Recurring recording - specific time slot?

[Stanno]

Hi all,

Here in the UK, some programs transmitted during the night include an overlay of someone signing for the benefit of viewers with hearing impediments.  If I have a recurring recording set and the same program is transmitted at say 3:00am and 7:00pm the same day then NPVR records the 3:00am one which may have the signing overlay.  Is there any way to set NPVR to record the later one?

Thanks,
Stanno

[mvallevand]

Does the daily this time slot type not do that from the web or UI clients including NextPVR.exe? If not what do you have in this config.xml setting?

<TimeSlotMinutes>90</TimeSlotMinutes>

Martin

[Stanno]

Hi Martin, thanks for responding.

I have had this particular recurring recording (set via the Windows client and the schedule) in place since September with the following settings:
<StartTime>2022-09-05T17:40:00.0000000Z</StartTime>
<EndTime>2022-09-05T18:20:00.0000000Z</EndTime>
<PrePadding>4</PrePadding>
<PostPadding>4</PostPadding>

I also have the <TimeSlotMinutes> set to 90.

The actual evening broadcasts have been bewteen 17:15 and 18:00 and on every occasion where there has been a transmission of the same show around 3:00am that day, that is the one that has been scheduled. The upcoming episode where it's recording the early one is scheduled for 3:10am and 17:25 so could the fact that the start time is before the start time in the recurring recording be a factor?

Stanno

[mvallevand]

The logs tell us much more information but if there is not an exact match the logic is different.

Martin

[Stanno]

Oops, my apologies, should have remembered that....

[Stanno]

PS : The series is "As Time Goes By" and the relevant entries in nrecord.log start at 2022-12-20 02:58:34.960

[mvallevand]

That seems to be a guide based recording not a timeslot recording.

Martin

[Stanno]

I switched from WMC to NPVR in 2017 and have never arrowed past the recording option "Record season, all episodes" so I didn't know that there was a separate type of recording for "timeslot".....

That works like a dream, exactly what I want.

Martin, very many thanks for pointing me (once again) in the right direction.

Stanno