Manual Recording

[Dale Dewing]

Tried to set up a series of manual recordings a month and a half in the future. Went to the manual recording window and set up a weekly recording starting in September. Checked pending recordings at it showed a one time recording in August. I was able to update the date to the correct date and it held, but it would not let me change the recording type from once to weekly. Also the only name it would accept was default. I don't know what "Advance Rules" are because there are no options. Using NextPVR 4.1.0 with windows 10.

Dale Dewing

[sub]

Tried to set up a series of manual recordings a month and a half in the future. Went to the manual recording window and set up a weekly recording starting in September. Checked pending recordings at it showed a one time recording in August. I was able to update the date to the correct date and it held, but it would not let me change the recording type from once to weekly. Also the only name it would accept was default.

You can't change the type of recording after it is created. If you want to change it from 'Record Once' to 'Record Weekly', you need to delete the recording and recreate it.

When you tried to enter the name, how did you try any enter it? If you just start typing, it'll should change to whatever you're typing. (I'm guessing you tried pressing 'Enter' or 'OK' or something, and were expecting an onscreen keyboard or something - nope, doesn't work that way).

I double checked I could create the manual recording you described - a weekly recording, starting in September, with a name other than 'default'.

I don't know what "Advance Rules" are because there are no options.

Like the name - this is a typing field. These are fairly complex and use SQL notation. http://www.nextpvr.com/nwiki/pmwiki.php?...ancedRules

[Dale Dewing]

In the name field I did not try just typing. I just clicked on the arrows. I also found that the manual recording worked if you did it while on the recurring recordings window but not if you did it while in the Ready or pending recordings window.

Thank you

Dale Dewing

[sub]

I just clicked on the arrows. I also found that the manual recording worked if you did it while on the recurring recordings window but not if you did it while in the Ready or pending recordings window.

I just checked and it works fine regardless of what list is showing, which is what I would have expected, since it's unrelated to this.

What happened when you tried?

[Dale Dewing]

I thought I had it working, since it showed correctly in the recurring recordings, but in setting up a weekly recording a month in advance, it starts recording immediately on the next day of the week set for, instead of waiting for the date I set. Inconvenient, but I guess I can just delete the recordings that come before the set date.

[sub]

I thought I had it working, since it showed correctly in the recurring recordings, but in setting up a weekly recording a month in advance, it starts recording immediately on the next day of the week set for, instead of waiting for the date I set. Inconvenient, but I guess I can just delete the recordings that come before the set date.

Can you reproduce this then zip and attach the logs?

[Dale Dewing]

Here is a logs zip, I think? I used the zip button in the settings, but got an error message saying that it failed. Clipboard operation failed, but it did make a zip file. attached

[sub]

I can't see in the logs when the attempt happened.

Can you post a screenshot of the parameters you used to make the problem happen? I'll try the same thing here.

[Dale Dewing]

Here is the screen shot.

[johnsonx42]

I can confirm that it ignores the start date when scheduling a manual weekly recurring recording. The day-of-week is recorded in the rule separately from the Start Time, and apparently only the day of week is used when actually scheduling the recordings:

Code:

2018-08-31 14:26:37.984    [INFO][1]    UpdateRecurringRecording(485, 'Default'):
<Rules>
  <ChannelOID>6947</ChannelOID>
  <ChannelName>NBC</ChannelName>
  <StartTime>2018-09-09T21:30:00.0000000Z</StartTime>
  <EndTime>2018-09-09T22:30:00.0000000Z</EndTime>
  <PrePadding>0</PrePadding>
  <PostPadding>0</PostPadding>
  <Quality>0</Quality>
  <Keep>0</Keep>
  <Days>SUNDAY</Days>
</Rules>

