[adamevans]

Series Link stopped working for me. All my previously existing Series Link recordings work find, but any new Series Link recordings I try to make will only record the shows on the same day as the recording I'm basing my Series Link off of.

So, say there's 3 Spongbobs on Sunday, and I use one of them to set up a Series Link to record ALL Spongebob episodes. It will only schedule recording on the Spongebobs on Sunday. I've tested this again and again and I can reproduce it with any show. I first noticed it the last few days, but it could've been going on longer since I haven't set any Series Link recordings lately.

Anyway, Series Link is completely useless for me right now. Is this a result of the last software update or something? Is anyone else experiencing this? Is there anything I can do here?

 

[Earl Bonovich]

Have you check to see if your Series Links are set to First Run only? or Both. It is possible that they are only recording the ones for the same day, as they are immediately scheduled when you set the recording... and the scheduler hasn't run, to clean them up based on the settings

And while you are "testing", are you waiting at least 4-6 hours for the Scheduler to run, before checking the ToDo list.
As the system will not scheduled "all" of them immediately.

 

[adamevans]

Have you check to see if your Series Links are set to First Run only? or Both.

Both.

It is possible that they are only recording the ones for the same day, as they are immediately scheduled when you set the recording... and the scheduler hasn't run, to clean them up based on the settings. And while you are "testing", are you waiting at least 4-6 hours for the Scheduler to run, before checking the ToDo list.
As the system will not scheduled "all" of them immediately.

Well, no, I'm not waiting 4-6 hours when I test, but I know this isn't the problem, because we noticed it when a Series Link we set (days earlier) didn't record the shows we wanted to watch.

But since when does it take 4-6 hours? Before, whenever I'd make a Series Link, when I could click "Set" there would about a three second delay, and then all the upcoming shows would be scheduled to record with the little Series Link R on them. Now, when I create a Series Link, there's no delay, it immediately goes through, but it doesn't set anything to record except the shows for that day.

 

[Meklos]

The SL logic basically goes "If I don't have guide data for the show, I cancel the recording". When you rebooted the unit, it takes 4-6 hours for the unit to receive even decent partial guide data (it doesn't cache it between restarts like the HR10 did).

Therefore, the HR20 shows many/most programs in your list as Cancelled until it receives the guide data confirming what the To Do list says to do.

 

[adamevans]

The SL logic basically goes "If I don't have guide data for the show, I cancel the recording". When you rebooted the unit, it takes 4-6 hours for the unit to receive even decent partial guide data (it doesn't cache it between restarts like the HR10 did).

Therefore, the HR20 shows many/most programs in your list as Cancelled until it receives the guide data confirming what the To Do list says to do.

But... it's been way longer than that since it was last rebooted. Like days.

And if the guide data isn't there, why can I jump ahead like 36, 48, etc hours ahead in the guide and see the shows that should be programmed to record but aren't? Shouldn't there just be blank spaces on the guide if the guide info isn't there?

I'm really confused.

 

[Earl Bonovich]

All I can think then is that internal storage of the guide data in your unit, is fouled up some how.

Does this continue after a reboot?

 

[adamevans]

I'm not sure. I haven't tried, but I can when I get home and report back.

Rebooting is just hitting the red reset button? Or something else?

 

[petergaryr]

Series Link stopped working for me. All my previously existing Series Link recordings work find, but any new Series Link recordings I try to make will only record the shows on the same day as the recording I'm basing my Series Link off of.

So, say there's 3 Spongbobs on Sunday, and I use one of them to set up a Series Link to record ALL Spongebob episodes. It will only schedule recording on the Spongebobs on Sunday. I've tested this again and again and I can reproduce it with any show. I first noticed it the last few days, but it could've been going on longer since I haven't set any Series Link recordings lately.

Anyway, Series Link is completely useless for me right now. Is this a result of the last software update or something? Is anyone else experiencing this? Is there anything I can do here?

I had the same problem. Earl suggested checking the Prioritizer. Sure enough, there was an entry for Star Trek Enterprise, but the status was set to not record anything. I deleted it. I then went back to the program guide and was able to push the record button twice in order to set the series link.

 

[adamevans]

Okay, I've done a reboot, and it still does it. Or do I need to wait 4-6 hours? Because the show I tested it out on has a couple week's worth in the guide, but it only set to record the episode I used to do the Series Link.

And why would it take 4-6 hours anyway? Whenever I did a Series Link before, it always scheduled the future episodes immediately. I could do a Series Link and then jump ahead days and see the little Series R's right on the episodes.

I really think something has gone wacky here. I'm not doing something wrong. My HR20 USED to work the way I'm describing.

 

[adamevans]

It should be noted that by reboot, I used the red button of death. If you meant like a complete wipeout or something, you'll have to talk me through that (although I hope that's a last resort).

But it didn't fix it regardless.

 

[adamevans]

Okay, here's my report.

Last night, like 8pm, I tested out Series Link on "The Practice," which comes on daily. After I entered the Series Link, it ONLY showed the next day's episode set to record. But I left the Series Link in place.

