Seasons Passes failing

[zollymonsta]

Has anyone else had any issues lately (past week or so) with seasons passes not recording?

I have two particular seasons passes....

One News
Shortland Street

and a couple of others. None are recording (no upcoming episodes).
I have guide data. Very strange. Has something changed in the data to cause this to happen?

ZollyMonsta

[dread]

Yes, just noticed this morning.

arrested development on TV3

Have a season pass set up & its been recording in the past, but ignored tonights episode

very strange.

[zollymonsta]

Hrm.. Yeah.. I tried deleting thoise season passes last night and re-added them. Still no joy. I'm wondering if there's a flag or something in the guide data that's screwed up?? I have no idea. LOL

My other tivo is fine.

[jaidev]

Has your TiVo indexed since loading the last slice?
Try forcing a manual index, run 'force_index30.tcl'

[zollymonsta]

Hi Jaidev,

Just tried that... no effect. Also did a reboot afterwards. No effect.

:confused:

[zollymonsta]

Ignore that..... it's now happy.. Strange. Now my season's passes are ok (To Do list is now full) and it's just changed channel to record program on tv2.

I guess it take a little while for TiVo to sort it data then populate the to do list?

[Wanted]

You're not the only one. I have had the same thing on and off (mostly on!) for the last week or so. I've had to check manually each day or two. the guide data can be there for 1.5 to 2 days and still the to do list shows none planned. Strangely enough some passes like my "Frasier" one that is every weekday seems to record consistently.

BTW: I also ran 'force_index30.tcl' and no change. Are you supposed to see anything in the Hyperterm window when you run the command? There's no feedback to know if it actually did anything.

[SeanOffShotgun]

You're not the only one. I have had the same thing on and off (mostly on!) for the last week or so. I've had to check manually each day or two. the guide data can be there for 1.5 to 2 days and still the to do list shows none planned. Strangely enough some passes like my "Frasier" one that is every weekday seems to record consistently.

BTW: I also ran 'force_index30.tcl' and no change. Are you supposed to see anything in the Hyperterm window when you run the command? There's no feedback to know if it actually did anything.
No you don't see anything on successful execution of force_index.tcl.
Indexing can take quite a while.

BTW: I don't use season passes, I use Wishlists - and they're easy to set up via TiVoWebPlus with the wishlists.itcl module loaded.

With Thomson's upgrades to the channelgrid and manual record modules, TiVoWebPlus is marvelous - I don't use the TV based interface much.

I also recommend JazzedDailyMail to help with keeping abreast of what happening on your TiVo.

TiVoWebPlus:
http://www.dealdatabase.com/forum/showthread.php?t=38724

ChannelGrid:
http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?t=116879

Manual Record:
http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?t=117985

Wishlists:
http://www.ljay.org.uk/tivoweb/tivoweb.html

JazzedDailyMail:
http://deepinthejungle.servehttp.com/TiVo/DailyMail_Module.htm

[zollymonsta]

Ah yes, must re-install dailymail sometime soon.

I've always used (I need to re-setup these up, as I re-imaged my main TiVo recently) manual passes for stuff I _have to have_ recorded. That's stuff that runs at a consistent time (ie: the 6pm news) that way I don't miss them.

[samjohnson]

I am having this same problem. Any ideas on how to fix this?
I tried doing a forced index but it made no difference. The only way I can get season passes working again is to re-run guided setup.

[thomson]

I am having this same problem. Any ideas on how to fix this?
I tried doing a forced index but it made no difference. The only way I can get season passes working again is to re-run guided setup.

Essentially you need to touch the timestamp file and re-index.
It depends on what image you are running, but try the following:


# touch /var/timestamp
# force_index.tcl

[SeanOffShotgun]

Essentially you need to touch the timestamp file and re-index.
and then wait a looooooooooooooooooong time ... if it's not sorted by the time you wake up the next day (not kidding) then complain ... LOUDLY.

Soon (maybe immediately, not sure exactly), after applying THOMSON's suggestion you can see the program data via interfaces such as the TiVoWebPlus module called channelgrid. I think that the reason you can't see your season passes (or wishlists for that matter), and a search can't find the programs you 'know' are there, is that the TiVo is busy indexing - and you unfortunately need to wait. Channelgrid etc. can see the data because it doesn't rely on the index.

Maybe it could be described like it's a messed up phonebook; you got all the telephone numbers, but you can't find the one you want... until you order that mess - that takes a long time. Sorry couldn't think of a better analogy.

[samjohnson]

Ok so it works when i use the command above. This problem with the season passes/indexing is happening every week..I have left the machine for a couple of days and it still doesn't index - I have to do a forced index otherwise it won't work. Does anyone know why this is happening?

[Wanted]

More a guess than anything but check this out http://forums.oztivo.net/showpost.php?p=3362&postcount=5 It was suggested to me for a wishlist problem and relates to a problem that can make the indexing fail. Not sure why a manual one would work in that case but there it is anyway.

[samjohnson]

I tried checking that fixtivotime had permissions to run but it still doesn't index automatically - i have to do it manually each week.