Recording failures for recordings in the future

For a period of 2 weeks, I lost a channel from my lineup (comcast removed it from my ‘plan’). I had one recurring recording, Ducktales, and everytime it was about to record, it would fail (expected). Then it started marking future recordings with the “!” triangle. Now I got the Disney channel back but the recordings in the future still have the triangle of death BUT the show actually records (and the triangle goes away). What am I to make of this?

Does mousing over the triangle reveal any hints? Or do the logs show anything about when they’re scheduled?

@DaveBinM said:
Does mousing over the triangle reveal any hints? Or do the logs show anything about when they’re scheduled?

I have not looked at logs but done some extensive mouse hovering and nada!

I also have this problem

@tachtevrenidis If you could share some logs from when it attempts to schedule (usually after a guide refresh or another recording completes), that would be really helpful :slight_smile:

@DaveBinM I have recently seen the exact same thing. I must also say for the last 3 months with the updates my setup has been rock solid so this was a rarity lately for me. Same error, no explanation as why, no conflicts i can see, nothing in logs. I have included the screen shot and logs right after a guide update. Show is Walker Texas ranger. HDHomerun OTA devices. Windows server, Latest plex pass release.

@BRBMan I noticed that once I restarted the PMS, those went away for me. It somehow figured out that I do have that channel again.

Thanks @tachtevrenidis that worked but also had to update guide. It thought the episodes were recorded this past Sunday even though I initially added them to record after they had aired that day.

Unfortunately I couldn’t find anything in those logs that hinted as to why. :confused:

FWIW i think that Plex uses the exclamation mark on a revording for a lot of different causes and that is the cause of confusion. Of course there is no way to know what/why the exclamation mark is there (for) so it makes it even harder. For example I have seen the ! when something that you set to record as part of a series will not be recorded because the same exact episode will be recorded prior (but has not recorded yet). This is a totally legit reason but unless you are versed in this, it can leave you puzzled. MCE did a great job explaining to you why something would not record.