Yes, that particular bug/flaw in the UI affects all clients and has been reported multiple times over the past 3 years (including by me, again, last July), each time receiving the typical Plex treatment of ignore and close. On my post, I was specifically told (after two months of waiting for a response) that Plex has higher priorities. I would encourage any additional discussion on that particular stupidity to occur in my thread.
So I guess duct tape canāt fix everything.
I discovered this issue a long time ago. You are correct, if you added extra recording time at the end of a scheduled program, there is no place/nowhere to find that recording and start watching it.
Also, if you have been watching a game and the app crashes before you finish watching the game, but before the extended recording is over, again, you have no way to continue watching the game. You must wait until the recording completes.
Well, itās been 8 days since I expressed a need for communication from Plex about the pitiful state of Live TV/DVR. I have not seen such communication.
Since 8 days ago, nothings has really changed. If anything, the PlexWeb 4.73.2 client is worse for Live TV than 4.72.1 ā the progress bar and +30sec button are both back to being non-functional. Obviously nothing has changed for the AndroidTV play from start issue. I canāt even watch LiveTV effectively on my Windows machine that is my Plex Server since the web client and Plex For Windows continue to have significant issues.
When significant issues continue for many months and Plex wonāt even communicate with us, itās pretty hard not to attribute this to malice or deceitfulness.
So I am left wondering, like I was back in November, āLive TV/DVR Included With Plex Pass ā How is this not a scam?ā
Our voices have been heard. Keep it ruthless everyone!
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Just tested. Works!!!
This topic can be marked as solved! Finally!!
Yep the fix works. Anyone know if it addresses the bug where you cannot access a recording that has finished in the guide but is still recording because it was set to record for x minutes past finish?
No, that would have to be a PMS update because that is a feature that doesnāt exist in the whole ecosystem. Lets hope they have this planned soon.
We should keep up the pressure. There are a few showstoppers that need to resolved.
My vote is for the Canāt rewind near the end of a file. Annoying as can be.
I doubt it. I donāt expect Plex to make Live TV/DVR good. I expect it will only be brought up to the minimal standard that allows them to say that Live TV/DVR is included with the Plex Pass without it being false advertising.
Yea, well, itās not false advertising as I and the whole family use it every single day with minimal issues on the Roku platform.
Still canāt watch live tv on my Windows server. Still canāt record all the Olympics airings because Plex will absolutely not record something that it thinks is a duplicate ā no real way to override that, especially if the airings are close together. Thereās still a long way to go before it could be called good. But they are getting closer to the standard of āfit for the purpose intended.ā
If Plex thinks itās a duplicate and itās not then thatās your EPG data being wrong not Plex. If you are using the Plex provided EPG then you need to raise that with them in the EPG thread. I personally use XMLTV and am responsible for my own guide.
Donāt be ridiculous. We canāt do that for every airing. And sports is a fluid thing. Just because something is marked as a repeat for the Olympics doesnāt mean thatās what it will be ultimately be. I want to record everything and I should be able to do that. The job of a DVR is to record what you want to record. Thatās why I use other software that is actually a DVR during the Olympics. Plex has had many years to fix this problem and they refuse to do it.
All the Olympic airings on my guide are marked as new and have specific episode numbers that change with each airing. So what I said stands.
Yes, Plex is functioning as designed. That does not make it a DVR. A DVR lets you record what you want to record. At best, it is a guide with limiting recording abilities.
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I can record whatever I want with the Plex DVR. If your airings are not recording because of an episode mismatch and Plex thinks it already has it recorded then itās a guide problem. No DVR is going to leave two copies of the same episode on the DVR. When I had dishnetwork their DVR didnāt do that either. It would absolutely skip the recording if it thought the episode was already there.
Like I said itās a guide problem not a DVR problem.
Itās not a guide problem because the intention is for the airing to be a repeat. But that can change in real time with sports and the Olympics in particular. I prefer to record it all. Sensible DVR software developers include the ability to record by time/channel for exceptions. Plex chooses not to be a member of that āeliteā group of developers.
None of what you are saying changes the fact that I canāt record what I want to record in Plex. So I definitely donāt understand the point you are trying to make here other than that you are technically ārightā which is all that seems to matter to you.
For example on dishnetwork DVR you can restore a skipped event if you absolutely want it to record but it will overwrite the existing recording that it thinks it has.
It wont save two copies of āthe same programā as per the information the GUIDE provides.
