2014-05-31, 05:54 AM
Hello everyone,
I have Version 3.2.9
I am in Australia
EPG update hour is 6:45pm.
I think this issue occurs after the NPVR EPG does an update. I find that a programme will appear 2 or more times in the same time slot BUT the start and end times of the duplicate will be slightly different to the first instance of the programme.
As an example MASH starts at 6:00 PM and finishes at 6:30PM. After an EPG update I can see that programme but there is also a second entry for MASH showing as starting at say 6:02PM and finishing at 6:33PM.
On the TV Guide what you get is a very small box for the 1st instance then the 2n instance seems to over lay most of where the first instance would normally be located if there was not a 2nd instance over laying it. I hope that makes sense.
Some channels seem to be worse than others. The TEN network is the worst one. Sometimes 7Mate has the same issue but not often. Other channels don't do this at all.
To me this could be either:
The EPG is not clearing out the channels programme list before storing the EPG from the latest download
or
The networks are constantly changing their programme start and end information by a couple of minutes in the EPG and this confuses NPVR into thinking this is a completely new TV show.
The issue with this is that I get the same programme being recorded by multiple tuners and missing out on other programmes.
If I manually dump the EPG and then Update it manually I get a clean EPG but the next time it auto updates I start getting the duplicates again.
I'm hoping someone has a suggestion of the cause and a solution.
Thank you
I have Version 3.2.9
I am in Australia
EPG update hour is 6:45pm.
I think this issue occurs after the NPVR EPG does an update. I find that a programme will appear 2 or more times in the same time slot BUT the start and end times of the duplicate will be slightly different to the first instance of the programme.
As an example MASH starts at 6:00 PM and finishes at 6:30PM. After an EPG update I can see that programme but there is also a second entry for MASH showing as starting at say 6:02PM and finishing at 6:33PM.
On the TV Guide what you get is a very small box for the 1st instance then the 2n instance seems to over lay most of where the first instance would normally be located if there was not a 2nd instance over laying it. I hope that makes sense.
Some channels seem to be worse than others. The TEN network is the worst one. Sometimes 7Mate has the same issue but not often. Other channels don't do this at all.
To me this could be either:
The EPG is not clearing out the channels programme list before storing the EPG from the latest download
or
The networks are constantly changing their programme start and end information by a couple of minutes in the EPG and this confuses NPVR into thinking this is a completely new TV show.
The issue with this is that I get the same programme being recorded by multiple tuners and missing out on other programmes.
If I manually dump the EPG and then Update it manually I get a clean EPG but the next time it auto updates I start getting the duplicates again.
I'm hoping someone has a suggestion of the cause and a solution.
Thank you
