This kind of stuff has been going on for 3 years now. The EPG is never going to be correct 100% of the time and Plex knows this. When is Plex finally going to add the ability to record by channel/time (i.e. manual recording) so that we can solve scheduling issues ourselves when something simply won’t go into the recording schedule? This is not a new request and we still have no way to cope with the continual problems with not being able to record what we want to record.
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It looks like all of my Paralympic recordings occurred as scheduled, but given that there is much less network coverage of those games, it’s not surprising. NBC never doubled up the coverage, nothing repeats, so it makes sense that single recordings would work. Less than 6 months till we get to try again. I really hope that Plex DVR is working on this and getting it right.
Just chiming in as another frustrated user. I have multiple HDHomeRun tuners which I’ve used to record every Olympics event broadcast (Up to 8x simultaneous streams) using MythTV since 2004. I was super excited to see the most recent developments and thought I was about ready to switch our DVR over to PLEX and finally have a slick, unified experience. It was a disaster. Same as the OP. We switched back to MythTV for the remainder.
I hope to hear good things after the 2022 Winter Olympics. @solstyce9 and @phonehome, please share your experience if you choose to record it
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I definitely plan to comment here in February as the Winter Games begin!
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Well, it’s about a week before Beijing 2022 begins. I just set up my recordings for the first few days of the games. It does not look like anything has changed since last year. I intentionally set up the recordings as individual recordings rather than the entire event, in the hopes that I would get all airings to record. As previously noted, it is still not allowing me to record all events regardless of how many times it’s aired or what the events are called. Again, I ask @Atomatth if programmers have made any progress? I also wonder if there has been any progress made on allowing users to just record times on a specific channel, as I know this has been requested as a feature for months (if not years) at this point. Thank you in advance. If anyone wants to take the risk and try and schedule using the “automated” system of relying on the recording of all events in the category I would appreciate knowing how it turns out.
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If you’re on Windows, there’s still time to get NextPVR setup before the Olympics start. It handles my series recordings very well. It does not operate under Plex’s basic idea of “I’m not recording this program unless I can be 100% certain that this doesn’t look like something you might have already recorded”.
And if you have any problems or the EPG is wrong, just do a manual recording for the channel/time that you need (something Plex users have been requesting for more than 3 years). I used NextPVR for the Summer Olympics as well.
Congrats to Plex for being totally useless for two Olympics in a row. For all sports really …
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This is what my recording schedule looks like for the Winter Olympics, configured just to record new airings (the entire series, not individual).
It appears that it’s grabbing everything except the overnight re-airings of the prime time coverage; it represents 9’ish-10’ish hours of coverage per day.
Comparing to what my NextPVR recording schedule looks like for 2/6, it looks like the only additional recording is the overnight re-airing.
I’m curious what you’re seeing at this point which suggests that not all new coverage will be recorded. It could of course be a market difference…
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May not be true for everyone but I just wanted to record it all. Sports is a dynamic thing and the EPG just isn’t always going to be accurate. I basically want to record CBC for something like 23 hours a day and NBC for everything it has as well. Plex wouldn’t let me do that - even when trying to record each airing individually – Plex just says NOPE.
A DVR is useless if it won’t let you record what you want to record.
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I was actually curious what @phonehome is seeing. It looks like all the new airings are being scheduled to record here.
It seems as though your needs are covered with NextPVR and whatever guide data you’re using 
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@phonehome thanks for the reminder and follow up to this issue. I’ve setup recordings for the upcoming events and noticed a couple oddities that make the experience a little unclear and I’ve filed these issues.
Returning to this comment and specifically Files playing incorrect videos, this has been addressed in Plex Media Server 1.25.2.5319
- (PlayQueue) Playing DVR library item could result in playback of wrong item. (#12932)
I’ll need a little more time to re-read this thread to see what else I can bring to light.
@MovieWiz I believe this might be the Feature Request you’re referring to for here
And if you have any problems or the EPG is wrong, just do a manual recording for the channel/time that you need (something Plex users have been requesting for more than 3 years)
Is that correct?
@pshanew My recording schedule looks to be the same.
