Missing “Pending” recordings

[jcjefferies]

I have suspected for a few weeks that some recordings were missing but I delete most recordings without viewing either as duplicates or because I remember watching the episode, so it was difficult to be certain. This morning I had 44 “Pending Recordings” and I remember yesterday that it was well over 60. I did a manual “EPG Update” 6 hours after the overnight update and now have 79 pending recordings. I had earlier checked how many recordings were due on each date and after the manual update the numbers increased by between 50% and 100%. I did have the problem of EPG data completely missing from several channels over a couple of nights several weeks ago which is covered on another thread but have not been aware of any missing EPG data which could cause this problem.

Enclosed are the parts of the logs covering both (DVB-T) EPG updates:-

NRecord.log has the overnight EPG update but nothing for the manual update at 08:10. The “Request Wakeup” list contains 79 items after the 08:10 update but only about 39 after the overnight update, the small discrepancy being because I added a couple of recurring recordings just before the manual update.

NDigitalHost.log has the tuning for the last 3 Overnight EPG updates and the details of 3 of the around 25 recordings made over that time but contains nothing since 02:48.

NPVR.log contains the details of the manual EPG update at 08.10

The most obvious difference between the Manual and Overnight EPG update data is the info in “Saving X listings for channel”. I don’t know if they work differently but in the normal EPG update the number of listings saved in NRecord.log is mostly less than 10 but for the manual update in NRecord.log the number is far higher often being over 100.

An example of a missing recording is a programme called “Click” on BBC News (Channel OID 7180). After the Manual update “Wakeup” is listed at 01:30, 03:30, 11:30 and 20:30 on 11th Feb but does not appear on the list after the normal EPG update.

[sub]

I cant see an obvious cause in your logs, but if you want to zip and attach your npvr.db3, I can take a close look.

[jcjefferies]

Thanks Sub. However is giving you a copy of my current "Good" database of much use? I now make a backup copy of the database just after the standard EPG update. So if it happens again I can compare the backup version of the database missing some Pending Recordings with the later updated version hopefully containing a full set of Pending Recordings. I can then send you a copy of either or both versions of the database.

[sub]

Post the database next time you have a bad database.

I'm ideally after a copy of the database that failed to find some shows that you think should have been scheduled. I have some extra functions that allow me to rerun the scheduling without updating the EPG etc., so that I can look at it in the debugger.

[mvallevand]

Isn't this the same problem as Chris and others are having here http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php...etup-works

Martin

[sub]

Possibly, but I'm assuming not because he did say:

I did have the problem of EPG data completely missing from several channels over a couple of nights several weeks ago which is covered on another thread but have not been aware of any missing EPG data which could cause this problem

[jcjefferies]

When I had the missing EPG data problem several weeks ago all the data from some channels was missing so it was immediatly obvious when you open the EPG. If random entries were missing it is possible I may not notice if I didnt navigate much around the EPG. As I said I now have backup of database after EPG update as well as logs if it happens again.