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#1
Windows Media Center / Re: Feature requests
October 07, 2011, 04:07:54 PM
Id really like to see a fix for the issues where series recordings that are scheduled through IceTV (website or app) and those scheduled directly within Media Centre end up  messing each other up.

I had some bad experiences using Interactive to schedule stuff early on, and I disabled it for over a year. I've just recently re-enabled interactive, and I'm being very careful to only schedule the odd one off recording as I'm scared my series recording will become corrupt.

#2
Psychoville started on ABC last week (5 May) on ABC 1 & ABC HD - this week (12 May) it showed up in the guide as Episode 2 on ABC 1 and as Episode 3 on ABC HD, so my Media Centre recorded both (both were actually episode 2).

I'm now concerned that next week when the real episode 3 is transmitted it won't get recorded as it may think it is a repeat.


(I'm using Windows 7 without Interactive).
#3
Don't even bother with Interactive with Windows 7 (until Ice fix it) - it just does not work properly.

It doesn't cater for series recording properly and it won't set the "finish after" setting to anything but the useless windows default of "xx minutes after if possible" (which means you can't force back-to-back shows to use separate tuners - which you can using Media Centre by selecting "10 minutes after" in the advanced recording settings).

The web interface and the iPhone app are cool and certainly do (or at least appear to do) everything I want - it's just that the integration with Windows 7 is severely lacking.

(Note: I'm also using Win 7 & 2 x HVR-2200 cards)
#4
IceTV EPG Content / Re: Daylight Saving Drama
April 06, 2010, 10:29:33 PM
Still no posts from IceTV staff!  I think they owe us some kind of apology/excuse/grovelling - assuming they want people to renew their subscriptions. I'm sure the EIT over the air data would have coped with the daylight savings issue.
#5
I wouldn't have thought daylight savings should affect me as I'm in Perth and we don't have daylight savings any more.
#6
Don't even bother using it - it gives you a false sense of security, it may seem to be working for a while - but eventually it will bite you in the ass.

It does NOT work with series recording on Media Centre - this week I've had it unschedule shows that I want to record and replace them with totally unrelated shows that I have no interest in.

Read some of the posts in this thread for more details: title keyword recordings not working as expected

This page: Compatibility mentions that it is compatible - but that is far from my experience.

Is there any chance that the Windows application will be fixed? Soon? I really like the features that Interactive offers - but I just can't use it if I can't be sure that it will schedule the correct shows.
#7
Quote from: tonymy01 on April 05, 2010, 05:07:23 PM
You get red dots without the magnifying glass for 2 reasons.
1.  It is an interactive series recording instead
2.  The PVR/device you are setting the timer on has a timer set for that timeslot on it, and thus ICE highlights by way of a red dot to show you this.

Regards
Maybe normally - but I certainly did not set Interactive or my Media Centre to record Seinfeld, Man Vs Wild or Britain from Above - these shows just scheduled themselves with no interaction from me at all - there's something really screwy about the way Interactive works in conjunction with Windows Media Center.

I may just have to stop using Interactive altogether as I could have easily missed two shows entirely this week & had them replaced with three shows I have no interest in.  :-[

I just went to the Interactive web page again & all three of those damn shows have been scheduled again - WTF!

#8
Quote from: tonymy01 on April 05, 2010, 01:38:11 PM
You can see which keyword, it will say it is part of a keyword recording, if you click that keyword it will take you to your "my shows" page and less obviously highlight the keyword or series recording entry that initiated the timer (that silly thing gets me every time also, why it just doesn't tell you the lousy keyword that it matched on is beyond me, instead of highlighting an entry in a big pile of entries which is easily missed if that entry is not on your screen at the time and you have to scroll up or down to find it).

I thought I'd seen that before (clicking on the magnifying glass) - but the strange thing with these shows for me is they just have the regular red circle icon not the magnifying glass.

I've manually cancelled all the randomly scheduled shows except one - this one (Man Vs Wild for tonight) will not cancel no matter what I do - I keep getting the error: "Error finding keyword id for keyword task id: 955199".

-edit-

OK, I tried one more thing - I logged out of the web site & logged back in, & now that show is no longer scheduled!

-edit again-

This is getting ridiculous now  >:( - I think cancelling that episode of Seinfeld (which is on Go! tomorrow at 8pm) actually cancelled the show "Community, also on Go! but one hour later at 9pm) - good job I checked otherwise I would have missed Community (good new comedy BTW).

