PMS for Mac 1.32.2.7100
Plex (player) for Mac 1.70.2.3845 (Mac Studio (2022), macOS 12.6.5)
Despite successfully recording an OTA Live TV show as scheduled, PMS erroneously posted an error in the DVR Schedule, “Airing did not start at the required time,” and would not allow one to play the successful recording from the DVR Schedule UI (was missing the Play control icon):
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PMS clearly thinks the entire show was successfully recorded:
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The PMS host Mac file system shows a normal beginning time, ending time, and file size:
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A 5-days-per-week CBS news show airs twice locally on the same channel, originally at 6:30pm, then a re-broadcast of the exact same show at 3:00am: “CBS Evening News With Norah O’Donnell.”
For many daily news shows, PMS will not schedule unless [New and Repeat Airings] is selected. (Example: BBC News on the local PBS station. It appears that the EPG for such class of show does not behave as Plex expects.)
If I merely schedule recording “CBS Evening News With Norah O’Donnell,” PMS records the first airing, that always being the 3am rerun of the previous day’s evening prime time broadcast (ie, yesterday’s news).
So to record “today’s” “CBS Evening News With Norah O’Donnell” airing, I’ve had to explicitly restrict the recording schedule to be the 6:30pm airing:
(I see that this particular news show apparently typically includes episode numbers in the EPG, so it may be possible to restrict the recording to the original airing. I may so do, but am reporting the bug as-is for this configuration.)
P.S. BTW, after quitting and launching Plex (player) for Mac repeatedly and downloading PMS logs and the database, I see that the error message is no longer evident.
