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"Update EPG" causes 2nd week of EPG to be discarded

 
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"Update EPG" causes 2nd week of EPG to be discarded
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2023-03-25, 04:09 PM (This post was last modified: 2023-03-25, 04:11 PM by MovieWiz.)
Hello.  Not sure if this is a question or a bug report.

I use Schedules Direct for my EPG on the latest windows server (6.1.1.221106) although this has been happening since I subscribed to Schedules Direct about 6 months ago.

I have the EPG update at 6:05 every morning, using the setting for that on the Guide settings page.  It always gets a full two weeks of EPG from Schedules Direct when that happens.

Since I record a lot of TV, I regularly encounter scheduling conflicts which I resolve by adjusting priorities on the recurring recordings page in the UI client.  After doing that, I usually click on the "Update EPG" button on the main settings page (in the web client) so that the schedule is updated to reflect the new priorities.  However, when I do that, I only get one week of EPG from Schedules Direct.

If I adjust the daily automatic update time to a couple of minutes in the future, the automatic EPG update will again retrieve a full two weeks of EPG from Schedules Direct.

Obviously, there is a difference if behaviour between daily EPG automatic update and a manual EPG update triggered by clicking the "Update EPG" button.

The thing is that when I've adjusted scheduling priorities, I don't even necessarily need/want to get new EPG data -- I just want the schedule to be updated to reflect the new scheduling priorities.  Currently, it appears that the only to do that in the UI is with the "Update EPG" button -- but then I lose a week of EPG data.  I can fix this by playing with the daily EPG update time and then put back to 6:05 after completion -- but this is not particularly intuitive.

So my question is:  Is the behaviour of the "Update EPG" button really supposed to be different from the daily automatic update?  I get that this behaviour could be different on purpose for a reason that I'm not aware of -- or maybe it's a bug.

If the different behaviour is on purpose, then I would suggest that the addition of an "Update Schedule" button on the main settings page would allow the schedule to be updated to reflect new scheduling rules/priorities without updating the EPG data and this would avoid the loss of a week's worth of EPG data.
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2023-03-25, 04:53 PM
There is a difference, by default the Schedules Direct update setting in config.xml is shorter. I personally ignore this since recordings that far in advance could change anyway and I let the automated change it but you can update config.xml too

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2023-03-25, 06:45 PM
The two settings in config.xml are:

Quote: <SchedulesDirectDays>9</SchedulesDirectDays>
<SchedulesDirectDaysOvernight>15</SchedulesDirectDaysOvernight>
The default manual update is less days to make the initial setup complete quicker, since this is the only time most people do a manual EPG update.
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2023-03-25, 08:33 PM
As always, everything is well thought through and done for a reason.  There's a reason why NextPVR is the most sophisticated/functional DVR software out there -- it's you guys.

Thanks for the reply and the info about the settings in the config.xml.
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