RS failed recording email

[socrates]

This morning I received the following email:

At least one failed recording has been detected in your
media library. The following recording(s) failed:

/Sliver_20121218_2342

Bit baffled - it's not something I recognise or have booked. Also if the first numeric string is a date, why now? I can't see anything on the HDR media list.

 

[Ezra Pound]

There is an option in the RS settings screen to enable/disable Emails for failed recordings, see HERE

 

[socrates]

Yes - I have enabled email notification so it's the content of the email that's puzzling me rather than the fact of getting mail from RS. I haven't recently scheduled anything via RS. There are 2 outstanding autos but neither match the message.

 

[Ezra Pound]

O.K. I though you was saying you didn't recognise the E-Mail feature. the numeric sting is a date (18DEC2012), It would be worth you running Web-If >> Diagnostics >> epgrange to see what the Humax is looking at e.g.:-

>>> Beginning diagnostic epgrange
Running: epgrange
Wed Feb  6 00:00:00 GMT 2013
Wed Mar  6 23:58:00 GMT 2013
 
>>> Ending diagnostic epgrange

 

[Black Hole]

I haven't recently scheduled anything via RS.

The failed recording doesn't have to have been scheduled by RS, any orphaned .hmt file (typically the result of a failed AR) will trigger the email report.

 

[socrates]

Thanks BH - found the file and deleted it. If it was from mid December my son was staying so perhaps he tried to record it. I updated to RS 0.7.1 yesterday so presumably this check is a new feature, can't see why else it would pop up now.
All helps to understand the mysteries of Hummyland a bit better.

 

[Black Hole]

Yes, it is a recent addition.