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@Atomatth Thank you for your response and willingness to assist with all of this. I set up my recordings the same way I did during the Summer Games, each recording is scheduled individually. It is not set to any specific time frame or channel (though I only have one channel for Olympic coverage).
@MovieWiz Lucky you for getting CBC and NBC, I wish!
My recording stack looks very similar to what others have posted. I’ll be honest, I would rather be able to record everything I wanted…and I’m still concerned that I will miss something because the recordings won’t record at the correct time because of the “double” labeling that is apparently happening. The Opening Ceremonies are an excellent example of that. They’re airing 3 separate times. It looks like I’m going to be able to record 2 of them without issue, but not the third one (see Friday 2/4 3:28-6:02 and 4:58-8:02 in my photo, they’re both labeled Opening Ceremonies, the third would be from 7:58-11:02 which is not listed because the system won’t let me do it). Thanks again for the help.
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We shouldn’t need to make feature requests for the DVR to be a DVR. The job of a DVR is to record the things that we want it to record. Plex has a DVR that decides NOPE, I’m not recording that. You get that this is a HUGE deficiency, right? If we want something to record, we should have the ability to make that happen. We can’t. The obvious answer is the ability to record by channel/time (like every other DVR in existence allows). I don’t care how plex does it. But the DVR should be a DVR.
Now that I have my first Plex Olympics under my belt, I’m hopeful this one will go more smoothly for me.
My key learnings last time were
- don’t transcode in your post-processing, it takes too long and doesn’t save much space
- record each episode individually, means checking the EPG daily to pick up any changes
- NBC tends to repeat airings. e.g. one of the daytime airings will be shown midnight-4, and you don’t need to record those.
My main concern is how Plex will handle duplicate episode names. e.g. “2/8/22 - Snowboarding” is the title for the 8:00pm PST and 8:35pm airing but they are different content and should be named differently. Based on Tokyo behavior, my recordings were all using “(YYYY) YYYY-MM-DD 05 00 00 - $TITLE” in the filename no matter what time they were aired. I’d expect a unique filename such as “(YYYY) YYYY-MM-DD HH MM SS - $TITLE” e.g. “(2022) 2022-02-08 08 00 00 - Snowboarding.ts” and “(2022) - 2022-02-08 08 35 00 - Snowboarding.ts” but am wondering if the EPG has the correct information in it and if Plex will do this if it does.
@Atomatth any insight into the EPG in the data and how Plex will handle these duplicate episode titles?
Thanks!
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What about the FiOS UHD Olympic channels? Will those be added to the Plex DVR lineup prior to the opening ceremony?
I only started using Plex DVr at the end of December. With the Summer Olympics last year I was using my TiVos to record the UHD content. But the TiVo does not require guide data to make a recording like Plex DVR does,
Sweet!! I see channel 1491 and 1492, the UHD Olympic channels on FiOS, showed up in the Plex DVR channel list for me to add to the guide today.
The Winter 2022 Olympics Opening Ceremony was this morning and my HDHomeRun Prime, with the PLex DVR, picked up the 2.5 hour UHD Opening Olympics on FiOS. It was actually recorded from my PRime without a cable card. Since it was a clear QAM channel.
Plex is showing that The 2.5 hour UHD recording of the Opening Ceremony this morning was encoded with 10bit HEVC with HDR10 with DD+ ATmos audio. And an average bitrate of 19.235 Mb/s
It will be interesting to see what happens with the prime time Opening Ceremonies. Plex recorded the early morning version for me as well. With the primetime, my EPG shows it as “NEW”, but it is no longer in my recording schedule. I’ve got the recording set up to do all events (I’m not choosing individual recordings) and only new episodes:
I only have my Plex DVR set to record from the UHD channel. So I hopefully won’t have to worry about it recording from the HD channel.
I have Plex DVR setup the same way, but I can confirm already that its recording this Team Figure Skating event again. It aired live last night, then aired again early morning (~2am), and then airing now. All 3x are recorded 
I’m just recording from the OTA NBC broadcast. I don’t see any of the time slots you’re referring to, so I’m guessing that you’re pulling from another source. Feel for you if you’ve got that many re-airs that are recording. At least they delete easy, I guess.
