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When I checked with the www app, all three episodes are showing a dobule donut indicating that the timer has not been downloaded. I am seeing this on IceBox, Beyonwis and Topfield devices. I check on the IceBox and Beyonwiz and the recording are in fact scheuled with the same time as shown on the www app.

It is very odd.

Has anyone else notice this is it just my PVRs?

Today when I turned on my BYOB1 there was an error message about error with TVHeadend and then it was replaced by "PVR manager is Starting up: 0%" stuck on 0%. Has anyone had this hapen and if so what solution (if any) did you find.

Update: the screensaver is no displayed by the error message is still displaying.

I tried rebooting the IceBox but no luck.

On my Beyonwiz V2 and U4, and IceBox BYOB 01 and 02 recorded what purported to be two episodes of Murdoch Mysteries on 7mate Melbourne yesterdau evening. Not sure what program recorded but it defintely was not Murdoch Mysteries. The information provided about the program was generic and not specific to a particular episode content. On the IceBox there was no season and episode number.

It is rather odd as Murdoch Mysteries are normally on 7two (for recent episodes) or ABC HD (early episdoes).

I have had similar things happen on 9GO a few weeks back while I was away.

The Toys That Built The World

'Mind Game Masters'

9Go! HD, 3:00pm, Sun, 26 Jul 2026, 60 minutes

Before World War II, board games are mostly simple, but post-war peace and prosperity reveals a demand for more challenging pastimes. After decades of struggle, three different innovators break the mold with Scrabble, Clue and Yahtzee.

Series, United States, English, Documentary, History, Season 3 Episode 2

I suspect it has previousl be on SBS usign the title The Toys That Built America. Howerver, my records indicate that season 3 was not offered by SBS.

For some reason the timer for last night's episode of Sight Unseen was out by about 60 minutes. Looks like either 9HD was running very late or is made a last minute schedule change. Looks like I am going to have to increase the post padding - 60 minutes was only just enough.

In the EPG this is listed as a repeat but in the "What's On This Week" it is not flagged as a repeat. Had me confused for a while.

Professor T, 'Heir to the Throne', Season 3 Episode 1, ABC TV HD, 1:32pm, Sat, 14 Feb 2026, 48 minutes is flagged as a repeat. As far as I am aware no episode of season 3 has been shown in Melbourne - if it had one of my clutch of IceTV powered PVRs would have recorded it, but the timeslot suggest it may be a repeat. I have no record of any episode from Season 3 being transmitted in Melbourne.

A not of warning to anyone looking for a second-hand Intel NUC. At least on older models the backup battery is next to impossible to replace. You have to remove the main board which according to online posts is challenging.

The main drawback is that when the battery fails, COMOS setting are lost when the power supply cuts out - this can happen from time to time. The default setting is not to restart the PC, which can be a problem if you are away from home. I have overcome this problem [I hope] by attaching the NUC to a UPS.

Last night SBS Viceland, the program before Abandoned Americana was incorrectly named by SBS. It was not a standalone program, rather it was an episode in the series History's Greatest Mysteries. In the recoding it is the episode is identified as "Havana Syndrome".

Online episode guides frequently do not have the correct episode name, for example the guide I rely on [https://epguides.com/HistorysGreatestMysteries/] has the following:

S4.E18 · The Mysterious Havana Syndrome

Unfortunately those with a series recording set for History's Greatest Mysteries did not have that episode recorded. [I only discovered it because I had pre-padding of 60 minutes for Abandoned Americana.]

Not sure there is anything that IceTV can do to overcome SBS's failure to associate episodes of this series with the series. It may be passible to predict that the program before Abandoned Americana is an episode in History's Greatest Mysteries, unfortunately SBS can be erratic with its scheduling.

Ian

The Voynich Manuscript is an episode of Historys Greatest Mysteries - S3 E9. SBS playing fast and loose with program information again! Is it possible to update this in the data base.

There have been several TV adaptions of the Maigret books, the most recent currently on ABC (2025 version), which was preceded by version commencing in 2016, 1991 (French) and another I remember from the 1960 (BBC) - not the last has not been on TV for many many years. It would help if the EPG data distinguished between the various incarnations, particularly the 2016 and 2025 incarnations.

[EDIT] Just found a reference to a Granada version staring Michael Gambon, made in the early 1990s.

Who Do You Think You Are? (Irish TV series), produced for RTE is not the same as the on produced for the BBC.

According to Wikipedia three seasons were produced (2008, 2009 and 2018). The episode on Adrian Dunbar aired by SBS on 11 November was from the 2018 season. IceTV correctly identifies this a being S03E06, but for the wrong country. It is not clear that this is the case until you see the closing credits.

I do not know if SBS intends to air further episodes from the Irish version - there were 18 episodes made. If there are any future episodes that are S01E**, S02E** or S03E** then they are likely to be from the Irish version rather than the UK version.

Not sure if this is a major problem - just caused me real confusion.

In addition to the changes listed in the release notes IceBox firmware 12.2.2 also modified the file naming convention for recordings. Reflecting the inclusion of Series (Season) and episode number in the EOG date, that information is now included in the recording files.

Example:
Using old naming convention
Homicide_ Life On The Street-SBS VICELAND HD2025-07-1502-30.mkv
Using new naming convention
Homicide_ Life On The Street-SBS VICELAND HD2025-07-2413-55-S05E13.mkv

This makes it much easier to identify recording that you may wish to copy to PC or to PVR such as a Beyonwiz or Topfield.

Ian

Between now and midnight all my scheduled series recordings on 7flix are showing as triple donuts. The are properly configured for my IceBox (BYOB and IceTV). As far as I can see no other LCNs are having this issue. The timers appear have been downloaded (checked using OpenWedif. Is this a case of a failed time adjustment for the timers?

Ian

I am thinking of road testing OpenATV on one of my Beyonwiz T2. If I recall correctly there is an IceTV "add-on" for OpenATV, what I would like to know before I embark on this undertaking is are there any issues I should be aware of when using IceTV using OpenATV.

I am thinking of road testing OpenATV on one of my Beyonwiz T2. If I recall correctly there is an IceTV "add-on" for OpenATV, what I would like to know before I embark on this undertaking is are there any issues I should be aware of when using IceTV using OpenATV.

This just started happening. Adjusted timers for T2 and V2 it stopped bringing up options when I tried another T2 and IceBox. Tried a different browser and different account and saw the same thing.

Is this a general issue or is it just for me?

[Law & Order]

Last night on my Beyonwiz (T2, U4 and V2) an episode of Law & Order named "The Girl with the Curl" recorded (7Flix Melbourne) - when I looked at it it was an episode of Bones". Both Bones and Law & Order are scheduled to record on the Beyonwiz. It did not record any of my IceBox. My IceTV IceBox is scheduled for both Bone" and Law & Order, BYOB1 and BYOB2 only for Law & Order.

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.