How does everyone deal with incorrect Guide data? I've just experienced back to back recordings where the recorded content wasn't actually the show I wanted to record. This seems to be isolated to a specific channel at the moment. Maybe I need to refresh the guide data? Is it even possible to do so for a specific channel?
OTA or TVE?
Could be a guide error, or could be the wrong station data is assigned to that channel. Can't say without more details about which channel it was.
You can refresh the guide database and see if the latest data matches what is showing now.
Sorry, I should have specified in my original post that this occurred during the recording of an OTA channel (31.1 KMAX-DT). Coincidentally, the problematic recordings (Family Guy) were actually the first in a series of back to back recordings from the same channel. The second recording (Bob's Burgers) contains the proper show.
I've compared the Channels Guide data with the Guide data within the HDHomeRun software and everything seems to match just fine. Not sure whether OTA sources update their guide data frequently enough to account for programming changes which this seems to have been.
2020/09/08 02:30:00.528090 [DVR] Starting job 1599557400-5 Family Guy on ch=[31.1]
2020/09/08 02:30:00.528161 [DVR] Waiting 28m59.471846749s until next job 1599559140-ch31.1 Bob's Burgers
2020/09/08 02:30:00.940804 [TNR] Opened connection to 1078D884/0 for ch31.1 KMAX-DT
2020/09/08 02:30:00.941152 [DVR] Recording for job 1599557400-5 from 1078D884 ch31.1 into "TV/Family Guy/Family Guy S08E10 2010-01-03 Big Man on Hippocampus 2020-09-08-0230.mpg" for 34m59.471796379s
2020/09/08 02:30:01.652308 [IDX] Generating video index for job 1599557400-5
2020/09/08 02:59:00.008934 [DVR] Starting job 1599559140-ch31.1 Bob's Burgers on ch=[31.1]
2020/09/08 02:59:00.009013 [DVR] Waiting 7h0m59.990995746s until next job 1599584400-3 The View
2020/09/08 02:59:00.009146 [TNR] Sharing existing connection to 1078D884/0 for ch31.1 KMAX-DT (clients=2, len=0)
2020/09/08 02:59:00.009465 [DVR] Recording for job 1599559140-ch31.1 from 1078D884 ch31.1 into "TV/Bob's Burgers/Bob's Burgers S01E02 2011-01-16 Crawl Space 2020-09-08-0259.mpg" for 31m59.990938152s
2020/09/08 02:59:00.847137 [IDX] Generating video index for job 1599559140-ch31.1
2020/09/08 03:05:00.739384 [SNR] Statistics for "TV/Family Guy/Family Guy S08E10 2010-01-03 Big Man on Hippocampus 2020-09-08-0230.mpg": ss=77%,76%-79% snq=100% seq=100% bps=11439673,1910080-15634080 pps=1086,181-1485
2020/09/08 03:05:00.859962 [DVR] Finished job 1599557400-5 Family Guy
2020/09/08 03:05:01.846494 [DVR] Waiting 6h54m58.153534825s until next job 1599584400-3 The View
2020/09/08 03:05:01.906644 [DVR] Processing file-335: TV/Family Guy/Family Guy S08E10 2010-01-03 Big Man on Hippocampus 2020-09-08-0230.mpg
2020/09/08 03:05:02.199411 [DVR] Running commercial detection on file 335 (TV/Family Guy/Family Guy S08E10 2010-01-03 Big Man on Hippocampus 2020-09-08-0230.mpg)
2020/09/08 03:10:48.140964 [DVR] Commercial detection for Family Guy S08E10 2010-01-03 Big Man on Hippocampus 2020-09-08-0230.mpg finished with 8 markers.
2020/09/08 03:31:00.000303 [TNR] Closed connection to 1078D884/0 for ch31.1 KMAX-DT
2020/09/08 03:31:00.203414 [SNR] Statistics for "TV/Bob's Burgers/Bob's Burgers S01E02 2011-01-16 Crawl Space 2020-09-08-0259.mpg": ss=77%,76%-80% snq=100% seq=100% bps=11140672,1910080-15634080 pps=1058,181-1485
2020/09/08 03:31:00.207678 [DVR] Finished job 1599559140-ch31.1 Bob's Burgers
2020/09/08 03:31:00.680599 [DVR] Waiting 6h28m59.319412074s until next job 1599584400-3 The View
2020/09/08 03:31:00.735626 [DVR] Processing file-336: TV/Bob's Burgers/Bob's Burgers S01E02 2011-01-16 Crawl Space 2020-09-08-0259.mpg
2020/09/08 03:31:00.970396 [DVR] Running commercial detection on file 336 (TV/Bob's Burgers/Bob's Burgers S01E02 2011-01-16 Crawl Space 2020-09-08-0259.mpg)
2020/09/08 03:35:29.701617 [DVR] Commercial detection for Bob's Burgers S01E02 2011-01-16 Crawl Space 2020-09-08-0259.mpg finished with 10 markers.Yep, zap2it looks the same all the way out until the end of the listings. Weird.
I have seen this same problem and am looking for a solution.
95 % of the shows I record are the correct movies/shows. Every week or so a show that I have set to record, records a different show than I expected. I've seen it on several different channels. The most recent example was:
TVE channel 6046 lifetime. The guide says pretty woman starting at 11:00pm Mountain on 10/14.
Lifetime's own web site says that is the show "castle" and that's what it recorded.
Seems like the guide was off.
Any ideas if there is something I should change?
Noting you can do besides finding a better guide provider than what Channels DVR uses (Gracenote).
Channels DVR downloads guide data every morning between 9-11 AM.
If the guide provider updates an airing for the day after it's downloaded you miss it.
I wish Channels could do incremental guide updates during the day.
Perhaps every 2-3 hrs query for any changed guide info for the next 24 hours.
I know TiVo did/does this.
I've also noticed a lag between when zap2it gets an updated listing and when Channels can download and see it.