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Thanks, Tiphanee, that's sorted it.

The Recommendations for the ACT region for this week in my iPhone app are almost all missing. The only item showing is Eurovision Song Contest, listed as "Coming Soon", but it has already come and gone.

I've tried manually updating the IceTV data with a swipe down in My Week, and by doing Settinge>Reset application, but neither has any effect on the problem.

Also, if I swipe left or right from the Recommendations screen with only the one item in it, I end in a black screen, and left or right swipes do nothing, and a swipe from the left edge of the screen, which would normally take me back to the app home page, also does nothing. I think that this issue is probably unrelated to the issue of the missing content in Recommendations, except, perhaps, for the fact that there is only one item in the swipeable list.

From the black screen, the only way back to the app home page is by using the "< Home" button in the title bar of the screen.

Thanks, Tiphanee. After an ordinary data update (swipe down from the top of My Shows), Silent Witness is gone from Recommendations.

Even though tonight is the third episode of the season of Silent Witness currently showing on ABCTV, it's still being listed in Recommended in (at least) the ACT in the the iPhone app.

I've tried doing a Settings>Reset application to force a full IceTV data reload, but Silent Witness is still listed in Recommendations for me.

unless 7 has massaged a two-parter into three episodes

yourtv.com.au is listing it as 1 hour duration, and IMDb says that the episodes are 50 min, so if they're correct, then it looks as though it's being broadcast in the original format.

When the program actually starts, the BW places a bookmark in the recording, and when the program actually ends, the BW places a bookmark in the recording.

That mark is inserted when the EPG now/next data changes, not when the program material changes. It's neither 100% reliable nor 100% accurate from the broadcaster end, though the accuracy and reliability have improved in recent years, so that it's now usually correct. It's supposed to be kept correct so that control of the ability to view programs by their classification can be implemented properly on receivers.

Even if it's not exactly correct, it's still a quick way of getting to a point near the actual program start time in a recording, even when the program doesn't start at its scheduled time.

Hi Tiphanee, you're quite right, S1E1 of The Suspect was shown last night, and recorded correctly. for me Sorry for the mistake!

Thanks, Tiphanee, I didn't think to check that S1E1 had already been recorded.

I'll check and get back to you.

The Suspect, 'Series 1, Episode 1', ABC TV HD, 11:05pm, Sun, 7 Apr
and its simulcast on ABC TV is marked as a repeat. The episodes S1E2-S1E5 that follow directly after it are correctly (I think) marked as first run.

Strangely, the ABC Web EPG shows all 5 episodes as repeats (on both channels).

Sorry I didn't raise this earlier, I only just noticed it.

EDIT: ACT IceTV region

We're a small company and everyone does their best but there are only 24 hours in a day, and this issue is far down our priority list.  It has no effect on the enjoyment of our services and their consumption of recorded free to air TV.

I appreciate that, but the problem with mangled UTF-8 encoding goes back literally years.

Its to do wth the show title being part of the url & therefore the % somehow corrupts it

That would only be if the % was not properly encoded in the URL. "The-1%-Club-UK" (as it might appear in a URL path component in, say, an entry in "My Shows") would properly be encoded as "The-1%25-Club-UK". That encoding should be done by the code that generates the HTML.

It's not the only issue with encoding of characters in IceTV. The encoding of text characters outside the ASCII range has long been broken in both the HTML and in the JSON data sent in the "new" IceTV API (e.g. for the "newer" Beyonwiz devices). That seems to have been "fixed" recently by avoiding those characters. For example, in The Wall, the lead character's name, Céline, is transliterated to Celine, avoiding, but not addressing, the problem.

% is a html code & causes web errors

% is a special character in URLs, and must be encoded in them as %25. It is not a special character in HTML text, though it does also have a character entity that represents it, &percnt;.

The characters that must be represented as character entities in HTML are &, <, >, ' and ". They can be represented in HTML by &amp;, &lt;, &gt;, &apos; and &quot; respectively.

I don't know why % is problematic in IceTV titles, but it's not because it's special in HTML text.

In capital cities 10 HD has two (logical) channels, 1 and 15.

I believe that that's the case in all state capitals except Hobart, plus Gold Coast and Sunshine Coast in Queensland.

It's not the case in Canberra and Hobart, where 10 HD is on channel 50, and 10 is on channels 5 and 51, and in Darwin where 10 HD is on channel 10, and 10 is on channels 1 and 11.

[Fishing Forever is] not on the website though

It is for me (ACT region), at least now. It's showing as first episode on 17 Mar.

All good now. Thanks, Lisa.