Recording priority didn't work

Had my first instance today of having 3 programs scheduled to record at the same time, and I have two tuners. My series priority order for these three passes is shown as:

The Bachelor
24: Legacy
The Voice

All started at 19:00. I expected the Bachelor and 24 to begin recording, but that wasn’t the case:

2017/02/27 19:00:00 [DVR] Starting job 1488247200-5 The Bachelor on ch=[7.1]
2017/02/27 19:00:00 [DVR] Starting job 1488247200-17 24: Legacy on ch=[31.1]
2017/02/27 19:00:00 [DVR] Starting job 1488247200-21 The Voice on ch=[9.4 9.1]
2017/02/27 19:00:00 [DVR] Waiting 1h0m59.993602311s until next job 1488250860-18
2017/02/27 19:00:00 [ERR] Failed to start stream on channel 31.1 via 10484E44: got http response code 503
2017/02/27 19:00:00 [DVR] Error running job 1488247200-17: could not start stream on channels=[31.1]: got http response code 503
2017/02/27 19:00:00 [DVR] Recording for job 1488247200-21 from 10484E44 ch9.1 into "TV/The Voice/2017-02-27-1900 The Voice 2017-02-27 S12E01 Blind Auditions Premiere Night 1.mpg" for 1h59m59.992527834s
2017/02/27 19:00:00 [DVR] Recording for job 1488247200-5 from 10484E44 ch7.1 into "TV/The Bachelor/2017-02-27-1900 The Bachelor 2017-02-27 S21E10.mpg" for 59m59.993019053s
2017/02/27 19:00:30 [DVR] Starting job 1488247200-17 24: Legacy on ch=[31.1]
2017/02/27 19:00:30 [DVR] Waiting 1h0m29.778865041s until next job 1488250860-18
2017/02/27 19:00:30 [ERR] Failed to start stream on channel 31.1 via 10484E44: got http response code 503
2017/02/27 19:00:30 [DVR] Error running job 1488247200-17: could not start stream on channels=[31.1]: got http response code 503
2017/02/27 19:01:00 [DVR] Starting job 1488247200-17 24: Legacy on ch=[31.1]
2017/02/27 19:01:00 [DVR] Waiting 59m59.768913359s until next job 1488250860-18
2017/02/27 19:01:00 [ERR] Failed to start stream on channel 31.1 via 10484E44: got http response code 503
2017/02/27 19:01:00 [DVR] Error running job 1488247200-17: could not start stream on channels=[31.1]: got http response code 503
2017/02/27 19:01:30 [DVR] Starting job 1488247200-17 24: Legacy on ch=[31.1]
2017/02/27 19:01:30 [DVR] Waiting 59m29.741682365s until next job 1488250860-18
2017/02/27 19:01:30 [ERR] Failed to start stream on channel 31.1 via 10484E44: got http response code 503
2017/02/27 19:01:30 [DVR] Error running job 1488247200-17: could not start stream on channels=[31.1]: got http response code 503
2017/02/27 19:02:00 [DVR] Starting job 1488247200-17 24: Legacy on ch=[31.1]
2017/02/27 19:02:00 [DVR] Waiting 58m59.732253057s until next job 1488250860-18
2017/02/27 19:02:00 [ERR] Failed to start stream on channel 31.1 via 10484E44: got http response code 503
2017/02/27 19:02:00 [DVR] Error running job 1488247200-17: could not start stream on channels=[31.1]: got http response code 503
2017/02/27 19:02:30 [DVR] Starting job 1488247200-17 24: Legacy on ch=[31.1]
2017/02/27 19:02:30 [DVR] Waiting 58m29.722922747s until next job 1488250860-18
2017/02/27 19:02:30 [ERR] Failed to start stream on channel 31.1 via 10484E44: got http response code 503
2017/02/27 19:02:30 [DVR] Error running job 1488247200-17: could not start stream on channels=[31.1]: got http response code 503
2017/02/27 19:03:00 [DVR] Skipping job because program already started 1488247200-17 24: Legacy

Thanks for the log. Looks like a race condition… The jobs are started in order of priority, but since they all run concurrently it’s possible for any one of them to grab the tuner first.

Tricky one… will have to think about how to fix it.

I had a similar situation last night. Scheduled Bachelor and 24 to record and only 24 recorded. Channels app was running the the background on a different channel. I thought recordings were supposed to take priority but Bachelor failed to record with a 503 error

503 error means tuner in use. If you’re watching TV then the DVR is not able to record.

Ran into this last night myself… thought maybe recent changes for tuner sharing might have fixed it, but the bug is still there I guess.

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This should be fixed in v2017.05.11.0158

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