Recording Issues/Questions

[bleck]

First off, fantastic work on v5! 

I know this is still beta, but I've seen a few issues with v5 that I would like to help correct, but not sure if you are needing/asking for help/contributors or not.  (I don't see a link to a GIT repo anywhere...)  If so, I would love to help.  If not, is there anything I can do to make your lives easier?

These are the minor issues that I've seen (I imagine you are aware of them, but here they are anyway):

• Recording on "All Channels" doesn't work.  The recording schedule only shows up for a single channel even if the "All Channels" option is selected.  All the normal symptoms are there to indicate something that is still being worked on (e.g. the "All Channels" value isn't selected when re-opening the schedule, actually pending recordings only are for a single channel, etc.)
  
• In the Schedules screen, when using the "Default" value for the padding values, the drop-downs just show up as blank.
  
• If you accidentally try to create a schedule for a show that already exists, a new schedule is created instead of editing the existing one.  Perhaps this is intended behavior, but it would be nice to recognize an existing schedule for the recording and just change the existing schedule.
  

Anyway, I'd love to help, if you need/want it.  

By the way, I'm on the docker image on v5.0.0.191006 with a HDHomeRun tuner.

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First off, fantastic work on v5! 

Cheers.

It's not open source, but I'm always happy to hear feedback and suggestions.

These are the minor issues that I've seen (I imagine you are aware of them, but here they are anyway):

• Recording on "All Channels" doesn't work.  The recording schedule only shows up for a single channel even if the "All Channels" option is selected.  All the normal symptoms are there to indicate something that is still being worked on (e.g. the "All Channels" value isn't selected when re-opening the schedule, actually pending recordings only are for a single channel, etc.)

Were these possibly the same episode on multiple channels? ie, it has rules that'll stop it re-recording episodes that it either already has recorded, or already scheduled for some other time.

In the Schedules screen, when using the "Default" value for the padding values, the drop-downs just show up as blank.

Was this using the '+' button to add a manual recording?

What platform and browser were you trying this on? I tried this on Chrome/Firefox/Edge here on my Windows machine, and I got 1 thru 60 listed in the drop down. You could try bringing up the browser dev tools window, and see if there is any error message on the 'Console' tab when you try to view this popup.

If you accidentally try to create a schedule for a show that already exists, a new schedule is created instead of editing the existing one.  Perhaps this is intended behavior, but it would be nice to recognize an existing schedule for the recording and just change the existing schedule.

What was the sequence of events, so I can reproduce it here?

[bleck]

Thanks for the quick reply.

It's not open source, but I'm always happy to hear feedback and suggestions.

Okay.  Happy to help in any way I can (even if it is just testing ;-)

Were these possibly the same episode on multiple channels? ie, it has rules that'll stop it re-recording episodes that it either already has recorded, or already scheduled for some other time.

No, different episodes.  All I did was go into the Search page, found my title, clicked on it, then clicked the Advanced button.  I changed the drop-downs to Record Season (All Episodes), All Channels, Default, Default, Default, 5.  After saving, I clicked on the NextPVR on the top left to bring me back to the home page and saw the series on that page.  I clicked on the series image and it went to the page that listed all the upcoming recordings that have been scheduled.  It only included a single channel.  Went back to search to verify that the same series was playing on multiple channels.  It was.  Used the search listed for the second channel and repeated the actions above.  The second channel now starts appearing in the pending recordings lists.

Note that if I click the same listing from the search page, it comes up as if I hadn't scheduled a recording (all default values in drop-downs).  If I repeat my actions, a duplicate recording schedule will show up in the "Scheduler" page.

Was this using the '+' button to add a manual recording?

What platform and browser were you trying this on? I tried this on Chrome/Firefox/Edge here on my Windows machine, and I got 1 thru 60 listed in the drop down. You could try bringing up the browser dev tools window, and see if there is any error message on the 'Console' tab when you try to view this popup.

Not a manual recording... I used the same process described above.  I am using Chrome on Windows.  The dropdown does contain the numbers 1-60, but the "loaded" value (default selected value) of the dropdown is blank.  I have changed the padding values in the Settings to be 0 (I don't want recordings to start early).  I assume this is because there is no "0" in the dropdown...  I guess maybe a check in the settings to ensure the submitted value for the default padding has to be >0 or add 0 to the dropdown... ?  

What was the sequence of events, so I can reproduce it here?

