Did anyone else's machine fail to record homeland last sunday? reply if yours did record

[MymsMan]

aaaggh damn. thank you for your answers. it turns out that i was indeed recording the 4+1 hd same as mymsman but my crid is wrong. damn and blast

mymsman, when did you set your series recording and have you changed anything since?

is this the curse of the rs not updating again?

I have not recorded any version of homeland, i believe it was at @/df who recorded c4+1

None of this has anything to do with rs, rs only gets involved if you, optionally, use it set up the initial series recording but has no involvement whatsoever with the scheduling of subsequent episodes

 

[Black Hole]

no involvement whatsoever with the scheduling of subsequent episodes

If I were worried about individual episodes recording correctly, I would have RS schedule each one individually.

 

[mihaid]

I have not recorded any version of homeland, i believe it was at @/df who recorded c4+1

have corrected now, sorry

 

[mihaid]

If I were worried about individual episodes recording correctly, I would have RS schedule each one individually.

and do away with one of the most important features of t2

 

[Black Hole]

Like what? Only series linking, but the RS text search would achieve the same without relying on the CRIDs being correct.

 

[MymsMan]

and do away with one of the most important features of t2

Some broadcasters (e,g, Pick) are particularly bad at maintaining series crids and you are liable to miss premier episodes when they are shown at 3am without a series link unless you schedule individual episodes as a backup

 

[mihaid]

Like what? Only series linking,

yeah, only that crucial feature from a major uk channel

 

[/df]

... df, when did you set your series recording and have you changed anything since?
...

Set using the on-screen EPG, I think, or possibly WebIf>Schedule>EPG, before the first episode of the series and not changed since.

 

[Black Hole]

yeah, only that crucial feature from a major uk channel

Is that not exactly what you've been complaining didn't work? I've offered a work-around, take it or leave it.

 

[trog]

Is that not exactly what you've been complaining didn't work? I've offered a work-around, take it or leave it.

I think he has LEFT it because he is always so RIGHT.

 

[MikeSh]

it turns out that i was indeed recording the 4+1 hd

Possibly unrelated, but I suffered (indirectly) failed 4+1 HD recordings a few weeks back. I hadn't realised that this channel is on Mux 55 which at the time was marginal and dropping out a lot.

 

[mihaid]

Set using the on-screen EPG, I think, or possibly WebIf>Schedule>EPG, before the first episode of the series and not changed since.

do you happen to have the EXACT time your recording started last sunday?

22:??:??

 

[mihaid]

Is that not exactly what you've been complaining didn't work? I've offered a work-around, take it or leave it.

you know very well that I was commenting on your disparaging "only series linking" as though it was some minor feature.

 

[mihaid]

what i don't understand is this:

how did my machine record the two sundays ago episode with the wrong CRID?

mine C4ED0020021616215774
df's C41F0020021616215774

 

[/df]

do you happen to have the EXACT time your recording started last sunday?

22:??:??

Start: Sun Apr 12 22:00:27 2020 BST (Scheduled: Sun Apr 12 22:00:00 2020 BST)
End: Sun Apr 12 22:58:55 2020 BST (Scheduled: Sun Apr 12 23:00:00 2020 BST)

One apparent difference is that your series recording was booked through RS and mine wasn't.

what i don't understand is this:

how did my machine record the two sundays ago episode with the wrong CRID?
...

mihaid C4ED0020021616215774 <-- C4HD
/df C41F0020021616215774 <-- C4+1HD

That's the other.

 

[mihaid]

mihaid C4ED0020021616215774 <-- C4HD

that's what you'd think but i'm quite sure it was a ch4+1 as this says

 

[/df]

So I would suspect that RS (or some gremlin) created or updated the s-CRID in the reservation incorrectly. I don't have the package in use on my machines so can't easily debug further. The EPG data definitely shows that s-CRID as the C4HD showing. They need different CRIDs because of the channel ident, I guess.

 

[MymsMan]

selfexplanatory

Certainly not since you failed to mention which of the four showings on Sunday you were attempting to record and which transmitter since their can be regional variations

So I would suspect that RS (or some gremlin) created or updated the s-CRID in the reservation incorrectly. I don't have the package in use on my machines so can't easily debug further. The EPG data definitely shows that s-CRID as the C4HD showing. They need different CRIDs because of the channel ident, I guess.

Presumably the recording was first scheduled a couple of months ago when the series first started and has been recording OK until last week end. RS would have not been involved since the original recording was scheduled (unless you set up an Auto scheduling rule)

Broadcasters do sometimes change series crids for no obvious reasons and this can cause existing series recordings to fail,

The current crid for C4+1 HD is https://rs.hpkg.tv/epg_search.html?scrid=/C41F0020021616215774 so possibly originally they were (incorrectly) using the same series crid for C4 HD and C4+1 HD and sometime last week they noticed/were told about the error and change it on C4+1 HD before last Sundays broadcast but causing the failure of @mihaid 's recordings

 

[/df]

Good hypothesis. I'll buy it.

 

[mihaid]

Certainly not since you failed to mention which of the four showings on Sunday you were attempting to record

which part of the "last sunday" in the very title of this thread did i fail to mention?