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...the wiz is sitting at home on its lonesome...

There is the explanation, right in front of you - your Wiz is lonely and bored and has taken to watching daytime TV all on its own, it'll be recording The Young and the Restless next!

Seriously though, there do seem to be a few extra recordings being reported - my guess is that the (updated?) keyword engine is picking up more unintended matches that we don't expect (e.g. ashes to ashes gave me A Survivors Guide to Crashes) - though Ice found that, not me.  You might have to look closer or type each of your keywords into the search box until you find the one that triggered Neighbours.

...I like the idea of including more info about which keyword it matched with.  We'll look into adding more info like that.

Given the number of comments we're seeing about greyed out icons and the like, I wounder if it might be worth extending the idea to encompass all matches.

Basically, whenever the user hovers or click on an icon, it gives details of why the show has or has not been recorded.  It could help minimise the number of enquiries of this type you get and help the users to understand how and why recordings do and don't get set and how to correct them.

Unfortunately the Delete issues seems to have returned... I can't seem to get rid of another Keyword result - "Jamie Oliver" this time - "Jamie Saves Our Bacon", Wed., 21:30 won't go away.

...and now it's showing with the recording failed icon.  

Clicking the Reschedule Recording button returns the "Queued Single Recording" icon... and Cancel seems to finally remove it... except it doesn't!  Waited a minute, refreshed and there it was again.  Ah well.

It seems determined to record Jamie for us... all the worse for being a program all about Pork and us being veggies, eek!

Still, if all we have is a few extra recordings at this early stage of the release, that's no real worry.

Another minor glitch for you look at sometime...

Browsing through the week ahead, using the Time/Channel: "Rest of the Day" option only.  Reaching the bottom of the guide there are four buttons (Prev. day, Prev. 6 hrs., Next 6 hrs., Next Day).  However, if I set a recording on a day, when the page refreshes the buttons have vanished.  Seen it a couple of times.  No biggie, just a minor flaw.

Unfortunately the Delete issues seems to have returned... I can't seem to get rid of another Keyword result - "Jamie Oliver" this time - "Jamie Saves Our Bacon", Wed., 21:30 won't go away.

This is now fixed, and you should be able to cancel the recording created by the keyword.  Let us know if you still have problems with it.

Yup, I can now also delete "A Survivor's Guide to Plane Crashes", thanks for the explanation for that one!

Couple of small issues have arisen...

I have a keyword recording set for "Robert Carlyle" - this has correctly found and set the movie Eragon (Sun, 18:30, Ten).  However, as we already have the movie, I tried to delete it and couldn't... it gives no error but refreshes the page when I click the Cancel Episode button but the recording stubornly stays there, according to the web at least.

From the opposite direction now.... the show "A Survivor's Guide to Plane Crashes" has been added as a keyword recording and I'm damned if I can see why and also cannot delete this one either.  I wonder if you could alter the code which shows the phrase "This show is part of a Keyword Record." to include the keywords/criteria which generated the recording so that this sort of thing can be more easily resolved?

The inability to delete is of more importance though.

All my recordings seem to be appearing correctly on my laptop, both grey and red.

Very impressed by the changes which seem to answer most of my needs/desires.  Only outstanding item for me would be a more enhanced keyword search mechanism (reg. expr. or similar) but overall I think the changes are great.

Perhaps the only area I would pick up on would be the apparent inconsistancy between the Network element of the recording options and the Time/Channel filter on the TV Guide.  I just wonder if it might be better to align these a bit better by perhaps combining the network/channel components so that either can be selected e.g.

View/Select by Network
ABC
Nine
SBS
Seven
Ten
View/Select by Channel
ABC1
ABC2
ABC3
ABC HD
Nine
Nine HD
SBS ONE
SBS TWO
SBS HD
Seven
Seven HD
Ten
ONE
ONE HD

I appreciate that it make the combobox longer but that will happen as more channels con out anyway but, to me anyway, creates a more consistant interface and allows for greater choice.  I suspect this may not be easy to do as you will be storing the network and not the channel in the database but it's just a thought for a future enhancement.

