I’m trying to record a series (NCIS) using ION Fast. The recordings themselves are fine with no breaks. In my setups I have all episodes and no duplicates selected. In spite of this I get a lot of duplicates. I also have on-time and and 5-minute end selected. I have to do this because it normally stops recording during the last 2 or 3 minutes of the program. (I would also note that on-time start on my Tablo actually starts 1 to 2 minutes early which may also contribute to the ending). I know it gets this information from program signal, but it appears that it is losing something between the library headers and the program guide.
I struggled with this very same issue on one OTA program – the show started 2m late and I was tired of missing the ending! I went back and forth with Tablo Support (via email) for MONTHS. There’s something that happens when you change the start/end times where it will always record any episode that’s on, duplicate or not. I know the nightmare you’re going through. I was trying to catch 10 or so episodes to complete a series but I had TRIPLES of the show while I waited for it to roll back around! I had to go in about once a week to delete duplicates so that it wouldn’t fill up my HD. When it had finally caught all the episodes I made sure to shut off series recording.
I know this isn’t a solution or a workaround, but it seems to be Tablo’s answer to why it happens. I hope this is something they’re able to fix!
If the tablo firmware that manages FAST recordings thinks the recording didn’t complete successfully it will schedule it to record again if the episode is available in the guide.
That’s an interesting point. I got this out of that…If I schedule something on ABC for 9:02-10:02, it doesn’t think I recorded the 9-10p show. But to have to schedule the Tablo for that exact time slot in order for it to realize it’s been recorded really does a disservice to the device.
But yes, they’ve been away of this issue since at least early April. My Tablo has been in remote access mode multiple times over this issue. Maybe you can ask them to check your logs and see how they compare to your? That is, if you haven’t deleted the dupes yet…
All my scheduled starts are set to on-time, but I still have the same issue. This has been going for months. As for support, I’ve gotten all the standard responses … including Reset, Reboot, blah, blah, blah.
