Server Version#: 1.23.4.4805
Player Version#: na
Tuner Make/Model: HDHR4US
Guide/Lineup name: Seattle/Tacoma
Using XMLTV?: No
Channel number/Name: 5/NBC
Started recording the olympics and I’m noticing that some recordings are overlaping by about 15-30min although on the schedule they are listed back to back, such as 7:45am-11:45am, while the next recording starts at 10:30am-3pm, then the next recording starts at 5pm-8pm
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I did a refresh and I’m seeing more recordings now. However, when selecting the olympics series and wanting to record them. I’m only seeing the 10am-3pm, 5pm-11pm series in my dvr schedule, but I see overnight shows (11:30pm-4:30am) in the channel guide. So I cancelled the series and started recording them individually. But even those aren’t showing in the dvr schedule as well.
I’m also having issues with the DVR scheduling all the Olympic broadcasts. Over the weekend it missed all the primetime coverage. I also resorted to removing the series and recording individually.
I was looking at this more last night, and I recall during the last olympics, we had to create two folders, one for afternoon and one for evening. Couldn’t find any further details and I’m not sure if it was ever fixed. I tried to replicate it, but it didn’t seem to fix the issue. I may try just bulk moving them to another folder.
On another note, at least for NBC, and referencing tvguide.com, it appears the evening broadcast and the overnight broadcast are the same. last nights overnight broadcast, I watched live for a bit, seemed to match up to the evening broadcast.
I also have been having issues with the Olympics 2021 not recording or playing back properly. This morning I discovered the way the filenames are being saved is the problem. Normally TV shows air with a season and episode number. Plex is creating them as season 2021, which is fine, but the episode numbers are unknown so the date gets saved in it’s place. This causes Plex to glitch out and only play back the first airing recorded for that day.
I manually went in and removed the date from the filename and added in my own S2021EXX in the 2nd hyphenated spot, which addressed the playback issue. I don’t know how it’ll affect the recording schedule yet. This is annoying because we’ll have to manually fix this for each recording until Plex comes up with a solution.
Thanks for that! That’s a great suggestion, though I agree that would get a bit tedious to do for every recording. For last night’s prime-time coverage, I’m seeing 21 files all with the same name except adding (copy 2), (copy 3), etc. But in Plex player, it only plays one version of those files (whichever one it seems to pick by default I’m not sure yet). But, if I go to the specific episode, I can use the “Play Version” option which lists all 20 options. It does seem they are in order, so picking the first one in that list is the first file, second option is the second file, and so on. A bit annoying though just to watch one (4hr) episode.
Same issue here. I followed suit with what you guys are suggesting and individual-record all broadcasts… there are 44 left which is annoying but at least we won’t miss something we expected to be able to watch.
Also, I’m watching a live show right now, although it says Volleyball US vs China. Although it looks like its diving/gymnastics/Triathalon/swimming, which is what the next episode is supposed to be per the guide, locast and youtubetv. So maybe it’s an issue with how how everyone is getting their programming guide?
I’m also having issues with the overnight airings. I’ve gone through and set up each airing to record separately and it still doesn’t record the overnights. It shows up as set to record in the guide, but it doesn’t show up in the DVR schedule or recording priority.
Yeah I’ve wondered if it’s an issue with the programming guide. However, Plex could be proactive in handling missing episode numbers.
If you look at my screenshot, I’m logging into my server (Windows in my case) and renaming the files manually. All I do is delete the date and replace it with S2021EXX and increment the episode number for each new recording. Another fluke I found is if the title has 3x3 like “Volleyball Rowing 3v3 Basketball Cycling Swimming” then Plex will mark it as Season 3 episode 3 That took me a while to discover and so I just changed it to “three v three” and that solved it.
Is there some trick to getting Plex to show the episode title when you rename the files? In the past when I rename the files I get either a date or “Episode 2” to show up. I’ve never figured out how to get the episode name to pick up from the file.
Yeah the easiest way for me is to edit the episode directly in Plex and copy the sort title to the title and then save it. Maybe you already knew that though. There’s a title field in the file metadata but I couldn’t figure out how to change that in Windows.
This rips. Tonights recordings say they’re Women’s Gymnastics\Swimming back to back. There’s no real way to record them individually and since it’s over night, I’m not going to wake up in the middle of the night to do this.
Now that I think of it, I guess I can spin up another plex server to cover the duplicates
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I think what you’ll need to do is restrict the time you want to record from. If not, then plex will select the first matching based on name.
Reading this thread doesn’t give me much hope in recording the Olympics
My Wife watches every min of coverage. This year as been a disaster We used to use Ceton over cable to record everything. and it worked perfectly ) since all of the technology is dead… We now have Fiber - internet only. The best option in my mind is to be able to record Olympics, one of two ways… #1 Plex officially adds Olympic networks to Plex TV. then we can just record it. #2 We have to invest in OTA, anntenna, HDHomeRun, etc and connect it to Plex…
We have all of the storage space in the world! We just need someone to give a source to record from.
This Summer Olympics we are recording on Hulu, then using screen capture software to record… Extremely time consuming and pc intensive. There has to be a better way!
I don’t think you can record from plex tv if they added the olympics channel to their offering. If they did, how would you record it? I would be of the opinion, you would still be doing the same thing as you are today.
Rrrgg… I just realized that… bummer. I wish someone would come up with a solution that wasn’t an arm and a leg cost fubutv has unlimited recording space but no way to download. “We” global we. Have all of this download speed, but no one offers content downloading… really sad…
Playon has a Downloader, but they don’t have all of the content.
From what I understand on what your trying to do, I completely hear you and there are reasons why the platforms doesn’t let you download it (think napster/pirate bay just to name a few). I’d imagine a lot of people here who use OTA because they don’t want to pay a monthly subscription to anyone, plus they also can commit to not having to watch every type of content out there. There are probably solutions out there, but I bet the plex platform frowns talking about it.
The channel data was correct, but this information was never reliably used in the TV database. Plex sometimes used this data, but dumped it as soon as the media folder was scanned and it attempted to “match” it again.
There is no way to reliably override what Plex wants to do. I MANY times edited the data manually, but Plex overrode it when scanning the media folder. This should not happen. If I set something manually, Plex should LEAVE IT ALONE.
Jamming multiple recordings into the same entry in the media library just because they were recorded on the same day was extremely frustrating. Just put them in different entries, so I have a prayer of finding the recordings for today. It would dump them into some other recordings, so I would have to manually search for on the web version for episodes with multiple “versions” look at the file info and find the episode I was searching for.
I also had the same experience trying to use PLEX to record the Olympics. Fortunately I already had a functional MythTV install so I just switched back to that for Tokyo 2020. We only lost a couple days events…but now we have Beijing 2022 coming and I’m gun shy. If you decide to record the Olympics, please post your experience here.
I just saw your post…FWIW, I have been using MythTV with 3x HDHomeRun since 2004 to record literally every Olympics broacast (up to 8 simultaneous streams) and it never misses a beat. The interface is clunky and so is the setup by comparison, but the capability for complex recording schedules and its solid xmltv integration really work way better than PLEX’s DVR…since you are late to the game I don’t know if I can recommend it per se, it really is a PITA to get working nicely, but it does work even if the interface looks 15 years old. We had 500+ recordings from this year’s olympics all told, and we’re still watching them (srsly!) We just reached August 2nd…but we are insane.
That took me a while to discover and so I just changed it to “three v three” and that solved it.
