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Motorsport: World Rally Championship
2024 Abu Dhabi Desert
Sunday 24 March
ACT/Canberra

According to the description, this is actually part of the World Rally Raid Championship, not the World Rally Championship.  Rally Raid is the type of racing made famous by the Dakar Rally, it's mostly cross country, with stages which can be hundreds of kilometers in length.  It is not the same as the WRC, which is entirely raced on formed roads, with relatively short stages (usually < 30 km in length).

Tomorrow's episode of The Chase Australia is currently showing as a new episode, S13E31, which is allegedly being repeated on Monday (19/3/23).

Ch7 haven't shown a new episode of The Chase Australia on a Thursday in several years.  New episodes are shown on Mon-Wed, with repeats on Thurs-Fri.  Thus, seeing a new episode on Thurs, repeated the following Monday, seems highly unusual.

Can you please confirm that Thursday's episode is correct?  Monday's episode is currently marked as a repeat, when it's likely a new episode, so there are implications for people missing a new episode if the problem isn't resolved.

17:00 on Prime7 HD (Canberra) is currently marked as "To Be Advised", for both Monday & Tuesday next week.  It should be The Chase Australia (new episodes).

The description for every episode of The Chase Australia is as follows:
While general knowledge may be important to winning this competition, it is not necessarily the key. That would be the ability to stay one step ahead of The Chaser, an individual whose ability to answer questions is second to none; a genius in fact - and in facts. If you can beat them, you've got it made.

Andrew O'Keefe

Larry Emdur replaced Andrew O'Keefe as host of The Chase Australia in 2021, and Ch7 don't show repeats of the O'Keefe episodes.  Any chance of the IceTV description being updated?

** This is a low priority, obviously.  It's just something that's been bugging me for a while.

I am wondering if next week's episodes of The Chase Australia (5pm, Prime7 HD, weekdays) should be marked as repeats?

Next week is the start of the OzTam summer non-ratings period.  Historically, Ch7 has stopped showing new episodes of The Chase Australia as soon as the non-ratings period begins.  I would be very surprised if this were to change in 2023.

At present, none of next week's episodes have have series/episode numbers listed.  This makes it impossible for your system to check automatically whether or not they're repeats, hence their current marking as new episodes.

I suspect that Ch7 will be showing repeats from next week, probably until just before the next ratings period begins in late January.

Can you please investigate, and update the EPG data accordingly?

The EPG data for Prime 7HD (ACT) is missing, for Tuesday 7th Nov and Wednesday 8th Nov.

I have looked in both the www and Android phone app - the EPG data is missing from both.  Also, the IceTV has not received the Prime 7HD timers, probably because it too is lacking the EPG data.

This morning I opened the IceTV app on my phone (android), and got an error message, and was sent to the login page.  This happened on both my phone & tablet.

Checking the Guide Settings page, I see that my Beyonwiz T2 hasn't done an update since 11:52pm last night, and the IceBox hasn't updated since 11:58pm last night.

It would appear that something has gone badly wrong with the IceTV servers, with client devices no longer being able to connect to the servers.

Is this just a problem with my account, or are other users experiencing the same problem?

** I can still access IceTV through the WWW, but all of the other devices have stopped connecting.

Monday (10th Sept) and Tuesday (11th Sept) episodes for The Chase Australia are currently showing as TBA.  I'm not sure why this is the case, given that it's a regularly scheduled program, and other online TV Guides show The Chase Australia as usual.

Region: ACT (Canberra)
Time: 1700-1800
Dates: Mon 10th Sept, Tues 11th Sept

For some reason, both my Android Phone App and IceBox have failed to download almost all EPG data for Monday 11th September.  I have EPG data for Sunday 10th, and Tuesday 12th, but not Monday 11th.

This has resulted in My Week showing error marks (yellow triangles) against both shows that I have scheduled to record on Monday.

** There is some EPG data, but not very much.  The Android phone app is showing only 20 programs in total, across all networks/channels.  Most of these are on 7's secondary channels (mostly 7Bravo and 7Mate HD).

Any idea what may be causing this?  Am I the only person affected, or is this affecting other users as well?

Alone Australia
Wednesday 24th May
SBS HD

There are 2x episodes of Alone Australia listed in the IceTV EPG - one at 7:30pm, and a second at 8:30pm.  The second episode is listed as a repeat of episode S01E01 - this is incorrect.  Alone Australia is ending with 2x episodes back-to-back, so the 2nd episode should be S01E11, and should be a new episode.

Accused
7 Network, Tuesday 25th April, 9pm

The series which commences next Tuesday is a 2023 US version of a 2010 UK series.  The IceTV EPG currently has the correct episode title listed (US version s01E01), but the series description is from the 2010 UK version.

