Still having recurring recording issues

[Jesse]

Sub, awhile ago I requested having a window of variance for timeslot recordings, as I thought midnight was causing me grief. Thanks for implementing that.

I've been running into intermittent problems with my recurring recordings, always.  I've been trying for a long time to find a pattern to the problem, but I haven't seen one.  Here's the scenerio:

Wife wants "The Young and the Restless" recorded..  
Only time it's ever on is 11:00am - 12:00am M-F

I want "The Daily Show" recorded..
Its on at 6pm, 10pm, and 1am (all repeats), 30 min.

At various times, either of the shows' season recordings works.  Other times it won't.  For example, right now I have the Daily Show set to Timeslot Season Record at 10pm, with a 90 minute variance in the XML file.  Its working, all 10pm showings are red into the future.

The Young and the Restless was working for the past few weeks.  Then my wife noticed it hadn't gotten recorded one day.  In the TV Guide, none of the showings were red, but the entry still showed up in the Recurring recordings menu.  I've tried deleting the scheduled recording, going to the TV Guide and choosing "Record Season, all showings".  The computer thinks for a second, goes back to TV Guide but the showing hasn't turned red.

I've had the same symptoms at times trying to get the Daily Show to work.  Usually I can just do a one-time recording, and that will work.

I just wanted you to be aware of an issue I've been having since I've been using your program (3 versions now, I think).  I've been getting by, and if there are nobody else experiencing these issues, then maybe I'll wait until my next OS reinstall, but there really shouldn't be anything unordinary about my setup.

If there are any logs I can send you let me know.

Jesse

[sub]

Can you keep trying to find a reliable set of steps for me to reproduce the problem?

Is it possible they've slightly changed the name of the show? extra space, fullstop on the end of the name, different capitalisation? GB-PVR matches by name, and if the name isn't exactly exactly the same then GB-PVR thinks its a different show.

Going red in the TV Guide isn't a good test. Many of these scheduling activities occur asynchronously, so the screen is often drawn before the actual scheduling has a occurred. You're better off checking in the recording screen (pending).

[mikelu]

Something similar here. I can't get Tough Crowd to highlight in the TV Guide using Record Season. Looking under Recurring and all the Record Season's show up there, but not under Pending. Record Once or Quick Record does work.

I deleted all my Recurring entries so I could start from scratch, but this didn't clear the Pending list. I think it should if the Pending entry was generated from a Recurring one.