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Webif's AR/Padding option doing strange things.

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David_Brown_UK

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I'm having a problem with the AR/Padding option.
Basically no matter which programme I select to have its AR changed to padding I always get the same programme in the pending queue to be changed. So I select Chuck and I get Holby City. I select The Gadget Show and I get Holby City etc.

Holby City is entry zero in the left hand column.

I've wiped and reloaded all the packages including the webif and it still does it.

Has anyone else seen this problem. I can't see any logging option to try to track the problem.
 
Now you're venturing into hot water with a long history...

I have padding set by default, and the occasions when I have tried AR I have been sorely let down for reasons not entirely clear. I have a single AR probe recording on a daily basis (Weatherview), and every now and again it fails to record (although I note it has not failed since 25 March - failures 25/12, 26/12, 20/01, 23/01, 06/02, 09/02/, 18/02, 16/03, 21/03, 23/03, 25/03).

I do not therefore toy with AR, preferring the certainty of padding. It is much easier to explain that a recording has been missed because the intended programme was broadcast at the wrong time than to explain that the "must have" episode of Crossenders Corridale didn't record because of an AR glitch (not that I actually have that problem). I also prefer to have padding as the default than remember to switch a recording to padding when its on a second-rate channel (eg Gadget Show on C5).
 
I'll find time to look at this in the next day or two, but is it working for everyone else?
 
I tried to set something in the Web-If schedule to padding Today (The Gadget Show World Tour on Ch5) and the 'Pending Scheduled Events' bar displayed it as the 4:30 auto update on channel 0. I'm not sure if it has any relavance but I have got large amount of schedule entries that are no longer active e.g. start time and duration full of dashes, I have 22 active entries and 49 non active, plus one auto-update

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I have just tried to set padding on a scheduled programme and get the same result as Ezra (0).
 
I'm glad it's not just me. I wonder why af123 doesn't have a problem?
I've been through DSO with Crystal Palace and restored my schedule. I was wondering if that had any baring on it. I don't think af123 has been through DSO yet.

Ezra and 4291 do you both have a zero in the lefthand column of the main schedule list next to the Auto Update entry?
 
Not against the entry for Auto Update because I have that disabled, but definitely the line with the zero, which happened to be Benidorm at the time.
 
David_Brown_UK said:
I don't think af123 has been through DSO yet.
Ezra and 4291 do you both have a zero in the lefthand column of the main schedule list next to the Auto Update entry?
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Af123 is on Emley Moore, they had DSO in September 2011 so it's long gone.
Yes I have zero in the far left column I don't think that in itself is a problem, It's not a normal recording process like the others
 
When it goes wrong no matter which programme you select, the one it actually picks always has a zero in the left column, so it isn't scanning the list for the programme you select but uses the first one it finds. In my case it's Holby City, in yours it's the Auto Update in 4291's case it's Benidorm.
 
Yes I see what you're saying now, the far left column is called the ULSLOT, in my schedule the only item with a ULSLOT of zero is the auto-update entry, no other item in my schedule ever gets a ULSLOT of zero
 
When I tried it the other day I backed out when I saw it was going to act upon Benidorm. Today I have scheduled another programme via the remote. I then attempted to disable AR and it again referred to Benidorm in pending. I rebooted and it has changed Benidorm to padding.
 
So yours is doing the same as mine. Can anyone else see if they are getting the same result as us please. If not we need to see what the difference is.
 
Just out of interest I thought I would see what would happen if I went the other way. I had a scheduled event that I had previously changed to padding; I don't know why it worked that time. The correct event was chosen in pending, but it was showing a zero in the left hand column, when the event in the schedule has a 2 against it. Rebooted and the flag was changed to AR.
 
4291 said:
Just out of interest I thought I would see what would happen if I went the other way. I had a scheduled event that I had previously changed to padding; I don't know why it worked that time. The correct event was chosen in pending, but it was showing a zero in the left hand column, when the event in the schedule has a 2 against it. Rebooted and the flag was changed to AR.
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I think the left hand number is the entry number in the database. Zero is the first one. If you do the change again you will find the next entry in pending will be one.
I've tried it the other way around, padding to AR and it works correctly. It's AR to padding that is wrong.
 
Upgraded and it's fixed. :)

I have just changed two events at the same time. One from AR to padding and one from padding to AR and it worked perfectly.
 
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