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The guide for late tonight has 10News+ at 23:05 followed by a blank 30 minutes, followed by Home Shopping. It should be 10News+ followed by Late Night with Stephen Colbert. My IceBox has ticked the blank and the Home Shopping, trying to accommodate the missing Colbert.

Please fix by tonight if possible.

I have a recurring problem with repeats being scheduled for recording when the series is marked first runs only. IceTV knows it's a repeat, as there is a [R] identifier in the title. The show that runs late Monday/early Tuesday is always a repeat, but is almost always scheduled for recording. The Android app even says "Repeat showing but series set for first runs only". I have deleted and recreated the Series Recording several times, but the problem continues to happen.

Hi,

The IceTV app seems to have fallen into the "Edge to Edge" display trap on my Pixel. The screen doesn't make allowance for the heading and status/navigation lines. This causes the heading to obscure the top of the app's display, and the navigation bar to cover any controls at the bottom of the screen, making it impossible to change the day or the channel in the guide.

Ned

Hi,

For the last month or more, I have had no problems with lock-ups, loss of HDMI, or any of the other things I've had. All I did was to make sure the IceBox was playing TV before switching my TV to another input, rather than leave it in the menus. This includes absences from home of two days and six days. It could be a fluke, but I've never gone this long without a problem before.

Ned

A couple of more data points.

I noticed that when two new episodes of a show are screened back to back that it seems to create a problem with ad skipping. Usually, the second episode, and sometimes the first as well, doesn't have any  ad skipping.

A show that consistently has no ad skipping at all is SWAT on 7HD.

Ned

Hi,

When I went to watch Wednesday's recordings on Thursday morning, I was not able to start any; I got a dialog that "recording did not play" or something like that. When I tried to reboot, the box said that it was still recording DI Ray on SBSHD from the previous night. I forced the reboot, and when the box came up I was able to start playback on other recordings. D I Ray would play, but I was unable to skip, fast-forward or rewind. It was like watching catchup TV! As it happens, I had to go to catchup anyway, as the recording was only about 10 minutes long.

This is the second time I have had the "record forever" problem.

Ned

Hi,

I was away for a couple of days last week (25th and 26th of June). When I got back I noticed some odd characteristics in several of the recordings done on the 25th. Three of the recordings had durations displayed in excess of 20 hours. On one, the full program was there, but the other two were only around 12 minutes of the content. The file sizes were consistent with the amount of content actually recorded. None of the recordings had any ad skipping.

I had rebooted the box prior to leaving to try to circumvent the problem of ad skipping stopping after a few days of uptime.

I'm still having the problem of losing video after a variable amount of time running. I used to think the box was locked up, but I've found the box seems to be still running, because it shuts down normally when I press the power button.

Ned

The guide is empty for ABC TV HD (20) from 16/5 onwards.

Ned

Hi,

Like others here, I have had it with the included remote control. I am tired of hearing the "woodpecker" noise from the IceBox and having it skip to the end of a recording, or several days ahead in the Guide with one click, or randomly landing on any options selection I didn't want.

Amazon sent me a special on a ProChosen 2.4G Backlit AirMouse @$17.99. It mentioned Kodi in the description, so I went ahead and ordered one. It worked straight away with none of the issues of the original remote. It seems to have all the required buttons, including Power and Options. It has a keyboard on the back to get any missing buttons eg. it has no "i" key, but pressing i on the keyboard brings up the Info box. There is also no Instant Record, but the keyboard would presumably take care of that. The Air Mouse seems to work, but I haven't really used it. It works simultaneously with the old remote, so that could be used if needed.

Be aware that it doesn't come with batteries; it needs 2 X AAA.

Regards,
Ned

Hi,

I received my new SSD yesterday, and set to work on it this morning. I had some minor issues, which I'll describe here.

I "burned" the USB stick with no issues using Baleena Etcher.

I started the cloning trying to use a mini-usb keyboard that I use when I need to interact with one of my Raspberry Pis. I think the problem was that the delete key also had a back-arrow on it, so I might have been getting a backspace instead of delete. I switched to an old "real" PS2 mouse and keyboard on a PS2->USB adapter.

I still had problems getting into the BIOS. I found it easiest to let it boot into Kodi, then doing a Reboot from the menu. For me, there was too much ambiguity of when to start hitting Delete using the Power button.

For some reason that I don't understand, the new disk didn't always show up in Gparted. I had to reboot, and it then appeared.

In Gparted, on sda (the old disk), the System partition had a red triangle on it. Looking at the Info dialog, the packages dosfstools and mtools were required to manipulate FAT partitions. dosfstools was installed, but mtools wasn't. After I installed mtools, the triangle went away.

On sdb, the new disk, there was a red exclamation point, and it wouldn't let me paste. According to the Info, the disk label was invalid. I had to create a GPT partition table on the disk before it would allow access.

Once that was done, the copies succeeded without incident. I swapped the drives, plugged everything in again, and the IceBox booted normally, with all timers and recordings intact. My disk was only about 10% full, so the whole exercise only took about 1.5 hours.

I hope this helps anyone else having problems. Thanks IceTv for the replacement. That's service!

Ned

For the last two days, my IceBox has been unresponsive in the morning. I have to do the 5 second press of the power button to reboot it, whereupon it boots normally. It has worked flawlessly since my last post on the lockups thread. Has anything changed software-wise this week?

My IceBox has locked up three times this week. The first time must have happened during the night, as the box was unresponsive when I tried to access it in the morning. The other times, it locked up while I was watching a recording (Millionaire). I watch this by fast forwarding/skipping all the waffle/ads to only see the questions. When it happens, the box becomes completely unresponsive; the screen goes black and the TV says "No Signal" on the HDMI. The only thing I can do is push the power button for 4 seconds to reboot. Of course, that kills the recording of the News which is happening at the same time.

It's acting like something is telling it to turn off. I looked at the Power saving settings, and everything seems disabled; I even changed the Shutdown Function to "Suspend" even though its timer is set to off.

Is there anything I can do?

Ned