I think that I described it above.  If I schedule a recording and then go back into that same episode, it "acts" like it hasn't been recorded before; that is, all the default values to all the dropdowns are there, none of the values I put when I initially configured the schedule.  If I then click Save, a new schedule is created (and can be viewed in the "Scheduler" page).  It doesn't actually appear that duplicate recordings are scheduled; if I look into the recordings list on the "home" page (when you click NextPVR) or in the Recordings page, there are no duplicates.  But if I look in the schedulers page, there are multiple schedules.  I can configure multiple schedules with different configurations for the same episodes (e.g. one with Only this Channel, one with Only this episode, etc.).  Just gets a little confusing to know what is being recorded exactly.

Another thing to note is that if I go into the Scheduler page and remove one of the duplicate schedules, then all the pending recordings get removed.. even if there is a duplicate schedule that would cover the recording of those same episodes.

I am stumbling over the correct terminology here, so apologies if this is confusing.  By schedules, I generally mean what appears in the Scheduler page, but by scheduled recording, I mean what appears in the Recordings page.

Hope this helps to clarify what I am talking about.  Again, happy to give any additional information if you are interested.

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No, different episodes.  All I did was go into the Search page, found my title, clicked on it, then clicked the Advanced button.  I changed the drop-downs to Record Season (All Episodes), All Channels, Default, Default, Default, 5.  After saving, I clicked on the NextPVR on the top left to bring me back to the home page and saw the series on that page.  I clicked on the series image and it went to the page that listed all the upcoming recordings that have been scheduled.  It only included a single channel.  Went back to search to verify that the same series was playing on multiple channels.  It was.  Used the search listed for the second channel and repeated the actions above.  The second channel now starts appearing in the pending recordings lists.

bleck, are you using the current build? Going by your description, you might be using the previous build, where there was a problem around this.

In the current build the Advanced Recording popup doesn't have a separate setting for channel - instead your channels 'Record Season (All Episodes, All Channels)' from the top dropdown.

(Sorry for the delay getting back to you, it's been a busy last few days for me)

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I'm loading up a US channel lineup now, so I can get the same show on multiple channels, so I can double check though...just in case.

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Yeah, seems to be working ok here. Try again with the last release.

[bleck]

Cool.  I upgraded from 5.0.0.191006 to 5.0.0.191007 this morning and this is what I got:

- Recording for multiple channels is working great now.  This issues has been resolved.
- Deleting a duplicate recording schedule/series does not delete all the pending recordings if there are other schedules that cover it... All fixed and great!
- A "Default" value now exists for the padding drop downs in the schedules page.   Still no 0 (or negative integers), but "default" is good enough for me, so I'll consider this fixed ;-)

Only thing that seems to persist is creating duplicate schedules.  For example, when I search for the same series twice and, each time, use the Advanced button to set up a "All Season, all Channels, All Episodes" schedule, it shows up twice in the schedules page (under the "Recurring" list).  This isn't a big deal, as it doesn't actually schedule multiple recordings of the same episode, same channel, same timeslot.  I can live with it this way and just be aware.  ;-)

Thanks for the quick fixes.  Again, happy to help any way that I can.

Cheers,
Brandon

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- Deleting a duplicate recording schedule/series does not delete all the pending recordings if there are other schedules that cover it... All fixed and great!

In the next release, if you click on a show in the Guide is red, and it's part of a series recording, it'll give you buttons for 'cancel episode' and 'cancel series', to make it clearer what will happen.

- A "Default" value now exists for the padding drop downs in the schedules page.   Still no 0 (or negative integers), but "default" is good enough for me, so I'll consider this fixed ;-)

I'll check this a little later...could have sworn it had 0 as an option.

Only thing that seems to persist is creating duplicate schedules.  For example, when I search for the same series twice and, each time, use the Advanced button to set up a "All Season, all Channels, All Episodes" schedule, it shows up twice in the schedules page (under the "Recurring" list).  This isn't a big deal, as it doesn't actually schedule multiple recordings of the same episode, same channel, same timeslot.  I can live with it this way and just be aware.  ;-)

It does allow you to schedule multiple recordings for shows, because people can have different criteria for each series recording, allowing for a slightly different set of recordings to be captured for each. As mentioned, it won't actually record the same episodes twice though.

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- A "Default" value now exists for the padding drop downs in the schedules page. Still no 0 (or negative integers), but "default" is good enough for me, so I'll consider this fixed ;-)

The next build has 0 as an option in these drop downs.