Anyone else had any scheduled recordings last night that didn't happen?

I have series schedules for:

There is no indication of any failed recording in the media list, the box is always in standby overnight and came out of standby this morning. There is no evidence of a power failure overnight either!

In the schedule both Supernatural and Being Human are still listed with last night's date and Damages has moved on to next week's date. This seems normal, Supernatural's schedule doesn't often get updated until later in the week and Being Human has now finished.

This is the first time this has happened.

I don't record Supernatural, but do the other two.

I've just checked and both Damages, and Being Human both recorded OK on BBC HD. Damages timer moved on OK to next week, and as expected for the last prog of Being Human, the timer just stayed at the the front on 1/3.

Not sure what to offer. Were you watching/recording anything else when the first one came on, and maybe missed a Clash message? Other than that, maybe just an unexplained glitch, sorry ........

Rgds.


Les.

Damages recorded fine on my Foxsat (only one in your list I recorded). Recorded single event only though

Box was in standby, nothing being watched. Each schedule was set up as and when the series first started. Looks like the box failed to automatically come out of standby for some reason. Had the box prior to Christmas, been fine until now, just hope it's 'one of those things' and doesn't repeat. Nothing worse than having a PVR you cannot 'trust', well there are but too many to list and are subjective!

It happened to me, missed a whole evenings worth or programs as it couldnt come out of standby but hasnt repeated itself yet.

Just another (may be left field) thought ......

When did you put the box in standby?

I'm wondering what would happen, if you put the box into standby, within 15mins of a recording starting? i.e. the box normally checks at T-15mins and turns on; if you switch it off at T-10mins, will it wake up again? Does Power Saving On/Off have any bearing on this?

And ... I don't think it explains the later ones failing, unless it upsets the whole schedule until you bring it out of standby yourself manually.

Maybe needs a test on this, but the box is already recording at the moment, so I can't. Unless another luminary who knows the answer to this, and whether it is relevant, or not, pops up soon.

As I said, just a thought.

Rgds.

Les.

Another suggestion, others have noted that if the stb is left on a channel that stops transmission after the stb is put in sby it then fails to wake up to record. Could this be a possible answer ?

BTW, I'm sure you are aware that Being Human repeats tonight on BBC HD, and Damages on Tuesday.

Rgds.

Les.

Something similar happened here. The Foxsat was "awake" when I sufaced for the caffine hit this morning. The clock was displayed but the red light was on. Something was scheduled to record overnight but I can't remember what!
No messages and no additions to the media list. First time its happened to me.

This is similar to the failed event that I reported in the BBC Alba thread currently running.http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/s...d.php?t=992418
If you can think back was it possibly a recording on Alba, BBC News or one of the zone channels? If so it could be the problem of Programme CRIDs not being transmitted

I had another thought, based on my question/theory in post #6 :-

What happens if you have Automatic Standby enabled, and the timer for this kicks in within the 15mins period. i.e. 15 min check is performed, it's is happy the box is already on to be able to record, then the Auto Standby kicks in and box is put into standby. Will it wake up again to record?

I may be clutching at straws here

It would be good if Bob_Cat sees this thread and confirms how the box should respond to being put into Standby, manually or Auto, within 15mins of a Timer due to start.

Rgds.

Les.

Thanks for the prod Gaseous. It was a Zone! I knew I had seen a post about the clock but could not remember where!

First of all, thanks for all your replies, much appreciated.

Right in answer to a couple of questions, the box was put into standby after watching the Ireland v England rugby match, poor match but good result! Before putting into standby, the channel was switched to BBC News where it is normally left. So it was in standby long before the scheduled recording event and on a channel which, as the name previously suggested, is on 24 hours.

Unfortunately, as the PVR was still in standby this morning, there isn't even a way of telling if it ever came out of standby at all. I suspect it didn't. I would have prefered the PVR to have crashed, at least I'd have known where the problem was.

My theory doesn't hold water anyway

I tested with timers for Emmerdale, Corry, Eastenders, and Law & Order.

Emmy to start at 19:00, actually started at 19.02.

Switched box off at 18:55, and didn't turn on until 22:30 (watched what we needed to on Freview box).

It showed red light throughout, and REC on display.

Checked, and all recorded OK.

So, switching off within 15mins of a timer start, does not stop that timer, or the rest of the Schedule.

One possible cause eliminated anyway.

Rgds.


Les.

I seem to be suffering from a persistent refusal to record a couple of programmes.

Last week the box failed to record 2 films from Film 4. They disappeared from the schedule but nothing appeared in the media list.

So I rescheduled them for last Sunday and Monday and exactly teh same thing happened!

Since then it has successfully made two 'series-link' recordings and three one off's.

Given the boxes usually extremely reliable operation I strongly suspect that the fault lies with Film 4.