I am trying to get Saturday Night Live to only record the 10:30pm airing time but plex only shows 5:00pm and 7:00pm and 8:00pm. None of which are the time when SNL actually airs. Selecting the 8:00pm listing seems to limit to correctly to the 10:30pm airing. Just trying to figure out why this is happening.
similar issue (screenshot from last night’s recordings). I have SNL set to record only new expisodes in the series. The one recorded at 8pm is def not new (maybe the EPG data is wrong here). This has been going like that the whole season.
Yeah, same problems here. I have given up on getting Plex DVR to record the real SNL that airs at 11:30PM Eastern. I have my fingers crossed that manual recording and/or grid guide based recording will let me select the right one REAL SOON NOW.
FWIW - I think the earlier episode, which contains repeated content is actually “new” in the sense that it is an updated, edited, abridged version of an old SNL. So, not a true repeat, since original episodes are 1.5 hours long.
Then something in Plex’s DVR scheduling logic says that since it recorded a “new” episode at 8:00 the 11:30 version must be a repeat of the new show and it won’t record it.
I’ve seen this problem for 9 months now. I guess Plex support and development do not care to fix it.
@cdcochrane said:
Yeah, same problems here. I have given up on getting Plex DVR to record the real SNL that airs at 11:30PM Eastern. I have my fingers crossed that manual recording and/or grid guide based recording will let me select the right one REAL SOON NOW.FWIW - I think the earlier episode, which contains repeated content is actually “new” in the sense that it is an updated, edited, abridged version of an old SNL. So, not a true repeat, since original episodes are 1.5 hours long.
Then something in Plex’s DVR scheduling logic says that since it recorded a “new” episode at 8:00 the 11:30 version must be a repeat of the new show and it won’t record it.
I’ve seen this problem for 9 months now. I guess Plex support and development do not care to fix it.
Setting it to the 8:00pm setting did record the correct SNL for me. The early new SNL is “NEW” like you said. They are calling SNL classics or something. Grace note/TheTVDB haven’t caught up to that.
Bwa, ha ha ha 
Don’t even start on the Grace Note vs. TheTVDB issues with SNL! Was Natalie Portman episode 13 or episode 15? Anyone who is just simply trying to record SNL and watch it later is doomed.
I had this issue when I was telling it to start recording 5 minutes early. delete recording, then set the minutes before and after to 0. Then it shows the correct time. It is a known bug apparently.
For me, this week it picked up the 8pm and the 11:30pm which is better because at least I got the new episode. If the 8pm show is new, they need to call the series something else “SNL Classics”… Anyway at least I am not going to miss it!
@cdcochrane said:
Bwa, ha ha haDon’t even start on the Grace Note vs. TheTVDB issues with SNL! Was Natalie Portman episode 13 or episode 15? Anyone who is just simply trying to record SNL and watch it later is doomed.
Well aware, some of the choices they make confuse me. It did record it it just left it episode number instead of matching.
Well done Plex DVR! Progress. Last night I was able to record both the 10:00PM and 11:30PM Eastern versions of SNL running Plex 1.12.3.4973 on a Windows 10 server. This may have been fixed several versions ago, but it is the first time I dared to try again.
The GraceNote recording guide calls it S43E21 and thetvdb.com calls it S43E19, but I can work around that.
Just updating this thread to give some closure to future searchers…
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And we have returned to failure! Why the new regression? Last night 10/6/18 my DVR showed that it would record BOTH SNL at 10:00PM eastern and SNL at 11:30PM eastern. But only the 10:00PM show actually recorded and the 2nd (actually the real NEW show) was ignored.
C’mon Plex! You guys had this fixed last spring. Now the error has returned. Please fix again.
I am braced for impact. Here, we can see that Plex DVR is ready and planning to record BOTH SNL episodes this Saturday, 10/13. I look forward to watching them. What could go wrong?
Hmm, somebody somewhere changed something. It is afternoon on 10/13 and the first SNL is no longer marked as “new” which is good. I’m going to change my SNL recording preference to “New Airings Only” in hopes of getting a single SNL recording of the 11:30 Eastern time show this week. Fingers crossed…
I can report success this week. I was able to record the entire new show from 11:30 to 1:00AM on 10/13 by selecting “New Airings Only”. I’m guessing this was a result of corrections to the EPG since I have not updated my version of PMS since the recording failure on 10/6.
So, we can hope that GraceNote continues to mark the episodes correctly, but if they regress (again) then the problem will probably return (again). Plex, please give us manual recordings.
Yeah, GraceNote marking the re-run as not new “fixed” it. But there is clearly a bug on the only record this airing time selector.
And now failing again on November 3. Please, please Plex stop this madness! It’s 11:20 PM eastern. I can see that Plex has already incorrectly recorded SNL at 10:00PM and decided not to record the NEW show at 11:30. But right up until 10:15 PM tonight Plex claimed it would record the 11:30 show. WHAT’s GOING ON???
It is sorta crappy that they won’t even acknowledge that the Airing Time selector is broken.
NBC has a college football game on this coming Saturday evening (11/10). So there will be only one airing of SNL at 11:30 eastern. And everything will appear to be fine for a week or so…
I think there is a larger issue here that is easily rectified on the Plex side, even if the EPG provider screws up and marks the episode from 1979 as “New”.
I have it set to record ALL airings, but the EPG is erroneously showing the SxxExx information as a duplicate for the 2 airings on Saturdays. If we have the option enabled to record all airings, would that not include duplicates? It should, or add a third option for all airings except duplicates.
This would make things a bit more resilient when it comes to bad EPG data…
