Scheduling New Program

[jcole998]

When I ask NPVR to schedule a new program, one of two things usually happens: 1) NPVR responds almost immediately and marks the guide title block in red or, 2) NPVR takes nearly 2-1/2 minutes to do the same thing. I inserted a small portion of the npvr.log with relevant lines in boldface:

2016-04-26 15:54:41.227 [INFO][1] UpdateRecurringRecording(136, 'Person of Interest'):
<Rules>
<EPGTitle>Person of Interest</EPGTitle>
<ChannelOID>7410</ChannelOID>
<ChannelName>WCBS-DT</ChannelName>
<StartTime>2016-05-04T02:00:00.0000000Z</StartTime>
<EndTime>2016-05-04T03:00:00.0000000Z</EndTime>
<PrePadding>1</PrePadding>
<PostPadding>2</PostPadding>
<Quality>0</Quality>
<Keep>0</Keep>
</Rules>

2016-04-26 15:54:41.231 [DEBUG][1] ScheduledRecordings.Load()
2016-04-26 15:54:41.231 [DEBUG][1] - removeMissingRecordings
2016-04-26 15:54:41.231 [DEBUG][1] - checkForRenamedRecordings
2016-04-26 15:54:41.234 [DEBUG][1] ScheduledRecordings.Load()@exit
2016-04-26 15:54:41.240 [DEBUG][1] ScheduledRecordings.Load()
2016-04-26 15:54:41.240 [DEBUG][1] - removeMissingRecordings
2016-04-26 15:54:41.240 [DEBUG][1] - checkForRenamedRecordings
2016-04-26 15:54:41.243 [DEBUG][1] ScheduledRecordings.Load()@exit
2016-04-26 15:57:13.936 [DEBUG][1] LoadListingsMatchingTitle(channel=7410,title=Person of Interest)
2016-04-26 15:57:13.946 [DEBUG][1] - Potential episode at: 5/3/2016 10:00:00 PM
2016-04-26 15:57:13.948 [DEBUG][1] ...check IsValid()
2016-04-26 15:57:13.949 [DEBUG][1] ...scheduling episode

Can you help me understand why? I've run SQLite using a search query with the channel and title specified and get results almost immediately. Am I missing some operation that consumes so much time?

Thanks.

[sub]

I'm not really sure why there would be a delay there. I'm not getting anything like that. Is on a single machine NextPVR setup, or a client/server setup?

If we were in a different stage of the release cycle, I'd give you a patch which adds some logging, giving us more visibility of what's happening.

[2leftfeet]

I have seen that if you are scheduling a single program, npvr responds very quickly, but if scheduling a recurring series, it can take several minutes, especially if you have hundreds of channels in your db.

[jcole998]

Yeah, 2leftfeet, I left that out, but I can't state positively that every time this happens, I was scheduling a series. This most recent time, I was scheduling a series "All episodes on this channel" but I'll pay more attention to singleton schedules.

Understood, sub. Can't wait for the new goodies!

[2leftfeet]

At one time, I had ~400 non-drm channels in my database and scheduling a series took ages to complete. After I realized that I never watched over half of those, I culled the number to ~124. Since then, things have gotten much smoother, including paging through the guide.