What Time Does the "Delete Missing Recording" Maintenance Run?

[pkscout]

On my Docker setup at some point the maintenance to clear recordings that don't have a file associated with them stopped running (or at least it stopped cleaning up recordings).  If I reboot the Docker container, the maintenance works at startup, but apparently never again after that. I want to take a look at the logs, but it would help narrow things down if I knew when it was suppose to run.

Thanks.

[sub]

It generally happens when the recording list is loaded, but from memory it doesn't happen when the web api is used to load the recording list...so you may not see it happening depending on the client you're using.

[pkscout]

Ah. I pretty much use Kodi almost exclusively and the NextPVR web client built into KNEWC almost all the rest. I almost never check the actual web page.

[mvallevand]

Logically the web page uses the web API too. Does it happen during an EPG update?

Martin

[BrettB]

Ah. I pretty much use Kodi almost exclusively and the NextPVR web client built into KNEWC almost all the rest. I almost never check the actual web page.

By "web client built into KNEWC", do you mean the web UI (i.e. where the screens are generate by NextPVR on the server)? If so, I believe that runs it every time it loads the recording list. As Martin suggested, I don't think that simply viewing recordings from the new v5 web interface will trigger it.

[pkscout]

Logically the web page uses the web API too.  Does it happen during an EPG update?

Martin

It doesn't appear to. I just checked this morning, and I definitely have stuff in my recent recordings list that got watched and deleted yesterday. Here's a zip of logs that should contain the time early this morning when the EPG update would have run.

[mvallevand]

What about if you delete from knewc UI Client does the refresh happen?

Martin

[pkscout]

What about if you delete from knewc UI Client does the refresh happen?

Martin

Doesn't look like it.  Here's another set of logs. At about 9:35am local time (maybe just before) I used the KNEWC client on my Matrix test setup to delete a single recording. Then I logged into the web UI, and the other recordings with missing files didn't delete. I even manually ran EPG update. I'm going to do some investigating, as I'm wondering if somehow Docker is telling the app that the files still exist even though they don't.

[mvallevand]

It is definitely reloading recordings after the delete with the normal API so we need sub on this.

Code:

2020-09-18 09:34:29.619    [DEBUG][55]    Recordings.RELOAD_RECORDINGS
2020-09-18 09:34:29.619    [DEBUG][55]    Recordings.RELOAD_RECORDINGS@1
2020-09-18 09:34:29.619    [DEBUG][55]    LoadList@0
2020-09-18 09:34:29.624    [DEBUG][55]    LoadList@1
2020-09-18 09:34:29.646    [DEBUG][55]    LoadList@2
2020-09-18 09:34:29.646    [DEBUG][55]    LoadList@3
2020-09-18 09:34:29.650    [DEBUG][55]    LoadList@setobjects
2020-09-18 09:34:29.654    [DEBUG][55]    LoadList@exit
2020-09-18 09:34:29.654    [DEBUG][55]    Recordings.RELOAD_RECORDINGS@2
2020-09-18 09:34:29.659    [DEBUG][55]    Recordings.RELOAD_RECORDINGS@exit
2020-09-18 09:34:29.674    [DEBUG][55]    DoCompositeRendering() took 14.3382ms
2020-09-18 09:34:29.740    [DEBUG][9]    Reloading recording schedule

Martin

[sub]

Sorry for the delay getting back to you - I was out of town for a couple of days.

Unfortunately there isn't a log message in the specific branch of code that checks for missing recordings, so it's not visible in the logs.

The KNEWC showing NextPVR UI screens will trigger it. It'll only run this logic if either <AutoRemoveMissingRecordings> or <CheckForRenamedRecordings> are set to 'true' in config.xml.