I wonder if daylight savings has anything to do with this? (although I am in Perth - so no more daylight savings for us, at least until the next referendum).
#9
This is an excellent suggestion, I have the same issue - browsing the guide to see what's on is pretty painful when you're bombarded with all the crap that's on FTA - I'd love to be able to filter out kids shows, sports, news, reality & soaps.
#10
I setup a title keyword recording with this string +title:"the pacific" expecting that only shows with phrase "The Pacific" in the title would be scheduled - but I've been getting all kinds of random shows scheduled that have "the pacific" somewhere in the episode description (like "Man Vs Wild" today & "Britain Above" tomorrow).

I decided to delete the keyword record, but those shows remained scheduled - selecting one of the shows and clicking cancel caused this message to be displayed ("Error finding keyword id for keyword task id: 955199").

Is there any way I tell which keyword caused a particular show to be scheduled? If so I could try to refine my keyword searches to be more specific. For example, for some reason the Seinfeld episode "The Contest" has been scheduled for tomorrow - but I have no idea why.
#11
Quote from: Daniel Hall at IceTV on March 19, 2010, 09:11:55 AM
This is one of the features that we are in the process of adding, no firm release date as yet though.
That's good to hear - hopefully it won't be too far away.
#12
You're correct - as long as "if possible" means "if possible" -  where there are unused tuners it is always possible to end the first show 10 minutes after. BUT, media centre won't record back-to-back shows on separate tuners if "if possible" is used (which is IMO a bug and should be fixed by Microsoft).

But at least in Media Centre I have the option of changing "10 minutes after if possible" to just "10 minutes after" when setting up a series recording - but when using IceTV to setup series recordings you don't even get the option to change the "stop" setting.

IceTV - please alter Interactive to be able to set the "Stop after" parameter to something other than the Media Centre default.
#13
I've just installed IceTV (thanks to the St. Patrick’s Day special) and I was excited to try out the IceTV Interactive scheduling. I setup all my shows to record via the Interactive web page and then after installing the IceTV app on my Win 7 machine, the first few shows were scheduled automatically.

BUT, I was sad to see that each of the recordings were scheduled with the "Stop:" setting set to "10 minutes after if possible" (which is my recording default setting). It seems like I'm going to have to go into every episode for ever show every week, so I can adjust the "stop" value to "10 minutes after" (without the useless "if possible"). This is much more work than I'd have to do just using the normal Media Centre series recordings (which I only have to adjust once - not every week).

Will "Interactive" be enhanced any time soon to properly schedule series recordings within Media Centre and/or to set the "stop" value to something other than the Media Centre default?


Also, what happens if I alter one of the IceTV scheduled single recordings into a series recording within MediaCentre - will the next sync from IceTV have some kind of conflict?

It's really looking like Interactive is next to useless with Media Centre (at least where Series recordings are concerned).

Would it be best to remove all my series recordings from Interactive (and set them up manually within Media Centre) and then use Interactive only for one-off shows like movies etc.

Or perhaps, I should go back to Guide Only and try to forget about Interactive (it did look promising though).
#14
Quote from: Luke at IceTV on February 12, 2010, 07:37:33 PM
We have had confirmation of hard padding issues in Win7 Media Center so trying to utilise two tuners for back to back recordings just wont work as expected. I understand that MS are aware of it and are looking into it.
If recordings are set to "Stop 10 minutes after" (and not any of the "if possible" options and not "5 minutes after" either) then Win 7 will use separate tuners to record back-to-back shows on the same channel.

Media centre has recording defaults - BUT, you can only pick any of the "...if possible" options, what I usually do is alter each of my series recordings settings and change the stop after to "10 minutes after" and then I don't have any issues with back to back recordings.

BUT, IceTV Interactive seems to use the media centre defaults - so any recording setup through IceTV Interactive will have "...if possible" which is next to useless, as those smart guys at MS think it's best to use the same tuner for shows on the same channel even when you have three more sitting idle.

IceTV Interactive NEEDS to be able to set STOP AFTER to "xx minutes after" (without the "if possible" suffix).

I've just started using Interactive - it's fantastic, but it looks like I'm going to have to go into every single scheduled recording and alter the STOP AFTER setting - this makes Interactive a lot less useful than I first thought it would be.