Cyber gremlins

[bgowland]

Did you ever have things go missing inexplicably? I'm beginning to think there's something strange going on inside my GB-PVR PC.

For 6 months or so now my wife and I have had a number of occassions where we've discovered that a new series of a programme doesn't get scheduled to record, despite the fact that it should be in the Reoccurring recordings section.

Sometimes there has been a sensible reason - the broadcaster decided to show the new series on a different channel, for instance. In other cases, the entry has simply gone missing. An example is Dr. Who - this has been sitting in my reoccurring recordings list for the past few years and has always picked up on a new series. Until this year - luckily I made sure I checked before the new series started a few weeks ago because it wasn't listed as a Reoccurring recording. Now admittedly we clear things out of the system but Dr. Who is one that neither my wife or I would delete. Weird, and not the only one that has gone missing.

Then I had a very strange discovery the other day. I spotted that a new series of Heroes is starting on Thursday. As a result of what I described above, I thought I'd better check that it was still in the Reoccurring list. All well and good - it was listed. But then I checked Pending recordings and it wasn't scheduled nor were there any pending recordings after the 22nd of this month.

I went to the TV Guide and skipped through to Thursday and found the reason was that there were no show details after the 22nd. So I checked my XMLTV file and it hadn't been updated since the 9th.

I then went to Scheduled Tasks...there should have been two. The first runs at 6:45 each morning to backup my gbpvr database, logs and my xmltv file. The second runs at 6:50 to grab my xmltv listings. Both were missing, gone, vanished. Huh!?!

I can find no sign of my system drive becoming degraded and, besides, if this was caused by disk faults, I'd expect system instability.

Very strange.

Cheers,
Brian

[stustunz]

have you checked in the tardis

i noticed 2 scheduled tasks disappeared on my system aswell i put it down to daylight saving and the computer deciding it was wrong or some Ms update it keeps turning update the clock automatically aswell (i have it 2 minutes behind found the padding didnt give me the desired result)

[bgowland]

have you checked in the tardis

I thought about it but HEY...have you seen the size of the inside of that thing? It'd take weeks to search.

i noticed 2 scheduled tasks disappeared on my system aswell i put it down to daylight saving and the computer deciding it was wrong

I can't see that somehow. If I have a scheduled task set at 6:45am (local time) and on the morning of the daylight savings changeover, my computer decides it's 2am when it's really 1am, it still means that at 6:45am (local time) it's still 6:45am as far as the machine is concerned. At worst, I might expect a scheduled task set for 1:05am (for example) to fail for one day only but not to have all of my tasks removed.

or some Ms update it keeps turning update the clock automatically aswell (i have it 2 minutes behind found the padding didnt give me the desired result)

You could allow your system to sync. the time correctly and just add 2 minutes to your default pre-padding.

Cheers,
Brian

[stustunz]

the padding issue is that i would rather get the end than the beginning so no matter how much pre padding post padding settings i tried i still ended up with undesired results
and the mrs thats just another story

i dont actually know what caused it but it was around daylight savings time that my listings stopped and everything went strange
i have no real idea what went on i was just saying its very strange
plus i didnt even record doctor who so they cant be in the tardis