Weird duplicate recording of same show on ONE tuner?

[jksmurf]

[quote=UncleJohnsBand]I am not sure how you are getting the red lines at the top in NPVR......snip ... is there some config setting you set to get the red bars at the top?]/QUOTE]

Nope, not that I know of? I was hoping sub could say it was normal or not.

k

[mvallevand]

AutoRecord does not modify anything.....it simply submits a found event as a recording to the NPVR API....there is no consideration for it already being scheduled. It uses the same methods that NEWA uses when someone selects an event from the guide to record.

I guess without the web.log from the 6th we won't know what happened with The Pacific, but the second copy was added and not skipped by AutoSearch.exe, of course it could be certainly be the API causing the second record to be added.

Martin

[jksmurf]

Actually, thats not what I said. All I said was I dont know what NEWA saved searches do. ie, if you can reproduce it with recordings scheduled from built in screens, it'd make it a lot simpler for me to look into.

I dont know how these saved searches work, but I guess it could be searching for shows that match some criteria, then scheduling recordings. I dont know how it works in any detail though, so dont know how it'd avoid scheduling duplicate recordings if there is changes to the schedule etc. I could see that it'd be very easy for it to schedule duplicates. The NextPVR API will just be adding the scheduled recordings it's been told to.

Apologies, that is true, I misinterpreted that.

[HTML]if you can reproduce it with recordings scheduled from built in screens, it'd make it a lot simpler for me to look into.[/HTML]

What is it you need, the NEWA screens?

If it it is the PostEPGUpdate causing it, via NEWA_AutoSearch.exe, I could rem it out, but I put it in to make sure I didn't miss it running, otherwise I believe it only runs once a day.

Code:

REM  ====================================================
REM  PostUpdateEPG.bat addition for imageGrabLite
"C:\Program Files\NPVR\imageGrabLite.exe" --updateepg

REM  ====================================================
REM  PostUpdateEPG.bat addition for NEWA_AutoSearch
"C:\Program Files\NPVR\NEWA_AutoSearch.exe"

REM  ====================================================

[UncleJohnsBand]

I am still confused as to what is being interpreted as the issue.....the db that jksmurf provided that has the issue.....the below shows the scheduled recordings in that timeperiod.....and there is only two and the timeframes seem to be correct....

What is the hypothesis that is wrong with how the recordings are being made when the data in the recordings table is correct?

[mvallevand]

There are two problems,

1 The scheduled_recordings table time fields (the thin red coloured bar on top) don't always match the epg_event time fields.
2.On Nov. 6th (I posted some log entries earlier) AutoSearch created a second entry when the end time for The Pacific changed by 5 minutes.

Martin

[UncleJohnsBand]

There are two problems,

1 The scheduled_recordings table time fields (the thin red coloured bar on top) don't always match the epg_event time fields.

I don't have any control over the NPVR display....that would be sub.....and NEWA appears to be showing correctly.

2.On Nov. 6th (I posted some log entries earlier) AutoSearch created a second entry when the end time for The Pacific changed by 5 minutes.

Martin

That would be what I expect to happen.....NEWA does the autosearch for search matches....it weeds out things that are already scheduled to record......but 5 minutes would be outside of the boundaries of the time check (for matching a found event to an already scheduled event) and it would think it should be a new recording and thus would submit.

Edit: Based on the review of the code in the below post you should only have gotten a double recording if the start time was moved more than 10 minutes from the new event and the scheduled one......or if the title or sub title changed....

[UncleJohnsBand]

Here is a patch that will display info if an exception is hit when checking to see if a found event is already scheduled.....the Catch of the Try/Catch forces a schedule to occur for the item being checked......perhaps this is where an issue is occurring....

Below is the code for the check for something already scheduled.....this loop occurs after we have pulled the OID's from the recordings table where the Title and and Channel OID match the event being checked...new logger info is visible in the Catch area.

Code:

//Loop through the results looking for a close match
            while (aReader.Read())
            {
                try
                {
                    int recOID = aReader.GetInt32(0);
                    //Create the scheduled recording from the found OID
                    ScheduledRecording rec = ScheduledRecording.LoadByOID(recOID);
                    //Create the EPGEvent from the cached info on the Sceduled Recording object
                    EPGEvent cached = EPGEvent.Parse(rec.CachedEventDetails);
                    if (cached.Title == eventToCheck.Title && cached.Subtitle == eventToCheck.Subtitle)
                    {
                        //Check to see if the Scheduled Recording is on the same date as the Event being checked
                        if (eventToCheck.StartTime.Date == rec.StartTime.Date)
                            //if (eventToCheck.StartTime.Date == cached.StartTime.Date)
                        {
                            //Check to see if the Scheduled Recording is within 10 minutes of the Event being checked

                            TimeSpan span = eventToCheck.StartTime - rec.StartTime;
                            int minutes = span.Minutes;
                            if (minutes <= 10 && minutes >= -10)
                            {
                                //close the reader
                                aReader.Close();
                                //Return the matched Scheduled Recording as a match
                                return rec;
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
                catch (Exception e)
                {
                    Logger.Info("");
                    Logger.Info("***Exception Found....force schedule of matched recording:");
                    Logger.Info("           " + e);
                    Logger.Info("*** End of Exception Info");
                    Logger.Info("");
                    //close the reader
                    aReader.Close();
                    //Return null since no match was found
                    return null;
                }
            }

            //close the reader
            aReader.Close();
            return null;
        }

[mvallevand]

Does AutoSearch.exe simply cause this to be run? The start time doesn't look like it changed so it might be something else.

Also how does the API handle trying to record a "duplicate"? It might not allow you to schedule it twice.

Martin

[UncleJohnsBand]

Does AutoSearch.exe simply cause this to be run? The start time doesn't look like it changed so it might be something else.

Attached is a patched version of the newa_autosearch.exe with the same debugging in it......code shown above is same code executed in the stand-alone application.

Also how does the API handle trying to record a "duplicate"? It might not allow you to schedule it twice.

Martin

Not sure...that would be for sub.....I would just execute the call to schedule it.....the API would do whatever it does.

[mvallevand]

Attached is a patched version of the newa_autosearch.exe with the same debugging in it......code shown above is same code executed in the stand-alone application.

Unfortunately I can't run the command line or auto search for that matter, I end up with an error, same thing with the Oct 14 update. Log attached.

Not sure...that would be for sub.....I would just execute the call to schedule it.....the API would do whatever it does.

I tested myself with SearchLite (turning off my safeguards) with NEWA and when multi-rec is available, NEWA will allow me to schedule the same show over and over via the API.

Martin