TV episode rescheduled; DVR no longer set to record even though it’s in the guide

[stukey]

I have a series pass for “After The Flood” on ITV HD [103] (U.K. Freeview). Series pass details are SeriesID == 26344504 and Tags == New. It should record new episodes every Wednesday at 9pm and has done so until now. Earlier this week I happened to read that next week’s episode (originally scheduled for Wed 7th Feb at 9pm) was moved to Fri 9th Feb at 9pm due Live Football coverage impacting ITV’s schedules. After reading about this change I checked the DVR server logs and saw that Channels cancelled the Wed 7th Feb recording as expected:

2024/02/01 07:42:27.604852 [DVR] Deleting job no longer in the guide: 'After the Flood' EP049656350005 @ Wed Feb 7 8:59:00PM on ch=[103 3] (1707339540-29)

However, it has not scheduled the recording of the rescheduled episode on Fri 9th Feb at 9pm, even though it is listed in the Channels DVR guide. I know I can set a manual recording to workaround this issue but my concern is why hasn’t the DVR automatically scheduled this recording? Is this a bug or guide data issue? If I hadn’t read about this schedule change I would have missed a recording. I assume it’s because the listing in the TV guide for the episode on Fri 9th Feb at 9pm doesn’t show the ‘New’ tag, which isn’t correct because it is new and is the first airing of the new episode.

[mjitkop]

@stukey

I assume it’s because the listing in the TV guide for the episode on Fri 9th Feb at 9pm doesn’t show the ‘New’ tag

Is this actually the case?

If so, Channels DVR can't do anything about it, unfortunately.
Channels DVR is as good as the guide data and can't guess what is new or not.

One possible solution to get around it is to modify your pass this way, assuming that the new season number is 6 for this example:

• remove the check for "New"
• add a rule for season number > 5

Keep in mind that Channels DVR doesn't record duplicate episodes so this should work fine and only record episodes from the new season that have not been recorded yet.

[stukey]

Thanks, good suggestion. I assume it is the guide data that’s the issue, but who knows for sure. Certainly seen quite a few issues with the guide data since I started using Channels DVR back in November 23. But, the issue fixed itself today after the daily guide data update and now the Fri showing is set to record. :

2024/02/03 09:32:54.445584 [DVR] Rule 'After the Flood' (29) found 2 new airings
2024/02/03 09:32:54.456218 [DVR] queued recording job for EP049656350005 @ Fri Feb 9 8:59:00PM on ch=[103 3] (1707512340-29)
2024/02/03 09:32:54.469715 [DVR] queued recording job for EP049656350006 @ Wed Feb 14 8:59:00PM on ch=[103 3] (1707944340-29)