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Luke, that's great news.  I take it you'll be following the recommended XMLTV system="xmltv_ns", or at least another scheme that's recognized by MythTV and friends?

I looked at the XMLTV spec.  Everything else I can think that's useful you already include in the xmltv feed.

Tonight's episode of The Mentalist (Red Dawn, not a repeat) steadfastly refuses to switch from grey to red (device EyeTV).

Attempting prl's trick of doing a no-op Update Series on ... hasn't had any effect.  Re-sending recordings for the device sent everything but that episode.

I'm going to have to manually schedule this episode but I'll try to leave it till later today in case IceTV people want to look at it.

Edit: Aaand now it's red.

Edit edit: So too has NCIS fixed itself.  Ok, IceTV, you did something.  Care to explain?

[not touch it]

I've got one of these now on my account (futzle): NCIS on TEN at 20.35 on Tuesday 6 November (device EyeTV).

I'm going to deliberately not touch it and leave it in its unexpected state (grey) so you people at IceTV can investigate.  You've got until midday Tuesday before I force it to schedule—I'll get in big trouble if it fails to record.

This episode of Mythbusters has been on SBS before.  Your convention (a good one) is to mark repeats on a different network as repeats.  This one is missing the repeat flag.

Mythbusters
'Voice Flame Extinguisher / Hypnosis'
7mate, 7:30pm, Tue, 30 Oct 2012, 65 minutes

(Melbourne FWIW, though I'm sure that 7mate is national)

[My Week]

This started happening either with my upgrade to iOS6 on my iPhone 4, or with my iPhone 5.  I don't remember which.

1. Have a series recording for a series I lost interest in (in my case, Vegas).
2. Open the iPhone app.  Wait; let it populate the guide.
3. Press My Week.
4. Find Vegas.  Tap it.  Tap Remove Series from recorder.
5. App crashes back to the home screen.

I think it also happens if I just do a Remove Episode.

Other actions like adding new recordings are unaffected.

Edit: I raised a proper support ticket (#19910) for this.

The spammers aren't 'guessing', they're using botnets to generate email addresses [...] A small proportion end up as valid and in all probability, that's what you're seeing.

I failed to mention (sorry) that I own my own domain, and I have a catchall account that collects all email sent to futzle.com, even for nonexistent mailboxes.  From the perspective of a spammer, all messages sent to futzle.com are valid.  Try it, make up a username and send me an email.  I'll let you know what I get.

That's what I based my assertion that the ones sent to my IceTV-registered address were arriving out of all proportion to its guessability.

I'd buy your argument if I was using GMail or something, yes.

Edit, obTopic: I haven't received a new spam at that address for a number of weeks now.  That's the usual pattern.

This is happening again on October 18.

Catalyst; Saturday October 6; 16.30; Channel 24; Melbourne has the same title as the one that is on two days earlier.

I've been getting fake Facebook updates (I'm not on Facebook) to the IceTV address that I supplied only to IceTV (interactive and the forum) since July.  The username is 13 characters long and contains a hyphen.  Really, that's not guessable. If spammers were guessing users at my domain I'd be seeing a lot more other spam to the same domain, and the IceTV address accounts for about a tenth of the spam at my domain, which is a pretty high proportion for a 13-character username guessed randomly.

Interesting that these all started at about the same time.  That's not consistent with an exploit that attacks individuals, such as a JavaScript virus scraping history.  I'd also be seeing spam to some of the other four or five dozen custom email addresses that I've logged in with (Amazon, PayPal, Google, little tiny stores you've never heard of), and I'm not.

I'll change my IceTV username to something totally random.  Luke, how many bits of entropy would convince you that a future breach is legitimate?

What I'd like to know is: what else was on that server?  Real names? Billing addresses?  Whether you think you've been hacked or not, how much could an intruder have learned?

Edit: I suppose I'm saying that lobbing accusation-hand-grenades at 50 feet about each others' respective computer hygiene isn't productive.  The addresses are out there, one way or another, and hence are scorched earth.  What I'd like to do is cooperate with IceTV and create an experiment that can help to identify the weak spot, whosever it is.  Take as many variables out of the equation.  With any luck, this experiment will never produce results, and I don't ever get further spam.  But if I do get spam again, at least it will provide useful data.

Dont recall having seen this one from the UK's season 8. Yet it is marked as a repeat.

Melbourne, Tuesday August 21, 19.30

This episode is marked as a repeat but is new (S10 E5).

Melbourne SBS One Monday May 28

(probably) this episode is a repeat but it is marked as new.

Talkin' Bout Your Generation, Melbourne, ONE, Saturday 17 Mar 2012, 18.30.

(I'm guessing) this is a repeat but it is marked as new.

Outland, Melbourne, ABC2, Thursday March 15 2012, 22.30.

This episode is marked as a repeat but it is current season (S2E14).

Melbourne, Monday March 12, 21.35, TEN.

Fry's Planet Word is coming to ABC1.

http://www.tvtonight.com.au/2012/02/airdate-frys-planet-word.html

Please to add it to the New Shows list so I can set a series recording ahead of time?