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Hi there,

I've got a long standing series recording set for 10 News which would normally give me the 5 pm evening bulletin only.  Lately they've added a noon and a 3:30 pm bulletin which gets included by this series recording.

is there any way to tie a series recording to a particular timeslot etc so that I only get the 5 pm evening bulletin and none of the other schedule-filler versions?

Andrew

Oh well, that week has now gone.

Andrew

Pretty sure it's a one-off movie.  :-)

This was one of the items that featured in the IcePicks email.

HI Gai,

Thanks for the additional info.  That makes sense as to why this has been an annoyingly intermittent issue/bug for me.  Usually I don't have the time to sit down and nut it out.

@aeb001 Your suggestion makes good sense.  Not entirely sure why I didn't think of it years ago.  (sigh)

Andrew

(Beyonwiz T4, Brisbane metro area)

I've been slightly bothered that programs are being recorded in SD when I was quite sure that the HD version was also going to air.  Figured out that both the SD and HD versions  are listed at the same time, but the SD (ABC News) is the first item in the EPG list and thus the HD version is considered to be a repeat by a microsecond.

Wondering if it might be possible to adjust the order when the one program is on multiple channels at once so that the HD version gets precedence?



(I've done a manual fix to specify ABC HD as the only channel for the series recording, but the above image shows the listing order when doing a search for "7.30".)

Andrew

Speaking of "the demise of Beyonwiz", their website looks definitively down at the moment.  Does anyone have further info on just how 'demised' they are?  Guessing they may have had terminal (no pun intended) difficulties from the manufacturing and shipping crisis of recent years.

Andrew

Gosh I should come by here more often.  :-)

Available to help with testing if I should be of use to you.  I've previously been a beta tester for a few versions of Corel Draw and also some other comparatively minor software titles.  I know how to do a bug report.

Glad to see you are creating a way forward for when current equipment completes its life span.

Andrew

When you launch the app and you see this message, and have to click the 'okay' button, it really gets in the way of using the app like you wanted to.  It's a speed bump and also feels a bit clunky.

What I would suggest as a solution is that you bypass this and instead go straight in to the UI screen at launch.  If the data needs to be downloaded, a thin progress bar across the very top can indicate the progress of this, and most people would intuitively pick up that this indicates something that needs to happen. 

If you ordinarily need to prevent access to the TV guide or other sections until the data has arrived, those icons could be dimmed until their part of the data becomes available.

Given the speed of cellular data connections these days it should be a minimal wait, and further would become a more elegant app launch experience.

Aside from that, it's way cool to be able to use the app to trigger recordings.

Update: It's now there.

Andrew

The 50 year special is supposed to be Sunday 10th per https://www.973fm.com.au/entertainment/return-date-for-hey-hey-its-saturday-confirmed-for-50-year-anniversary-show/

Ch 7's schedule (looking at Brisbane) is still TBA for the 7pm slot.

Andrew

Checked in via IceTV web app and it's disappeared from my recordings that had been set.  Additionally, the series recording is there but it's listed as being 0 minutes duration.

So it's just a small issue.    ;D

Andrew

I'm in the Brisbane region and clicked through from the weekly IcePicks email to select Maleficent for recording.  When selecting the recording type on the IceTV web interface I saw that it would not be selected as a single item, only a series.

See screen shot attached.

Andrew

Ahh, I see.  And I thought I was doing well to select "series" from the recording type dropdown item. 

BTW, I've noticed that the year the program was produced is no longer (?) included in the description information.  Makes it a bit harder to pick if something is a repeat screening or not.

Andrew

Plot twist: Despite scheduling a recording again on the now EPG populated "The Trump Show", and it even shows up in my account "series recordings" list, the recording status does not show on my IceTV EPG website listing for tonight and has not been set to record on my Beyonwiz unit.

I don't know what is going on, but this is seriously not cool.

Andrew

Yes, I did see that the show info had been updated (and the recording request no longer active).  Appreciate you putting it in the suggestion list for consideration next time you further develop the software.

Andrew