(2013-09-17, 21:52)Powerhouse Wrote: and for your custom Series recordings, these 2 XML files are needed...

DeleteTimer.xml
RecordPrefs.xml

So when I click 'Record' from the first dialog box, will it then prompt me if I want to make this a Series Recording? Or will I have a new dialog box that says 'Switch, Record, Record Series, Ok'?

(2013-09-17, 22:17)papreston Wrote: Just wanted to say I also got this working on the PI.... Live TV and recorded TV playing back very well.

Thanks again!!!!

(2013-09-17, 22:17)papreston Wrote: Just wanted to say I also got this working on the PI.... Live TV and recorded TV playing back very well.

Thanks again!!!!

(2013-09-17, 17:09)krustyreturns Wrote: Ah I see. If you have multiple tuners in the same tuning space I don't know of a way to 'pick' the tuner, it just takes whichever tuner is available. One way to force it, is to start a recording on one of them, then live-tv can only use the other one.

I never start recordings this way, so this morning I tried it a lot and I can't reproduce it, it always seems to work. Even when there is only 5 minutes left in the show that is currently on it records those 5 minutes. Does this happen to you consistently or just sometimes? Try this, using the 'timeline' view of the guide, set it to record a half hour show that is not on now and see if it selects the correct show, or the show that comes after. Do this by right clicking on the show in the time line view. Let me know.

(2013-09-18, 01:00)ferretlegs Wrote: ok, some progress! This time I started a recording on channel 7 in wmc BEFORE starting wmcserver. I'm guessing this forced wmcserver to spin up a different tuner than normal. Under this scenario the seven network now works - first time ever on xbmc! Still something strange though because if wmc was taking the dud tuner it shouldnt have been able to record channel 7 like that. But maybe it took another good tuner but somehow changed things up enough so that wmcserver spun up a different tuner this time. I dont know, but any progress is good progress.

On the recording front, here is what I have found with more testing (remember I have done nothing to default confluence here, not added any of the new series dialogs or anything):

1. When using the timeline epg, right clicking the current show and selecting record works. It records the current show immediately
2. Pressing the record button on the OSD while watching a live tv channel schedules the NEXT tv show in the guide. So if I'm watching something from 8:30 to 9am and I press the record button at say 8:40, the show starting at 9am will be scheduled.
3. Same thing as 2 happens if I rclick any channel in the channel list and select record (Live TV -> channels)

Basically it seems the only way I can get immediate recording is using EPG timeline and rclicking a currently broadcasting show, any other method seems to only queue the next show instead.

Now to start figuring out what is going on with this dud tuner concept......

(2013-09-18, 01:23)scarecrow420 Wrote: It seems the way instant records works is kinda funny XBMC sends in 1/1/1970 as the start time and NOW as the end time. The backend code detects this and corrects it to a start time of NOW and then looks for program entries in the EPG from now to now+8 hours with a comment that it should be a big enough period to find an entry. But it seems this query isnt returning the current show, in my case it returns 34 entries but the first entry is the following show. It shouldn't be too hard to correctly identify the in progress show

(2013-09-18, 01:28)krustyreturns Wrote: Even with this result I still don't think the root cause is a tuner problem, but it's hard to argue with progress. Keep us posted.

For the recording stuff, please send me a server log when it does the jump ahead recording thing. Also please let me know the default settings for pre and post padding set in wmc for recordings. Also if you set these margins in xbmc too what those value are.

(2013-09-18, 01:58)scarecrow420 Wrote: lol no it is the US Brady Bunch, it's just what happens to be on at the moment, honest!!!

Anyway yeah the Epg.GetEntriesbyChannel(ch, start, end) call doesnt seem to return for a show where the start time was prior to the passed in start. I was thinking if the goal is to grab the current in progress show then perhaps passing in Now-8 hours as the start, and Now as the end, then taking the LAST item (as opposed to start=now end=now+8 and taking FIRST) might work better.

So you are saying on your tuner/EPG/country/setup, when you pass in NOW and NOW+8 to Epg.GetEntriesbyChannel() the first item IS the current show? weird.

if we have to we can always check for instant records, that the selected item start and end do fall on either side of NOW and if not, loop through more GetEntries calls until we find the correct one. Shame there isnt a PreviousEntry and NextEntry call. Or is there?