Guide Data Optimizing

General Discussion
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Has anyone else experienced the Tablo suddenly dropping the Live TV and screen going to “optimizing guide data” ? Mine has never done this before , or at last not at 6:26 PM . ( every night this week).

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Yea, mine usually does this about 3am if I remember correctly.

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Yeah, mine too. Yet this week it is happening at 6:26 PM. The plus side it isn’t take the length of time it usually does.

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Open a Support Ticket with Tablo Support. Have them check your logs as to why it’s happening at “prime time”.

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All three of my units did at the same time. Seems like it was after 1:30 PM PST.

Maybe we are being optimized for a reason.

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I plan on doing it in the morning. (Tablo offices was already closed when it happened) Thanks for the suggestion.

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Definitely shouldn’t be happening this early - could be there’s a time zone issue? Either way, if you’ve already sent us a ticket I’m sure we’ll get to the bottom of it.

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Here is the answer to my optimizing:

  1. Some time after 2:30AM PDT the power company had some kind of unannounced planned or unplanned electricity outage.

  2. the power returned at exactly 8AM PDT.

  3. I checked the time on all 3 units and it was correct. And the 10AM recording kicked off correctly.

  4. I normally don’t use Live TV but I did for the 1PM local news.

  5. around 1:30PM all three units got optimized.

  6. At 7:30 PM I checked all three units for last guide update. 1 said 7 hours. 2 said 9 hours.

I can only assume/conclude that what ever scheduler being used may function on number of ticks and not actual clock time. And may not disallow delayed/missed maintenance from occurring during the day.

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Does the guide data maintenance take higher priority than watching Live TV, and recording?
I’m rarely up around 3AM watching Live TV, but I do have recordings scheduled throughout the day.

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Not recordings, but it will boot you out of Live TV playback. Making nightly maintenance less intrusive is one of the things we want to do over the coming year.

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I look forward to this accomplishment.

About a week ago, I began clearing the decks (so to speak) from 3AN to 4AM (no recordings or Live TV during that period)… and I have found less problems (mainly split recordings that had been plaguing me). Since I have dedicated this time for the daily maintenance. Hard to tell with so little information, but I do believe it has had a beneficial effect.

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I assume you have used the settings page to verify when your unit does the guide update.

I have one unit that comes close to 3AM-4AM and 2 units that seem to update between 2AM-3AM.

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I was just watching live TV when the Optimizing Guide Data notification came up. Time was around 7:20 pm EST. Tablo is still on 2.2.27.

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It’s been just over a year since this post, I understand “the coming year” has been like no other… any update on the progress with tweaks on maintenance mode?

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Yes, somewhat randomly late at night. The time of day seems to be off.

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