Reoccuring recordings warning / season ended indicator?

[martynw]

On the recordings page, would it be possible to highlight or otherwise indicate any reoccuring recordings that don't have any scheduled recordings?

(And if the same could be added to the web admin that would be great too)

The reason I ask is that I've had several instances recently where my reoccuring recordings have failed for one of the following reasons:

1) Guide data programme name change - for example I set a reoccuring recording for "Time Trumpet", the first episode recorded fine, but subsequent episodes didn't. The guide data had changed the name to "Time Trumpet with Iannucci". I've remade the reoccuring recording for that name now, but have missed an episode

2) Programme time change - sometimes the broadcaster changes the time slot for a given programme meaning that the reoccuring recording stops working (I set most of my reoccuring recordings to the exact time of the show as some shows are repeated several times during the day and I don't want multiples of the same episode)

3) Programme skips a week - sometimes a bank holiday in the uk or other special occassion (world cup for example) means that programmes in a series might skip a few weeks.

I've also been bitten by an old reoccuring recording suddenly springing back to life (Alias) one weekend while Bravo had an "Alias Weekend" and subsequently ended up with about 80 gigs worth of unwanted programmes taking up space!

Highlighting reoccuring recordings that don't have any scheduled recordings would mean that in all cases of the above it would be easy to spot and investigate before the "disaster" occurs as opposed to after the wife has given me earache as to why her favourite programme has failed to record again :eek:


Would that something that you could add?

Thanks,

Martyn

[Jim_]

XRecord groups shows & tells how many are scheduled to record.
Any PVR is only as good as the EPG data allows it to be. If someone gives you the wrong address, it’s hard to get to where you're going!

[martynw]

XRecord groups shows & tells how many are scheduled to record.

Thanks, I'll take a look, but I prefer not to run plugins as a rule (more to go wrong!). Also I think that this is something that should be standard to help with reocccuring recording management.

Any PVR is only as good as the EPG data allows it to be. If someone gives you the wrong address, it’s hard to get to where you're going!

Absolutely, but as I don't have any control over the EPG data it's not something that I can do anything about. Just about all EPGs I've used over the years (Tivo, Sky+, MCE, DigiGuide, etc) have had errors in them at one time or another. I'm just looking for a helping hand in identifying where a problem might be before it happens!

Martyn