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Failed Recordings

4ndy

4ndy

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Is anyone able to offer advice on my growing list of failed recordings on my main box?

I have been letting them accumulate in the hope that I can see a pattern. Some of the channels are notoriously bad at series link, but I have cancelled and rescheduled these. I also know that snooker has been on. I have reset the box and run fixdisk.

My other three boxes are not getting failed recordings. This one of my two boxes with RTS and it is the only box I on which I installed the Beta Webif (though it may have auto-updated onto the other boxes by now - not at home to check). This box is left on all the time.

Any advice on what to test next or logs to check would be very much appreciated.upload_2016-12-9_13-36-16.png
 
Is this with AR?

A couple of years ago I was pulling my hair out (what little there is) over one of my machines failing to record, and a spontaneous factory reset occurred after which it was much better. Prior to that I was doubting the effectiveness of AR at all. Just recently, that particular machine has started playing up again...
 
Only ever used AR. Never had a problem with BBC. They, at least are usually reliable.


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prpr said:
Are you absolutely sure you are only tuned to ONE transmitter?
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Yes. Always been an issue in Norfolk, so always manually tune.

As I stated originally, I have left this box on. Up to about 3 weeks ago I used to let it power save.

Now it will not fully shut down. I have just tried factory reset to no avail.



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I had to do a manual retune after the factory reset.

I deleted all the reported failed recordings and it eventually went into proper standby after about 20 minutes. Perhaps it was doing some housekeeping?




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Mine failed to record Strictly again last night, but another HDR (immediately adjacent, further down the aerial daisy-chain) did. The same HDR managed to record Weatherview though.

A significant difference between your situation and mine is that yours are failed recordings, mine don't even start to record.

I've run a factory reset this morning, not having done a retune in ages (maybe not a good idea, now we have tools to patch things up afterwards). Loads of new crap to tell tunefix to kill!
 
After nearly a week of running with no issues, following a factory reset and manual retune, I have now had all these failures over the course of a few days.

Any further suggestions as to how I root the problem out?



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What are you actually getting when you try to play these recordings, or is there nothing to play? I think RS reports a failed recording if it sees an error report in a .htm file, but as you probably know if you go to Media and see the lightning strike thumbnail the recording will often play anyway.

I don't think RS reports a "failed to record" if the recording never started at all (as in my typical cases).
 
They are all unplayable 0min entries in the media list.

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I had two more failed recordings last night, I am starting to pull my hair out!

Since the last time, I had disabled auto-decrypt unless the load caused by that was the problem. I have since been through the data in TVDiary, to check that there were no undetected scheduling clashes.

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Any ideas?
 
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