I’d like to move from WMC to Plex and just set up my Plex server. I’ve used Plex on and off in the past and just came back for the DVR functionality. What I’ve gone and done was setup my tuners and can watch live TV. I’ve gone and watched a live show and recorded it. I can see it in my TV Shows library so I know the system is able to record a show. But it’s as if the system doesn’t queue my future shows. The funny thing is if I go into the Series Recording settings it shows that it should be recording tonight as that is when it airs but for some reason it’s not in the schedule?
Did you already record a previous show perhaps at 6:00 am that has the same show name? I see there is a single episode recording towards the bottom of the list that shows today’s date and then a series recording towards the top of the list. The screenshot of the show has episode data as 01-26. If there was a 6:00 am recording for KCRG-TV9 News at 6 that has episode data of 01-26 then Plex believes it already has the episode recorded and won’t record the 6:00 pm show. Logs would verify this if you searched for KCRG-TV9 you may find a line that says something about already exists for the 6:00 pm episode.
Per your recommendation I went rooting through the logs and got the follow:
Jan 26, 2018 09:00:06.390 [10824] DEBUG - DVR:Subscription: There are 2 episodes available.
Jan 26, 2018 09:00:06.390 [10824] DEBUG - DVR:Subscription: Episode ‘Episode 01-26’ airs on channel 11 at 2018-01-26 22:00:00
Jan 26, 2018 09:00:06.390 [10824] DEBUG - DVR:Subscription: Episode ‘Episode 01-27’ airs on channel 12 at 2018-01-27 02:00:00
Jan 26, 2018 09:00:06.392 [10824] DEBUG - DVR:Subscription: The desired channel/timeslot combination wasn’t available for ‘KCRG-TV9 News at 10 - Episode 01-26’, ignoring.
Jan 26, 2018 09:00:06.392 [10824] DEBUG - DVR:Subscription: The desired channel/timeslot combination wasn’t available for ‘KCRG-TV9 News at 10 - Episode 01-27’, ignoring.
Jan 26, 2018 09:00:06.392 [10824] DEBUG - Activity: updated activity fceeb85a-6f94-42d1-b29e-638d4cd9311c - completed 25% - Processing subscriptions
Jan 26, 2018 09:00:06.392 [10824] DEBUG - DVR:Subscription: Failed to resolve subscription for ‘guid: com.gracenote.onconnect://show/753754 thumb: http://tmsimg.plex.tv/assets/p753754_b_v8_aa.jpg title: KCRG-TV9 News at 6 type: 2 year: 2000’ to library item
Jan 26, 2018 09:00:06.392 [10824] DEBUG - DVR:Subscription: Checking in provider Program Guide
Jan 26, 2018 09:00:06.392 [10824] DEBUG - DVR:Subscription: MATCH for GUID scheme, directly checking.
Jan 26, 2018 09:00:06.392 [10824] DEBUG - Downloading document http://127.0.0.1:32400/tv.plex.providers.epg.onconnect:2/metadata/com.gracenote.onconnect%3A%2F%2Fshow%2F753754
Jan 26, 2018 09:00:06.396 [10824] DEBUG - There were 0 top-level paths for KCRG-TV9 News at 6.
Jan 26, 2018 09:00:06.396 [10824] DEBUG - DVR:Subscription: The item at /tv.plex.providers.epg.onconnect:2/metadata/com%2Egracenote%2Eonconnect%3A%2F%2Fshow%2F753754 is of type 2
Doesn’t mean terribly much to me, but it looks as though its a GUID mismatch. Like it’s supposed to be some kind of sequential GUID but the actual GUID that should be tied to it doesn’t meet what is expected by the EPG.
Can you post screenshots of the recording settings for the News at 10 shown in log entries you posted. I’m more interested in the message that desired channel/timespot was not available.
So part of it appears to be that I’m selecting that I want to only record it during a specified time from the drop-down. For the 10:00 I select 10:00 as they apparently re-air during the wee hours of the morning like 2:00AM and I don’t want to re-record that one. If I let it record all any airing I will at the very least get a recording that day (per the schedule) however I want to record that “series” and they don’t re-populate on the next days. Current config is the follow:
KCRG-TV9 News at 10
Record: All Episodes
Airings: New and Repeat Airings
Add to Library: TV Shows
Resolution: Any
Allow Partial Airings: Yes
Minutes Before Start: 5
Minutes After End: 10
Limit Channel: Any
Limit to Airing Time: 10:00PM
Remove Commercials: Disabled
Keep: 3 Episodes
Delete Episodes After Watching: After a day
One thing to note apparently is that by choosing the only 10:00PM airing and selecting 5 min before and after 10 after it apparently removes it from the schedule. It’s as if shifting the start time removes it from the schedule because I set the show to record at 10:00PM specifically but want it start recording at 9:55PM, so it says forget that and just drops the recording. If that’s the case, then what the heck is the point of those options? If however I leave them it shows that it will record for that one instance tonight, not farther out though it’s set to record the series.
The minutes before start and the specific airing time is causing the issue. Plex is investigating a code fix for this issue. Basically Plex is looking for an airing that starts at 9:55 with the 5 minutes padding you are adding and not finding an episode that matches that start time. Remove the minutes before and you should immediately see it scheduled.
Sure enough, that’s what did it. Appreciate the patience John.
