Hi everyone! Instead of coming and opening new threads everytime I can’t find a solution, Im just going to post it here in a single thread.. or at least until it auto closes. Anyway today I have had plex for about a week and here are the most annoying problems I am dealing with. Hopefully someone can shed some light on whats up!
I have dvr recordings set to record that just dont, without any error messages or anything. Shows up in the history logs on some devices in the recorded history, but completely missing from the logs on others using the same account. To compound the problem, some shows are recording without incident. I have 4 tuners so I know I’m not exhausting them, besides I assume there would be a flag on the logs if it did.
For example, I like jamie olivers 15 minute meals. It is set to record all episodes even reaired. this morning I was supposed to get 6 episodes recording from 8am until 11. Yesterday it was showing up on my schedule to record. This afternoon when I check, I have zero recorded episodes. I was currently on the xbox so I goto the history and sure enough there they are, all greyed out without any flags or warnings. Yet no episodes. I goto my mac to investigate further and it doesnt even show up in the logs. I just dont understand.. Arent all my devices following the server? How can it be on one list on one device but not on another using the same data? Look at these pictures, the first is the xbox and the skipped recordings, the second is the mac that didnt know anything about any recordings???
Once I understand why both devices aren’t reporting the same information, I will then have to find out why it didn’t record anyway.
It’s worth mentioning that while setting up and getting the app the way I like it, I changed the location of the folder for recordings a couple times as well as the name, and I had already set a few shows to record but I would just go back and change them after I got it how i liked it. That being said, by the time I was satisfied with my folder layouts, I had went back to the original setup as it was when I set the recordings. i.e. “e:/plex/recorded series/” was the original directory, I changed it around and played with different names, but then ultimately went back to “e:/plex/recorded series/” as the earlier recordings had been set to. I assumed the recordings would still be just fine since that was the same path as it was ultimately changed back to. I report all this because I am suspicious off the app not seeing the folder as the same, even though it is, maybe something binary about the folder. I am suspicious for 2 reasons. Last week I did see an event that failed and it had an exclamation. Said the correct folder for recording wasn’t found. I looked at the record options and it was in fact set to “e:/plex/recorded series/”. This was a one off show so I missed my chance to keep working with it, but then the 2nd reason happened which made me suspicious as to the first. I noticed my girlfriends jeopardy also hadn’t been recording, nor were they showing up on the logs. She had missed about 5 already so I verified that all the options and path were again set correctly, and when they were, I decided just to delete the whole recording and create a new on, but identically the same options as far as I know. The very next jeopardy recorded without incident! So I may have found the problem, but my common sense tells me I haven’t. Unless the app gives the downloaded folders a hash or binary identifier, “e:/plex/recorded series/” would be the same as “e:/plex/recorded series/” no matter how many times you delete and then add back that folder. So that leaves me here today deleteing all my timers only to reset them with exactly the same options. I hope that works, and if it does I hope the Plex people are watching and will investigate what is going on. I would love an official answer!
Next up on the list is super annoying! All my main menu sources keep defaulting when I log out, then back in. Do you understand how annoying it is to keep telling an app how I want the home screen laid out over and over and over and over. Set up the order I want it laid out then next login i get that stupid popup box asking asking you to select your sources like when its your first time ever logging on. This is happening on my Mac, my Xbox, my Rokus, and my iPads. Everything is fine an dandy until you have to log out and back in. Why cant these settings be set as a default on the server, and then you can change them on the device like the rest of the settings? I understand normally its not a big deal, but for some reason now that my settings aren’t staying set from log out to log in, It quickly becomes annoying to have to keep reordering and pinning the sources every single time a log out occurs. It also resets all the default tab views (recommended/library) for all the sources, maybe more settings that I havent discovered yet.
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“Discovery” doesnt show up on some of my devices unless I go through safari to app.plex.tx. For example if I “Open plex” through the server on my mac (local host 127…), I get no discovery option even unpinned. IF i type in app.plex.tv in safari I get “Discovery” back. I personally dont use it, but it tells me most likely other features could also not be loading. I don’t even understand why its 2 UIs! I don’t think it loads on my ipad app either.
I guess this will be good for now, hopefully this thread wont gather any dust. Thanks to all who participate.