2018-08-31 14:26:38.034    [DEBUG][1]    Scheduling manual recordings for next 10 days
2018-08-31 14:26:38.034    [DEBUG][1]       ...check IsValid()
2018-08-31 14:26:38.034    [DEBUG][1]       ...this episode is on Friday
2018-08-31 14:26:38.034    [DEBUG][1]       ...valid days are: SUNDAY
2018-08-31 14:26:38.034    [DEBUG][1]       ...check IsValid()
2018-08-31 14:26:38.034    [DEBUG][1]       ...this episode is on Saturday
2018-08-31 14:26:38.034    [DEBUG][1]       ...valid days are: SUNDAY
2018-08-31 14:26:38.034    [DEBUG][1]       ...check IsValid()
2018-08-31 14:26:38.034    [DEBUG][1]       ...this episode is on Sunday
2018-08-31 14:26:38.034    [DEBUG][1]       ...valid days are: SUNDAY
2018-08-31 14:26:38.034    [DEBUG][1]    ScheduleRecording@1
2018-08-31 14:26:38.034    [DEBUG][1]    ScheduleRecording@2.0
2018-08-31 14:26:38.034    [DEBUG][1]    ScheduleRecording@2.1
2018-08-31 14:26:38.034    [DEBUG][1]    CaptureSource.LoadAll()
2018-08-31 14:26:38.036    [DEBUG][1]    ScheduleRecording@2.2
2018-08-31 14:26:38.039    [DEBUG][1]    ScheduleRecording@2.3
2018-08-31 14:26:38.042    [DEBUG][1]    ScheduleRecording@2.4
2018-08-31 14:26:38.042    [DEBUG][1]    ScheduleRecording@3
2018-08-31 14:26:38.052    [DEBUG][1]    ScheduleRecording@4
2018-08-31 14:26:38.052    [DEBUG][1]    ScheduleRecording@5
2018-08-31 14:26:38.052    [DEBUG][1]       ...check IsValid()
2018-08-31 14:26:38.052    [DEBUG][1]       ...this episode is on Monday
2018-08-31 14:26:38.052    [DEBUG][1]       ...valid days are: SUNDAY
2018-08-31 14:26:38.052    [DEBUG][1]       ...check IsValid()
2018-08-31 14:26:38.052    [DEBUG][1]       ...this episode is on Tuesday
2018-08-31 14:26:38.052    [DEBUG][1]       ...valid days are: SUNDAY
2018-08-31 14:26:38.052    [DEBUG][1]       ...check IsValid()
2018-08-31 14:26:38.052    [DEBUG][1]       ...this episode is on Wednesday
2018-08-31 14:26:38.052    [DEBUG][1]       ...valid days are: SUNDAY
2018-08-31 14:26:38.052    [DEBUG][1]       ...check IsValid()
2018-08-31 14:26:38.052    [DEBUG][1]       ...this episode is on Thursday
2018-08-31 14:26:38.052    [DEBUG][1]       ...valid days are: SUNDAY
2018-08-31 14:26:38.052    [DEBUG][1]       ...check IsValid()
2018-08-31 14:26:38.052    [DEBUG][1]       ...this episode is on Friday
2018-08-31 14:26:38.052    [DEBUG][1]       ...valid days are: SUNDAY
2018-08-31 14:26:38.052    [DEBUG][1]       ...check IsValid()
2018-08-31 14:26:38.052    [DEBUG][1]       ...this episode is on Saturday
2018-08-31 14:26:38.052    [DEBUG][1]       ...valid days are: SUNDAY
2018-08-31 14:26:38.052    [DEBUG][1]       ...check IsValid()
2018-08-31 14:26:38.052    [DEBUG][1]       ...this episode is on Sunday
2018-08-31 14:26:38.052    [DEBUG][1]       ...valid days are: SUNDAY
2018-08-31 14:26:38.052    [DEBUG][1]    ScheduleRecording@1
2018-08-31 14:26:38.052    [DEBUG][1]    ScheduleRecording@2.0
2018-08-31 14:26:38.052    [DEBUG][1]    ScheduleRecording@2.1
2018-08-31 14:26:38.052    [DEBUG][1]    CaptureSource.LoadAll()
2018-08-31 14:26:38.210    [DEBUG][1]    ScheduleRecording@2.2
2018-08-31 14:26:38.221    [DEBUG][1]    ScheduleRecording@2.3
2018-08-31 14:26:38.228    [DEBUG][1]    ScheduleRecording@2.4
2018-08-31 14:26:38.228    [DEBUG][1]    ScheduleRecording@3
2018-08-31 14:26:38.243    [DEBUG][1]    ScheduleRecording@4
2018-08-31 14:26:38.243    [DEBUG][1]    ScheduleRecording@5
2018-08-31 14:26:38.243    [DEBUG][1]    ScheduleRecording@4
2018-08-31 14:26:38.245    [DEBUG][1]    ScheduleRecording@5

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I can see why it does this, it's only looking to match the <Days> parameter. I guess wanting to start a manual recurring recording at some point in the future is a use case that's exceedingly rare; NextPVR has only been around 8 years or so, no one's noticed until now. Yes, it could check that Event StartTime >= Rule StartTime to avoid this.