Having issue with Automatic EPG updates on 3.1.1

[jhr1948]

Hi, first I want to say how great of a program this is. Love it!!!

Here's the issue i have with the new update. Every morning since I updated from 2.6.2 to 3.1.1 I wake up and notice the little "N" in the tray is red, meaning one of my HDHomerun tuners is being used. When I click the N icon, one of the tuners says: Recording c:\devxxxxxx\null.ts When it shows that, only one tuner can be used, so I have to restart the NPVR service to clear it and be able to use both tuners.

I don't have anything recordings scheduled in the morning so i took a look at the NRecord.log and it seemed to be related to my EPG update set for 3am. Unfortunately, I saved the wrong log file so I need to pull one out after tomorrows update. I did save the correct ndigitalhost20.log which shows that null.ts issue also, so i'll post that.

I tried searching for this issue and found a few people with similar issues, but none seemed to be resolved (or from what I read). I'm running windows 8 and my computer is always on (never sleeps).

The one thing I noticed on the NRecord.log (which again, i saved the wrong one so lost it) is that when 2 of my stations which do not pull EPG info from schedules direct (via mc2xml) try to update their epg info through the channel , the (c:\devxxxxxx\null.ts) shows up.

I was running 2.6.2 for months and never experienced this issue. Can anyone chime in?

Thanks

[Lao Pan]

I am also having this problem - both mornings since upgrading, computer has failed to go to back to sleep - one SD tuner and the HD USB stick are occupied with null.ts recordings. There is nothing of note in any of the logs and the indicator on the USB is showing in use. Restarting the recording service seems to clear it.
I have just unticked the update EPG during live TV which I had turned on to test after installing 3.1.1 and will see what happens tonight. If it happens again I'll post logs.

[Reddwarf]

So that's why my dvb-t tuner is stuck recording null.ts every morning, yes I see it here too.

[jhr1948]

@Lao
Please let us know if u see a change.

I also was going to experiment and was going to set to skip the daily epg update for those 2 channels that I have set to scan epg via atsc (once again, my other channels are updated using mc2xml and schedules direct). However, I want to get a NRecord.log first so the issue can be checked out.

[gEd]

yep I have this as well. I think it is a regression introduced in 3.x.
I was going to suggest that it seems to be restricted to DVB-T tuners but the OP is using a HDHomerun . Perhaps that might give Sub a clue?

[Lao Pan]

All OK this morning - looks like unticking Update during Live TV may have fixed it.

[sub]

yep I have this as well. I think it is a regression introduced in 3.x.
I was going to suggest that it seems to be restricted to DVB-T tuners but the OP is using a HDHomerun . Perhaps that might give Sub a clue?

I am intending to take a look when I get a few spare minutes. Unfortunately day job stuff has been getting in the way

[jhr1948]

@sub
no worries man

The problem was there again this morning, so this time I grabbed the correct NRecord log and zipped it.

[liteswap]

Also having this problem...

[jhr1948]

@Lao
Do u have something set to record when your epg updates? My computer is always on and i have epg update set at 3am. Nothing is set to record until the evenings. Just trying to understand how unticking update during live tv would fix it.

My thoughts are that my issue is related to my 2 channels that are so local they don't have epg info via the actual channel (nor schedules direct). I'm going to set those 2 channels to not scan for epg info at all and see if I too get positive results.