For over a year I’ve had NBC nightly news scheduled to record. Sporadically there are no episodes to watch and I can’t figure out why. It’s come to a head recently with family members asking me to figure out why it won’t record sometimes
Its set to record ALL episodes (I was worried some would be miscatagorized as ‘reruns’ ) - this didn’t help. I have 4-tuner model - I’ve checked scheduled Scheduled -> Conflicts and the page is always blank.
One question - here is a screenshot from Chrome browser on desktop computer, why are some “REC” indicators blue and others orange? Is this meaningful in any way?
I also record ALL of the nightly talk shows - Kimmel, Colbert, Fallon, Meyers, Corden - and I often have this nagging feeling that some/all of them didn’t record when I go to look for new episodes and there are none. I wonder if I should manually schedule everything. But the news I know occurs every night, and its not recording consistently.
I updated the guide to try and coax the schedule to record the next three days. Once the guide update was complete all of the “REC” indicators are Orange now.
This may address a number of complaints I’ve had about Tablo sporadically not recording these daily shows. Thanks everyone!
I think if the show does not have episode numbers then Tablo sees them all as the same episode so that is why it would not record because it sees it as a duplicate.
The New vs all is saying if it will record all episodes or only those with the new tag next to them. I run into a problem with this on one of the shows I watch as it does not say which shows are new so I have to have it set to record all in able to get the new ones.
If you un-check Keep Last 3 – will it schedule more than three? Or, do you have to already deleted three to make room for three more. I’ve not used that option to know which direction it works… I’d have thought it’d record a new one and kick the old one off. But tablo’s way of doing things, well to be fair there are no standards or conventions.
Keep X recording limits are also based on completed recordings, so if a recording fails due to poor reception or another issue, it will not count towards your limit and Tablo will maintain the oldest completed recording until the limit is reached at which time it’s replaced with the newer completed recording.
I still have “Don’t Record Duplicates” unchecked but today 12/2/2020 it failed to record NBC nightly news. I checked Scheduled -> Conflicts don’t see anything right now, not sure about the past. Recordings -> Failed doesn’t show anything either.
Is there a log I can access that might have more information about why recording failed?
Maybe it was a guide error. I record news on WKYC and their website shows “Sunday Night Football” during the time slot 6:30 - 7 PM national NBC nightly news w/lester holt normally appears
