04-05-2023 19:09 - edited 04-05-2023 19:58
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on 05-05-2023 16:48
The SL icon will only show in the EPG when that programme is scheduled to record.
If either of the criteria I mentioned in post#4 above apply, then that programme won't record and the SL icon won't show against it. If there are no currently scheduled programmes against an SL, it will be dimmed in the MSL screen.
Also.. if you manually cancel an SL recording, it will flag that episode as not-to-record for 30days.
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on 04-05-2023 19:42
Hi @WelshGasman
The Forum Team don't tend to monitor posts in the natter/chatter forums.
If you state which TV platform you are having the issues on ie tivo, V6 or 360 then we can move your post to the appropriate forum.
on 04-05-2023 20:10
OK, sorry about that.
I have a TIVO box, or so I have been told.
Info shows as
on 04-05-2023 20:32
@WelshGasman wrote:Whilst on the phone with him, I tried recording a program on the same channel using Series Link. That did create and indicate a SL.I cancelled the SL on my particular program, as if you press R again, it asks if you want to amend the SL, so it knows that there is a SL on that program, just that it is not showing it, nor is it recording it.Created the SL again. The box goes through the motions, but again no indicator.
TiVo-software series-links are not timeslot-specific. What you've described is normal behaviour in one of two scenarios.
1: There are no programmes matching your SL-settings. If you're on a UKTV channel, it's possibly your SL is set for "new only" and the episodes you're selecting are not new.
2: There is an earlier showing of a particular episode & your TiVo/V6 is picking up that earlier slot - the later slot is considered a duplicate and not recorded.
Post up some specific details - your SL settings, and the date/time/channel of the seemingly rogue episode. I'll compare.
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04-05-2023 21:10 - edited 04-05-2023 21:16
Hi japitts,
Thanks for the reply.
Firstly all I have ever done since I got the box, is find a program, set a series link, and that was it.
SL settings are default. New and reruns.
I used to be able to see what programs I had a SL on with the triple R icon. They all disappeared.
Program that started all this is Dr Jeff, RockyMountain Vet on channel 128.
However as I mentioned, that other program that I had two recent episodes of '24 Hours in A&E' on channel 147 has the same issue.
These issues have only just started, and I have had this box for a good few years now.
on 04-05-2023 21:46
Dr Jeff is on at 4pm, Mon to Fri
24 Hours in A&E is on at 11pm Mon to Fri at least.
I can manually record Dr Jeff for individual programs, not tried for 24 Hours as that was just a random program selected in an attempt to debug issue.
on 04-05-2023 22:32
A test SL I've tried for Dr Jeff, picks up all daily episodes. They all look to be repeats though, so I wonder if your box has recorded these at some point in the past 30days - that would be enough to trigger them as duplicates. If you alter your SL settings to be "everything", does that schedule them?
Go into your "Recording Hiccups" folder, it should list each of the 4pm showings with a reason for non-recording. What is shown there?
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05-05-2023 11:04 - edited 05-05-2023 11:24
I have never been into Recording Hiccups, did not even know it existed. 🙂
I have plenty of programs in there marked as Duplicates, some being Animal Cops Houston, which I can add a SL to and see the SL icon?
No mention of dr Jeff in there at all.
I will set the SL to everything, but would still ask why no icon when a SL is set for a program(s)?
I did go into Manage SL last week and could see that 99 slots were taken up, despite most being dimmed.
However I deleted a bunch of them to get down to 88.
Just been in again and deleted a lot of the dimmed entries. Now down to around 40.
on 05-05-2023 16:48
The SL icon will only show in the EPG when that programme is scheduled to record.
If either of the criteria I mentioned in post#4 above apply, then that programme won't record and the SL icon won't show against it. If there are no currently scheduled programmes against an SL, it will be dimmed in the MSL screen.
Also.. if you manually cancel an SL recording, it will flag that episode as not-to-record for 30days.
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05-05-2023 17:24 - edited 05-05-2023 17:26
Thank you japitts,
I have set the SL option to Everything and will monitor the recordings.
Would be really helpful to have post numbers in the threads? 😞