduled timeslots.

#25

I’ve been checking and pausing and resuming passes to work around it. I just checked today and found none. i won’t do that in the future and let you know when I find one.

#26

Note: I’m presuming you want to wait for an issue before I install a test build; but would be happy to install it now if you want.

#27

Try this pre-release build. It also includes more verbose logging which should help debug if it happens again.

#28

Thanks. I have installed it.

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#29

Noticed any issues since the update?

#30

I’ve been checking regularly and have had ZERO issues. Thanks for fixing this!

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