Problem with 2017.02.03.0335 Update

Beta Community DVR Beta
#1

My DVR updated last night and now there is only 1 show listed under DVR; it is the only one that is a single entry and not a pass.

Log shows this a number of times:

“Error during search: cannot perform operation on empty alias”

Along with:

2017/02/02 23:15:40 [DVR] Deleting job with expired serial 1.486096531e+09: 1486179000-30: Jeopardy!

For each pass.

I see guide data, but it looks like something got messed up.

However do I recover from this? Also, can auto updates be disabled? I feel like I have to babysit the DVR to see if an update messed something up.

Thanks.

UPDATE: Restarting it got my shows queued again.

#2

Please email your log to [email protected]

#3

that would defeat the purpose of the beta. i’m sure that they will have a track for people like my mom that just expect things to work and don’t enjoy the problems of development of new features, so that she only gets stable releases, and i could still take the uncertainty of the betas

#4

Done, thanks!

#5

Looks like the DVR didn’t find any HDHRs after upgrade, which caused it to get confused and delete all scheduled jobs.

2017/02/02 23:15:37 [SYS] Shutting down for upgrade from v2017.02.02.2018 to v2017.02.03.0335
2017/02/02 23:15:37 [DVR] Recording engine stopped.
2017/02/02 23:15:38 [SYS] Starting Channels DVR v2017.02.03.0335 (darwin-x86_64) in /Users/mediacenter/channels-dvr/data
2017/02/02 23:15:39 [HDR] Found 0 devices

The point of the beta program is to find bugs like these so they can be fixed. Thank you for reporting it.

#6

Ah, that makes sense. My tuners shut off at 11:15 pm to save a little energy (along with a bunch of other equipment). Is this going to cause a problem in the future if the tuner comes and goes?

#7

The DVR software assumes the tuners are always online, so you may hit more unexpected behavior.

Technically what happened here is a bug- the DVR should be deleting upcoming jobs just because the tuner became unavailable.

#8

OK, thanks. I haven’t seen any other problems with the tuners going offline at night.