I hadn’t even thought about that. I will have to try and observe it next time, but here is what I can see right now for that evening. Nothing alarming to me.
I did consider it may need a few seconds to release and reengage the tuner. I don’t know that it would be easy to solve unless I upgraded to a 4 tuner HDHR. However, I would think that if it needed a free tuner it would be fine because there is nothing else recording. So worst case, it could record tuner 1 from 7p-8p, tuner 2 from 8p-9p, and then back to tuner 1 for 9p-10p. However, I don’t know if Plex is smart enough to do this.
Correct on nothing else using the HDHR except Plex.
I do not have + / - start end times, that was one of the first things I tried eliminating to solve this. I know on Dish, it treats that as a nice to have, not a must. So on Dish, if all tuners are busy and you had + 3 mins end, it would ignore the +3 and record the core show. Not sure if Plex treats + / - time as must record, or nice if possible - but again with explanation above it should have plenty of tuners available for this (and does occasionally record PD - just most of the time it fails.
With my two tuner HDHR Extend I’ve been able to do two recordings from, say, 8-9 and then two more recordings from 9-10 without an issue. It shouldn’t be a problem under normal scenarios, though any “extra” time on either show from 8-9 or “pre” time on a show from from 9-10 of course would be a problem. Your example should work.
I don’t see any problems with your HDHR logs, though (at least my) HDHR always shows in GMT and I don’t know what time zone you are in so I’m not positive what the time equivalent would be to the failure time in your Plex logs. I certainly don’t see where it initiated a tune and then shut it down early.
I’m running low on ideas, but I have another that I don’t THINK is your problem but I’ll throw it out anyway. I know your HDHR Duo has to be networked via ethernet cable because that is the only option for it. Is your Plex server networking wired or wifi? Generally speaking wired is recommended for best stability.
Also, is your Plex server connected to the same networking device as your HDHR? I ask because NOW my HDHR is connected to an Access Point with a wired backhaul to my primary router, and my Plex Server is wired to my primary router and everything is stable. At one time I was having inconsistent recording failures, and traced it to that I had my HDHR connected to a mesh node that had a wired backhaul. I still have no idea why, but I discovered that the mesh node was dropping a small number of packets that I never noticed when just web surfing, but it was enough to cause a communications problem between my HDHR and the Plex Server and recordings would fail. I switched that device from being a mesh node to an AP and now it’s rock solid.
Glad I’m not the only puzzled one (and thank you for all of the help btw).
Both the server and HDHR are on wired network connections. I only use wifi for portable devices. The server is hanging off the router, while the HDHR is in another room hanging off an 8 port switch (that is hardwired back to the router). I plan to change this in a few months when I go to a Unifi setup and will have the HDHR and server both hanging off a UDM Pro.
I feel like I have a good understanding of your environment now, and everything seems like it should be solid (assuming no weird issues like I had with a mesh node.)
Is there any chance you would be ok with DMing your full logs to me from which you extracted the snippet above? I appreciate why you wouldn’t want to post full logs in a public thread (I don’t). I won’t post anything from your logs back to a public thread. I’m no one to you, so all I can offer is that you can review my posts on this forum for the last couple years to see if you have any concerns. If “no” then I understand.
I don’t know that I’ll find anything in the full logs, but I might. I see a lot of QueryParser warnings in your snippet that I don’t see in my logs that might indicate something going on with your database, but it might just be that you are on Windows while I’m on Linux.