Either way I love what you've done with the place(!) - the new program details on mouseover in particular is excellent.

Well done folks, keep up the good work.

Is there any indication when we might see IceTV offer shares again, now that the Nein fiasco is behind us?

I support the OP's request. I would think that the EPG is constructed in a way that might easily enable the colons not to be put there in the first place. If the colon is used simply as a text separator, replacing it with an underscore or space would seem to be simple and would eliminate the need for anyone to have to change firmware etc.

Sorry, but as a software developer by profession, I'm 100% with tonymy01 on this.  You have to bear in mind that different PVRs use different operating systems - the Beyonwiz and Topfields are Linux based but what about EyeTV (Mac) and Windows Media player?  You must also consider that these devices are also required to work with the over-the-air EPG from the broadcasters - are you going to force them to comply with your naming limitations as well?  Not a hope!

To construct an EPG which complies with the file system limitations of each and every PVR and every conceivable target o/s out there would be a nightmare;  what about the new file systems as they appear - ext4 has just arrived in the Linux world and doesn't Vista/W7 have some new file system (or is that still a "pending" feature)?  How about DOS - the good old 8.3 filename, eh?  Where do you stop?

No, sorry, but to use your approach is to dumb down the EPG (and potentially the PVR) to an inefficient level - equivalent to forcing all bands continue to release on vinyl because some people don't want to connect a CD player to their HiFi.

The EPG is there purely to provide guide data on the PVR's display (which it does) and to set legitimate PVR recordings (which it also does), after that it becomes the manufacturers' responsibility how they use that data and store the recordings and, finally, yours.  As Tony suggests, you might want to look around for a better FTP client if yours cannot transfer from a Linux file system to Windows without generating illegal filenames on the target.  

Or perhaps you could ask Topfield to change the file system from ext3 to FAT32, hmm...?

This has now been updated.

Thanks

Come on... Give it a go... New host and all that...

Sorry, but that means there are at least two still to go.  There wasn't a single one of them that endered themselves to our family and the presenters are a critical part of the show.  No, we gave the last series two shows and ended up regretting it, not going to make the same mistake twice.  Unless they have replaced the script writers, the track cameramen, the track itself, the other two hosts and the production team (yes, we had problems with all those aspects of the previous series) we won't be watching.

The first episode of series two of Top Gear Australia appears to be starting this week on SBS, Monday at 19:30.  Unfortunately, this is being shown as Top Gear rather than Top Gear Australia so it no longer distunguishes between the two productions (I've reported this to Ice directly). 

Personally, I would like the full "Top Gear Australia" title returned so than my PVR doesn't waste disk space by recording the local rubbish, only recording the original series from the UK.

Congratulations IceTV, an excellent result.  Not that I expect to record much more, since the Nein content is usually cr@p, but it will be nice to catch the occasional one-offs again.

Now perhaps the FreeView consortium will see some sense and come to a formal arrangement for the transfer of data?

Sunday 10:00 - I think this should be flagged as a repeat. 

I'm sure I remember it and at that time of day it is unlikely to be a new one.

On a number of occasions, we find shows being scheduled via keyword searches (it shows the magnifying glass) for which we can see no rhyme or reason for being set.  Looking at all the details for the shows in question we simply cannot see any reason for the show being matched against any of our keyword recordings.

Would it be possible to add the matching criteria to the diplayed details (in the RSS feed as well as the web page) to show which keyword search was deemed to match the show?  This would help fine tune existing ones as well as correct erroneous ones.

Yep, I did that at 3am today, and it worked fine.   Last time (when we went from non-DST to DST) I deleted all the timers from the Wiz first, and this was a bad thing to do as it tells ICE you don't want that show recorded for the week and no amount of "resend timers to all devices" would work last time...

Now you tell me!  Ha ha, took me about 48 hours of resending before everything came right this time, probably becasue I deleted them all off the b/w.  Ah well, with a bit of luck it will be the last time we have to mess about with this DST stuff.