Scheduled recordings are failing on some occasions, resulting in a 1 second recording being generated. Logs show that the program is scheduled to record at the correct time but noting starts recording at that point. The logs show that the recording process actually starts hours later at which point …

Happened again same behaviour started recording after the event: Jul 16, 2025 00:34:39.813 [0x70000f3fb000] DEBUG - DVR:NewSchedule: device 0 tuner 0 airing 0 between 2025-07-16 20:58:00 and 2025-07-16 22:02:00 on channel 5fc76db2cd7e03002e46152b-5fc70603088e7d002d4c7397: 'The Couple Next Door - E…

Can’t tell from log snippets, post the full log zip.

I’ve attached the server logs covering the last two occasions I mentioned above. Sadly there doesn’t seem to be any constancy as to which programmes this might occur on, other than every episode of this show has failed in the same way. Logs.zip (3.4 MB)

The network drops aren’t helping but the main culprit is no space: [Grabber/6ef158e47ceb2aa71268d338f1b4d80db08b03ba] Grabber: checking for 0 MB of available disk space in grab path and 0 MB in the transcode cache path Edit. How large are your com.plexapp.plugins.library.db and com.plexapp.plugin…

Thanks for taking a look and helping out. The com.plexapp.plugins.library.db is 320MB and com.plexapp.plugins.library.blobs.db 277MB, the disk these are on has over 200GB of storage left. Not sure if these are large sizes or not. Version got rolled back when the bug with the DVR UI got introduced (r…

When you created the TV Shows Library (and separate Movie) you pointed to a storage location, the .grab will be at the root of that location. What kind of storage is being used? Possible causes: Permissions Network Storage disconnected USB/SATA disk going to sleep Network drops were while rec…

I’m not sure the storage location is a factor in this issue. The files are stored on a NAS which has plenty of space available. I did some more testing and confirmed that that you can record successfully to that space by setting up some single episode recordings. Both of which completed successfull…

Thanks for the suggestion @pl_5309 but this isn’t a disk access issue as recodings do work and the logs specifically show the recording starting late and at the time it should be recording nothing is happening. After some more testing, it looks like its not just a specific channel that has this iss…

In the latest test I added a selected airing time to the failing scheduled recording, and this time the recoding worked. The program in question has airings on multiple channels and repeat timings on the same day and this appears to be contributing to failed recordings (late start time). I’ll do so…

Recordings fail (1 sec in duration) logs suggest they start after program has finished

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pl_5309 August 4, 2025, 8:31pm 9

Just wanted to make sure you were aware of this: Plex Files Unavailable but they’re not missing - #638 by Bat_Mang

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Recordings fail (1 sec in duration) logs suggest they start after program has finished

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