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My Beyonwiz are showing multiple double donuts in the My Week listing. However, there are no double donuts for IceBox. [Will ignore problems with the Toppys as that is probably due to the way in which they update timers.]

With the Beyonwiz it is odd that the most recent timer downloads are not showing any errors in the logfile; for some there are error messages for earlier downloads - see screenshot.

On one of my Windows 11 Pro PCs I am running Release Preview insider build. Yesterday I loaded the lates build - Version 24H2, OS build 26100.712. This morning when I attempted to connect to one of my BYOB IceBox units I was presented with windows login box - claimed I needed username and password due to organization policies (no organization and I had changed nothing). Once I changed the settings from anonymous SMB to username and password all was well.
I changed the default username and password - libreelec - before doing so.

[Update:]

Just noticed an add on the ABC promoting the new channels.

Ian

Update:
Found this on ABC www site:
ABC TV Plus will become ABC Family and ABC ME will become ABC Entertains. We're also introducing four new digital streams on ABC iview.

Who Do You Think You Are? Australia USA, 'Melissa Etheridge'
SBS HD, 4:10pm, Tue, 14 May 2024, 50 minutes

It is USA not Australia!

FBI: International, 'One Point One Million Followers'
10 Bold (Melbourne), 9:30pm, Tue, 9 Jan 2024, 60 minutes

All episodes of season 1 have been shown previously. Unusual for first runs to be on 10 Bold.

Ian

The program is in fact an ancient Who Do You Think You Are? USA episode "Melissa Etheridge" season 6, episode 8 (2015).

Yesterday/overnight Diagnosis Murder "Obsession Part 2" was recoded as a series recording, however "Obsession Part 1" does not seem to have been recorded. Was it actually trasmitted recently. Had the same problem last time around, part 2 recorded but not part 1.

The program description for this movie is given as:

Two hurricane hunters track a huge, violent hurricane that is bearing down on a Gulf Coast town. (United States, English)

It is in fact set in WW2, and the hurricane in question is an aircraft not a weather phenomena. It seems to deal with the experiences of Polish pilots flying with the RAF.

The episode transmitted (Bishop's Palace Wells 1 - a repeat of an episode transmitted a few weeks ago) was not the advertised one advertised (Ulster [Folk] Museum 2).

I believe this must have been a last minute change by the ABC. Please keep a close eye on episode listings in the coming weeks as this is likely to put things out of kilter.

I will check to see if the "repeat" this morning is of the "correct" episode.

Last night I had scheduled the Moral Hazard episode of Major Crimes on 9Gem HD Melbourne. Last time it was on (some months back) for some reason it did not record, so I had missed it. Owing to the tennis ending 55 minutes early (this is guestimate, based on how much of the episode recorded), but fortunately on my V2 I has 1 hour pre padding (similar setting on my BYOB IceBox), so managed to get the full program. The start was missing on my U4 (only 20 minutes pre padding) and on my 2400 and 5300 (15 minutes pre padding).

So, this time I was very lucky.

Presently there are multiple programs that are being broadcast on more than one network. At one time when setting series recording we could specify the network (rather than LCN). Unfortunately, the LCN on which a network broadcasts a program can change, or be transmitted for example on 9HD and 9Gem HD interchangeably.

Examples I am currently seeing are:
The World's Most Scenic Railway Journeys (SBS and 7Two)
Agatha Rasin (ABC and 9Gem)
Call the Midwife (ABC and 7Two)

In the past there have been problems with
Chris Tarrent Extreme Railway Journeys (SBS and 7Two)

Ian

Last night my 7100+ recorded an episode of Agatha Raisin (The Deadly Dance) on 9Gem HD which was not classed as a repeat.

All four seasons of Agatha Raisin have been aired on ABC. The confusion seems to be caused by the naming of the episodes. On ABC the episode name always started with Agatha Raisin and, whereas those words are not used for 9Gem listing, which I suspect is the reason why episodes on 9Gem are not always marked as a repeat.

Ian

See the post below for details
IceBox - Some timers not what they should be

If you have scheduled the first run of Antiques Roadshow or The Newsreader on Sunday night it will not record. For The Newsreader you will get the repeat of the prior episode on Saturday night and for Antiques Roadshow you will get the repeat screening of the Sunday episode on Monday morning.

You will have to manually set the timers on the IceBox.

There may be other timers that will not record as expected, but I have not identified them.

If you have a series recording set for Bay of Fires check you IceBox to make sure that the timer has been set. On my week listing it is shown as being set but it is not set when I checked the IceBox (via TVHeadend).

Ian

Looks like 9 made a last minute change to lineup last night. Rather than just one episode of London Kills two episodes were transmitted. Presumably the fist episode (which was scheduled on my Topfield 2400/5300, Beyonwiz T2, U4 and V2) is season 3 episode 4 "Control Freak"; and the subsequent episode was presumable season 3 episode 5 "Crossing the Line". Just checked and it appears that London Kills only has 5 episodes in each season. If there is a repeat for episode 5 could it please be marked as premier so that those who missed it can record it.

I was lucky on my T2 I had extremely generous post padding so got both episodes.

Ian

This has a repeat flag, but the description says it is new series. The online guide says it is episode 1 of season 7.

I am sure that there was an announcement last Sunday that it was a new series.

The epiosode title may be the cause for confusion, season 7 ep 1 was about William Nicholson whereas season 10 ep 1 is about Ben Nicholson.

Time-shift is not configured by the IceBox configuration wizard. In recent days the members of the beta testing team have been testing time-shift and it seems to work as one would expect.

Time-shift is configured using TVHeadend.


It is important to click on save!

Once time-shift configured, when you are watching live TV you can pause, and go backwards or forwards in the same way you do when playing a recording.

At this stage, I am not aware of any way of saving the time-shift buffer. When you change the channel being used, be time-shift buffer is cleared and a new time shift buffer is created for the channel now being viewed.

The size of the time-shift buffer is up to you; I prefer to set it to 3 hours and sufficient storage to store 3 hours of HD recording.

My TRF2400 and TRF5300 recorded what was reported by them an episode of Law & Order last night on 7Flix which was actually an episode of Law & Order: Criminal Intent. As that program did not record on Beyonwiz or IceBox I suspect there was a late correction that did not get through to the Toppys.

Ian

The forum is suffering from intermittent responsiveness problems. It would be appreciated if this could be attended to.

Ian