Recording Mishaps
Tonight Strictly Come Dancing and The X Factor were not recorded, checking the Mishaps to find out why it says No longer on Guide as the reason they failed to record.
Scrolling back through the guide both programmes are still listed at their respective times.
Luckily Strictly was available on catch up so my other half didn't miss it and we watched x factor live..
Never known anything like this before.
Scrolling back through the guide both programmes are still listed at their respective times.
Luckily Strictly was available on catch up so my other half didn't miss it and we watched x factor live..
Never known anything like this before.
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Problem appears to be the muppets who input the data on the EPG.
Originaly C5 had " Monty Halls and the Kaisers Gold" sometime between Sunday night (last time I checked what was set to record) and Monday night, it changed to "Monty Halls and..."
VM's update of the TIVO software, now shows episode name as well as show title, and I think the muppets who enter the data got it wrong, possible because they don't understand what they're doing or it's farmed out to the third world.
This update is becoming a real pain, never know what will record or not.
http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?t=509715&page=2
Carl, I too have been very happy with the update and Nikita recorded OK for me too.
However, you need to understand that although we all get the same guide data, we don't necessarily have the same guide data at the same time.
Even after the update, when TiVo now updates four times a day, there are people whose guide data wil be different, less up-to-date, and this can lead to different issues, not seen by others.
Nor me, strange that people are having differing problems.
Also... seriously? You mean every box updates 4 times a day? Cool.
Anyone else had this?
TIVO looks at your viewing history and makes intelligent decisions about programmes you like to watch. In this case it has probably decided that Jonathan Ross was unsuitable for you, and given you Jeremy Kyle instead.
I noticed that. As far as I'm aware Jonathan Ross was on so why Tivo decided Jeremy Kyle was on is beyond me.
It is nothing to do with the EPG data being incorrect, the culprit is the EPG service connection. During the back-to-back recording there is a critical period during the overlap window (end padding on the first, start padding on the second); if you happen to get a service connection, the new EPG data is downloaded and the processing of the data starts and it seems that if the processing of the data happens during the overlap period then there is a high probability that the second recording gets removed from the schedule resulting in the hiccup appearing and the failed recording!
As a poster above has said it has meant to have been fixed in 20.3.8 which has been released in the US.
I don't think this has ever happened to me which is weird.
Series record for Babylon 5 (WatchHD) set for daily 12:00 Midday transmissions, dropped todays episode (S03E03 titled "A day in the strife").
The mishap text showed "Not available" and shows the programme title as "Voices of Authority" (which is episode 5), which isn't scheduled to be transmitted until Thursday (and is shown correctly in the planned recordings section), so in that respect is correct in marking it as a mishap.
Interestingly enough though, both the on-line Virgin tv guide, and the Tivo guide show the correct programme i.e Episode 3, so where did it get the wrong data from, and could it be related to the problem in service connection timing mentioned earlier, although in this case, no follow on was set, either before or after. i.e a mistimed (from my point of view) data connection?
Fortunately I spotted the mishap early on and was able to set a manual record for the repeat showing at 17:00 (fingers crossed....)
Lucky you
The VM support forums have plenty of threads where people are reporting the failed back-to-backs.
The US support forums had a spate of reports last September when they had v20.3.5 and TiVo actually disabled the single tuner back-to-back feature in October because it was just too buggy. It was re-enabled in December when they released v20.3.8
I wonder why some people get it then? Is it a network strength issue or something? I record plenty of back to back shows and it hasn't happened yet.
It only happens if the EPG is doing an update when the back to back is scheduled and there's crossover padding
Same here: I'd been looking at my Planned Recordings in the mobile App, just on the off-chance Channel 5 ever get around to showing Person of Interest again (we're only a whole season behind now...) and noticed it wasn't going to be recorded. I also did a manual recording, just for that episode; but it didn't go into the folder with the rest of the B5 stuff (like the Doctor Who stuff all does, whichever channel it's on), which is probably why it wasn't picked up in the series link.
Gary