[mythtv-users] finding reason for cancelled recording

[Paul Fine]

Adam Hirsch wrote:
> Hey, folks -- I've got a pair of daily recordings back to back on the same
> channel, and last night the second one failed to go off and got listed in
> the log as "cancelled."  I'm trying to find out why, since the WAF for this
> machine will reduce dramatically if it randomly doesn't record shows.  Any
> good ways to tell what happened?
>
> In this case, the first show was "The Daily Show" and the second was "The
> Colbert Report" -- both of them on the same channel, the one immediately
> following the other.  There's no indication of *why* the second show cancelled.
>
> 2006-05-17 22:04:00     Finished recording      Lost "Three Minutes": channel 1022
> 2006-05-17 22:04:00     Scheduled items         Scheduled 31 items in 0.4 = 0.00 match + 0.38 place
> 2006-05-17 22:04:00     Finished recording      Lost "Three Minutes": channel 1022
> 2006-05-17 22:04:38     Commercial Flagging Starting    Lost "Three Minutes" recorded from channel 1022 at Wed May 17 21:00:00 2006
> 2006-05-17 22:16:59     Commercial Flagging Finished    Lost "Three Minutes" recorded from channel 1022 at Wed May 17 21:00:00 2006: 6 commercial break(s)
> 2006-05-17 23:00:02     Started recording       The Daily Show With Jon Stewart: channel 1107 on cardid 1, sourceid 1
> 2006-05-17 23:00:04     Finished recording      Invasion "The Last Wave Goodbye": channel 1022
> 2006-05-17 23:30:03     Last message repeated 3 times   Finished recording
> 2006-05-17 23:30:03     Canceled recording      The Colbert Report: channel 1107 on cardid 1, sourceid 1
> 2006-05-17 23:30:03     Finished recording      The Daily Show With Jon Stewart: channel 1107
> 2006-05-17 23:30:04     Scheduled items         Scheduled 30 items in 0.2 = 0.00 match + 0.18 place
> 2006-05-17 23:30:04     Canceled recording      The Colbert Report: channel 1107 on cardid 1, sourceid 1
> 2006-05-17 23:34:20     Finished recording      The Colbert Report: channel 1107
>
> Adam
>
>   
I had a similar problem this week, although I did not see the "Canceled 
recording" message.  My wife's recording of General Hospital (remember 
the WAF) has not worked since Monday.  After poking around a little, it 
seems that the program data describing the show has reverted to a 
general description of the soap opera, as opposed to a description of 
the events of a particular episode.  Mythtv decided based on it's 
algorithm that this show must be a duplicate that is already recorded 
and therefore did not record it again.

I changed the setting to never check for a duplicate.  Hopefully that 
will work.  I will find out when I get home from work today.