Timers not set on my Topfield 2400. Solved - 2 Toppies had identical IDs.

Started by JPP, May 17, 2016, 07:43:30 PM

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JPP

For a while now, at various times, my timers have not been sent to my Topfield 2400, even though they are marked as being sent and show (solid dots). There are no clashes and no error messages are/have been received for these missing timers.

Tonight I have 4 timers set - 2 on ABC and 2 on SBS. Only one, "Insight" has come through - Dateline, Foreign Correspondent and "The Indian Dream Hotel are all missing.

As I said, this has been an ongoing issue for some time now. Updating/rescheduling the timers does not help.

I next deleted the series and then reset them to record (all series recordings), with the result that 2 shows, are now marked as having issues (yellow triangle). There are no conflicts, so something is amiss at the server end I suspect.

I did get the email notification through about the failures, so that part seems to work OK.
Phil.
Beyonwiz T2, DVDO Duo Video Processor

JPP

After deleting all the timers again and then rescheduling them seems to have put the system in a spin. Timers are queued (hollow doughnuts) but don't get sent.
Phil.
Beyonwiz T2, DVDO Duo Video Processor

Dave at IceTV

Topfield PVRs will ignore deleted and recreated schedules if it had already downloaded them before. If it thinks it already has set them it will ignore all attempts to resend them.

There are specific steps required to delete the existing reservations in such a way that the Topfield will accept setting them again.

The hard way is a factory reset, then set it from scratch including the network and IceTV, followed by resending the recording from My Account.

The easier way is to Clear the Service List from the System Recovery menu, rescan the channels, re-enable IceTV, followed by resending the recordings from My Account.

Any other method will result in the Topfield ignoring your schedules for the next 5 days.
cheers

Dave
Customer Service

JPP

#3
Thanks Dave for your quick response, and explanation of how the system/server works - never knew about this behaviour.

It turns out, that my second Toppy (designated Toppy No 2) was somehow reset to be my first Toppy (Toppy No 1). I thus had 2 Toppy No 1s. All timers were set to Toppy No 1.

In this battle of who should win, it turned out that the second Toppy won and it in fact recorded the missing shows.

I've now corrected the problem and will monitor the 2 Toppies for the next 5 days.

Thanks again for the quick response.
Phil.
Beyonwiz T2, DVDO Duo Video Processor

Dave at IceTV

Quote from: JPP on May 17, 2016, 10:12:01 PM
It turns out, that my second Toppy (designated Toppy No 2) was somehow reset to be my first Toppy (Toppy No 1). I thus had 2 Toppy No 1s. All timers were set to Toppy No 1.

This will happen if you Reset the EPG using the Red F1 button from the IceTV menu. The toppy then defaults to the first device in the account's device list. Just another quirk of toppy ownership.

Quote from: JPP on May 17, 2016, 10:12:01 PM
In this battle of who should win, it turned out that the second Toppy won and it in fact recorded the missing shows.

LOL, yep, it's a case of which toppy fetches the timers first after they get queued in the account.
cheers

Dave
Customer Service

JPP

Quote from: Dave at IceTV on May 18, 2016, 08:52:41 AM
This will happen if you Reset the EPG using the Red F1 button from the IceTV menu. The toppy then defaults to the first device in the account's device list. Just another quirk of toppy ownership.

Wow, something else I didn't know... :(.
I did this though AFTER I had the issues with Toppy 1, suggesting that before that, it still had the Toppy No 2 ID and I should have had all the timers come through to Toppy No 1. Which then means that the problems I had (and have had for some time) were not related to having the same ID for both Toppys.....

Time will tell I guess whether the issue is solved. Anyways, thanks for the informative and educational advice Dave.
Phil.
Beyonwiz T2, DVDO Duo Video Processor