Plugin: Sage Recording Extender (SREv3)

[cat6man]

hi slugger,

i may be having a new issue here........what do you think?

i set up a favorite to record all red sox games on a set of mlb extra innings channels.

in addition, i manually set up a recording for MLB-HD, which may or may not carry the sox game (e.g. it may say red sox vs. rangers OR brewers at somewhere, so i can't tell in advance if the MLB-HD will carry the sox or not........if it doesn't overtax my 2 hd-pvr boxes with conflicts, i just record them both)

now, since the MLB-HD game doesn't actually list 'red sox vs. rangers', i have to set an override manually, which yesterday immediately gave me a green check mark to show that both broadcasts of the game were to be monitored.

however, i got an error message at 10:30 (2:30 into the nominal 3:00 game) saying the game could not be monitored..........since the override went fine, and the original favorite recording went fine (and was monitored and extended, while the override one stopped at 3 hours), i wonder if there is an issue in SRE about monitoring 2 recordings of the same game?

i'll dig up a log if that would help, but superficially from here it seems it might be a logic issue monitoring 2 recordings of the same game.
let me know if a log would help.

[Slugger]

Are you running 915 or later? There was a bug that would delete the override details too early, causing the recording to no longer be monitored starting at that first check 30 mins before the end of the recording. It was fixed in 915. If you are running 915 or later then I'll need some logs.

[cat6man]

running the latest (919), so i'll dig you up some logs later today

[Slugger]

Originally Posted by cat6man

running the latest (919), so i'll dig you up some logs later today

I'll take the logs to look at, but I'll also need you to reproduce it and then let me know as soon as you do. livepvrdata.com only retains (debug) logs for 24 hours so I won't be able to match up the sre logs with the debug info at livepvrdata.com. So if you can reproduce this then that'll be great.

[cat6man]

here's the log.

game starts at 20:00, and both reg fave and override appear ok.
at 22:30, both are checked (look ok) and scheduled for 2 minutes on.
at 22:32, the override game (with *) has disappeared and is replaced by 'regional game' which of course cannot be checked.
so it looks like the override disappeared at SRE side.

if this is insufficient, i'll try to capture again for you.

[Slugger]

I guess I'm going to change all that code to the way I should have done it in the first place. If a situation comes up and you can reproduce it then I'd love to see you reproduce it again so that I can look at the livepvrdata.com debug logs with it to match some things up, but as you said, it's definitely SRE losing the override data on its end - I'm just not sure why. Anyway, I'm going to fix that up, hopefully some time this week, but may be the weekend before I do.

[Slugger]

Bah... I think I found the issue, but before I go fixing up that code, I've added some logging to it. Can you upgrade to 925 and try to reproduce it? Either way I think I'm going to rip it all apart a little and do it the way I should have done it the first time, but if I'm right I should be able to at least get a temp fix in the repository rather quickly and give myself a little more time for the full cleanup and fix.

Give it 5-10 mins for 925 to show up in the plugin repository.

[cat6man]

hi slugger,

i upgraded to 925, but i can't reproduce the problem until tomorrow night.
i'll record sox-angels game and pretend mld-hd 'regional game is the same game with an override, so we should get data tomorrow evening.............game at 7:00 so problem should manifest itself around 9:32

i'll check back here tomorrow afternoon in case there are other suggestions to try

[Slugger]

Sounds good, let me know as soon as you get some results, please.

[cat6man]

report, part 1:

this afternoon, both the fave game and the override game showed in SRE with green check marks.

game started at 7:00

just checked SRE at 8:07 and the override is already gone (back to 'regional coverage' for episode).
neither game is showing a green check mark any more.

apparently it is not waiting for the 3:00 - 30minute point to check before losing the override.

i'll go down to the basement and get you the log in a couple of minutes.

edit: file attached, should be 925 not 995 in filename........i'll check log again at 9:30 or so and see how it
proceeds with extending

[Slugger]

2010-08-17 19:12:06,323 INFO  [MonitorStatusChecker]: Deleted monitor status and override data for Airing: 'MLB Baseball' on channel 586/'MLBHD'
2010-08-17 19:12:06,417 INFO  [MonitorStatusChecker]: Deleted monitor status and override data for Airing: 'MLB Baseball' on channel 1473/'GAMEHD2'

Got exactly what I was expecting to see. Thanks. That confirms the bug, I know what it is and how to fix it, but I'm going to fix it "right" instead of just hacking in a fix. It'll be a few days before I can get a few solid hours to clean it up.

Basically, overrides are next to useless until I fix this. I will do my best to get to it over the next week, definitely before NCAA football kicks off because NCAA is really where overrides are especially needed.

[cat6man]

great..........no rush here for me as i can get all the games without mlb-hd or just make mlb-hd games another favorite and record both, so i have acceptable work arounds.

cheers

[Slugger]

Snapshot 933 now in the repository. This build should fix all the override issues reported earlier in the week. If cat6man can try to reproduce again and report back his findings that'd be great.

[cat6man]

will schedule a test for tonight

thanks for the quick fix slugger

[cat6man]

mlb-hd 'regional game' starts at 8 tonight, not 7 when the sox game i'm already recording starts.............so, i put an override on the 7pm yankees game on yes.

i guess this will tell us if the override sticks or not, but won't exactly duplicate the override changing back to 'regional game' which can't be SRE'd........if the override fails, it would revert to the yankee game which could be SRE'd

so assuming there is nothing unique in the code that would make the 'regional game' override behave differently than the yes ntwk override, i guess this would
serve your purposes for testing, right slugger?

[Slugger]

Yeah, the test is to just make sure the override isn't lost - so as long as it doesn't revert back to the Yankees game then all is good. If it does, then I need logs and it's back to the drawing board, so to speak.

[cat6man]

7:15 and SRE shows both fave and override status with green check..........so far so good..........i'll check log later

7:45 and SRE shows both fave and override but no green check (override still there)
[lester gives up 5 runs in top of first to Jays, must resist urge to cancel both recording and get data for blue jay fan slugger........]

[Slugger]

Originally Posted by cat6man

7:15 and SRE shows both fave and override status with green check..........so far so good..........i'll check log later

7:45 and SRE shows both fave and override but no green check (override still there)
[lester gives up 5 runs in top of first to Jays, must resist urge to cancel both recording and get data for blue jay fan slugger........]

Final score aside , did you get some final results as far as the SRE testing goes?

[cat6man]

yes, both recordings observed the extender rules and finished about +18 minutes beyond the 3 hour nominal game length.

good work!

by the way, should the green status check go away while game is still going on (per comment above)?

[Slugger]

Originally Posted by cat6man

yes, both recordings observed the extender rules and finished about +18 minutes beyond the 3 hour nominal game length.

good work!

by the way, should the green status check go away while game is still going on (per comment above)?

The check should disappear because that's how I coded it, but my code doesn't reflect my intention there so it's a bug. However, it's a minor one as it only really affects the GUI display of that green check. A future build will fix that.

Did I mention that Toronto beat Boston 16-2 last night?