I love using my Silicondust homerun Prime with 3 tuners ands a cable card… I have two of them on two servers
On one of my two servers. which I use very often with a nearly empty Hard drive recording aren’t being recorded, some are, some aren’t
I double checked to see if I can view the channels that are not recording and I can
I read that if I clear the cache from the localappdata folder after first deleting the DVR and disconnecting from PLEX it might work.
I did that from the plug-ins folder and still problem persists and even future recordings still there as programmed despite deleting DVR
Can I safely delete ALL cache folders without worrying about background artwork, preview music for tv series, etc? Would this fix my issue, or uninstall plex and begin from scratch?
Again, only issue is with dvr scheduling being hit and miss
I’m no expert, so take this all with a grain of salt, it’s just the methods I’d take for diagnosing:
I can’t speak to what will happen if you clear out the localappdata folder, but Plex has been replacing posters and backgrounds for shows & movies that don’t have local artwork attached to them anyways, so I don’t know how much it’d hurt. You could try making a backup, or simply copying the localappdata folder to elsewhere on your computer, deleting the original to see what happens, and then [if there are negative side effects] replacing the folder with the original files.
What folder did you delete? I have a DVR set up but my plug-ins folder is empty - I believe the cache is in the “plug-ins support” folder.
Within Plex, if you go to Live TV → DVR Schedule , are the shows all showing up as scheduled? Perhaps the guide has them named differently so they don’t record? Or are they showing up as scheduled, but then not actually recording? Do you have “Limit to channel” or “Limit to airing time” enabled?
For the shows that are recording properly, do they record to the proper library (movies or TV)? I had an issue where Plex wasn’t seeing the “Series” tag with a TV show, and was binning it to Movies, so it wouldn’t record new episodes, because it thought that it already has this “movie”.
EDIT: I just looked over the “Backups” guide that I linked above and it says, " Tip! : For Windows and Linux systems, you can exclude the Cache directory, if desired. That can save space and time in the transfer." I don’t know if that means deleting it won’t affect your posters/backgrounds, or if it just means “in the grand scheme of things, if you have to use a backup, none of the important stuff is in the cache”
This sounds as if one airing has been divided into 2 parts in the EPG.
The bug lies in the EPG then. It has nothing to do with some sort of DVR cache.
If the EPG doesn’t contain the information that the second occurrence of the airing’s title is a second part or a different episode, Plex will assume that it is merely a rebroadcast. And thus will not record it “again”.
Unless the producer of the EPG (Gracenote) does start to add this kind of information (which doesn’t seem to be happening any time soon), all you can do is a workaround:
Schedule the first part to be recorded.
Define the “Minutes after end” long enough to include the duration of the news (or whatever) show in-between the two parts, as well as the second part itself.
