[archer75]

So last night it started recording Castle a minute later at 10:01. I didn't tell it to do that. I see later in the week in the to do list that two other shows are set to start a minute later.

I have 5 tuners, no more than 3 are in use at any given time in the foreseeable future.

Then last night it was supposed to record Being Human and Lost Girl. Lost Girl did not record and no new upcoming episodes according to the receiver which isn't true.
In the history it says that Being Human was cancelled by the receiver. Today I notice that the series recording for it is now also gone. Very strange.

Any ideas? Just had this installed on Friday morning so it's a new receiver and setup. The new HD GUI came through in the wee mornings hours here on tuesday so there was a reboot involved. Hopefully that will fix it.

 

[madpoet]

I have found that my 34 gets pretty flaky after a few days It's rare I can go a week without a reboot or it stops taping a lot of shows with errors all over the logs. Hoping the new GUI is better.

 

[Beerstalker]

Check the airtimes for the shows that are starting at 1 minute past the hour (or half hour). Most likely those are actually the start times of the shows according to the guide data. The HRxx dvrs are not smart enough to just start recording a minute later on their own. If you have a 1 minute recording conflict it will actually cancel the recording unless you are recording two things on the same channel that air back to back (if that is the case it does realize this and will record both).

As far as Being Human and Lost Girl they may have run a rerun episode, or mistakenly listed a new episode as a rerun. Or if your receiver rebooted to close to the airtimes it might not have got the guide data in time to realize it should have recorded it.

 

[Chuck W]

So last night it started recording Castle a minute later at 10:01. I didn't tell it to do that. I see later in the week in the to do list that two other shows are set to start a minute later.

As per what Beerstalker said, Castle is normally scheduled to actually start at 10:01 as per the guide, at least when Dancing with the Stars is before it. So that's hwy you are seeing that.

 

[texasmoose]

We've had several recordings disappear from the to-do-list. It seems series recordings go through fine, the 1 exception Tues. night's 'Dancing with the Stars' (when one couple gets cut) didn't record too.

My wife has counted almost a dozen shows in the last week alone that were set-up to record, but never did.

 

[archer75]

I did go back and check and the shows that recorded 1 minute after where in the guide that way. However the guide is wrong as that cut off the beginning of all the shows.

It also doesn't explain why it deleted the series recording for being human.

All shows were marked as new episodes yet were skipped anyways.

And just now I had series recordings for Touch and Person of Interest. The guide showed a recording icon for Touch but not Person of Interest. In both cases neither one was actually recording. I started Person of Interest recording manually and it's going now.
I manually started touch recording as well and it showed it recording but then didn't. Nothing in the list for it.

Both series recordings for those two shows were just deleted by the DVR.

This thing is really pissing me off.

 

[Jerry_K]

Our HR34 has clipped the beginning of National Network programs from the get go. Still does. Missed start of The Mentalist last night. It has minutes and minutes of the next show on the end. So luckily we got the start of the Mentalist on the end of Person of Interest. It was especially aggravating last night as The Mentalist was shot on location in a campground where we were staying a month ago. So in order to get the shots we saw them shooting we had to save two programs.

I even put padding for the beginning of programs and it still does not get the beginning of the program. HR24 gets the beginnings. Strange indeed.

 

[lparsons21]

As far as Being Human and Lost Girl they may have run a rerun episode, or mistakenly listed a new episode as a rerun. Or if your receiver rebooted to close to the airtimes it might not have got the guide data in time to realize it should have recorded it.

I'm not sure about Being Human, but the Lost Girl episodes don't show up as new showings since the original air dates are way behind. I think the original air dates for it are the dates they were shown in Canada.

 

[Rob Dawn]

Sounds like the HR34 is still missing too many recordings, which means it is still a no-go for me. Would love to have the 5 tuners and 100 Series Links, but not if it misses recordings!!

 

[Jerry_K]

Sounds like the HR34 is still missing too many recordings, which means it is still a no-go for me. Would love to have the 5 tuners and 100 Series Links, but not if it misses recordings!!

100 series links sounds good until you realize with five tuners you eat those up quickly. We have had to make decisions already about deleting series links to open up a slot. Went to 100 in no time. If you think about links per tuner, the 34 is skimping. Only 20 links per tuner rather than 25 links like the other HRs. And of course why there is any limit at all escapes me.

