This is strange. I’ve got 3 tuners, but this morning I noticed 1 of my recordings failed with the message, “The recording was not started because airing was in progress.” Only 1 tuner is in use at the time of the error. Why would it think that the airing was in progress? They are 2 separate “airings…

Maybe because you don’t have “allow partial recording” in the programme?

That happens if you tell Plex to only record “complete” airings. If you created the recording job while the airing was already in progress (or you started Plex server while the airing was already in progress), then Plex won’t start the recording and wait until (and if) it is re-aired. [grafik]

But I didn’t create the recording job while the airing was already in progress or start the Plex server while the airing was in progress. The recording was set up the day before. I wasn’t on the server at 5:30 AM. The recording was scheduled the day before. I shouldn’t have to Allow partial airings …

In theory not. Were the two recordings tuned to two different channels? (i.e. one requires HD, while the other does not) Or maybe was the tuner device in use at the time, by something other than this particular Plex server?

The tuner device was only in use by Plex, but the two recordings were probably on the same channel. Regardless of channel though, it should find an open tuner if 1 is already in use.

Details why this didn’t work can only be found in the Plex Media Server.log from around when the recording was scheduled to be started. And only if the server logging was set to “debug”.

Don’t forget about the ‘Padding’. I can’t recall if padding is shown in the image you posted, but if episode 1 is padding the end when episode 2 is supposed to start and tuners 2 and 3 are doing something else (like Padding) - there won’t be a tuner available. As eluded to - the logs will tell the…

Ok, I’ll enable debug and send logs if it happens again. Maybe it occurred because it got confused by the 2 HDHomeRun Primes that I have. 1 with a CC and the other without. I moved another CC to the 2nd HDHomerun Prime, so we’ll see if it happens again. @JuiceWSA Overlap doesn’t explain it at all …

This happens when you have back to back programs recording on the same channel and allow partial airings is NOT selected. Allowing partial airings will fix this. PMS will not tune two tuners to the same channel.

[image] jebrossard: PMS will not tune two tuners to the same channel. Yes, it will do that on some newer models. It certainly does on my HDHR5-4DT. I can use whatever padding I like. It always uses only one tuner for back to back recordings.

The recording was not started because airing was in progress

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captain_caveman2k June 8, 2021, 9:44pm 18

Ah - I’ve started to go through the logs, but there is a lot of information in there when debug is enabled, however I thought bug fix #11916 was supposed to fix recording starting a little late?

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The recording was not started because airing was in progress

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