IceTV (ACT, Canberra) currently has the following listing for Prime7, for Monday 10th April:
5:00pm - To Be Advised
6:00pm - Seven News
7:00pm - Home & Away
7:30pm - To Be Advised

YourTV Guide lists the following:
5:00pm - The Chase Australia
6:00pm - Seven News
7:00pm - Farmer Wants a Wife
8:35pm - The Claremont Murders

As you can see, these are significantly different...

I assume IceTV will not be issuing updates over Easter, as you all enjoy some time off to be with your families.  This means that the Monday schedule needs to be fixed by tomorrow at the latest.

I am particularly keen to record The Claremont Murders, but I can't currently set anything for it as it's not in the New Shows list or the TV Guide.

Can you please fix these EPG holes today?

This episode of The Chase Australia is currently marked as S12E28, a repeat of today's episode.

Normally Ch7 shows new episodes on Mon-Wed, with repeats on Thurs & Fri.  Can you please check that IceTV has the correct episode listed for tomorrow?

Would it be possible to create separate shows for the Mens & Womens Tour Down Under episodes?  There are bound to be many viewers (like myself) who only have interest in one of these races, and don't want to have to delete multiple recordings of the other.

At present they are differentiated in the Episode name, but it would be great if they could be regarded as completely separate shows.

This morning I looked at "My Week" on the website, and saw a "single recording" set for The Block tonight (7:30pm on Ch Nein).  I have zero interest in this hot garbage, and deleted the recording.

For some reason, this resulted in not just the single recording being deleted, but also the series recording of "After the Verdict" (8:30pm on Ch Nein) which immediately followed. 

My guess is that there had been a slight time changes to "After the Verdict" and "The Block", causing the single/series pair to show up temporarily (while the IceTV server was waiting for my PVR to fetch the update), and I hit delete while the system was still in transition.

I went into the "TV Guide", and told it to "Record this episode" of "After the Verdict".  This has really confused the IceTV system...

Right now, I can see the series recording of "After the Verdict" in the "TV Guide", but it's not showing up in "My Week".  The IceTV App is stalled while trying to load "Account Information", and has already timed out twice saying that it can't establish a network connection.

With one of my PVRs currently down for the count, I don't have the option of sending a timer to the backup device.  I can't set the recording manually, as I won't be home tonight before the show is due to start recording.

Can someone at IceTV please sort out the tangled mess I've created, and ensure that tonight's episode of "After the Verdict" will be correctly recorded?

EDIT: I've finally got the IceTV android app to load properly... no sign of "After the Verdict" in "My Week".

The ACT guide for Monday 6th June is currently showing 10HD Canberra programming on both 10HD Canberra (correct) and 9HD (incorrect).

I noticed it when "Have You Been Paying Attention?" showed up in My Week, on 9HD - further investigation indicated that it's the whole day's programming which is incorrect.

Hard Quiz
ABC HD
8pm, Wednesday 1st December

This is marked as a repeat (S5E13).  While it is another "Battle of the Duds", it's not a repeat.  They do regular "Battle of the Duds" episodes, and it's not the first time IceTV has incorrectly flagged new BotD episodes as being repeated.

I have been having problems with Doctor Who, since the new series started 4 weeks ago.

The first scheduled broadcast is on Monday nights, at 7:30pm, on ABC TV Plus/Kids.  Looking at this in the IceTV Website, it has a message: "This show is part of a series recording but will not be recorded. (Show does not match requested quality setting.)".  This is a problem in itself, given that IceTV did away with series quality settings a year or two back.  The series timer was originally created many years ago, and may have been set to "HD Only" - but there's no longer any way to change that setting, and the quality setting is supposed to be ignored.

The second scheduled broadcast is on Thursday nights, at 9:35pm, on ABC HD.  This one is tagged as a repeat, and has the following reason for not being sent to the PVR: "This show is part of a series recording but will not be recorded. (Repeat showing but series set for first runs only.)".  I could set the timer to record repeats, which would catch this broadcast... but I shouldn't need to.

The end result is that the show is broadcast twice per week, once in something that vaguely approximates SD, and once in something that barely approximates HD.  Neither results in a timer being sent to my PVR.

Help ?!?

The Cheap Seats
Ch10, ACT, Canberra
9pm, Tuesday 26th July

This is currently showing as S01E01, which would make it a repeat of this week's episode.  It should almost certainly be S01E02, which would make it a new episode.

The IceTV TV guide data for 10 Shake, for Canberra ACT, is currently showing the programming for 9Life.

This is no doubt the result of the recent network swap between SCA & WIN, with 10 Shake taking the channel number previously assigned to 9Life.

It would also pay to check whether or not the reverse is also true (9Life guide showing programming for 10 Shake).  You couldn't pay me to watch anything on 9Life, so I haven't verified that one myself.