2013-05-11, 06:10 PM
Earlier this week my cable company moved around some of the clear QAM channels. I discovered it in the evening during a set of several scheduled recordings. So, for a quick, work-around, I tried simply un-checking the Enabled box for each of my clear QAM tuners and restarting the recording service. I thought that would cause NPVR to use the other available tuners for the already scheduled recordings. However, what seemed to happen was that recordings which had been assigned to a tuner during the EPG update still used that assigned tuner (which was still physically available on the system) even though it was now not Enabled in NPVR (thus resulting in the wrong channel being recorded). In an instance where the tuner assigned at EPG update time was already in use (i.e. for post-padding), NPVR did seem to adjust and move the recording to a new tuner and only used the tuners that were Enabled at recording time rather than those Enables at scheduling time.
Presuming that I am understanding what happened correctly, I'd like to have NPVR do a check when it begins a recording to make sure that the assigned channel is still Enabled. If not, then it should try to move it to a tuner that is Enabled at recording time.
Presuming that I am understanding what happened correctly, I'd like to have NPVR do a check when it begins a recording to make sure that the assigned channel is still Enabled. If not, then it should try to move it to a tuner that is Enabled at recording time.
