This weekend I recorded the Texas/OU college football game.
I have Extend Live turned ‘on’ yet it didn’t engage. The game ran quite long into the next two programs listed in the Live Guide.
I had to make manual recordings to capture the entire game. This resulted in 3 separate videos with 3 separate names.
Appearantly Gracenote tags ‘live’ events as ‘live’ events and yet the Extend Live function cannot engage. Tablo tags ‘live’ as ‘new’.
Does Tablo choose ‘live’ or ‘new’ going forward?
Maybe it’s a bug. An episode/show can have multiple tags. If you look at a legacy unit the legacy app shows these sports events as Live while the gen 4 app accessing the same legacy unit shows them as New. But with legacy 2.2.60 the extend live feature still extends for a worthless 30 minutes.
But I stopped worrying about tablo’s clobbered extend live. Since you now have to manually extend the recording yourself it’s just as easy to move important games onto plex DVR.
Sorry you ran into that,
The college football game should have been considered live.
A handy option might be to extend the stop time of the specific game you’d like to record.
" You can access limited advanced recording options on episode recordings by selecting EPISODE RECORDING OPTIONS on a program that has yet to air."
" EPISODE RECORDING OPTIONS are only available if the episode is NOT live."
If I understand correctly, I would not be able to use the feature after broadcast begins.
In this example I provided, the game continued beyond the first and second manual recordings and extended into a third.
In any case the tag provided by Tablo’s Live Guide is incorrect and prevents Extend Live from functioning.
