Better History Function

[jcole998]

Many times, I and others have tried to schedule a program for recording expecting the entry in the guide to turn red. But it doesn't and the program is not scheduled. No reason why. After long experience, I learned that one must execute NextPVR.exe with the -removehistory parameter to remove the item from the deleted history. The guide entry will now turn red and the program will be scheduled.

I'd like to suggest that when a user uses the guide to schedule a program, honor the request AFTER automatically deleting it from the delete history. Simply delete the entry whether or not it exists. Is there some other rationale for not doing this?

Thanks.

[mvallevand]

Why are you creating a recurring recording, doesn't a one time recording should record a duplicate? If you want recurring recordings your solution only helps for two weeks of shows, it deletes the shows in the current guide but potentially that night new duplicates could start.

Martin

[jcole998]

Sorry if I wasn't clear. If I delete a recurring recording(series) from the Recurring Recordings screen, then use the guide to record a single episode from the series that was just deleted, the guide entry will not turn red and the episode will not record. Only after launching NextPVR.exe -removehistory can I use the guide to schedule that single episode or, for that matter, re-enter the series as a recurring recording. The main point is that I'm manually using the guide to schedule the recording and not getting any feedback on its success. I'm suggesting that a manual operation using the guide should automatically delete any reference to the programs being scheduled and allow the them to be recorded.

Hope I this clarifies the situation.

JohnC

[mvallevand]

Thanks JohnC I thought one-off recordings ignored history, they certainly should.

Martin

[sub]

If I delete a recurring recording(series) from the Recurring Recordings screen, then use the guide to record a single episode from the series that was just deleted, the guide entry will not turn red and the episode will not record. Only after launching NextPVR.exe -removehistory can I use the guide to schedule that single episode or, for that matter, re-enter the series as a recurring recording. The main point is that I'm manually using the guide to schedule the recording and not getting any feedback on its success. I'm suggesting that a manual operation using the guide should automatically delete any reference to the programs being scheduled and allow the them to be recorded.

one-off recordings don't use the history, so absolutely should turn red.

[jcole998]

I agree that one-offs should ignore history. Maybe it is but the entry does not go red. That's a bug if it doesn't, right?

[sub]

I agree that one-offs should ignore history. Maybe it is but the entry does not go red. That's a bug if it doesn't, right?

I checked here and it seem to work as expected. Can you supply your npvr.db3, and let me know the names/times of a show you should already have in your history?

[jcole998]

Just ran through a test to see if my problem is repeatable. No such luck. These are the steps I took:

-Restarted NRecord service to start new logs. Attached.
-Canceled series recording Elementary. Entries turn black, not in schedule.
-Tried scheduling single Elementary episode: OK, red, in schedule.
-Unscheduled that episode: OK, green, not in schedule.
-Scheduled next week's episode: OK red, in schedule.
-Unscheduled that episode: OK, green, no in schedule.
-Scheduled series: OK, all red, all in schedule. This is where it wasn't turning red. Now it does.

Sorry for the false flag. Maybe because I removed the history? Started a new log? I have no copy of the database before I removed the history. I'll keep tracking this issue and see what I did to create it.

Thanks for your patience.

JohnC

[sub]

Ok cool - let me know the details if you have any recurrence.