DVR Records Movie that [perhaps updated] Guide says Does not Exist

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#1

As you can see from the logs below, the DVR started recording Four Wedding and a Funeral At 8 PM last night. The problem is, the guide correctly showed Great Performances was on channel 9.1 in that time slot. In fact, I started a recording on Great Perfromances also (in-progress)! You’ll see that in the logs too. I don’t know if Four Weddings was once scheduled for this time slot, but, if so, the guide was corrected. Yet, the scheduled recording happened anyway. I think this happened at least once before, but I didn’t notice until much later, so I can’t say for sure if the guide was correct at air time.

@tmm1, would you have a look?

2017/12/23 19:59:30 [TNR] Opened connection to 10710F00 for ch9.1
2017/12/23 19:59:30 [DVR] Recording for job 1514087970-ch9.1 from 10710F00 ch9.1 into “Movies/Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994) 2017-12-23-1959.mpg” for 2h1m29.903144414s
2017/12/23 20:21:50 [DVR] Starting job 1514086170-ch9.1 Great Performances on ch=[9.1]
2017/12/23 20:21:50 [DVR] Waiting 9h37m39.292607315s until next job 1514123970-16 FOX News Sunday With Chris Wallace
2017/12/23 20:21:50 [TNR] Sharing existing connection to 10710F00 for ch9.1 (clients=2, len=0)
2017/12/23 20:21:50 [DVR] Recording for job 1514086170-ch9.1 from 10710F00 ch9.1 into “TV/Great Performances/Great Performances S43E18 2017-11-25 Moody Blues Days of Future Passed Live 2017-12-23-2021.mpg” for 1h9m9.292562015s
2017/12/23 20:25:34 [DVR] Waiting 9h33m55.410415443s until next job 1514123970-16 FOX News Sunday With Chris Wallace
2017/12/23 20:25:34 [TNR] Closed connection to 10710F00 for ch11.1
2017/12/23 20:25:34 [DVR] Job cancelled: 1514078370-ch11.1 NFL Football
2017/12/23 20:25:34 [DVR] Processing file-1820: TV/NFL Football/NFL Football 2017-12-23 Minnesota Vikings at Green Bay Packers 2017-12-23-1719.mpg
2017/12/23 20:25:36 [DVR] Running commercial detection on file 1820 (TV/NFL Football/NFL Football 2017-12-23 Minnesota Vikings at Green Bay Packers 2017-12-23-1719.mpg)
2017/12/23 20:25:56 [TNR] Sharing existing connection to 10710F00 for ch9.1 (clients=3, len=0)
2017/12/23 20:28:20 [DVR] Waiting 9h31m9.76735752s until next job 1514123970-16 FOX News Sunday With Chris Wallace
2017/12/23 20:28:20 [DVR] Job cancelled: 1514086170-ch9.1 Great Performances
2017/12/23 20:49:26 [DVR] Waiting 9h10m3.691038659s until next job 1514123970-16 FOX News Sunday With Chris Wallace
2017/12/23 21:02:36 [DVR] Commercial detection finished with 46 markers.
2017/12/23 21:02:36 [DVR] Deleting /share/CACHEDEV1_DATA/Public/ChannelsDvrRecordings/TV/Great Performances/Great Performances S43E18 2017-11-25 Moody Blues Days of Future Passed Live 2017-12-23-2021.mpg
2017/12/23 21:02:37 [DVR] Deleting /share/CACHEDEV1_DATA/Public/ChannelsDvrRecordings/TV/PBS NewsHour Weekend/PBS NewsHour Weekend S05E51 2017-12-23 2017-12-23-1729.mpg
2017/12/23 21:02:37 [DVR] Deleting /share/CACHEDEV1_DATA/Public/ChannelsDvrRecordings/TV/NFL Football/NFL Football 2017-12-23 Minnesota Vikings at Green Bay Packers 2017-12-23-1719.mpg
2017/12/23 21:32:21 [TNR] Opened connection to 10710F00 for ch2.1
2017/12/23 21:33:41 [TNR] Closed connection to 10710F00 for ch2.1
2017/12/23 21:33:41 [TNR] Opened connection to 10710F00 for ch5.1
2017/12/23 21:37:18 [TNR] Closed connection to 10710F00 for ch5.1
2017/12/23 21:37:18 [TNR] Opened connection to 10710F00 for ch65.1
2017/12/23 21:37:26 [TNR] Closed connection to 10710F00 for ch65.1
2017/12/23 21:37:26 [TNR] Opened connection to 10710F00 for ch44.1
2017/12/23 21:37:53 [TNR] Closed connection to 10710F00 for ch44.1
2017/12/23 21:37:53 [TNR] Sharing existing connection to 10710F00 for ch9.1 (clients=2, len=0)
2017/12/23 21:38:10 [TNR] Opened connection to 10710F00 for ch5.1
2017/12/23 21:41:08 [TNR] Closed connection to 10710F00 for ch5.1
2017/12/23 21:41:11 [TNR] Opened connection to 10710F00 for ch5.1
2017/12/23 21:41:28 [TNR] Closed connection to 10710F00 for ch5.1
2017/12/23 21:43:05 [DVR] Waiting 8h16m24.90125557s until next job 1514123970-16 FOX News Sunday With Chris Wallace
2017/12/23 21:43:05 [TNR] Closed connection to 10710F00 for ch9.1
2017/12/23 21:43:05 [DVR] Job cancelled: 1514087970-ch9.1 Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994)
2017/12/23 21:43:05 [DVR] Processing file-1822: Movies/Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994) 2017-12-23-1959.mpg
2017/12/23 21:43:06 [DVR] Running commercial detection on file 1822 (Movies/Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994) 2017-12-23-1959.mpg)

#2

Passes reschedule their recordings based on the guide data, but movies and episodes scheduled directly do not.

This is a long standing defect that needs to be addressed. I guess the DVR should go through all movies scheduled to be recorded and reschedule any which have moved to a different time slot.

#3

The tricky part is what happens if the movie disappears from the guide completely. Once we delete the scheduled job there’s no way to tell you wanted to record it (so we can’t schedule automatically if it appears again).

The same problem exists for one-off episode recordings.

#4

In this case, the movie disappeared completely. IMHO, the correct behavior is to remove the movie/program completely. Keep it simple.

#5

Okay, I guess as long as it logs when that happens it’s probably fine. I’ll take a stab at it later this week.

@DebbieFL records a lot of movies and has run into this too. I thought we had discussed previously on the forum but I couldn’t find the thread.

#6

I agree: if deleted from guide…delete from schedule. As I think most are just rescheduled by the broadcaster.

IMO, it woulld also be great to have DVR auto re-schedule to correct time/date if guide changes. Only caveat, one needs to check DVR schedule again close to recording date to ensure no conflict was created.

Mostly, this occurs on the oddball channels, like “E” and usually because I schedule movies three weeks out, when they are added to guide. I always have to check those recordings after completion as a few every month or so…are titled with the name of the movie I wanted to record, however the actual recording is not for that movie. And then I have to manually reschedule at a later time, if still available.