Season recording problem

[sub]

do you want me to schedule a recording on the channel that works and the channel that doesnt and post the logs?

Yeah, thats probably worth doing.

[yeled1976]

ok here they are
the first show is called בובות and it is on channel HOT 3.
this one is on a channel that every show is ok

the second one is called חמש בערב עם רפי רשף on a channel called ערוץ 10
this one never records.
i though first that it is because the channel has a hebrew name but there is another channel with a hebrew name and it also records everything. in addition there are channels like national geographic which has a full english name and it still doesnt record

[yeled1976]

ok i reinstalled everything.
used the default skin
made a new epg data file.
scheduled only a few channels with only a day worth of shows.

some channels always schedule shows
some never do
and some do it on and off.
i tried to see if there is any hint to a reason but i cant find any....

i think i am going to give up on this until you can help me.
thanks

[fluffykeith]

Just to add my 2 cents worth - I have seen something similar were I set a recording recurring schedule and it doesn't highlight the recording.

This was on 1.1.5, I don't think I've actually set any recurring on 1.2.9.

At the time I just ignored it however I know that once I gave up setting a recurring and did a quick record on the episodes I wanted (only 3!).

I think at the time I assumed that there was a conflict and so it didn't highlight it. Recurring entries list the conflicts in the conflicts menu but I think (could be wrong but..) that single recordings display a pop up box. So I guess its easier on a recurring to not spot the conflict.

[Questor]

Hi all,

Just from browsing through this thread I suspect it might be the EPG data being provided by whatever EPG service.

There are many fields kept by GBPVR in the database from the data downloaded from the EPG service and these are used to schedule recurring recordings. As yeled says..."some channels always work and others never work" and this is probably due to the accurate information those channels are providing to whatever EPG clearinghouse that the EPG service gets its data from.

It might help if yeled could find (I don't know off the top of my head) the database file (XML I think) that GBPVR uses to store its database, zip and post a copy of that.

Sub might have suspected his string comparison check for "[name of new showing] = [name of season pass]" and whether it worked with the string format of Hebrew...but if that were the case no season pass on any channel would work. (unless there are multiple possible unicode sets for Hebrew, or there is some type of Hebrew 'capitalization' that can't be ignored in string comparisons)

[yeled1976]

good idea
i have zipped the epgdata.xml file into a zip file which i have attached.
i also think it may be a epg problem but i have no idea how to search for it
here it is

PS
i heard 2 more people say they encountered this problem so this may have nothing to do with the epg

[yeled1976]

i guess there is no fix for this...

[Questor]

Sub will eventually look back in...he seems to be a development team of one, so lots of questions to keep up with.

[sub]

Good and bad news. Good that I've been able to reproduce the problem here using your xmltv file. The bad news is that it seems to be some problem with either the SQLite database engine, or the SQLite .net DatabaseProvider, being unable to find any string matches in the database when query contains a hebrew string.

[yeled1976]

hi
thanks for the reply. at least i am not crazy .
i am "glad" that you could reproduce the problem, but if the database is unable to find any string when query contains hebrew strings, its still doesnt explain why some work without a problem and some always have a problem.
the channels that work still query the same file with the same hebrew strings.
is there anything you would like me to do to check it?,
do you want me to maybe arrange a remote desktop machine with gbpvr on it and with the hebrew epg file. then you can play around with it.

i will set it for english language with the hebrew epg
let me know if there is anything i can help...