EPG / Pending Recording Issues

[BTJustice]

OK. My EPG updates. I go through the list of pending recordings and cancel the ones I don't want for the next few days. The next day when the EPG updates, those recordings that I cancelled are right back on the list to be recorded. This is very annoying! How do I keep a recording cancelled for the date/time I cancelled it? Yeah maybe I want to record it at a later date, but when I cancel something set to record at a certain date/time, I expect it to stay cancelled instead of uncancelled.

[BTJustice]

Another thing. It seems like I never have CONFLICTS. I remember with GBPVR if you cancelled a recording and there was a conflict, the conflicting recording would go to the pending list. But the weird thing in NPVR is that recordings for me never conflict when I know there should be some conflicts.

[Reddwarf]

Another thing. It seems like I never have CONFLICTS. I remember with GBPVR if you cancelled a recording and there was a conflict, the conflicting recording would go to the pending list. But the weird thing in NPVR is that recordings for me never conflict when I know there should be some conflicts.

There is no conflict handling built in in npvr at the time, Sub says it will be added later.

[BTJustice]

There is no conflict handling built in in npvr at the time, Sub says it will be added later.

@Reddwarf - OK that explains that, lol. Thank you.

[johnsonx42]

the same applies to your first problem. there's no mechanism yet to cancel a single instance of a recurring recording, and have it stay canceled through an EPG update. it's actually part of Conflict Management in a way, since without being able to cancel a recording you can't resolve conflicts either.

I once considered putting a list of missing features and known bugs in the tech support sticky, so that people would know what's not supposed to work yet. However I decided that would also be a list of things for people to pester sub about, and he doesn't need that.

[bienson]

I decided to search on this topic and agree with BTJustice about cancelled recordings (from recurring) re-appearing right after an EPG update. I really dislike it too and observe the same thing about never seeing conflicts with NPVR. I guess based on follow-up responses, one work around (though I don't completely like) is to scheduled updates less "frequently", so that when I cancel a show (picked up during an EPG), I don't end up updating until after that cancelled show has passed. So perhaps a week between EPG.? I sometimes need to cancel a recurring show, for which I've already recorded or seen.

The possible problem with seeing about doing EPG update less frequently, might be that I might miss updates of some dynamic program changes perhaps. Oh well.

[Reddwarf]

I decided to search on this topic and agree with BTJustice about cancelled recordings (from recurring) re-appearing right after an EPG update.

I think Sub has fixed it for the next release.