At midnight, it showed all but two of the episodes set to record (I think there were about 8 episodes in the search). Those two episodes were smack in the middle, too, so I have no idea why they weren't set to record. But I left it be.

Tonight, I get home and check it, and ALL episodes are set to record like they should be.

Okay, so what gives? Why is it doing this? We had a Series Link that we set days earlier not work at all.

Now, it appears to be working, but it takes a day to set the episodes to record. What's up with that?

It used to be if I set a Series Link, it set ALL the episodes to record instantly. I know this because I'm anal and used to jump ahead in the program guide and make sure they were set to record.

This isn't normal behavior, right?

 

[mrshermanoaks]

Okay, here's my report.

Last night, like 8pm, I tested out Series Link on "The Practice," which comes on daily. After I entered the Series Link, it ONLY showed the next day's episode set to record. But I left the Series Link in place.

At midnight, it showed all but two of the episodes set to record (I think there were about 8 episodes in the search). Those two episodes were smack in the middle, too, so I have no idea why they weren't set to record. But I left it be.

Tonight, I get home and check it, and ALL episodes are set to record like they should be.

Okay, so what gives? Why is it doing this? We had a Series Link that we set days earlier not work at all.

Now, it appears to be working, but it takes a day to set the episodes to record. What's up with that?

It used to be if I set a Series Link, it set ALL the episodes to record instantly. I know this because I'm anal and used to jump ahead in the program guide and make sure they were set to record.

This isn't normal behavior, right?

If you had rebooted in the previous day, then you wouldn't have had more the 24 hours of guide data, and thus you wouldn't have seen any shows to record in the future. Even if the Series Link was previously set up, it is populated only by the guide data it currently has.

 

[petergaryr]

I had the same problem. Earl suggested checking the Prioritizer. Sure enough, there was an entry for Star Trek Enterprise, but the status was set to not record anything. I deleted it. I then went back to the program guide and was able to push the record button twice in order to set the series link.

Just an update: While Enterprise appeared to record as scheduled, when I went to watch it, it was the "unwatchable bug". I tried a red button reset, but all that did was remove it from the playlist (along with the second night of the Eukanuba dog show--I've not told my wife that she will not get to see who wins "Best in Show").

 

[adamevans]

If you had rebooted in the previous day, then you wouldn't have had more the 24 hours of guide data, and thus you wouldn't have seen any shows to record in the future. Even if the Series Link was previously set up, it is populated only by the guide data it currently has.

I did reboot that day, but I was able to see way beyond 24 hours of guide data when I tested the Series Link. I tested it on the Practice, and I was able to see episodes for like a week and a half in advance.

So... If I could see them, why doesn't it set them to record immediately when I do a Series Link? Instead, it only sets the one episode to record.

I just want to know why this isn't working like it used to. It used to set ALL the episodes of a Series Link that you could see in the guide to record. Now I don't know what's going on.

 

[adamevans]

Also, it's been over 24 hours now since the last reboot, so the guide data should be there.

Yet, I can still do a test Series Link right now (I just tried it) and it ONLY sets the first show to record. If I leave it that way and come back several hours later, the shows will be set to record (sometimes, anyway). Sometimes, apparently, it doesn't set the later shows to record at all.

It USED to set all the shows to record immediately.

So why is it doing this now? I don't understand. Is something screwed up? Is this normal behavior now? I'm not getting it.

 

[jkc120]

I had a different, but similar issue with the Series Link.

I removed my series link for House on SA40 since Fox 40 is now available in HD here now. I added the new series link for first run only on the HD ch 40, and it recorded tonight's episode, even though it was a repeat (and indicated as much in the guide).

I hope it doesn't start doing this for all my Series Links! :lol:

 

[adamevans]

I just want to know if it's normal behavior for it to not schedule to record ALL episodes immediately. It used to do that for me. It seems to take several hours to do it now.

It's not the guide data. I can see many, many episodes in advance. I can even set a regular recording on them. But Series Link no longer schedules to record them immediately (and apparently not at all sometimes, since we've lost recordings).

 

[adamevans]

Erm, bump.

 

[Earl Bonovich]

I just want to know if it's normal behavior for it to not schedule to record ALL episodes immediately. It used to do that for me. It seems to take several hours to do it now.

It's not the guide data. I can see many, many episodes in advance. I can even set a regular recording on them. But Series Link no longer schedules to record them immediately (and apparently not at all sometimes, since we've lost recordings).

That is normal for the unit.

Take a few hours to schedule them all

 

[adamevans]

That is normal for the unit.

Take a few hours to schedule them all

That's cool and I can accept that, but...

Why did it not used to do that? It used to schedule them all, instantly. It would pause for like 3 seconds after I hit the "Record" button on setting up a Series Link, but it would schedule them instantly. Now it jumps back to the guide immediately after hitting record and doesn't schedule them instantly.

I know this for sure, because I was really paranoid about it setting things to record after reading all the posts here, so I used to jump ahead in the guide and see that they were set myself. They used to schedule immediately.