As stated it is not smart enough to know that

1) you have never recorded the episode before so why not record it.

2) you have recorded and deleted the episode so don't record it.

If you fiddle enough you can get it to record anything. If you fiddle forever you cannot stop it from recording the same episode over and over and over.

If you really want it, I would not let the performance be your deciding factor. The other HRs are no picnic either.

 

[robl45]

is this a common thing? this was the DVR i would get if I switch to directv, but I record like 3 shows or more a night. if its missing the beginning and not recording them. I would be unhappy.

 

[texasbrit]

The Hr34 follows the same 28 day rule as all the other DVRs. If the episode has been recorded in the last 28 days (even if you have deleted it) it won't record it.
Of course, this is dependent on having good guide data. If the guide data does not have episode info, the DVR will record it if you specify to record repeats.
The problem with Lost Girl is a well-known one. Some of the channels put the "first shown" date as the date the program was shown in Canada, so they don't get recorded because they are seen as not first run- TiVo has the same issue.

 

[robl45]

Uverse has no problem with lost girl, can't it be set to get reruns too?

 

[archer75]

The Hr34 follows the same 28 day rule as all the other DVRs. If the episode has been recorded in the last 28 days (even if you have deleted it) it won't record it.
Of course, this is dependent on having good guide data. If the guide data does not have episode info, the DVR will record it if you specify to record repeats.
The problem with Lost Girl is a well-known one. Some of the channels put the "first shown" date as the date the program was shown in Canada, so they don't get recorded because they are seen as not first run- TiVo has the same issue.

Dish doesn't have the issue with lost girl. Nor did my dish receiver or TiVo offset these shows by a minute. So I wonder why directs guide data is different?

 

[Jerry_K]

What really confuses me is why the HR34 won't start the show two minutes early as the default in the series link is set.

 

[archer75]

I'm not sure about Being Human, but the Lost Girl episodes don't show up as new showings since the original air dates are way behind. I think the original air dates for it are the dates they were shown in Canada.

Ok so I looked at zap2it which is the online tribune guide Direct TV uses. And while it does put a "new" icon on the Lost Girl episodes it also lists their original Canadian air date.
They have a feedback form to report incorrect guide info so i'll just send some info their way.

 

[archer75]

The most common error shown in the history is "This show has been cancelled because of a programming update (13)". Sometimes it just says the receiver cancelled the program with no explanation.

I did a red button reset this morning.

I had it set to record 5 shows at once to test at 8pm. 4 are series recordings and then I just randomly started another show to record. With Undercover Boss(a series recording) the history says it was cancelled because of a programming update yet the show still recorded.

The next 3 shows set to record at 9pm all started. However the history shows CSI:NY as been cancelled due to a programming update. But lists it in the to do list with the other two shows.
It is indeed being recorded(as it should be) despite the history saying it was cancelled.

 

[robl45]

are they starting on time? is there a way to set it to record all episodes instead of just new ones? i'm a little amazed by this. i had dish for 4 years from 2004-2008 and it was better dvr than i have with uverse. This seems like a big step back.

The most common error shown in the history is "This show has been cancelled because of a programming update (13)". Sometimes it just says the receiver cancelled the program with no explanation.

I did a red button reset this morning.

I had it set to record 5 shows at once to test at 8pm. 4 are series recordings and then I just randomly started another show to record. With Undercover Boss(a series recording) the history says it was cancelled because of a programming update yet the show still recorded.

The next 3 shows set to record at 9pm all started. However the history shows CSI:NY as been cancelled due to a programming update. But lists it in the to do list with the other two shows.
It is indeed being recorded(as it should be) despite the history saying it was cancelled.

 

[archer75]

are they starting on time? is there a way to set it to record all episodes instead of just new ones? i'm a little amazed by this. i had dish for 4 years from 2004-2008 and it was better dvr than i have with uverse. This seems like a big step back.

You can change the recording options for series recordings or even setup manual recordings.

 

[archer75]

So today, 3 shows set to record, all 3 showing as cancelled in the history due to programming update, two of them did indeed record. Game of Thrones did not record. So irritating.