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I had a conversation with Daniel from ICE TV.
We talked about how I have set up my current recordings - which for forum members was a combination of all of the following

- individual recordings set up on MC
- individual recordings set up on ICE (web and iPhone)
- series set up on ICE, MC, iPhone

Previously I was getting 'No matching ICE TV...' and now I am getting

Exception NullReferenceException - Object Exception ....


Damien requested the logs from the new Interactive for Windows 7.
He explained that this is likely a conflict in series recording between Media Center (MC) and ICE.
I was given some steps that would effectively 'refresh' recordings on ICE FROM MC recordings.

I explained that I often 'tweak' series recordings on the MC to set file retention rules (eg. keep 2 episodes of news, 10 episodes of mind numbing WotWots shows for the toddler).

I will post any feedback from ICE on my logs and let members know if the 'resend from MC' steps solve my current conflict issues.  I may need to choose 1 PLACE for series recordings for now - which would be the MC as it has more options.

... not sure if it falls under the category of 'it just works' quite yet... but at least ICE seem to be working hard to sort out issues...

So it looked like there was ANOTHER update last night.
I installed it and hoped for the best...

If anything there are MORE logs getting churned out.  I am loathe to remove all my media center recording schedules just to fix the ICE TV logs.  One of the reasons is that ICE doesn't let me set how many episodes to keep.  Some shows we keep 'forever' because our toddler loves them and they aren't on TV any more - other things, like news, we only want to keep 2 recordings max.  So in the past I have set up recordings, and then altered them in Media Center to set the retention rules - I guess this is causing the problem, but ICE should be able to handle it.

-=Lip

I also installed the latest and greatest last night.. .and found the 'No matching IceTV channel... ' log errors were still pouring into logs every 7 seconds or so.

Disappointing.. I was hoping this would be fixed.  I also don't understand the actual impact - are recordings not making it from ICE to Media Center or are Media Center recordings not making it to Ice?  ??? (both)?

-+Lip

Have talked to ICE support guys.
Seems they are aware of the problem.  They said they were hoping to release an update in 'about a week' - more than a week ago  :o...
I seem to SOMEHOW get recordings scheduled.. but the error log is spewing out a massive number of errors - so it's hard to see what's working and what isn't.

I maintain ALL of my channels are using ICE TV Guides.
The ICETV tech guy seemed to think the issue was 'something to do with removing / disabling some channels from your W7 MC TV guide' but wasn't able to provide me with a workaround at this time.

Will post if I get a fix / workaround / update

-=Lip

[26/11/2009 17:45:02.419: DEBUG There are 5 matching channels for channel number 22]

I compressed my logs and sent to ICE for review.
The logs are now complaining of...

26/11/2009 17:45:02.373: WARNING No matching IceTV channel for channelID 22 callsign Deleted(10/24/2009 01:37:58): ABC2
26/11/2009 17:45:02.375: INFO Locally scheduled: Type(Series) Id(!Generated!c619f18722ce43029b3530eac521e714) Channel(22) StartTime(2009-12-01T03:55:00.0000000Z) Title(Olivia)
26/11/2009 17:45:02.378: INFO Creating local task..
26/11/2009 17:45:02.419: DEBUG There are 5 matching channels for channel number 22

I am getting the same error for lots of channels...
SBS HD (Channel 30)
ABC2 (Channel 22)
ABC HDTV (Channel 20)

.. it always says 5 matching channels.
I will post feedback once the ICE guys have had a chance to look over my logs.

Cheers,

-=Liperty

I am having the same issue with this "... No matching IceTV channel for channelID 22..."
I have checked ABC2 ... it's using channel 22, it's got the ICETV guide active and I can see the ICE TV program guide.  Not really sure what this error is describing.

Currently I am not getting any recordings scheduled through interactive, only guide updates - and my error log seems to spool out more errors about every 5 seconds  :-[.

if anyone has a fix for this - I'm all ears.
I wrote to ICE TV support with part of my log yesterday - if they provide a fix, I'll test and post results back to the forum.

Cheers,

-=Lip

I keep getting the following...

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24/10/2009 01:05:49.176: INFO Locally scheduled: Type(Onetime) Id(!Generated!8b10d1b3a890493e8427f894605ed417) Channel(22) StartTime(2009-10-24T10:05:00.0000000Z) Title(The New Inventors)
24/10/2009 01:05:49.177: INFO Creating local task..
24/10/2009 01:05:49.191: DEBUG There is 3 matching channel(s) for 22
24/10/2009 01:05:49.192: INFO No matching IceTV channel for channelID 22 callsign Deleted(08/05/2009 11:53:56): ABC2

any ideas?